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Hey all...

    For any of you who are in and around Toronto, Ontario... Perhaps
I'll see you there...

                Mike


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From: Maria Foudolova <mfoudolo@fields.utoronto.ca>
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Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography, June 12 - June
17, 1999


Below please find the final Schedule for the above-noted workshop.

Conference on

The Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography

The Fields Institute for
Research in the Mathematical Sciences
Toronto, Ontario

June 12 - 17, 1999

PROGRAM SCHEDULE


SATURDAY, JUNE 12 - 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Reception

SUNDAY, JUNE 13

8:45 Opening Remarks

Morning Session Chair:  Jeff Hoffstein, Brown University

9:00 The Industry of Public-Key Cryptography
Paul Van Oorschot, Entrust Technologies

10:00 Break

10:30 Elliptic curve cryptography in the real world
Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo

11:30 Efficient implementation of elliptic curve cryptography
Scott Vanstone, University of Waterloo

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair:  Neal Koblitz, University of Washington

2:00 A sublinear-time parallel algorithm for integer modular
exponentiation
Jon Sorenson, Butler University

2:30 A lattice-based public-key cryptosystem
Tom Cusick, SUNY Buffalo

3:00 Computing discrete logarithms in quadratic orders
Mike Jacobson, University of Waterloo

3:30 Break

4:00 Guaranteed message authentication faster than MD5
Dan Bernstein, University of Illinois, Chicago

4:30 Inversion in optimal extension fields
Dan Bailey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

5:00 Comparison of algorithms to calculate quadratic irregularity of
prime numbers
Joshua Holden, University of Massachusetts

MONDAY, JUNE 14

Morning Session Chair:  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo

9:00 Analysis of the Xedni-Calculus attack
Neal Koblitz, University of Washington

10:00 Break

10:30 Cryptographic constructions based on Galois actions
Gerhard Frey, University of Essen

11:30 Hyperelliptic function fields and cryptography
Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair:  Herman te Riele, CWI

2:00 Catching kangaroos in function fields
Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo

2:30 Efficient undeniable signature schemes based on ideal arithmetic
in quadratic orders
Sachar Paulus, KOBIL Computer

3:00 Algorithms for computations in the jacobian group of C_{ab}
curves and their applications
Arita Seigo, C & C Media Research Laboratories

3:30 The discrete logarithm problem in the jacobian of hyperelliptic
curves
Mark Bauer, University of Illinois

4:00 Break


4:30 Lattices and Cryptography
Jeff Hoffstein, Brown University

6:30 Number Theory Foundation Party

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

Morning Session Chair:  Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Bell Laboratories

8:30 Low degree polynomials
Don Coppersmith, IBM

9:30 Two contradictory conjectures concerning Carmichael numbers
Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia

10:30 Break

11:00 Class groups in cryptography
Johannes Buchmann, Technical University of Darmstadt

12:00 Speeding up the discrete log computation on curves with
automorphisms
Francois Morain, Ecole Polytechnique LIX

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16

Morning Session Chair:  Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo

9:00 Factorization of RSA-140 using the number field sieve
Herman te Riele, CWI

10:00 Break

10:30 Improved polynomial selection for the number field sieve
Brian Murphy, Australian National University

11:30 Recent progress on the discrete logarithm problem in finite
fields
Oliver Schirokauer, Oberlin College

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair:  Oliver Schirokauer, Oberlin College

2:00 Strategies in filtering in the number field sieve
Stefania Cavallar, CWI


2:30 Implementing the number field sieve for F_{p^2}
Damian Weber, Institut für Techno and Wirtschaftsmathematik

3:00 The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem
Julia Chen, Tamkang University

3:30 Break

4:00 A method of constructing elliptic curves with nonsmooth orders
Doug Kuhlman, University of Illinois

4:30 Elliptic divisibility sequences and the discrete logarithm
problem
Nelson Stephens, University of London

5:00 Computing discrete logarithms in high-genus hyperelliptic
jacobians in provably subexponential time
Andreas Enge, University of Augsburg

7:00 Banquet at Casaloma

THURSDAY, JUNE 17

Morning Session Chair:  Brian Murphy, Australian National University

8:30 Error-correcting codes and cryptography
Harald Niederreiter, Austrian Academy of Sciences

9:30 Security: definitions, assumptions, and proofs
Victor Shoup, IBM Zurich

10:30 Break

11:00 P-adic Numerical Analysis
Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin

12:00 Security in the random oracle + generic model
Claus Schnorr, University of Frankfurt

12:30 End of Conference
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