These are the proceedings of Eurocrypt 2008, the 27th Annual IACR Eurocrypt Conference. The conference was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (http://www.iacr.org), this year in cooperation with Tubitak (http://www.tubitak.gov.tr).
The Eurocrypt 2008 Program Committee (PC) consisted of 28 members whose names are listed on the next page. There were 163 papers submitted to the conference and the PC chose 31 of them. Each paper was assigned to at least three PC members, who either handled it themselves or assigned it to an external referee. After the reviews were submitted, the committee deliberated both online for several weeks and finally in a face-to-face meeting held in Bristol. Papers were refereed anonymously, with PC papers having a minimum of five reviewers. All of our deliberations were aided by the Web Submission and Review Software written and maintained by Shai Halevi. In addition to notification of the decision of the committee, authors received reviews; the default for any report given to the committee was that it should be available to the authors as well.
The committee decided to give the Best Paper Award to Ben Smith for his paper Isogenies and the Discrete Logarithm Problem in Jacobians of Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curves. The conference program also included two invited lectures: one by Andy Clark entitled From Gamekeeping to Poaching - Information Forensics and Associated Challenges, and the other by Clifford Cocks on The growth and development of Public Key Cryptography.
I wish to thank all the people who made the conference possible. First and foremost the authors who submitted their papers. The hard task of reading, commenting, debating and finally selecting the papers for the conference fell on the PC members. Without the hard work of the committee members and their respective sub-reviewers the whole process would be so much harder to organise. I thank Shai Halevi for handling the submissions and reviews server, and for also organising the phone conference for those people unable to attend the Bristol PC meeting in person. I am also grateful to members of the IACR board, and previous PC Chairs, who shared their invaluable advice with me and to A. Murat Apohan and the rest of the local organising committee.
Finally, I would like to say that it has been a great honour be PC Chair for Eurocrypt 2008 and I only hope the readers of the following papers obtain as much enjoyment as I did in selecting them.
Michel Abdalla Masayuki Abe Omran Ahmadi Elena Andreeva Kazumaro Aoki Frederik Armknecht Giuseppe Ateniese Nuttapong Attrapadung Roberto Avanzi Mira Belenkiy Côme Berbain Guido Blady Andrey Bogdanov Colin Boyd Matt Campagna Sébastien Canard Ran Canetti David Cash Dario Catalano Nishanth Chandran Melissa Chase Sanjit Chatterjee Benoît Chevallier-Mames Carlos Cid Scott Contini Jason Crampton Ivan Damgård Cécile Delerablée Claus Diem Yevgeniy Dodis Dror Eiger Jean-Charles Faugère Marc Fischlin Matthias Fitzi Ewan Fleischmann Pierre-Alain Fouque Georg Fuchsbauer Eiichiro Fujisaki Jun Furukawa Steven Galbraith Nicolas Gama Pierrick Gaudry Praveen Gauravaram Rosario Gennaro Henri Gilbert Vanessa Gratzer Robbert de Haan Goichiro Hanaoka Darrel Hankerson Guillaume Hanrot Aram Harrow Johan Håstad Florian Hess Jason Hinek Martin Hirt Dennis Hofheinz Susan Hohenberger Nick Howgrave-Graham Yuval Ishai Mitsugu Iwamoto Stas Jarecki Shaoquan Jiang Ellen Jochemsz Pascal Junod Ulrich Kühn Marcelo Kaihara Alexandre Karlov Mohamed Karroumi Shahram Khazaei Hiroaki Kikuchi Eike Kiltz Mehmet Kiraz Takashi Kitagawa Kazukuni Kobara Hiroki Koga Markulf Kohlweiss Vlad Kolesnikov Yuichi Komano Matthias Krause Hugo Krawczyk Virendra Kumar Alptekin Küpçü Kaoru Kurosawa Tanja Lange Kristin Lauter Stephane Lemieux Gaetan Leurent Eric Levieil Jun Li Benoît Libert Hans Loehr |
Bodo Möller Phil MacKenzie Subhomay Maitra Mark Manulis Sandra Marcello Keith Martin Ueli Maurer Alexander May Daniele Micciancio Lorenz Minder Toshiyuki Miyazawa Sean Murphy Toru Nakanishi Jesper Buus Nielsen Svetla Nikova Ryo Nishimaki Masayuki Numao Wakaha Ogata Koji Okada Tatsuaki Okamoto Elisabeth Oswald Roger Oyono Carles Padró Dan Page Pascal Paillier Adriana Palacio Omkant Pandey Rafael Pass Chris Peikert Olivier Pereira Ludovic Perret Krzysztof Pietrzak David Pointcheval Marcin Poturalski Manoj Prabhakaran Tal Rabin Vaibhav Rajan Vibhor Rastogi Dominik Raub Eric Rescorla Reza Reyhanitabar Leonid Reyzin Thomas Ristenpart Louis Salvail Jorge Villar Santos Yu Sasaki Nitesh Saxena Rüdiger Schack Werner Schindler Yannick Seurin Siamak Shahandashti Emily Shen Junji Shikata Jamshid Shokrollahi Thomas Shrimpton Andrey Sidorenko Adam Smith Masakazu Soshi Igor Spharlinski Michal Sramka Martijn Stam Heiko Stamer François-Xavier Standaert Dirk Stegemann Willy Susilo Koutarou Suzuki Keisuke Tanaka Emin Tatli Yael Tauman-Kalai Stefano Tessaro Soeren Steffen Thomsen Tomas Toft Frederik Vercauteren Damien Vergnaud José Villegas Marcus Wagner Bogdan Warinschi Hoeteck Wee Daniel Wichs Andreas Winter Christopher Wolf David Woodruff Jürg Wullschleger Brecht Wyseur Keita Xagawa Go Yamamoto Kan Yasuda Kazuki Yoneyama Rui Zhang Yunlei Zhao Sebastien Zimmer |