IACR 2010 Election

The 2010 election is being held October 1 through November 15 to fill all four IACR Officer positions and three of nine IACR Director positions.

The four officers and three directors whose three-year terms are expiring are

• Bart Preneel (President)
• Ed Dawson (Vice-President)
• Thomas Shrimpton (Secretary)
• Helena Handschuh (Treasurer)
• Christian Cachin (Director)
• David Pointcheval (Director)
• Tsutomu Matsumoto (Director)

The election committee consists of

• Josh Benaloh (Chair)
• Serge Vaudenay (Returning officer)
• Jean-Jacques Quisquater

This year, the election will be conducted electronically from October 1 through November 15 using the Helios cryptographically-verifiable election system.

See http://www.iacr.org/elections/2010/HeliosForCryptographers.html for a brief overview of how the Helios system works.

See http://www.iacr.org/elections/eVoting/ for information on the IACR decision to adopt Helios. The IACR membership meeting has adopted the following motion regarding eVoting.

How To Vote

That email message contains the Election URL: http://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/IACR2010 , the Election Fingerprint: AKBVANC/m4EuoZ79Ezh1+StureVXMe7TBnkAQvXuP8Q , and in addition a username and password for voting in the elections. (Please notice that the system will only ask for your username and password at the end of the voting process, after you entered all your choices .) Questions about this election may be sent to election2010 (at) iacr.org .

Candidates for Election in 2010

Candidates are permitted to run simultaneously for an Officer position and a Director position. A candidate who wins election as an Officer will be eliminated from consideration as a Director.

The candidates for each office below are listed below

President

• Bart Preneel
  It has been a pleasure to serve the IACR since 1997 as Director, Vice-President and President. I would like to ask your support for a second term as President in which I will do my best to further improve access to our publications, support students and increase the value offered by our events.

  Longer statement: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/iacr.html

  Candidate home page: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/

Vice-President

• Christian Cachin
  I have served the IACR since 1998 as Webmaster, creator of the Cryptology ePrint Archive, member of program committees, conference chair, and Director. I want IACR to expand the reach of its publications, to support high-quality research, and to continue providing relevant services for our community.

  Longer statement: http://cachin.com/vote-for-iacr

  Candidate home page: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~cca

• Helena Handschuh
  After having served the IACR for six years in the role of Treasurer, I would like to serve our members even better by taking on a more strategic role addressing important topics such as electronic publishing and having more student attendees at our events. Please vote for me! Thank you.

  No URL for longer statement provided

  No home page provided

Treasurer

• Greg Rose
  As an IACR member since 1996 and General Chair of Crypto 2003, I wish to use my skills to further contribute to the organization that has helped my career. As an Australian living in the US, I feel that I can represent the diverse needs of our international community.

  Longer statement: http://seer-grog.net/IACRBoard.html

  Candidate home page: http://seer-grog.net

• Marcelo Kaihara
  As General Chair of CHES 2009 I made it possible to reduce the registration fee to increase accessibility of the workshop, especially to students. If elected I will continue this work, while maintaining stable and reliable services to ensure the continued excellent state of the IACR's financial affairs.

  No URL for longer statement provided

  Candidate home page: http://people.epfl.ch/marcelo.kaihara

Secretary

• James Hughes
  I am seeking election to the position of Secretary of the IACR. I would consider it an honor to hold this service position. As Secretary, I will strive to produce impartial minutes and deliver results quickly. Please vote for me.

  Longer statement: http://www.cryptoclarity.com/CryptoClarityLLC/Welcome/Entries/2010/9/20_Vote_for_James_Hughes.html

  Candidate home page: http://www.cryptoclarity.com/James_P_Hughes

• Martijn Stam
  As secretary, I would strive to report back to both the board and the community in a clear and expedient manner to assist this process. I would try to work with other board members to strengthen the IACR brand and encourage especially the involvement of younger IACR members.

  Longer statement: http://documents.epfl.ch/users/s/st/stam/www/iacr.html

  Candidate home page: http://people.epfl.ch/martijn.stam

Director

• David Pointcheval
  As a regular member of IACR since 1994, I am aware of the importance of this association for promoting cryptography at the international level. I thus intend to work hard towards sustaining the high quality of IACR events and making them more accessible to researchers and students of all nationalities.

  Longer statement: http://www.di.ens.fr/~pointche/iacr

  Candidate home page: http://www.di.ens.fr/~pointche

• John Kelsey
  If elected as director, I will focus on two goals: making IACR publications as widely available online as possible, and keeping up the high quality of our conferences, workshops, and journals.

  No URL for longer statement provided

  No home page provided

• Amit Sahai
  The scope and reach of cryptography has grown tremendously over the past several years. My objectives are to uphold and strengthen the quality of all IACR conferences and workshops, encourage academic and industry careers in cryptographic research, and nurture a broad and inclusive view of the field of cryptography.

  Longer statement: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~sahai/IACR.html

  Candidate home page: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~sahai

• Christof Paar
  I have been working in applied cryptography since 1995. It's fascinating to observe how our discipline has matured. In the last 15 years we went from two conferences to more than a dozen. It will be my goal to keep the community together and to encourage research across sub-disciplines.

  Longer statement: http://www.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/candidate_statement.html

  Candidate home page: http://www.crypto.rub.de/en_paar.html

• Mitsuru Matsui
  I have been serving more than 30 IACR conferences/workshops as a steering/program committee member since 1994. I would like to continuously contribute to IACR by maintaining academic quality, expanding publication opportunities (e.g. raising acceptance rate), and extending support to students. I will deliver your voices to the board.

  No URL for longer statement provided

  Candidate home page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuru_Matsui

• Christian Cachin
  I have served the IACR since 1998 as Webmaster, creator of the Cryptology ePrint Archive, member of program committees, conference chair, and Director. I want IACR to expand the reach of its publications, to support high-quality research, and to continue providing relevant services for our community.

  Longer statement: http://cachin.com/vote-for-iacr

  Candidate home page: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~cca