______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 2000. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * NIST announces that Rijndael has been selected as the proposed AES * Inventors of Public-key Cryptography Receive IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award * IACR 2000 Election Candidates and their Statements * Andrew Odlyzko to hold 2001 IACR Distinguished Lecture * New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * Crypto 2000 Rump Session * Asiacrypt 2000: Call for Participation * Eurocrypt 2001: Call for Papers * Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000 * Minutes of the Business Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000 * New Books + Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy, by Stefan Brands + Secrets & Lies, by Bruce Schneier * Open Positions * Calender of Events in Cryptology * IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 7th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! No big changes for the IACR Newsletter this time, but the table of contents looks quite packed, nevertheless. Make sure you don't forget to vote in the upcoming IACR elections this fall. Late-breaking news from IACR: * Andrew Odlyzko to the IACR Distinguished Lecture of 2001 at Eurocrypt in Innsbruck. * Rebecca Wright to be the general chair, Moti Yung the program chair of Crypto 2002. * Yuliang Zheng to be the program chair of Asiacrypt 2002. If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by email and would like to receive it in the future, then check out your email address in the IACR member list that is mailed yearly (last in early 2000). Please send your input to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in February 2001. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as soon as possible. Christian Cachin IACR Newsletter Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ NIST announces that Rijndael has been selected as the proposed AES. ______________________________________________________________________________ For more information, see http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Inventors of Public-key Cryptography Receive IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award ______________________________________________________________________________ The [1]IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 "to recognize outstanding technical contributions in the field of computers and communications, that is, the integration of computers and communications." For 1999, Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems - Palo Alto, CA), Martin E. Hellman (Stanford University - Stanford, CA), and Ralph C. Merkle (Xerox PARC - Sunnyvale, CA) received the award For the revolutionary invention of public key cryptosystems which form the foundation for privacy, integrity and authentication in modern communication systems. For 2000, Ronald L. Rivest (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Arlington, MA), Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot, Israel), and Leonard Adleman (University of Southern California - Northridge, CA) received the award For the revolutionary invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem which is the first to be widely-adopted. Both awards were presented to the recipients by Tom Berson (Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and Director of the IACR) at Crypto 2000 in Santa Barbara. References 1. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/sums/koji.htm ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR 2000 Elections: Candidates and their Statements ______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Berson I have served IACR since 1983 as Secretary, Treasurer, President, and Director. During that time we created premier cryptologic conferences, literature, and community. Our present challenges include electronic publication and sponsorship of workshops. I know where we have been and I know where we are going. Please vote for me. Longer statement at http://www.anagram.com/vote. Home page at http://www.anagram.com/berson. Yvo Desmedt Top quality papers in all areas of cryptography used to be sent primarily to IACR conferences. Due to the explosion of conferences, IACR is at a crossroad. This must be addressed properly. Being a member since 1983, I am in good position to make sure that IACR conferences remain attractive. Home page at http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~desmedt. Andrew Fernandes Who am I? A professional paranoid by day, valiantly protecting innocent algorithms from evil bureaucrats, all in the name of rampant capitalism... A crusader by night, passionately promulgating the latest ultra cool web ways to keep IACR members informed, aware, and well fed at every Crypto conference... Longer statement at http://www.fernandes.org/iacr.html. Home page at http://www.fernandes.org. Joe Kilian Best known as the submission-server guy, I've also served on CRYPTO and Eurocrypt program committees and am program chair for CRYPTO 2001. I have specific goals such as further internetizing our publications, but run mainly on a claim of general competence and the willingness to do the work. Lars Knudsen I will be happy to serve as director of IACR. I think the IACR should continue being an organisation for cryptologic research with a strong link to applied research. Making FSE an IACR conference is a step in that direction. Member since 1991. Home page at http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr. Tsutomu Matsumoto As the general chair, I am having a real-time experience to prepare the first IACR-sponsored Asiacrypt conference. If elected, I would like to do my best for IACR to promote and maintain the worldwide integrity of cryptologic research. Hilarie Orman The IACR's high standards for research review and publication are exemplary, and I will work to promote and sustain them. Accessibility to the material is essential to building a worldwide research community, and it is my goal to extend access in ways that are consistent with the IACR's commitments. Longer statement at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~horman/iacr.html. Greg Rose I have recently finished a 6 year term on the board of USENIX, and would enjoy offering my experience and energy to the IACR, where my professional interests now lie. Longer statement at http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr/iacr.html. Home page at http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr. _________________________________________________________________ Procedures The elections will proceed as follows: * Ballots will be mailed to all IACR members by OCTOBER 1, 2000. * Ballots must be mailed to be received by the Returning Officer (Andy Clark, address to be found in the ballot) in the official envelopes by NOVEMBER 15, 2000. ______________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Odlyzko to hold 2000 IACR Distinguished Lecture ______________________________________________________________________________ At its meeting in Santa Barbara at Crypto 2000, the IACR board of directors has chosen Andrew Odlyzko for IACR Distinguished Lecturer of the year 2001. The lecture will be given at Eurocrypt 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. We look forward to his presentation. ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ Note: The 1996-1999 contents of the Theory of Cryptology Library have been automatically included in the Cryptology ePrint Archive for the years prior to 2000. _________________________________________________________________ 2000/049 ( PS PS.GZ ) Spectral Domain Analysis of Correlation Immune and Resilient Boolean Functions Palash Sarkar 2000/048 ( PS PS.GZ ) New Constructions of Resilent and Correlation Immune Boolean Functions achieving Upper Bounds on Nonlinearity Enes Pasalic and Thomas Johansson and Subhamoy Maitra and Palash Sarkar 2000/047 ( PS PS.GZ ) Highly Nonlinear Balanced Boolean Functions with very good Autocorrelation Property Subhamoy Maitra 2000/046 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Saturation Attack - a Bait for Twofish Stefan Lucks 2000/045 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge Without Intractability Assumptions Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Philip MacKenzie 2000/044 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Provably Secure Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Diffie-Hellman Victor Boyko and Philip MacKenzie and Sarvar Patel 2000/043 ( PS PS.GZ ) Constructions and Bounds for Unconditionally Secure Commitment Schemes C. Blundo and B. Masucci and D.R. Stinson and R. Wei 2000/042 ( PS PS.GZ ) Constructing Pseudo-Random Permutations with a Prescribed Structure Moni Naor and Omer Reingold 2000/041 ( PS PS.GZ ) On Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval Sanjeev Kumar Mishra 2000/040 ( PS PS.GZ ) Decimation Attack of Stream Ciphers Eric FILIOL 2000/039 ( PS PS.GZ ) Encryption Modes with Almost Free Message Integrity Charanjit S. Jutla 2000/038 ( PS PS.GZ ) On the Complexity of Verifiable Secret Sharing and Multi-Party Computation Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Stefan Dziembowski 2000/037 ( PS PS.GZ ) General Secure Multi-Party Computation from any Linear Secret Sharing Scheme Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Ueli Maurer 2000/036 ( PS PS.GZ ) Using fewer Qubits in Shor's Factorization Algorithm via Simultaneous Diophantine Approximation Jean-Pierre Seifert 2000/035 ( PS PS.GZ ) Electronic Jury Voting Protocols Alejandro Hevia and Marcos Kiwi 2000/034 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Random Oracles in Constantinople: Practical Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement using Cryptography Christian Cachin and Klaus Kursawe and Victor Shoup 2000/033 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Complete Distribution of Linear Probabilities of MARS' s-box Kazumaro Aoki 2000/032 ( PS PS.GZ ) Anonymous Fingerprinting with Direct Non-Repudiation Birgit Pfitzmann, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi 2000/031 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Forward Security in Threshold Signature Schemes Michel Abdalla and Sara Miner and Chanathip Namprempre 2000/030 ( PS PS.GZ ) Secure Multiparty Computation of Approximations Joan Feigenbaum and Jessica Fong and Martin Strauss and Rebecca N. Wright 2000/029 ( PS PS.GZ ) Concrete Security Characterizations of PRFs and PRPs: Reductions and Applications Anand Desai and Sara Miner 2000/028 ( PS PS.GZ ) An Information-Theoretic Model for Steganography Christian Cachin 2000/027 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Accountable Certificate Management using Undeniable Attestations Ahto Buldas and Peeter Laud and Helger Lipmaa ______________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2000 Rump Session Program ______________________________________________________________________________ Online-version with links at http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/crypto2k/ This is a list of talks given at the rump session. We will include here any information regarding the paper provided by the authors, such as abstract, pointers or preprints. Authors are encouraged to send us the information. The papers are ordered as per the program. _________________________________________________________________ AES update Morris Dworkin Assasinating SASAS Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael Niels Ferguson, Richard Schroeppel and Doug Whitting Camellia: A 128-Bit Block Cipher Suitable for Multiple Platforms Kazumaro Aoki, Tetsuya Ichikawa, Masayuki Kanda, Mitsuru Matsui, Shiho Moriai, Junko Nakajima, Toshio Tokita Note: This appears in SAC 2000 Improved impossible differentials on Twofish Eli Biham and Vladimir Furman The left super summit set attack on Ko-Lee-Cheon-Han-Kang-Park key agreement protocol in B45 Jim Hughes ECSTR (XTR): Elliptic curve singular trace representation Alfred Menezes and Scott Vanstone Search on Encrypted Data Dawn Song, David Wagner and Adrian Perrig Uncheatable Distributed Computations Philippe Golle Session-Key Generation with Human Passwords Only Oded Goldreich and Yehuda Lindell Concurrent oblivious transfer Juan Garay and Phil MacKenzie Note: This appears in FOCS 2000 Zaps and Their Applications Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor Note: This appears in [27]FOCS 2000 Transitive signature schemes Silvio Micali and Ron Rivest Encryption Modes with Almost Free Message Integrity Charanjit S. Jutla A chosen-ciphertext secure encryption scheme tightly as secure as factoring Eiichiro Fujisaki An NTRU based digital signature scheme Joe Silverman and Jeff Hoffstein Elliptic Curves: Twice as Fast! Rich Schroeppel Factoring polynomials over the rationals quickly and using lattice-basis reduction Arjen Lenstra for Mark van Hoeij The Min-Rank problem Nicolas Courtois Lower bounds on the efficiency of generic cryptographic constructions Rosario Gennaro and Luca Trevisan This appears in FOCS 2000 Oblivious cast and multiparty computation Matthias Fitzi, Juan Garay, Ueli Maurer and Rafail Ostrovsky A Statistical Decoding Algorithm for General Linear Codes A. Al Jabri Inherently Large Traceability of Broadcast Encryption Scheme Kaoru Kurosawa, T. Yoshida and Yvo Desmedt TWEEDLE, a sound variation of TWINKLE Jean-Jacques Quisquater Sharing block ciphers Ernie Brickell, Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Yair Frankel A new application of EPR for quantum key distribution Jaroslav Hruby Correlation Cryptanalysis of SSC2 Greg Rose and Phil Hawkes Simple electro-magnetic analysis for smartcards: New results Jean-Jacques Quisquater and David Samyde Root Finding Interpolation Attack Kaoru Kurosawa, Tetsu Iwata and Viet Duong Quang Note: This appears in [59]SAC 2000. Timing attacks: state of the art Werner Schindler, Francois Koeune and Jean-Jacques Quisquater A Non Euclidean Ring Data Scrambler (NERDS) - a public key cryptosystem Emiliano Kargieman, Ariel Pacetti and Ariel Waissbein Timing Analysis in Exponentiation for RSA B. Canvel and C.T.J. Dodson ______________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2001 -- Call for Papers ______________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Eurocrypt 2001, the 20th Annual Eurocrypt Conference. Eurocrypt 2001 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). For more information, access [15]http://www.iacr.org INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. For lectronic submission goto: [16]http://www-krypt.cs.uni-sb.de/Eurocrypt/. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by November 6, 2000, 22:00 MET (GMT+1) in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 20 copies of an anonymous paper (double-sided copies preferred) to the Program Chair at the [17]postal address. Submissions must be received by the [18]Program Chair on or before November 6, 2000 (or postmarked by October 30, 2000, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and submissions by fax will not be considered. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop with proceedings. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 35 pages in total, using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by January 15, 2001. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear and binding instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on February 26, 2001. RUMP SESSION There will be a Rump Session for informal presentations on recent results, work in progress, and other topics of interest to the crypto community (possibly including satirical presentations that are not purely technical in nature.) Authors are invited to submit their proposals for Rump Session presentations before May 1st, 2001 by electronic mail (plain ASCII) to the Rump Session chair, Jean-Jaques Quisquater, at [19]jjq@dice.ucl.ac.be. Alternatively, proposals can be handed to the Rump Session chair at the conference before May 7th, 2001 (14:00 MET). Proposals should be at most one page; useful attachments are permitted if not dangerous. SUBMISSION 6 November 2000 ACCEPTANCE 15 January 2001 PROCEEDINGS VERSION 26 February 2001 STIPENDS A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the General Chair. ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ Board of Directors Meeting Eurocrypt 2000 Brugge 14 May 2000 The Board President called the meeting to order at 10:01. Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Kim, Landrock, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, E. Okamoto, T. Okamoto, Posch, Preneel, Van Oorschot, and Vandewalle. Swick was also present representing the IACR Secretariat. Proxies were held for Diffie by Preneel and for Vandewalle by Landrock (during Vandewalle's absence). The agenda of the meeting was approved unanimously. ************************************************************************ Minutes of the 15 August 1999 meeting were approved. Motion by Preneel seconded by Berson carried 17 to 0. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 200 General Chair Vandewalle reported on the conference. Corporate sponsorships from Cryptomathic Belgium, PWC, Utimaco Safeware, Europay International, Isaserver, and Ubizen netted approximately $23,000 in additional income. Ancillary (non-participant based) expenses were approximately $56,000. This includes approximately $6,000 in student stipends, $12,000 for the lecture hall, $11,000 in organizing committee expenses, $6,000 in program committee expenses, and $10,000 refunded to the IACR secretariat to repay the advance previously provided. Regular registration was $370 and student registration was $90. McCurley asked about the availability of internet access and Preneel responded that 12 machines have been made available. McCurley reminded Vandewalle to acknowledge the corporate sponsors and Vandewalle provided the Board with further information about each of the sponsors. McCurley asked about the availability of proceedings and books and Preneel responded that these had been sent by Springer-Verlag. Clark asked about participant costs and was told by Preneel that some of the sponsors received free registration (the loss of approximately $2,500 in registration fees had already been accounted for in the net income from sponsors). All gave thanks to Vandewalle for his work on the conference. McCurley asked about the adequacy of the IACR guidelines to the Program Chair and Preneel suggested the need for an update. McCurley asked about the arrangement with the IACR secretariat and Preneel reported that there were only minor glitches. Vandewalle mentioned the need for early hotel reservations, and Preneel said that new hotels were found after the original hotels became fully booked. Clark offered compliments to Vandewalle and Preneel for the selection of the Hotel Montanus for the Board. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch then gave a report on Eurocrypt 2001. Posch stated that a website had been set up at http://www.ec2001.ocg.at. McCurley asked if we should register the URL eurocrypt.org. Cachin felt that this was unnecessary. Posch said that he prefers to maintain the web site locally. Posch asked the Board about sponsorship guidelines. McCurley said they were unstructured. Langford asked about tax consequences of large contributions. McCurley said that the IACR is incorporated in the U.S. and must follow U.S. tax laws and its own mission. Langford offered to send tax information to Posch. Posch asked if there was any decision process and McCurley responded that this was open. McCurley commented that any decision on distinguished lectures was reserved by the Board and asked if Posch needed to make any deposits as yet. Posch responded that he did not. The date for Eurocrypt 2001 was given as 6-11 May 2001. McCurley asked Posch to present info on Eucrocrypt 2001 at the Business Meeting. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2000 General Chair Matsumoto then reported on Asiacrypt 2000. Matsumoto said that preparations were going well. The registration fee would be $595 with a $75 reduction for early registration and a $80 reduction for IACR members. Expected income was given as 15,982,000 yen (with an exchange rate of approximately 100 yen to the dollar). McCurley asked about the paper submission deadline and was told by T. Okamoto that it would be May 25. Matsumoto agreed to discuss budget details separately with Langford. McCurley asked if there were any outstanding issues. Matsumoto said that he wanted to use corporate donations to reduce the registration fee below $500 but that corporate financial difficulties had limited this option. McCurley asked about the possibility of electronic submissions, and T. Okamoto said that submissions would be accepted by e-mail. ________________________________________________________________________ The issue of relationships of IACR with other conferences was then discussed. McCurley said that Asiacrypt had been the recent focus, but that relationships with other conferences such as Fast Software Encryption, the Information Hiding Workshop, and Financial Cryptography could be considered. Preneel said that the Fast Software Encryption conference has no formal committee. It had been a small workshop in 1993 and 1994 and grew substantially from approximately 30 participants to approximately 200 participants when paired with the AES workshop. It is expected to stabilize at approximately 100 participants. Matsui will be the next Program Chair. The conference has never lost money but has no financial reserve. It uses IACR copyright forms. McCurley noted that Ian Goldberg is not requiring any copyright assignment in conjunction with the Financial Cryptography workshop. Preneel emphasized that if the Fast Software Encryption conference were to be sponsored by the IACR it should be done in a way that does NOT cause related papers to be rejected from any of the current IACR conferences. Maurer said that no guarantees are possible. Preneel said that guidelines to support this position are possible. Van Oorschot suggested that it might be best to NOT emphasize this point. Clark asked about the advantages to IACR of an affiliation with the Fast Software Encryption conference. Landrock suggested that it could increase both IACR's prestige and membership. Maurer expressed the opinion that sponsorship of high-quality conferences is advantageous to IACR and asked whether IACR conferences should have separate content and flavor. McCurley observed we have previously distinguished conferences only by regionalization and that discrimination based on content would be a new approach. Maurer said that he would be happy to have Fast Software Encryption be a premier IACR conference in its area. Biham asserted that it is essential to maintain author choice in where to submit. McCurley suggested that he thought that content-based bias had not been a problem, but Van Oorschot said that he had seen IACR program committees reject papers from conferences on the basis of their being more appropriate for Fast Software Encryption. Preneel shared Van Oorschot's concern in this regard. Berson offered the Information Hiding Workshop as another example of a conference toward which some IACR program committee's have redirected submissions. McCurley expressed dilution of quality as his major concern. Van Oorschot observed that hardware papers are regularly rejected from the Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences. Preneel added his belief that this had been a consistent problem. McCurley asked if we should be directing IACR program committees to include more hardware papers. Maurer expressed the opinion that these are separate areas. Benaloh voiced a concern about an even greater reduction in quality of submissions. McCurley asked about recent conference acceptance rates. Preneel said that the acceptance rate at Eurocrypt 2000 was 26% and that 31 out of 116 papers [27%] were accepted at Crypto 2000. McCurley asked about how the co-ordination of additional IACR conferences would be managed. Preneel suggested a model like that used for Asiacrypt with a separate steering committee. McCurley asked for a specific proposal. Van Oorschot said that the financial stability of the IACR would be a benefit to Fast Software Encryption. McCurley suggested that the Fast Software Encryption conference might shrink dramatically after the AES competition is over. Berson said that the IACR should be open to new sponsorships but expressed concern over the managerial stress that this would place on the IACR. Benaloh suggested the possibility of waiting a year until after AES to make a decision about Fast Software Encryption. Preneel countered that the Fast Software Encryption conference had 120 participants prior to being linked with AES workshops. McCurley reiterated the concern about management of additional conferences. Van Oorschot suggested that a Eurocrypt steering committee (similar to that of Asiacrypt) could off-load some of IACR's management burden. McCurley expressed support for this idea. Maurer observed that this opened a greater issue of IACR Board structure and the possibility of forming sub-committees to perform some of the management. Clark contrasted the contributions IACR would offer to Fast Software Encryption, including financial insurance, organizational assistance from the IACR Secretariat, and legal support such as maintenance of copyrights, with the primary benefit of additional prestige that Fast Software Encryption would bring to the IACR. McCurley suggested the possibility of merging the Fast Software Encryption conference with the workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. Berson expressed the opinion that this kind of high-level planning was the wrong model and that the IEEE open conference model was preferable. McCurley agreed that an open model was good but reiterated concerns about dilution of quality. Van Oorschot voiced the opinion that the IACR should not become bureaucratic. Benaloh asked about stressing of the IACR secretariat and whether Fast Software Encryption participants should become IACR members. The consensus was that this was possible and desirable. Beaver asked for details on the IEEE model for managing conferences. Berson responded that the IEEE heavily taxes conferences and uses these proceeds to manage risk and absorb losses. Beaver suggested that other conferences might want to ally with the IACR so long as the IACR does not micromanage them. Biham asked where we see the IACR in twenty years. McCurley expressed the desire that it be similar to today. Landrock asked whether the Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences would represent a smaller portion of the IACR's activities. Van Oorschot asked if it would be expanded to cryptography and security. Preneel suggested that any decision on Fast Software Encryption be made in the context of future consequences for other conferences. Biham added that we should have precise criteria for other conferences allying with IACR. Clark reminded the Board that historically the IACR had a "sponsored by IACR" status and an "in cooperation with IACR" status for conferences and expressed the opinion that the primary concern is consistency of future criteria. Clark then asked that a specific proposal be solicited from the Fast Software Encryption organizers. McCurley said that he felt that management was still a concern. Preneel said that about half of Fast Software Encryption participants also come to IACR conferences. Biham suggested that some Fast Software Encryption participants find that conference to be more manageable than IACR conferences. McCurley asked about an independent committee for Fast Software Encryption citing management advantages, more direct selection of a Program Committee Chair, and avoidance of micromanagement as advantages. Berson voiced the view that this would be a good model for "sponsored workshops". McCurley said that he wanted to eliminate the "in cooperation with IACR" status and didn't favor adding new designations because of implied IACR approval of the conferences' content. Clark described major issues as legal and financial. Benaloh suggested that financial stability should be a major concern. Maurer suggested looking at other organizations for models to follow. Berson suggested the appointment of a committee to consider the issue. E. Okamoto said that IACR needs to change to respond to growth. McCurley suggested the need for a model for workshops to be incorporated into the IACR. Clark supported Berson's suggestion that we should create a committee to deal with the issue before it becomes more urgent. McCurley asked Preneel, Biham, and Maurer to act as a committee to explore guidelines for IACR sponsored workshops. Berson, Langford, and Clark offered their resources to help with the committee. Beaver suggests that a better name than "workshop" could be advantageous. Clark asked for the committee to report back to the Board at the next IACR Board meeting in Santa Barbara. The committee members agreed to do so. Van Oorschot noted that Springer-Verlag will publish the RSA conference crypto track proceedings starting in 2001 and that we have no control over this literature. McCurley expressed a desire to restructure the IACR Board and by-laws to provide for committees with specific duties. ________________________________________________________________________ The issue of the IACR Secretariat was then discussed. Swick proposed that the Secretariat no longer attend Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt conferences expressing the view that this is both unnecessary and burdensome on the Secretariat. She proposed that the IACR instead follow the Eurocrypt '99 model in which funds are sent directly to the Eurocrypt committee rather than filtered through the Secretariat. Preneel expressed the view that the Eurocrypt 2000 committee would have had difficulties handling credit card payments directly. Langford suggested that the IACR could advance funds as necessary. Clark observed that the IACR has historically asked the Secretariat to send personnel to conferences for coordination and noted that the job of the Secretariat has recently been extended substantially. Berson asked if payment to the secretariat had increased commensurately to which several members responded that it had not. Beaver suggested that Preneel's concerns about cash flow could be isolated and that the conference seed funds may need to be increased from the current $10,000. McCurley expressed a strong desire to make web-based conference registration available. Swick said that most of these things were possible but that physical presence by the Secretariat at conferences was the primary burden. McCurley noted that database entry has relied on physical presence. Matsumoto said that Asiacrypt 2000 is relying on physical presence of the Secretariat. Swick said that Secretariat presence at Asiacrypt was less of a problem but that the timing of Eurocrypt in May posed a significant problem for the Secretariat. McCurley then appointed a committee to report on the IACR relationship to the Secretariat. The committee included Beaver, Posch, Matsumoto, Swick, and Langford. Clark asked that the committee report back at the Board's next meeting in Santa Barbara and the committee members agreed to do so. ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Treasurer Langford then presented a brief financial report. Eurocrypt '99 broke even with $222,000 in income after returning $48,000 to the IACR. Of this $48,000, $28,000 went to member dues, $10,000 was paid to the secretariat for services, and $10,000 repaid the advance supplied by the IACR. Crypto '99 had $244,000 in income. $74,000 was returned to the IACR of which $30,000 went for member dues and $10,000 repaid the IACR advance. This left a $34,000 surplus. It was also reported that an additional $7,000 surplus was returned to the IACR from Eucrocrypt '97. As of 31 December 1999, the IACR reserve consisted of $200,000 in CDs, $115,000 in a checking account, and $15,000 held by the Secretariat. After expenses, the total surplus was $260,000. An extension on taxes had just been filed to keep the IACR in conformance. Clark suggested that after a recent failure to renew the iacr.org domain name that the responsibility of domain registration should be turned over to the Treasurer. Langford agreed to accept this responsibility. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for lunch at 12:31 and reconvened at 13:59. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then considered proposals for Eurocrypt 2002. Nigel Smart presented a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2002 in Bristol, UK. A second proposal was planned, but due to a scheduling misunderstanding, the second proposal and final decision was postponed until the following day. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair E. Okamoto then briefed the Board on Asiacrypt 2001. He reminded the Board that Asiacrypt 2001 had previously been approved for Taiwan but that the offer to host the conference was withdrawn after the 1999 earthquake. He then reported that the Asiacrypt steering committee had recommended that the conference be relocated to Queensland, Australia. Colin Boyd then briefed the Board on a proposal to host Asiacrypt 2001 on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Dates were given as 9-13 December 2001 for a conference hall with a capacity of 400 and hotels within 10-15 minutes by bus. Ed Dawson was proposed as General Chair and Colin Boyd was proposed as Program Chair. Early registration fees were estimated at $495 (exclusive of IACR membership). After some discussion, the Board approved this proposal. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then devoted some time to discussion of Eurocrypt 2002. A particular concern was timing of the conference. (Eurocrypt 2000 was held the same week as the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland.) Berson reported that this conflict was due to a late change in the dates for the Oakland conference and that this conference would henceforth be held the week following the second Sunday in May. The consensus of the Board was that efforts should be made to avoid future conflicts with both the Oakland conference and the Symposium on Theory of Computation (STOC) and that this could best be done by scheduling Eurocrypt in early May or even late April. ________________________________________________________________________ The topic of IACR elections was then discussed. McCurley noted the need to appoint an election committee. Clark volunteered to serve as returning officer. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the Newsletter. Cachin said that there was generally little technical material but that content usually consisted of unsolicited announcements, organizational issues, and advertisements for open positions. Cachin asked if we should seek or accept payment for position advertisements. Berson expressed concern about spam from headhunters but suggested that accepting donations is reasonable. McCurley suggested that we dictate a format for position advertisements. ________________________________________________________________________ Cachin then reported on the IACR e-print archive. He said that it had approximately 20 papers and was hosted on Mihir Bellare's machine at UCSD and was administered by himself and Bennet Yee. He then suggested the appointment of an IACR website master. McCurley noted that Cachin was serving in three roles: newsletter editor, web master, and e-print archive manager. McCurley suggested the need for a publications committee. Cachin suggested the possibility of an IACR machine. McCurley expressed a need for the IACR to better define its approach to electronic publication and to include Springer-Verlag in the process. Cachin offered that readers want both hard and soft copy available and asked if it were possible to share copyright. Biham asked whether copyrighted items could be included on the e-print archive. McCurley answered that copyrighted items could be included if their copyrights were held by IACR. He then referred to the IACR copyright agreement which can be found in http://www.iacr.org/forms. Clark suggested that authors may publish their work on their own web sites but that IACR encourage them not to do so for twelve months. Cachin said that he did not want authors to publish identical papers in Springer-Verlag and on the e-print archive. McCurley expressed a desire to maintain good relations with both Springer-Verlag and authors. McCurley noted that members have frequently asked for electronic versions of both current proceedings and back issues of the Journal. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then discussed Program Chairs for upcoming conferences and voted to ask Colin Boyd to serve as the Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2001 and Lars Knudsen to serve as Program Chair for Eurocrypt 2002. [Both subsequently accepted.] ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel raised the issue that many people had expressed concerns regarding deadlines for IACR conferences being unbalanced (Crypto 2000 deadline falling only 2.5 months after the Eurocrypt 2000 deadline). ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then appointed an election committee consisting of Clark, Kim, and Maurer. [Benaloh subsequently replaced Maurer because of Maurer's anticipated absence from Crypt 2000.] ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then agreed to meet over lunch on 15 May 2000 to hear an additional proposal for Eurocrypt 2002 and discuss further business. ________________________________________________________________________ An agenda for the Business Meeting was established including announcements for subsequent conferences and reports on finances, the Newsletter, and upcoming elections. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then formally voted to accept the Asiacrypt 2001 proposal and separately voted to ask Colin Boyd to serve as Program Chair. Van Oorschot asked that attempts be made to reduce costs for the conference. ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting was adjourned at 16:55. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Board of Directors Supplemental Meeting EuroCrypt 2000 Brugge 15 May 2000 The Board President called the supplemental meeting to order at 12:44. Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Franklin, Kim, Landrock, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, T. Okamoto, Posch, Preneel, and Van Oorschot. Berry Schoenmakers and and Henk C. A. van Tilborg presented a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2002 in the Netherlands. ________________________________________________________________________ Matt Franklin then gave a brief status report on Crypto 2000. He said that all was going well but that the costs would increase approximately 5% due to UCSB food and service increases. Berson asked whether such increases were typical. Beaver responded that the previous year's increase was approximately 3%. ________________________________________________________________________ Votes were then taken on the proposals for Eurocrypt 2002 and the Board accepted the Netherlands proposal with a preference for siting the conference in a single hotel in Amsterdam. ________________________________________________________________________ The supplemental meeting was adjourned at 13:56. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Business Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ Business Meeting Eurocrypt 2000 Brugge 17 May 2000 IACR President McCurley began the meeting at 17:30. He reminded conference attendees that they were all members of the IACR unless they had explicitly declined membership. He described the history of the IACR which began in 1983 and has grown to 1300 members, and he described activities of the IACR including its conferences, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, and the preprint archive. He invited members to explore the IACR website at http://www.iacr.org. McCurley then described the IACR status as a 501C organization chartered in the U.S. state of Nevada. He then introduced the Officers and Directors of the IACR. McCurley then described the elections that would be held in the fall of 2000 for board positions beginning in 2001. The Elections Committee was introduced as consisting of Clark (as returning officer), Kim, and Maurer. [Benaloh has since been substituted for Maurer on the Election Committee.] McCurley then described the following upcoming IACR conferences. Crypto 2000 will be held 20-24 August 2000 in Santa Barbara. Matt Franklin is the General Chair and Mihir Bellare is the Program Chair. Asiacrypt 2000 will be held 3-7 December 2000 in Kyoto, Japan. Tsutomu Matsumoto is the General Chair and Tatsuaki Okamoto is the Program Chair. The submission deadline was 25 May 2000. Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch described the next Eurocrypt conference. Eurocrypt 2001 will be held 6-11 May 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. The General Chair is Reinhard Posch and the Program Chair is Birgit Pfitzmann. The conference website is at http://www.ec2001.ocg.at Crypto 2001 will be held 19-23 August 2001 in Santa Barbara. The General Chair is Dave Balenson and the Program Chair is Joe Kilian. Asiacrypt 2001 will be held 9-13 December 2001 on the Gold Coast of Australia. Ed Dawson will be the General Chair and Colin Boyd will be the Program Chair. McCurley then told the audience that the IACR Secretariat is administered by Conference Services of the University of California at Sanata Barbara and that they handle all IACR membership issues. They can be reached at iacrmem@iacr.org. ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Treasurer Langford then reported on Finances. She said that the IACR maintains a strong reserve of approximately $200,000 (which is approximately the cost of a single IACR conference). She reported that Eurocrypt '99 broke even and that Crypto '99 returned a surplus. 1999 dues were reported as $80 for regular members and $40 for students. Approximately 70% of the dues were described as paying for the Journal of Cryptology, $10 going to UCSB for IACR Secretariat services, and the remainder paying for the IACR web site, Newsletter, and other miscellaneous items. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then described the IACR Newsletter and introduced editor Cachin. He said that the Newletter is electronic and available on the web. It contains book reviews, conference announcements, job advertisements, and other information of interest to the community. The deadline for submissions was 30 May 2000 and its address is newsletter@iacr.org. Editor Cachin then described the Newsletter in somewhat greater detail including its thrice yearly publication schedule and its URL of http://www.iacr.org/newsletter. Cachin then described the IACR preprint archive. It accepts preprints, afterprints, and any other technical contributions to the community. Mihir Bellare serves as editor of the preprint server and Cachin manages maintenance. McCurley then gave the preprint server URL of http://eprint.iacr.org. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then opened the floor for other business. One member expressed a dislike for paying for the Eurocrypt conference in US dollars rather than Euros. McCurley responded that membership services are under revision. Currently mailings are sent from the Secretariat in Santa Barbara, and the Secretariat has also collected fees as a convenience. He said that it was not clear how future conferences would be organized. Membership Secretary Beaver noted that if the IACR collects fees in Europe, it may be difficult to avoid paying VAT -- potentially increasing costs by 15%. He added that handling money can be difficult for a General Chair and is often best left to the Secretariat. Cachin asked if currency mattered when most payments were made by credit card. Another member asked if it would be better for IACR to avoid currency conversion risks. McCurley acknowledged that there are risks and that Beaver is exploring alternatives. He said that no solutions were optimal and mentioned that even web-based registration has only been explored and contains its own set of advantages and concerns. A member asked how the venues for conferences are chosen. McCurley responded that many factors are considered. Among those he listed were that the conference be hosted by a General Chair who is a responsible member of the IACR community, that the venue provide open access to members of virtually all nationalities, affordability, availability of accommodations, weather, geographic diversity, and political stability. He said that the Board then considers proposals and votes on alternatives. A straw pole was then taken on changing the Santa Barbara venue for the Crypto conference. A slight majority appeared to be in favor of maintaining the Santa Barbara venue. Diffie then inquired as to whether the real purpose of Business Meetings was to raise member dues. [No increase in dues is anticipated.] A member asked how long the Crypto conferences could avoid parallel sessions. McCurley responded that the general feeling was that parallel sessions were unnecessary. A member asked if there was a conflict between the eprint server and the anonymous paper submissions policy. McCurley responded that there was much momentum behind the anonymous submissions policy and that it was unlikely to change in the near future. A member asked if there was a conflict between the eprint server and the IACR copyright assignment form. McCurley responded that the new copyright form assigns copyright to the IACR -- largely for long-term archival purposes. The IACR only "asks" that authors refrain from publishing on the web for 12 months -- generally to maintain good relations with Springer-Verlag. The member then asked if the lack of a clear copyright policy alienates Springer-Verlag. Board member Van Oorschot suggested that a possible solution would be to use the eprint server only as a preprint server. The member asked about full papers. Van Oorschot expressed the opinion that there would be no problem so long as the full paper were different from the copyrighted paper. Another member asked if derivative works would be a problem. Board member Berson responded that the IACR has no plans to sue itself. The first member suggested using the Gnu public license. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley adjourned the Business Meeting at 18:05. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ New Books ______________________________________________________________________________ This page lists new books about cryptology. If you want to review a book, please let us know! Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy by Stefan Brands ISBN 0-262-02491-8 The MIT Press August 2000 356 pp. With a foreword by prof. Ronald L. Rivest Summary As paper-based communication and transaction mechanisms are replaced by automated ones, traditional forms of security such as photographs and handwritten signatures are becoming outdated. Most security experts believe that digital certificates offer the best technology for safeguarding electronic communications. They are already widely used for authenticating and encrypting email and software, and eventually will be built into any device or piece of software that must be able to communicate securely. There is a serious problem, however, with this unavoidable trend: unless drastic measures are taken, everyone will be forced to communicate via what will be the most pervasive electronic surveillance tool ever built. There will also be abundant opportunity for misuse of digital certificates by hackers, unscrupulous employees, government agencies, financial institutions, insurance companies, and so on. In this book Stefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without sacrificing security. Such certificates function in much the same way as cinema tickets or subway tokens: anyone can establish their validity and the data they specify, but no more than that. Furthermore, different actions by the same person cannot be linked. Certificate holders have control over what information is disclosed, and to whom. Subsets of the proposed cryptographic building blocks can be used in combination, allowing a cookbook approach to the design of public key infrastructures. Potential applications include electronic cash, electronic postage, digital rights management, pseudonyms for online chat rooms, health care information storage, electronic voting, and even electronic gambling. _________________________________________________________________ Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier ISBN 0-471-25311-1 John Wiley & Sons Hardcover - 432 pages - $29.95. See [1]http://www.counterpane.com/sandl.html for more information. Although this isn't a book on cryptology per se, I found this book is of interest for all cryptographers. Schneier puts cryptology in the broader context of network security, shows where threats in the digital world differ from those in the physical world and where not, and reminds cryptographers, including himself, that cryptologic techniques alone are not enough for securing the online world. -- Christian Cachin ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology. The listing is available on the Web at [1]http://www.iacr.org/jobs/ and also included in the [2]IACR Newsletter that is sent to members three times per year. To advertise your job opportunities, please send a description of no more than 150 words in plain ASCII text by email to jobs(at)iacr.org. This should include an URL and further contact information. No attachments or word documents, please! (Submissions in other formats than text will not be posted.) As this is intended to be a service to the members of IACR, it is free for all members. We ask that commercial enterprises who want to advertise their openings identify at least one of their employees who is a member of IACR. (IACR does not know corporate membership.) Please contact the membership secretariat to [3]become a member of IACR. On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for sponsors for its conferences. 14-aug-00: Entries are now sorted by inverse chronological order. _________________________________________________________________ NTRU Cryptosystems Ntru (Burlington, MA) is a rapidly growing start-up, developing and marketing the fastest secure public key encryption technology available. We are a well financed company (Greylock, Sony) with a patented algorithm (see NY Times, July 3, 2000) offering terrific opportunities for highly motivated cryptographers and software engineers. We need highly skilled researchers and mathematicians as well as developers, technicians, and software engineers. Ntru will change the paradigm for wireless solutions - to contact us, or to find out more about our company and NTRU technology, please visit our website at www.ntru.com or send an email/resume to jobs@ntru.com. (14-aug-00) Norwegian University of Science and Technology Professor/Associate Professor in Telematics (Information Security) The Department of Telematics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) seeks candidates for a vacant Professorship in Telematics (Information Security), see http://www.item.ntnu.no/stillinger/profsec_utlysn-e.html For further information regarding the professorship, see http://www.item.ntnu.no/stillinger/betprof-e.html. Questions regarding the professorship can be mailed to prof@item.ntnu.no (27-jul-00) ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ The IACR calendar lists events (conferences, workshops, ...) that may be of interest to IACR members or deal with research in cryptology. If you want to have an event listed here, please send email to webmaster(at)iacr.org . 2000 * [1]6th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2000), October 4-6, Toulouse, France. * [2]Fourth Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2000), October 4-6, University of Essen, Germany. * [3]Fifth Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC 2000), October 12-13, Reykjavik, Iceland. * [4]14th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing, October 26-28, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA. * [5]7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2000), November 1-4, Athens, Greece. * [6]41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), November 12-14, Redondo Beach, USA. * [7]2nd Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography Conference, November 17-19, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. * [8]Management of Digital Rights, November 20-21, Berlin, Germany. * [9]Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA2000), November 23-24, Seoul, Korea. * [10]Asiacrypt 2000, December 3-7, Kyoto, Japan. * [11]3rd International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2000), December 8-9, Seoul, Korea. * [12]Indocrypt 2000, December 10-13, Calcutta, India. * [13]3rd International Workshop on Information Security (ISW2000), December 18-19, Wollongong, Australia. 2001 * [14]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2001), January 8-12, Paris, France. * [15]ISOC 2001 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), February 7-9, San Diego, California, USA. * [16]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC2001), February 13-15, Cheju Island, Korea. * [17]Financial Cryptography '01, February 19-22, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI. * [18]Cryptography and Lattices Conference (CaLC 2001), March 29-30, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. * [19]Fast Software Encryption Workshop (FSE2001), April 2-4, Yokohama, Japan. * [20]RSA Conference 2001 Cryptographer's Track, April 8-12, San Francisco, USA. * [21]Eurocrypt 2001, May 6-11, Innsbruck, Austria. * [22]4th International Information Hiding Workshop (IHW 2001) , April 25-27, Pittsburgh, USA. * [23]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 13-16, Oakland, California, USA. * [24]6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP'01), July 2-4, Sydney, Australia. * [25]33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), July 6-8, Crete, Greece. * Crypto 2001, August 19-23, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [26]20th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2001), August 26-29, 2001, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. * [27]Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), November 13-16, Xian, China. * [28]Asiacrypt 2001, December 9-13, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 2002 * Eurocrypt 2002, (tentatively: May), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * Crypto 2002, (tentatively: late August), Santa Barbara, California, USA. * Asiacrypt 2002, (tentatively: December 1-5), Queenstown, New Zealand. References 1. http://www.cert.fr/esorics2000/ 2. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2000/ecc2000/announcement.html 3. http://www.ru.is/nordsec2000/ 4. http://www.math.twsu.edu/ccc/ 5. http://www.ccs2000.org/ 6. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~FOCS2000/ 7. http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~boston/magc.html 8. http://www.eurubits.de/workshop/ 9. http://elec.sch.ac.kr/wisa2000/ 10. http://www.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/www/staff/hangai/ac2000/ 11. http://dosan.skku.ac.kr/~icisc/ 12. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/ 13. http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/ccsr/cfp.htm 14. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2001/ 15. http://www.isoc.org/ndss2001/ 16. http://caislab.icu.ac.kr/pkc01/ 17. http://fc01.ai/ 18. http://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/CALC/CALC.html 19. http://www.venus.dti.ne.jp/~matsui/FSE2001/ 20. http://www.rsaconference.com/rsa2001/cryptotrack.html 21. http://www.ec2001.ocg.at/ 22. http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/IHW2001/ 23. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/sp2001.html 24. http://www.cit.nepean.uws.edu.au/~acisp01/ 25. http://sigact.acm.org/stoc01/ 26. http://www.podc.org/podc2001/ 27. http://homex.coolconnect.com/member2/icisa/icics2001.html 28. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/asiacrypt/ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Officers and Directors of the IACR (2000) Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. If you are a member and wish to contact IACR regarding an address change or similar matter, you should contact the membership services at [iacrmem(at)iacr.org]. See http://www.iacr.org/iacrmem/ for more information. Officers Kevin S. McCurley Andrew J. Clark President Vice President 6721 Tannahill Drive P.O. Box 743 San Jose, CA 95120 Brighton USA East Sussex Phone: (408) 927-1838 BN1 5HS Email: [president(at)iacr.org] United Kingdom Phone: +44 1273 270752 Fax: +44 1273 276558 Email: [vicepresident(at)iacr.org] Josh Benaloh Susan Langford Secretary Treasurer Microsoft Research Certicom One Microsoft Way 25801 Industrial Blvd Redmond, WA 98052 Hayward, CA 94545 USA USA Phone: (425) 703-3871 Phone: (510)780-5422 Fax: (425) 936-7329 Fax: (510)780-5401 Email: [secretary(at)iacr.org] Email: [treasurer(at)iacr.org] Directors Dave Balenson Don Beaver Crypto 2001 General Chair Membership Secretary Technical Outreach and Special Certco Inc. 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Box 791 Technion Palo Alto CA, 94301 Haifa 32000 USA Israel Phone: (650) 324-0100 Email: [biham(at)cs.technion.ac.il] Email: [berson(at)anagram.com] Voice: +972-4-8294308 Fax: +972-4-8294308 Christian Cachin Ed Dawson Editor, IACR Newsletter Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Information Security Research Centre Säumerstrasse 4 Queensland University of Technology CH-8803 Rüschlikon GPO Box 2434 Switzerland 3060 Washington Road Email: [cachin(at)acm.org] Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia Phone: +41-1-724-8989 Email: dawson(at)fit.qut.edu.au Fax: +41-1-724-8953 Phone: +61 7 3864 1919 Fax: +61 7 3221 2384 Whitfield Diffie Joan Feigenbaum Sun Microsystems, MPK15-214 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cryptology 901 San Antonio Road Department of Computer Science Palo Alto, California 94303 Yale University phone: +1 650-786-6359 P. O. Box 208285 fax: +1 650-786-6445 New Haven, CT 06520-8285 Email: USA [whitfield.diffie(at)eng.sun.com] Email: joan.feigenbaum(at)yale.edu or [jofc(at)iacr.org] Phone: +1 203 432 6432 Fax: +1 203 432 0593 Matt Franklin Kwangjo Kim Crypto 2000 General Chair School of Engineering Department of Computer Science Information and Communications Univ. University of California, Davis 58-4 Hwaam-dong Yusong-ku One Shields Avenue Taejon, 305-348 Davis, CA 95616-8562, USA KOREA Email: crypto2000(at)iacr.org Tel : +82-42-866-6118 Fax : +82-42-866-6154 E-mail : [kkj (at) icu.ac.kr] Peter Landrock Tsutomu Matsumoto Mathematics Institute Division of Artificial Environment and Aarhus University Systems Ny Munkegade Yokohama National University 8000 Aarhus C 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya Denmark Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan Email: Email: tsutomu(at)mlab.jks.ynu.ac.jp [landrock(at)cryptomathic.aau.dk] Ueli Maurer Bart Preneel Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical Engineering ETH Zürich Katholieke Universiteit Leuven CH-8092 Zürich Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94 Switzerland B-3001 Heverlee Email: [maurer(at)inf.ethz.ch] Belgium Tel-1: +41-1-632 7420 Email: Tel-2: +41-1-632 7371 [bart.preneel(at)esat.kuleuven.ac.be] Fax : ++41-1-632 1172 Phone: +32 16 32 11 48 Fax: +32 16 32 19 86 Tatsuaki Okamoto Paul C. 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