______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter The newsletter of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2004. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * Online Registration and Membership Services * IACR 2004 Elections: Candidates * Ralph Merkle to hold 2005 IACR Distinguished Lecture * IACR Fellows nominations * PKC 2005: Call for Participation * FSE 2005: Call for Participation * Crypto 2005: Call for Papers * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2003 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2003 * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2003 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2003 * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2004 * Announcements + TCC 2005: The Second Theory of Cryptography Conference + SHARCS - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems + ICALP 2005 - Call for Papers (New Track C on Security and Cryptography Foundations) * New reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * Open positions * Calendar of events in cryptology * IACR contact information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 19th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! For someone working in the field of cryptology, it is impressive and reassuring to see how volume and quality of research this area has been steadily increasing over the last years. Two recent signs of this development are the new [1]Theory of Cryptology Conference, already in its second incarnation in 2005, and the new [2]Track C on Security and Cryptography Foundations at ICALP, the most important European conference in theoretical computer science. With so many conferences in the field, it is sometimes hard to keep track of all of them. James Muir has provided an [3]overview of LNCS volumes dealing with Cryptology which extends the [4]proceedings list on the IACR web page. In this newsletter issue, you'll find information about the upcoming IACR conferences and workshops. I also needed to clear my backlog of meeting minutes from IACR board and membership meetings, which had accumulated. This is the last IACR Newsletter that I produced. After six years and almost 20 issues of the Newsletter, I am making room for some fresh air. I am glad to announce that [5]Jim Hughes will take over as Newsletter editor starting in 2005; I wish him lots of support from all of you, and I am convinced that he'll do a terrific job just as he did with organizing Crypto 2004! Please send your contributions to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in 2005. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as soon as possible. Christian Cachin IACR Newsletter Editor References 1. http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/v21n3/announce.html#tcc 2. http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/v21n3/announce.html#icalp 3. http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jamuir/crypto_springer.php 4. http://www.iacr.org/proceedings/ 5. http://www.stortek.com/hughes/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Online Registration and Membership Services ______________________________________________________________________________ I was recently appointed as IACR membership secretary, and I am making some changes in how services are delivered to members and conference chairs. As part of this you will notice that we now have online registration for conferences. Through the extraordinary efforts of Andy Clark during his time as membership secretary, an IACR membership database was created using Microsoft Access. This served the needs of the organization for a decade, but the information management needs have dramatically increased in the last few years from the sponsorship of Asiacrypt, FSE, PKC, and CHES. The existing database was also not well suited to integration with web services. In order to address this, I recently migrated the database to mySQL and implemented credit card services and online registration for IACR workshops and conferences. I have also been working with Christian Cachin to migrate IACR's web presence from a shared environment to a dedicated machine that will allow us to delegate control for the conference web sites, the paper submission process, the newsletter, and the eprint archive. In the next few months there will be several changes including better conference registration, but most of the changes will be largely unnoticed to members. The biggest difference will be for conference chairs. Serving as a conference chair is a big commitment of time and energy, but we can make it much easier by providing a common service for chairs to manage their information. In past years each conference chair was responsible for creating their own registration and conference submission site, but in the future we should be able to use the same system for each new conference or workshop. If any of you have suggestions for how to improve IACR information services, please contact me. - Kevin McCurley ______________________________________________________________________________ 2004 IACR Election Candidates ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/elections/2004/candidates.html ______________________________________________________________________________ PKC 2005 - Call for Participation ______________________________________________________________________________ PKC 2005 January 23-26, 2005 in "Les Diablerets" Switzerland http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/pkc05/ Call for Participation Background: For the last few years the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography has been the main annual workshop focusing on research on all aspects of public-key cryptography. The first workshop was organized in 1998 in Japan. Other PKCs have taken place in Australia, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and USA. Since 2003, PKC is an IACR workshop. PKC has attracted papers from world-renowned scientists in the area. Topics of Interest: The topics of interest are all aspects of public-key cryptography including theory, design, analysis, implementation, and applications of public-key cryptography. Conference Venue: PKC 2005 will be held at the Congress house in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Les Diablerets is a little village located in the Alps at the foot of a glacier. The village offers several winter sport activities such as ski, snowboard or sledge run. The top of the glacier can be visited taking a cable-car at any time of the year. More information about Les Diablerets is available on http://www.diablerets.ch. Social Events: The social program includes a welcome reception, a free afternoon and a banquet. These events will be held at the Eurotel Victoria. Some additional social events will be proposed such as an excursion to the glacier or a sledge run followed by a cheese fondue. Registration: Details about workshop registration are on the PKC 2005 website. Hotel registrations should be done separately and since January is a busy period an early hotel booking is strongly recommended. Accommodation: The principal hotel in Les Diablerets is the Eurotel Victoria. This four stars hotel is located at about 200 meters of the Congress house. A limited number of single rooms are pre-booked for the participants of PKC 2005 at the preferential rate of CHF 125 until the end of November. The hotel offers also the possibility to book a room for 2 or even 4 persons. For some informations or a booking at the hotel and cancellation policy, you can directly contact the hotel Eurotel Victoria by phone, fax, email or directly from the web. Mention that you are a participant of PKC 2005! Web Address: http://www.eurotel-victoria.ch/lesdiablerets/frameseteng/frameset.htm Email: lesdiablerets@eurotel-victoria.ch Phone number: +41 24 492 37 21 Fax number: +41 24 492 23 71 Detailed Informations: For more informations (including accommodation) about PKC 2005, visit our website at http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/pkc05/ Important Dates: List of Accepted Papers October 28, 2004 Early Registration Deadline December 10, 2004 Program Chair: Prof. Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, LASEC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland General Chairs: Prof. Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, LASEC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Jean Monnerat, EPFL, LASEC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Local Organization: Martine Corval, EPFL, LASEC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Contact: Fax: +41 21 693 76 89 Email: pkc05@epfl.ch ______________________________________________________________________________ FSE 2005 - Call for Participation ______________________________________________________________________________ FSE 2005 February 21-23, 2005 in Paris, France http://crypto.rd.francetelecom.com/fse2005/ Call for Participation Background: FSE 2005 is the 12th annual Fast Software Encryption workshop, for the fourth year sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) . The workshop concentrates on all aspects of fast primitives for symmetric cryptography: the design and cryptanalysis of block and stream ciphers, as well as hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). The workshop will take place at the ENSTA, Paris. ENSTA is located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, near the "Parc des Expositions" and the "Porte de Versailles". Registration: Details about workshop registration will be available on the FSE 2005 website starting mid-December. Hotel booking should be done separately and since Paris is a quite busy city, early booking is strongly recommended. Forms for block bo oked rooms and contact information for additional possible hotels will be made avail able on the conference website as well. For any other information, please contact fse2005@brouchier.com ______________________________________________________________________________ CRYPTO 2005 - Call For Papers ______________________________________________________________________________ Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to CRYPTO 2005, the Twenty-Fifth Annual International Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO 2005 is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Important dates are: Submission deadline February 14, 2005, 18:00 EST Notification of decision May 6, 2005 Proceedings version deadline May 30, 2005, 18:00 EST Conference August 14 - 18, 2005 ______________________________________________________________________ Instructions for Authors 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 that has proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Submission Format: * The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. * The length of the submission should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices. It should be in single column format, use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins. * The submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. * Papers must be submitted electronically by February 14, 2005, 18:00 EST. * Submissions should preferably be in PDF format (i.e., a .pdf file), although PostScript (i.e., a .ps file) will be allowed. If at all possible, the submission should be in US letter paper size (rather than A4), and should use Type 1 fonts (rather than Type 3 fonts). Please visit the following web page for instructions and tips on preparing your submission file: Go to: Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Submissions * Please visit the following web page to actually upload your electronic submission: Go to: Electronic Submissions * Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Neither late submissions, submisssions by email, nor hardcopy submissions will be accepted. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair by January 14, 2005. Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by May 6, 2005. 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. Instructions for 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 May 30, 2005. Program Committee Masayuki Abe, NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories Boaz Barak, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Amos Beimel, Ben-Gurion University Alex Biryukov, K. U. Leuven John Black, University of Colorado at Boulder Alexandra Boldyreva, Georgia Institute of Technology Jan Camenisch, IBM Research Jean-Sebastien Coron, University of Luxembourg Craig Gentry, DoCoMo USA Labs Shai Halevi, IBM Research Stanislaw Jarecki, University of California at Irvine Antoine Joux, DGA and Univ. Versailles St-Quentin Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland Arjen Lenstra, Lucent Technologies and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Yehuda Lindell, Bar-Ilan University Tal Malkin, Columbia University Ilya Mironov, Microsoft Research David Naccache, Gemplus and Royal Holloway Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science Leonid Reyzin, Boston University Louis Salvail, Aarhus Universitet Victor Shoup, New York University (program chair) Alice Silverberg, University of California at Irvine Adam Smith, Weizmann Institute of Science Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology Advisory Members Matt Franklin, program chair CRYPTO 2004 Cynthia Dwork, program chair CRYPTO 2006 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 Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on May 4 and 6, 2003 during Eurocrypt 2003 in Warsaw. Reports were presented on the disposition of Crypto 2002 and status of Eurocrypt 2003, Crypto 2003, Asiacrypt 2003, and Eurocrypt 2004. Additional reports were presented on the status of the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive, the Journal of Cryptology, the Archivist's work, and IACR finances. Special reports were presented on IT Strategy and Elections Issues. The Board appointed an Election Committee consisting of Hughes, Preneel, and Wright. The Board accepted a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2005 in Aarhus, Denmark with Ivan Damgaard as General Chair. The Board voted to ask Ron Cramer to serve as Eurocrypt 2005 Program Chair. The Board accepted a proposal to hold FSE 2004 in New Delhi, India. The Board accepted a proposal to hold PKC 2005 in Switzerland. The Board voted to ask Ivan Damgaard and Joan Feigenbaum to serve as initial members of the IACR Fellows Selection Committee. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Eurocrypt Warsaw 4 May 2003 Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:10. Present were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Camenisch, Clark, Desmedt, Gawinecki, Hughes, Knudsen, Langford, Laih, Maurer, Preneel, and Quisquater. Proxies were held for Cachin by Camenish, for McCurley by Berson, for Wright by Benaloh, for Rose by Langford, by Chang by Laih, for Kim by Dawson, for Dawson by Matsumoto, and for Matsumoto by Clark. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark reviewed the agenda and noted that the status report for Crypto 2003 would be delayed until the arrival of Rose. Maurer asked that information on the Theory of Cryptography Conference be included in "other business". ________________________________________________________________________ The minutes of the August 2002 Board Meeting were approved without change or objection. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on open action items. He reported that Beaver was working to complete an update of the IACR database, that a color version of the IACR logo had been completed, that a draft of the minutes of the August 2002 Board Meeting had been completed and circulated within 8 weeks of the meeting, that conference attendance numbers had been sent to Treasurer Langford, that Newsletter Editor Cachin would be reporting recommendations, and that McCurley would be reporting on the status of the Springer-Verlag contract. He also reported that recommendations for modifications to General Chair Guidelines be sent to Preneel, that Program Chair Guidelines recommendations be sent to Knudsen, and that Desmedt would be making recommendations on IACR conference sizes. He also indicated that he had sent a letter to the Library of Congress regarding the IACR position on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and had contacted Harvard internet law professor John Paulfrey regarding the issue. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership Secretary report was cancelled due to Beaver's absence. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki then reported on the status of the conference. He said that lunches would be held in the Gala Congresawa, that coffee breaks would be held outside of the lecture hall, and that a wireless LAN had been set up. Gawinecki noted that the conference venue was in the center of Warsaw and that multiple sponsors had been obtained to defray costs. He added that as of May 4 there had been 338 registrations (including 22 students) -- down somewhat due to SARS -- and that he expected about 40 additional registrants. Gawinecki said that the proceedings had arrived but that receipts for registrants had been delayed. He noted the availability of Internet access and made special mention of the Presidential sponsorship that the conference had received. He also suggested that delegates be careful walking near the conference venue after dark. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin's report was circulated by e-mail. Desmedt asserted the view that the ePrint archive should not be refereed, and Hughes concurred. Clark then reminded the Board of prior discussions on this topic, and Preneel observed that some submissions are disparaging. Clark then asked for a sense of the Board on the running of the ePrint archive and received a high sense of approval. Biham then expressed his opinion that there should be no refereeing of ePrint submissions whatsoever -- even if this resulted in some very poor papers. Clark then reminded the Board that the ePrint archive managers work on a volunteer basis on behalf of the IACR and requested that they be given latitude. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal Editor-in-Chief Maurer's report was circulated by e-mail and included his expression of unhappiness regarding the necessity to hound referees. Berson suggested that Editors who do not reply should be removed from the Editorial Board, and Clark asserted that it was up to Maurer as to how to manage the Editorial Board. ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Archivist Orman's report was circulated by e-mail. Clark noted that the organization of this Eurocrypt required that the General Chair be given power of attorney, that IACR articles of association were required, and that much time, effort, and money were required. He suggested that such factors be taken into consideration in evaluating future Eurocrypt proposals. Preneel asked that a specific location be set up to send copies of proceedings and other relevant materials to the Archivist. ________________________________________________________________________ At 11:00, the Board recessed for a ten-minute break. The Board reconvened at 11:10. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright's report was circulated by e-mail. ________________________________________________________________________ An IT Strategy Report by McCurley was circulated by e-mail. Clark summarized that McCurley had investigated the viability of better database management, electronic registration, e-mailing of IACR announcements, and provision of electronic services for Program Committees and had also done associated code development. He said that McCurley would have a demonstration available for the Crypto conference. Desmedt suggested that McCurley not do this work entirely on his own. Clark noted that the IACR Secretariat had become responsible for the management of three annual conferences and two annual workshops and suggested avoiding overburdening the Secretariat. He added that the role of the Board was to decide on the business (not technical) case. Hughes noted that this work would not replace the role of the Secretariat and offered to help with the process. Clark asked for a report at the Crypto 2003 Board Meeting on the business case and risks associated with the recommendations of the initial report. Berson expressed a concern about an excessive reliance on McCurley to maintain the code, and Clark responded that ownership and maintenance were issues that needed to be addressed. Preneel expressed the view that the business case was clear if mailing costs for the IACR were $20,000 annually. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then delivered a report on IACR finances. She said that as of December 31, 2002, IACR assets included approximately $206,000 in certificates of deposit, approximately $279,000 in a checking account, and approximately $140,000 held by the Secretariat. She noted that this sum was larger than typical because of pending payments to Springer-Verlag, the Secretariat, and expected losses of about $100,000 for Eurocrypt 2003. She estimated a total surplus at the end of 2002 of approximately $305,000. Langford said that Eurocrypt 2002 had returned an approximate $23,000 surplus, Crypto 2002 had returned an approximate $17,000 surplus, and that Asiacrypt 2002 had suffered an approximate $15,000 loss. She noted that the IACR surplus at the end of 2001 had been approximately $376,000. Clark asked about the plans for the Membership Meeting, and Langford said that she would describe the hard times being faced by the IACR. Clark noted that the break even point for Eurocrypt 2003 had been set at 400 delegates, and Langford noted that the $100,000 anticipated loss included losses due to currency fluctuation from which IACR has benefited in the past. Clark then observed that Asiacrypt 2002 had suffered from lower attendance and currency fluctuation and thanked Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe for his efforts in minimizing losses. He also encouraged attendance of Asiacrypt 2003. Preneel suggested separating currency fluctuation from surplus and loss calculations. Clark suggested requiring a break-out of both anticipated and actual expenses in future conferences and suggested that electronic registration might facilitate payments in local currencies. Preneel re-iterated his desire to have currency fluctuation separated from other expenses, and Clark suggested that it had been a bad year and that conservative planning would be required. ________________________________________________________________________ Berson then initiated a discussion on the financial health of the IACR. He suggested that methods may be available to reduce costs, increase income, reduce risk, and/or boost attendance, and that Board should make explicit decisions as to which directions to follow. Clark noted that the cost that the cost of mailings -- especially membership list mailings -- was quite high and suggested planning for lower conference attendance. Desmedt expressed the opinion that paper mailings should be eliminated, but Hughes asked if this would present a hardship to members in less connected locales. Biham asked how often members change their electronic addresses, and Benaloh expressed the concern that e-mail could get be regarded as spam and be lost. Clark suggested exploring lower break-even attendance numbers for conferences, and Hughes asked whether General Chairs must accommodate larger numbers of delegates and suggested that university venues be considered. Preneel noted that Eurocrypt 2005 proposals had fixed costs in the range of $60,000 to $70,000 with roughly one third of the costs going to facilities -- mostly in the form of lunches for delegates. Berson expressed a preference for risking turning potential delegates away rather than risking paying for excess facilities. Desmedt asked about the costs from Springer-Verlag, and Biham indicated that proceedings were ordered after the early registration deadline. Camenisch expressed the view that savings due to a reduced hall size would not be significant. Clark summarized the mood as in favor of planning for smaller attendance and considering capping attendance where necessary. Berson asked about eliminating mailing of the membership list. Clark responded that an explicit choice had been made to not make the membership list available to members in electronic form and that steps had been taken to make it difficult to scan. Clark suggested that it might be time to reconsider this policy and suggested mailing the membership list as a CD or making it downloadable (perhaps, in either case, with some kind of watermark). Preneel suggested that other mail to members be sent electronically, and Maurer suggested that the IACR charge for paper copies. Clark then asked for a sense of the Board about whether to make the membership list available in electronic form and the general sense was that it should be done to save costs. Clark then asked about electronic conference registration mailings, and Hughes suggested that post cards be used during transition to which there was general agreement although Preneel asked if post cards would save much over full mailings. Clark expressed the view that one mailing per conference should suffice, and Berson suggested maintaining conference mailings to maintain attendance. Clark expressed a desire to avoid excessive registration fees and maintain student discounts. He then set an action item to discuss membership list mailings during the Membership Meeting. Camenisch noted that Program Committee meetings have budgets around $10,000, but Biham indicated that most of these funds were usually not spent and encouraged not cutting this item. ________________________________________________________________________ The status report on Crypto 2003 was deferred to await the arrival of Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2003 General Chair Laih then reported on the status of the conference. Laih said that the conference web site had been active since December of 2002 and that the conference would be held in Taipei, Taiwan from November 30 through December 4. He said that the Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association would be a major sponsor and noted the venue of the Grand Hotel in Taipei. Laih noted that the 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecture would be delivered by Don Coppersmith and that invited talks would be given by Adi Shamir and Hong-Sen Yan. Concerns were expressed that SARS might reduce the number of papers submitted, and confidence was expressed that the Asiacrypt 2003 organizing committee would manage the situation wisely. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2004 General Chair Camenisch then reported on the status of the conference. Camenisch said that the registration fees had risen from $580 to $743 with a break-even point set at 350 attendees including 50 students. He said that cost increases were due to changes in exchange rates and the cost of mailings. Maurer expressed the view that the meal costs were exorbitant and Desmedt suggested eliminating the lunches to which Maurer concurred. Benaloh expresses the view that less elaborate lunches would be fine but that lunches should be maintained. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark reported that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee had met in New Zealand and that Asiacrypt 2005 planning was on schedule. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark reported that electronic versions of the IACR logo had been updated and that both grayscale and color versions were available. ________________________________________________________________________ An Election Committee was appointed consisting of Hughes, Preneel, and Wright. Hughes offered to serve as returning officer. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark reported that Springer-Verlag had agreed to stop including its copyright notice in IACR publications. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for lunch at 12:50. The Board reconvened at 13:31. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then heard proposals to host Eurocrypt 2005 in Denmark, Hungary, and Russia. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to accept the proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2005 in Aarhus, Denmark with Ivan Damgaard as General Chair. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to ask Ron Cramer to serve as Eurocrypt 2005 Program Chair. [Cramer subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then reported on the status of FSE 2004 in New Delhi, India. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to approve the FSE 2004 proposal in New Delhi, India by a count of 12-0 with 3 abstentions. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then reported on the status of PKC 2004 in Singapore and PKC 2005 in Switzerland. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to approve the PKC 2005 proposal in Switzerland by a count of 12-0 with 5 abstentions. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then asked for the sense of the Board on the possibility of co-locating FSE with PKC in 2005. The sense of the Board seemed to be that this was up to the FSE Steering Committee. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then raised the issue of parallel sessions in IACR conferences and was asked and agreed to bring a specific proposal before the Board. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to ask Ivan Damgaard and Joan Feigenbaum to serve as founding members of the IACR Fellow Selection Committee. [Both Damgaard and Feigenbaum subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Maurer then announced the establishment of a new Theoretical Cryptography Conference (TCC) to be held in February 2004 at M.I.T. with proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Maurer asked if copyrights could be assigned to the IACR. Clark responded that this would require the approval of Springer-Verlag. Maurer then asked if copyrights could be assigned to the IACR if Springer-Verlag approved, and Clark voiced the apparent consensus of the Board saying that this would be fine but that the IACR had no intention of opening new negotiations with Springer-Verlag. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported that the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) workshop was seeking IACR sponsorship commencing in 2004. The proposed terms would include IACR membership for CHES delegates, copyright assignment to the IACR, and the CHES Steering Committee retaining primary control of the workshop. It was agreed that this proposal would be discussed further at the Crypto 2003 Board Meeting. ________________________________________________________________________ Rose arrived at this point. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then reported on issues surrounding the 2002 IACR elections. Desmedt suggested that the mailing procedure for ballots be improved, that a deadline be instituted for amendments to the By-Laws, that the Election Committee Chair Guidelines be updated, and that electronic elections be explored. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the conference. Rose said that preparations were going well and that a break-even point of 325 delegates had been set. ________________________________________________________________________ An agenda for the Membership Meeting was then set to include discussion of election procedures, SARS concerns regarding Asiacrypt 2003, and mailing of membership lists and a report from the Treasurer. ________________________________________________________________________ Action items included informing FSE and PKC Steering Committees of Board actions, establishing the IACR Fellows Steering Committee, and working with the IACR Secretariat on timely mailings. ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 14:45. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ A supplemental Board Meeting was called to order by IACR President Clark at 13:26 of May 6 to discuss and vote on the IT proposal presented at the regular Board Meeting. In attendance were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Camenisch, Clark, Desmedt, Hughes, Knudsen, Langford, Maurer, Quisquater, Preneel, and Rose. The executive summary of the proposal included the purchase of a dedicated IACR machine for no more than $2,500 and hosting services of approximately $250 per month (in contrast to the current hosting fees of approximately $80 per month). The dedicated machine would host the IACR web site, archive, mailing list, database, on-line registration services, and on-line Program Committee review system. Desmedt asked why this would cost $250 per month, and Clark responded that this would be necessary for the enhanced services provided. Rose asked what would happen if and when the machine gets hacked, and Clark responded that a risk analysis would be necessary. Hughes noted that the additional costs would allow for credit card processing, and Langford stated that the Secretariat costs were approximately $40,000 per year. Clark added that this should reduce the workload on the Secretariat and allow for a reduction in costs, and Langford noted that IACR would need to enlist a professional conference organizer if this proposal was not enacted. Maurer noted that continued maintenance could be an issue. ************************************************************************ A motion was made by Berson and seconded by Hughes to ask for a report to the Board at the August meeting on the status of going forward for Eurocrypt 2004. The motion was approved unanimously. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ The agenda of the Membership Meeting was then discussed. Langford stated plans to give a financial report detailing status through the end of 2002. Clark would then describe the current losses resulting from reduced attendance. Langford would then take questions on finances, and Clark would report on upcoming conferences. Clark would also report on the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, the new contract with Springer-Verlag, copyrights, the Springer-Verlag Link service, cost containment, and the possibility of changing membership lists from paper to electronic form. Clark would speak on issues regarding SARS and Asiacrypt 2003 and on the IT plans for the IACR. Berson asked if it was too soon to report on IT, and Clark responded that it was mentioned at Crypto 2002. Langford indicated that she would prefer to not yet commit to on-line registration. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt suggested that the IACR seek NSF support and sponsorship, and Berson took on an action item to explore this possibility. ________________________________________________________________________ The supplemental meeting was adjourned at 13:48. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ Membership Meeting Eurocrypt 2003 Warsaw 7 May 2003 IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 16:10. Clark then introduced the Officers of the IACR and noted that the purpose of the meeting was to give information about IACR activities and solicit comments from the membership. He added that the Board was elected by the membership. Clark then stated that the IACR faced challenging times and detailed current issues. He noted that the IACR is not for profit and that its purpose is to promote research in cryptology and related fields. Clark described the activities of the Board including conferences and workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, the ePrint Archive, and the web site at http://www.iacr.org. Clark noted that the IACR Board includes 4 elected Officers, 9 elected Directors, and 6 General Chairs of IACR conferences. He indicated that 3 Directors terms would be expiring at the end of 2003 and added that 3 Board members were appointed to various roles. Clark said that attendees of Eurocrypt automatically become members of the IACR for the following year. Clark then announced members of the Election Committee that would be supervising the next elections. IACR Treasurer Langford then delivered a financial report. Langford noted that in 2002, Eurocrypt had returned a surplus of approximately $23,000, Crypto had returned a surplus of approximately $17,000, and Asiacrypt had suffered a loss of approximately $8,000 with an additional loss of approximately $7,000 due to currency fluctuation. Langford added that at the end of 2002, the IACR had approximately $625,000 in assets with total reserves after obligations of approximately $405,000. Langford then noted that the IACR faced fiscal challenges due to declining attendance (not unique to the IACR) and two-year advance planning in the face of lower membership. She recommended budgeting for lower attendance, cutting costs, and seeking more sponsorship. Clark noted that IACR mailing costs were roughly $20,000 annually and indicated that as of 2003, the paper membership list would be replaced by an electronic pdf mailing. Whit Diffie then offered to provide historic Eurocrypt attendance data. Clark then reported on recent and future conferences and workshops. He said that Asiacrypt 2002 had been an excellent conference. Clark then thanked Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki and Program Chair Biham for their work in this conference. Clark then announced that Crypto 2003 would be held in Santa Barbara August 17-21, 2003 with Greg Rose as General Chair and Dan Boneh as Program Chair. Clark then announced that Asiacrypt 2003 would be held in Taipei, Taiwan November 30 through December 4, 2003 with Chin Chen Chang as General Chair and Chi Sung Laih as Program Chair and would feature an IACR Distinguished Lecture to be delivered by Don Coppersmith. Clark then announced that FSE 2004 would be held in New Delhi, India February 5-7, 2004 and that PKC 2004 would be held in Singapore March 1-4, 2004. Clark then announced that Eurocrypt 2004 would be held in Interlaken, Switzerland May 2-6, 2004 with Jan Camenisch as General Chair and Christian Cachin as Program Chair. Clark then announced that Crypto 2004 would be held in Santa Barbara in late August, 2004 with James Hughes and General Chair and Matt Franklin as Program Chair. Clark then announced that Asiacrypt 2004 would be on Jeju Island, Korea, December 5-9, 2004 with Kwangjo Kim as General Chair and Pil Joong Lee as Program Chair. Clark then announced that Eurocrypt 2005 would be held in Aarhus, Denmark with Ivan Damgaard as General Chair. Clark then solicited proposals to host Eurocrypt 2006. Journal of Cryptology Editor-in-Chief Maurer then reported on the Journal which he described as the premier journal in the field. Maurer encouraged members to submit their best papers and do their job as referees. He added that the Journal was on track with 3 special issues forthcoming. Clark then briefly described the IACR Newsletter which is published thrice annually. Clark then gave an update on the IACR relationship with Springer-Verlag. He said that a new contract had been signed that would allow Springer-Verlag to continue publishing IACR proceedings and the Journal of Cryptology and the copyrights would be listed as being owned by the IACR. He gave the Springer-Verlag LINK service URL and password. Clark then discussed the impact of SARS on Asiacrypt 2003. He said that the issue had been discussed at length by the Board and that the situation was being actively monitored with respect to both Asiacrypt and Crypto and noted that this was not unique to Asia and the Pacific. He said that the Board encouraged continued support of and submission of papers to Asiacrypt and that alternatives would be found if necessitated by extraordinary circumstances. Clark then reported on planning for new IACR Information Systems with goals that include on-line membership management, on-line conference registration, on-line paper submission and review, hosting of the IACR web site and archive, and Newsletter mailing. Clark said that these services would cost money but that they would deliver better service while reducing the costs of mailings and management. ________________________________________________________________________ At 16:37 Clark opened the floor for discussion from the membership. ________________________________________________________________________ Whit Diffie expressed the view that if SARS caused Asian delegates to not be welcomed by the University of California then the IACR should be prepared to move the Crypto conference. Clark responded that the IACR would continue to monitor the situation and be sensitive to the needs of its members. Diffie suggested the possibility of influencing the situation ahead of time, and Clark said that he would work with Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose and the UCSB. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership meeting was then adjourned at 16:40. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on August 17, 2003 during Crypto 2003 in Santa Barbara. Reports were received on the status of Crypto 2003, Asiacrypt 2003, Eurocrypt 2004, Crypto 2004, and Asiacrypt 2004. Additional reports were received on IACR finances, IT issues, the status of the relationship with Springer-Verlag, IACR elections, the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Archives, and the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive. The Board voted to appoint Victor Shoup as Program Chair of Crypto 2005. The Board voted to appoint Stuart Haber as General Chair of Crypto 2005. The Board voted to invite Whitfield Diffie to deliver the 2004 IACR Distinguished Lecture. The Board voted to hold Asiacrypt 2005 in Chennai (Madras), India and appoint Pandu Rangan as General Chair. The Board voted to appoint Bimal Roy as Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2005. The Board voted to give preliminary approval to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia and appoint Anatoly Lebedev as General Chair. The Board voted to give IACR sponsorship to the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) workshop. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara 17 August 2003 Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 11:01. Present were Benaloh, Berson, Cachin, Clark, Dawson, Desmedt, Hughes, Kim, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, Preneel, and Rose as well as Micky Swick who represented the IACR Secretariat and Chin-Laung Lei who represented Asiacrypt 2003 General Chair Chang. Proxies were held for Camenisch by Cachin and for Knudsen by Berson. ________________________________________________________________________ The agenda for the meeting was reviewed. It consisted of the following. - Welcome participants - identification of proxies (Clark) (5 minutes) - Review and approve agenda (All) (5 minutes) - Approve Minutes from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (10 minutes) - Crypto 2003 status (Rose) (5 minutes) - Financial report (Langford) (5 minutes) - Membership Secretary report (Beaver) (5 minutes) - Newsletter/ePrint Archive report (Cachin) (5 minutes) - IACR Archivist report (Orman) (5 minutes) - Journal of Cryptology report and page budget discussion (Maurer) (10 minutes) - 2003 Election Committee Update (Hughes, Preneel, Wright) (5 minutes) - Eurocrypt 2003 status (Gawinecki) (5 minutes) - Asiacrypt 2003 status (Chang) (5 minutes) - Crypto 2004 status (Hughes) (5 minutes) - Asiacrypt 2004 status (Kim) (5 minutes) - Program and General Chair List Maintenance (Benaloh) (10 minutes) - Crypto 2005 General Chair Appointment (Clark) (5 minutes) - Crypto 2005 Program Chair Appointment (Clark) (20 minutes) - Asiacrypt 2005 Discussion (C. Pandu Rangan) (15 minutes) - Asiacrypt 2005 Program Chair Appointment (Clark) (20 minutes) - IT strategy and conference registration (McCurley) (20 minutes) - Proposal from CHES Steering Committee for IACR Sponsorship (Preneel) (20 minutes) - Proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg (Anatoly Lebedev) (20 minutes) - Eurocrypt 2006 proposal discussion (Clark) (15 minutes) - Springer-Verlag status (Clark) (5 minutes) - Discussion on Parallel Sessions (Desmedt) (20 minutes) - Other Business (Clark) (no more than 60 minutes) - Draft agenda for Membership Meeting (All) (10 minutes) - Review of action items ________________________________________________________________________ Clark began by welcoming the Board and indicating his intent to concentrate efforts during the meeting on "heavy-duty" items. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the conference (appended report circulated by email). After reporting on the status of his broken leg, he said that the conference details were proceeding smoothly. He indicated that the registration count was 410 as of Aug. 15 (with an additional 13-15 accompanying persons) and that 442 proceedings and t-shirts had been ordered. Rose added that the break-even point for this conference had been reduced to 300 delegates and that a surplus of $20-25 thousand was expected. Rose noted that the Program Committee meeting had been held in New York, that 74 student discounts had been given, and that 8-9 refund requests had been received due to inability to obtain visas. Rose added that the BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions were a new innovation. Wright arrived at 11:10. Rose said that minor adjustments had been made to catering and alcohol and that the t-shirt included a puzzle. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then addressed issues relating to a financial report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting (appended report circulated by email). She said that there were as yet no final numbers from Eurocrypt 2003. McCurley asked if there had been any changes in costs for the IACR Secretariat and Langford responded that there had not been. Clark said that he intended to reduce the burden on the Secretariat through IT strategy, and Swick said that she would like a more formal relationship. Rose asked if the on-line registration form had helped, and Swick responded that it had with the exception of credit cards. Clark then took the action item of reviewing the IT strategy with Swick. McCurley asked whether Springer-Verlag had been prompt in its billing, and Langford responded that there had been no changes. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership Secretary report was cancelled due to Beaver's absence. Clark took the action item of contacting Beaver. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then addressed issues relating to a status report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting (appended report circulated by email). Clark noted the potential need to begin a review process for the ePrint Archive, and Cachin responded that a growing number of poor submissions was resulting in a larger number of rejections. Clark asked that Cachin let the Board know if difficulties arose, and Cachin replied that he would be meeting soon with Mihir Bellare to discuss editorial policy. Desmedt suggested that there should be no refereeing of the Archive. McCurley asked if Cachin had had any problems with web site hosting, and Cachin responded that he had not. ________________________________________________________________________ The Archivist report was delayed to accommodate the late arrival of Archivist Orman. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal of Cryptology Editor-in-Chief Maurer then addressed issues relating to a status report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting. Clark began by noting the new contract with Springer-Verlag that had been circulated by McCurley. Maurer then noted that there had been fluctuations in the length of the Journal queue. He asked if it made sense to publish 100-page papers and said that he had decided to include paper length among the evaluation criteria. He also asked if it would be possible to allocate additional pages as he expressed his desire for greater flexibility in this regard. Clark noted that the contract with Springer-Verlag had been extended for 5 years, and Langford noted that in the past premiums had been paid for special issues. Berson noted that the Journal costs members roughly $20 per issue and asked whether members would want to pay $20 for a single paper. Clark took the action of discussing a reduction in price with Springer-Verlag, and Maurer asked if Springer-Verlag could afford this. Desmedt asserted that Springer-Verlag rates were very reasonable when compared to those of other publishers. Langford noted that the Journal cost may not grow linearly with the number of pages. McCurley asked who was officially responsible for the Springer-Verlag contract, and Clark accepted responsibility. Wright supported paying more to publish high-quality papers and asked for a sense of the Board, and Maurer said that a higher average page count would be desirable since it would be difficult to reject high-quality papers because of length. Preneel offered his trust in Maurer's judgment and saw no reason to force papers to be artificially split. Berson suggested that an occasional long issue for an important paper would be great as it would show IACR support for good research, and there was general agreement with this sense. ________________________________________________________________________ An Election Committee report was then given by Committee Member Wright. Hughes served as Chair of the Committee and Preneel served as Returning Officer. Wright said that nomination forms had been prepared and that Hughes had both hard copy and .PDF format available. She noted that the terms of Directors Berson, Desmedt, and Knudsen were expiring. Clark noted that mailing of ballots had been a problem the previous year and asked that Micky Swick take an action item to check on this. ________________________________________________________________________ The report on Eurocrypt 2003 was postponed due to the absence of General Chair Gawinecki. Clark noted that it had been an excellent conference. ________________________________________________________________________ Chin-Laung Lei then presented a status report on Asiacrypt 2003 as a proxy for General Chair Chang. He said that there had been 188 submissions from 26 countries and that 36 papers had been accepted. Lei said that registration of 122 had been set as a break-even point, but various sponsorships had reduced the break-even point to approximately 100 attendees. He estimated that total attendance of 150 full registrations plus 50 student registrations would produce a surplus of roughly $10,000. Lei said that a planned city tour would include a museum in Taipei. He also said that hotels priced at approximately $130-140 were about a ten minute walk from the conference venue and that student alternatives were available for about $40. He added that regular registration had been set at $400 and student registration had been set at $200. Finally, he noted that the Taiwan government would provide assistance to locals attending a domestic conference. Desmedt asked if the conference was being promoted, and McCurley suggested that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee promote the conference through local groups. McCurley then asked if payments in U.S. dollars were a problem, and Kim replied that they were not a problem. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for a break at 12:03. The Board reconvened at 12:10. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2004 Program Chair Cachin then reported on the status of the conference. He said that the budget had been revised due to its heavy reliance on the U.S. dollar exchange rate. He added that the break-even point had been reduced and that sponsorship for food had been obtained. Cachin said that two excursion options had been planned (for an additional fee): one to the Swiss Heritage Museum and another to the Mystery Park. Clark thanked Cachin for his flexibility and asked if there had been any legal issues. Cachin said that there were no issues and noted that the Board Meeting would take place either in the Villa Europe or the Hotel Interlaken. McCurley said that he would prefer that there be a single excursion so as not to divide the group. Dawson asked about hotel costs, and Cachin replied that three star hotels were approximately $80-100 and four star hotels were approximately $130. Desmedt asked if there were less expensive hotels for students, and Cachin replied that there were. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley asked to revise the agenda to advance the Information Technology discussion to 13:00 to make it easier for Micky Swick. ________________________________________________________________________ General Chair Hughes then said that he had nothing to report on Crypto 2004. When asked about the dates, Swick said that UCSB could not schedule space definitively at that time but that August 15-19 was tentatively set. Preneel suggested that an earlier commitment to dates be made -- even if facilities had not been confirmed. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2004 General Chair Kim then reported on the status of the conference. Kim said that the conference had been scheduled for December 5-9, 2004 on Jeju Island, Korea. He added that a contract had been signed with a hotel and that a hosting agency would be selected. He also said that he would seek sponsorship for the conference and that he would have a Call for Papers and web page ready for Asiacrypt 2003. He added that it would be more convenient to work in Korean currency. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for lunch at 12:30. The Board reconvened at 13:00 at which point Biham arrived. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then spent time on maintenance of its list of prospective general and program chairs. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on Information Technology issues. He noted numerous items that fall under the purview of IT including the Membership Database, Web site and Newsletter hosting, the ePrint Server, conference management (including registration, announcements, program committee support), archives, and election management. McCurley stated that the business and service case for a dedicated IACR machine. He said that the services received from the IACR Secretariat are good but are expensive due to their labor intensiveness. He also said that taking over IT responsibilities would enable electronic registration, allow use of local currencies, and reduce the load on the Secretariat with increasing numbers of IACR-sponsored meetings. McCurley described the goals as improving database maintenance, improving communication and service, enabling electronic registration and credit cared payments, and reducing costs. McCurley indicated that the options for conference registration were to maintain the status quo, to set up a new system with off-the-shelf software, to hire a developer, or to do the development ourselves. He added that the UCSB would be moving towards electronic registration but that it was a low priority for them which had led to many problems. Orman arrived at this point. McCurley proposed that a dedicated IACR machine be procured and installed by 9/2003, that database migration be completed by 10/2003, and that electronic payment for Eurocrypt be enabled by 1/2004. McCurley noted several outstanding issues which included the database migration, banking, system maintenance, development work, and whether to include a new web server or maintain the current machine at Southwest Cyber Port. Clark agreed to solicit one or more partners to work with McCurley, and Rose offered to help. Cachin suggested another person who might be willing to assist. Clark also agreed to investigate the availability of multi-currency standardization accounts outside of the U.S. Micky Swick said that the UCSB would not be able to work with non-U.S. banks and noted that the needs of the IACR had outgrown and diverged from the support available from UCSB. Clark said that he would like to begin by relieving the UCSB of specific functions (e.g. banking) and reducing the work load through IT improvements. Swick said that she thought this would help. Clark then thanked McCurley for his work and suggested planning for electronic payments for the next Eurocrypt. Desmedt expressed the view that lower costs should be paramount and that electronic voting is dangerous. Cachin noted that currency exchange costs are high, and Langford asserted that removing currency exchange is very desirable. Clark assigned the action of completing the IT plan within a month. McCurley suggested starting with database migration. Maurer expressed the view that finding people to take ownership is crucial. Rose replied that he believed that the IACR was outgrowing volunteer labor as it began to sponsor more workshops and suggested that it might be time to hire a full-time manager. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Victor Shoup to serve as General Chair for Crypto 2004. ************************************************************************ [Shoup subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Stuart Haber to serve as Program Chair for Crypto 2004. ************************************************************************ [Haber subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ________________________________________________________________________ Pandu Rangan then presented a proposal (as recommended by the Asiacrypt Steering Committee) to hold Asiacrypt 2005 in Chennai (Madras), India. The proposed venue would be the Hotel Taj Coromandai and dates would be December 4-8, 2005. The estimated hotel price would be about $160 per night but might be reduced through negotiation by 25-30%. Student hotels would be available at $30-60 per night, and dorms would be available at $5 per night. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for a break at 14:13. The Board reconvened at 14:20. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board voted to approve the proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2005 in Chennai, India with Pandu Rangan as General Chair. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Bimal Roy to serve as Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2005. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Anatoly Lebedev then presented a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg either the last week of April or in mid June. Quisquater arrived at this point. ************************************************************************ The Board voted to approve the proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia with Anatoly Lebedev as General Chair subject to budget and scheduling agreement with the Board. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Archivist Orman circulated a report by email (appended). She said that she was in the process of building a collection of past IACR proceedings. McCurley suggested that providing proceedings to the Archivist should be added to the Program Chair Guidelines and the process be raised at the Membership Meeting. Cachin took responsibility for contacting Knudsen to have this added to the Guidelines. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on the status of relations with Springer-Verlag. Clark said that the Springer-Verlag Link service had been impaired by the recent Springer-Verlag change of ownership. Cachin expressed concerns about this change resulting in pricing changes. Desmedt expressed a desire to have IACR proceedings included in the Link service. ________________________________________________________________________ Rose departed and gave his proxy to Langford. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for a break at 15:16. The Board reconvened at 15:22. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then began to compile a list of items for the Membership Meeting. The list included the expected change in operation of the IACR database, information about the Archivist, and the "usual" announcements. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then raised the issue of having parallel sessions in IACR conferences. Clark expressed the view that it was time to try something different. He said that it might be best tried at Eurocrypt rather than Crypto. Dawson expressed his support for parallel sessions. Clark asked if Program Chairs wanted to accept more papers, and Biham responded that he did not. Langford expressed the view that Program Chairs should have the final say in this matter, but Clark responded that most Program Chairs assume that this is not an option. Cachin questioned whether more accepted papers would increase attendance. Desmedt said that he wanted flexibility to be given to Program Chairs. Berson began by expressing Knudsen's proxy in opposition to parallel sessions. He then said that it was fine to be experimental but voiced concerns about the economic impact since proceedings costs are proportional to the number of pages. Benaloh described multiple concerns including quality of papers, logistic difficulties, and clear opposition from the membership. He also expressed the concern that the suggestion of partial parallelization would disadvantage those sub-areas which were selected to be presented simultaneously with other sub-areas. Wright expressed a liking for experimentation but opposition to parallel sessions. She said that other conferences should not be viewed as competition. McCurley said that he would prefer to have multiple conferences at the same site and noted that concurrent conferences can work. Maurer agreed that co-locating conferences makes sense and suggested that the issue might be providing service to the community versus service to authors. Preneel suggested that expansion causes competition which is not necessarily good for the community. Hughes noted that those delegates who currently attend all sessions would be unhappy with parallel sessions and voiced the opinion that quality is an asset that should not be surrendered. Orman expressed support for experimentation with parallel sessions as did Dawson. Preneel suggested the alternative of additional workshops after Crypto. Cachin expressed the view that if something were to be changed, it should not be increasing the number of papers. He suggested the alternative of an expanded and/or parallel rump session. Clark then said that valid points had been made on both sides and expressed the view that impetus for change should come from the Program Chairs. He then asked what should be done next. Desmedt asked that a message should be given to Program and General Chairs offering them the option of parallel sessions. Wright asked what was in the Program and General Chair Guidelines. Cachin indicated that some changes could be contemplated for Eurocrypt 2004. McCurley suggested the possibility of giving Program Chairs tacit approval to experiment with parallel sessions. Desmedt noted that some conferences die due to competition. ________________________________________________________________________ Quisquater then presented a proposal for IACR to sponsor the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) workshop. (A proposal was distributed in advance.) Clark began by asking why CHES sought IACR sponsorship. Quisquater responded by highlighting management of copyrights and avoiding fragmentation within the community. Wright noted that registration fees for CHES had increased substantially. Quisquater replied that venues had become more expensive and sponsorships had been reduced. McCurley asked about the scope of CHES. Quisquater answered that the scope varies. He said that originally there had been no papers on hardware cryptanalysis but that more recent papers included cryptographic hardware, efficient software implementations, and side channel issues. Dawson asked how the workshops surplus and risk were to be managed. Quisquater responded that financial responsibility was to be negotiated for 2005 and beyond. Clark asked when sponsorship was proposed to begin. Quisquater replied that sponsorship would begin in 2004 with financial responsibility taking effect in 2005. Berson expressed a concern that IACR resources were being stretched and noted that copyright could be managed without full sponsorship. Clark concurred with Berson and then noted Knudsen's proxy saying that the CHES attendance was impressive but that he was concerned about IACR taking on financial management. Cachin suggested the possibility of delaying further growth of IACR. Maurer expressed the view that IACR should try to attract established conferences and should look to increase its support capabilities. Benaloh suggested that CHES seemed strong but that a moratorium on further growth might be prudent. Desmedt asserted that CHES is strong. Orman suggested that a financial impact statement would be helpful. Dawson expressed a desire for better Board control. Langford noted that resources are stretched substantially at present. Clark said that he didn't feel that the proposed level of support was possible with the extent infrastructure. Preneel suggested that the IACR is at a point where re-organization of the Board may be required. Wright suggested that this opportunity should not be lost. McCurley said that managing copyright should provide an easy short-term solution. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to make CHES an IACR-sponsored workshop with financial responsibility commencing in 2005 and IACR membership for delegates commencing in 2004. The motion was made by Benaloh and seconded by Maurer and carried 12-3. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to ask Whitfield Diffie to deliver the 2004 IACR Distinguished Lecture at Asiacrypt. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ An agenda for the Membership Meeting was then assembled. Topics included the IACR membership list going to an electronic format, upcoming IACR elections, sponsorship of CHES together with an announcement that no additional workshops would be considered for IACR sponsorship in the immediate future, solicitation of nominations for IACR Fellows, and information on the IACR Archive. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then asked for other business. Cachin suggested that awards be given at conference banquets rather than during Membership Meetings. McCurley suggested that IACR workshops be encouraged to co-locate sequentially with Crypto or Eurocrypt. Wright solicited nominations for the upcoming IACR elections. Matsumoto suggested establishing a better method to select Eurocrypt venues. Dawson suggested that the IACR co-ordinate between Program Chairs to facilitate identification of multiple submissions. Clark noted receiving a cold call from a conference coordinator offering Glasgow as a Eurocrypt venue. ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 17:13. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ Attachments ________________________________________________________________________ Preliminary Report on Crypto 2003 Greg Rose Crypto 2003 General Chair 9-Aug-2003 It's going to be a great conference! At the time of writing, one week out, we're about to hit 400 attendees. Just before Eurocrypt, I rebudgeted to take into account my panic over SARS and homicidal dictators (not naming names here) to aim for a break-even of 325 and expected attendance of about 350, so 400 is actually a very comfortable result, down (only) about 10% from the previous year. (We still look good compared to some other organizations, particularly USENIX. I had originally budgeted for a slight increase over 2002 attendance.) I expect to return a surplus of $20-25k. Organizationally, Sally/Eriko/Joe have been very easy to deal with. For a short while we fell a bit behind with processing registrations, mostly because Joe got sick, and had lots of queries about that, but no long-term disasters. Having the "poor man's electronic registration form" on the web did apparently help with processing registrations more quickly and accurately. We only did a single mailout of a single sheet registration form, pointing to the web site for more information. Christian has been great with updating the web site and reminding me when to swear at Microsoft for stuffing up the formatting. The program committee meeting was held in New York, and the biggest single expense was a dinner. Dan Boneh has been good and easy to work with generally. I gave out 7 full student stipends (all foreigners but one is coming from MIT), 5 partial stipends (registration and accommodation only), and an "unemployed stipend" (special deal on registration and free accomodation). I made a small effort to get sponsorships for some of these, but got such a lack of interest that I gave up in favour of putting my effort into managing expenses. We issued about 10 "invitation letters" to people needing visas, and had to process one refund caused by the US government refusing to issue a visa in time (note; not refusing to issue it, just refusing to issue promptly). Next year the web site should say something about needing to apply early. I wouldn't be surprised if a few more people get caught. (I'm sensitised to visa issues at the moment.) I've made a couple of smallish innovations: the principal one is having some Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday afternoon. The others mostly have to do with alcohol. The t-shirt design is intentionally obscure, but yes, there is a point to it, and no, I'm not going to tell anyone what it is. regards, Greg. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer's Report Susan Langford 14-Aug-2003 As of December 31, 2002, the IACR had $206,000 held in certificates of deposit, approximately $279,000 held in the main IACR and Crypto checking accounts, and approximately $140,000 at UCSB. Of these amounts about $90,000 were due from 2001 expenses and $230,000 is already set aside for specific expenditures in 2003 (including the journal and projected losses from Eurocrypt 2003), leaving about $305,000 as the true surplus. 2002 Conferences Total Income Membership Secretariat Surplus Eurocrypt $224,000 $32,000 $10,000 $23,000 Crypto $217,000 $25,000 $10,000 $17,000 Asiacrypt $70,000 $6,000 $0 -$15,000 The Crypto income does not include on campus housing. In 2003, low attendance and currency fluctuations caused a significant loss at Eurocrypt 2003. However, attendance at Crypto 2003 looks good, and we expect a small surplus. We will continue to budget conferences conservatively and to control costs. Cash in the IACR accounts as of July 31, 2003 was approximately $472,000. Note that this number does not include money held by UCSB. Susan Langford IACR Treasurer ________________________________________________________________________ Report of the Archivist Hilarie Orman 14-Aug-2003 The only new item added recently is the Crypto 2003 proceedings. I would like to add the Eurocrypt 2003 and 2001 papers, but I have been unable to get responses from the program chairs. The same is true for FSE 2003 and 2002. I suggest that instructions to program chairs include providing the Archivist with a tarball of the papers as submitted to Springer. Most chairs have done this by putting the compressed tar file on a web server for one day and letting the archivist know the URL. FTP is preferable, if available. I can also archive paper, such as the author's copyright release forms, if they are given to me. The paper gets photographed and included in the electronic archive. Items in the archive (on CDs and on disk) Crypto 96 10 papers, a mix of tex and ps files Conference had 30 papers (they are on the 20 year CD) Crypto 97 9 papers, a mix of tex and ps Conference had 37 papers (they are on the 20 year CD) Crypto 98 17 papers, a mix of tex and ps Proceedings list 33 papers Crypto 99 39 papers, ps for all, tex for 32 Proceedings list 39 papers Crypto 00 Complete papers (tex and ps) Crypto 01 Complete papers Crypto 02 Complete papers Digital photos of all signed copyright forms from authors (high res jpg's) (the original paper forms are also in archivist's possession) Crypto 03 Complete papers Eurocrypt 00 Complete papers Eurocrypt 01 Nothing Eurocrypt 02 Complete papers Asiacrypt 02 Complete papers Eurocrypt 03 Digital photocopy of Power of Attorney form PKC 98 Complete papers PKC 99 Complete papers PKC 00 Complete ps for papers, some tex PKC 01 All papers, low-quality pdf only FSE 02 Nothing FSE 03 Nothing Hilarie Orman IACR Archivist ________________________________________________________________________ Report of the Newsletter Editor Christian Cachin 14-Aug-03 My position as IACR Newsletter Editor involves two things: the Newsletter and the website. In addition, I am reporting on the cryptology eprint archive. The Newsletter has been running smoothly, and I have managed to send three issues per year since I took up as editor (in February, June, and October). See the back issues at http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ However, personal and work commitments have prevented me in 2003 from completing the June issue so far -- a delay for which I'd like to apologize to our membership. I hope to complete the "Summer" issue still in August 2003. Because of the involved work, I have also contemplated to produce only two Newsletter issues per year in the future (as was the schedule of the printed Newsletter). Most of the information appears in a timely fashion on the website, anyway. On the web site, only evolutionary changes have happened, but Kevin and I have made progress on implementing the new IT strategy with IACR's own server. Regarding the eprint archive, which has posted 166 papers to this date in 2003, some things have changed. Most importantly, we are receiving more and more low- and very-low-quality submissions, which appear to be typically from beginner students or amateurs, typically from India or China, who submit it with a comment like "I have some interesting ideas that I wrote up ... please give me some feedback". Obviously, we cannot provide such feedback. Posting such submissions is not the purpose of the archive. Mihir and I are therefore currently undertaking a revision of the acceptance policy; we are also considering to establish an informal editorial board of experts who can briefly look at a paper and assess if it qualifies for inclusion in the archive. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal of Cryptology: Editor's report, August 13, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------- The journal is on track. The special issue on the bounded-storage model which Oded had proposed and managed is soon ready for publication. The status of the journal is more or less the same as stated in my last report of April 2003, with one exception. The queue of papers ready (or soon ready) for publication is growing, and in particular we might have a few very long papers, filling possibly more than an issue. My editorial policy for such exceptionally long papers is to have them checked first for significance (relative to the length) and then refereed regularly. There is a "risk" that the queue grows quite quickly, with delays of up to 18 months or more between the time the final manuscript is ready and the publication date. But this is really difficult to predict. We therefore need to explore possibilities for flexibility in the number of pages. I am not informed about the details of the contract, but the specified parameters are 4 issues per year with a total of 288 pages. I assume the contract als specifies a price for extra pages, but I am not sure. The basic questions are: - Does the contract allow for extra pages? If so, at which price? - If not, should we change the contract accordingly? - Which competence does the board grant to the EIC to publish more pages? If I am granted such flexibility, I would expect to allocate up to about 320 to 340 pages per year if necessary, increasing the number of pages per issue from 72 to between 80 and 85, but with possibly single issues having up to 100 pages. At the moment it does not seem to make sense to increase the number of issues per year, and it is also too early to renegotiate the contract with a higher fixed number of pages. Ueli Maurer ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ Membership Meeting Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara 20 August 2003 IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 17:08. Clark presented the meeting agenda which consisted of information about Crypto 2003, the IACR, its Board of Directors, upcoming elections, finances, conferences and workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, issues with Springer-Verlag, IACR Fellows, current issues (including information technology), and a period of open discussion. Clark then introduced the IACR Directors and Officers. Crypto 2003 Program Chair Boneh then presented information about the conference. He said that there had been 169 submissions (6 fewer than the prior year) from 31 distinct top-level domains, that 34 (20.12%) had been accepted (5 fewer than the prior year), and that over 400 pages of reviews had been written. He noted an exponential growth rate of submissions to the deadline with the highest rate of acceleration on the last day. Boneh gave acceptance rates by top-level domain, noted that the average number of authors on submissions was 2.053254 and on accepted papers was 2.108108, and that the average title length of submissions was 58.319527 character whereas it was 58.54051 characters for accepted papers. Clark then gave plaques of appreciation to Boneh and General Chair Rose and general applause was given. Clark then informed attendees that unless they'd taken action otherwise, they would be members of the IACR for 2004. Clark then quoted the purposes of the IACR from the Bylaws as "to advance the theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and to promote the interests of its members with respect thereto, and to serve the public welfare." He then described the three annual IACR conferences of Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt and the two IACR-sponsored workshops: FSE and PKC. He then described IACR publications of the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, and the ePrint server at eprint.iacr.org. Finally, he noted the web site at www.iacr.org. Clark then described the IACR Board of Directors as consisting of four elected Officers, nine elected Directors, six appointed General Chairs, and three additional appointees. He noted that the IACR manages approximately US$500,000 annually making it the size of a small-medium all-volunteer business with no employees. Clark then described the upcoming election of Directors noting that the terms of Directors Berson, Desmedt, and Knudsen were expiring. He introduced the Election Committee of Hughes, Preneel, and Wright. IACR Treasurer Langford then presented a report. She stated that in 2002, Eurocrypt had taken in $224,000 in receipts and $32,000 in membership dues and had returned a surplus of $23,000, that Crypto had taken in $217,000 in receipts and $25,000 in membership dues and had returned a surplus of $17,000, and that Asiacrypt had taken in $70,000 in receipts and $6,000 in membership dues and had experienced a loss of $8,000 with an additional $7,000 loss due to currency fluctuation. Clark then said that all IACR conferences work in US dollars and that the currency fluctuations tend to even out. He also said that IACR wanted to begin working in multiple currencies and that the IACR reserves were not expected to increase in 2003 due principally to losses incurred at Eurocrypt. He noted that declining conference attendance was due to many causes -- mostly not unique to the IACR and presented attendance numbers over the history of the IACR. He said that future conferences would be budgeting for lower attendance, that costs would be cut, and that sponsorships would be sought. Finally, Clark stated a desire to reduce mailing costs (currently about $20,000 per annum) by ceasing mailing of IACR membership lists and instead making them available as .PDF files by email. Desmedt asked if it would be possible to remove just email addresses from the electronic list, and Clark responded that provisions were made only for all or no personal information about each member. Rose suggested that a copyright notice be added to the list together with a "Not to be redistributed" statement. Langford noted that the printed list had been designed to be difficult to scan but that this property no longer held true. A question was asked about a possible CarribeanCrypt. Langford responded that IACR had not solicited workshop affiliations but had agreed to sponsor several in the past. She then noted that the IACR had decided upon a moratorium on new workshop sponsorships because of an overloaded infrastructure. Feigenbaum noted that the Financial Cryptography workshop was sponsored by the IFCA. Orman asked if developing countries might be able to influence venues and other IACR activities. Langford said that the IACR would be happy to hear from and work with people and suggested speaking individually with Board members. Clark then gave information on upcoming IACR conferences and workshops. Asiacrypt 2003 would be held November 30 - December 4 at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. Chin-Chen Chang would be the General Chair, Chi-Sung Laih would be the Program Chair, and the IACR Distinguished Lecture would be given by Don Coppersmith. FSE 2004 would be held February 5-7 in New Dehli, India. Subhamoy Maitra and R. L. Karandikar would be General Chairs and Bimal Roy and Willi Meier would be Program Chairs. PKC 2004 would be held in Singapore March 1-3. Robert Deng would be the General Chair and Feng Bao would be the Program Chair. Eurocrypt 2004 Program Chair Christian Cachin then spoke about the conference to be held May 2-6 at the Casino Kursaal in Interlaken, Switzerland. Jan Camenisch would be the General Chair and the IACR Distinguished Lecture would be given by Whit Diffie. Clark then resumed describing other upcoming IACR conferences and workshops. Crypto 2004 would be held August 15-19 in Santa Barbara. James Hughes would be the General Chair and Matt Franklin would be the Program Chair. Asiacrypt 2004 would be held December 5-9 on Jeju Island, Korea. Kwangjo Kim would be the General Chair and Pil Joong Lee would be the Program Chair. Eurocrypt 2005 would be tentatively held May 22-26 in Arhus, Denmark. Ivan Damgard would be the General Chair and Ronald Cramer would be the Program Chair. Eurocrypt 2006 would be held in St. Petersburg, Russia with Anatoly Lebedev serving as General Chair. Clark then solicited conference proposals for 2007. Clark then announced that as of 2004, the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) workshop would be sponsored by the IACR. He also said that the IACR would not be sponsoring any additional workshops for the foreseeable future. Clark then described the Journal of Cryptology, published by Springer-Verlag, as the premier journal in the field. He said that it was mailed to all IACR members and that its Editor-in-Chief Ueli Maurer solicited high-quality papers for publication. Clark then discussed the IACR Newsletter, published thrice annually, which is emailed to members and available at www.iacr.org/newsletter. He described the contents as including a calendar of events, job opportunities, publication announcements, and more. He added that Newsletter Editor Cachin solicited submissions to newsletter@iacr.org. Clark then described the new contract signed with Springer-Verlag at the end of 2002. He noted that the Link service had been experiencing difficulties but was available to members with username "iacr02" and password "jciacr" at link.spinger-ny.com and link.springer.de. Clark then introduced IACR Archivist Orman who said that she was collecting electronic versions of all IACR materials. Clark then introduced Joan Feigenbaum to discuss the IACR Fellows program. She said that IACR Fellows would be recognized for "Advancing the science, technology, and practice of cryptology and related fields; promoting the free exchange of ideas and information about cryptography and related fields; developing and maintaining the professional skill and integrity of individuals in the cryptologic community; and advancing the standing of the cryptologic community in the wider scientific and technical worlds and promoting fruitful relationships between the IACR and other scientific and technical organizations." She said that nomination instructions were available at www.iacr.org/fellows and listed the selection committee as consisting of herself Ivan Damgaard, Cynthia Dwork, Hugo Krawczyk, and Michael Wiener. Tal Rabin asked if non-IACR members should be considered as Fellows, and Rose replied that there was no choice in the matter as the criteria had been written into the IACR By-laws. Feigenbaum stated that the ultimate target was that 5% of IACR members would be Fellows and that perhaps 3-5 would be selected the first year. She added that candidates, nominators, and endorsers must all be IACR members. Clark then discussed issues and goals relating to information technology. He said that goals included on-line membership management, conference registration, and submission and review of papers as well as hosting of the IACR web site and archives and managing Newsletter mailing. He said that costs would be mitigated by reducing mailing and support costs. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then opened the floor for general discussion at 17:56. ________________________________________________________________________ A question was asked as to whether the new visa policy to start in the U.S. warranted moving Crypto out of the U.S. Clark replied that IACR policy was to not host conferences in countries that did not issue sufficient visas. A question was asked as to the timing of the next issue of the Newsletter. Cachin responded that this issue had been delayed. A question was asked as to whether the IACR should become a showplace by initiating Internet voting. Clark responded that he did not want to endorse a commercial product and wanted to make certain to get things right. Desmedt added that the 2002 Election Committee had received two proposals. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership Meeting them adjourned at 18:01. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2004 ______________________________________________________________________________ ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on May 2, 2004 during Eurocrypt 2004 in Interlaken. Reports were presented on the disposition of Eurocrypt 2003, Crypto 2003, Asiacrypt 2003, CHES 2003, Eurocrypt 2004, Crypto 2004, Asiacrypt 2004, CHES 2004, FSE 2004, and Eurocrypt 2005. Additional reports were presented on the Newsletter, the Journal of Cryptology, IACR finances, and IACR Fellows Selection Committee. A special report was presented on IT strategy issues. The Board discussed and agreed to reviving the practice of awarding "in cooperation with the IACR" status to appropriate non-IACR conferences and workshops. The Board also discussed the apparently growing problem of duplicate parallel submissions of similar papers to multiple conferences. The Board appointed an Election Committee consisting of Dawson, Hughes, and Quisquater. The Board accepted a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia with Anatoly Lebedev as General Chair. The Board voted to ask Serge Vaudenay to serve as Eurocrypt 2006 Program Chair. The Board accepted a proposal to hold FSE 2005 in Paris, France. The Board voted to encourage IACR Program Committees to establish "best paper" awards. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Eurocrypt Interlaken 2 May 2004 Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:00. Present were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Camenisch, Clark, Damgaard, Dawson, Hughes, Kim, Knudsen, Langford, Lenstra, Maurer, McCurley, Preneel, and Quisquater. In addition, Greg Rose and Junji Shikata were present. A Proxy was held for Wright by Berson. ________________________________________________________________________ The agenda for the meeting comprised the following. Opening Matters =============== - Welcome participants - identification of proxies (Clark) (5) - Review and approve agenda (All) (5) - Approve Minutes from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (5) - Review of Actions from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (10) - Matters arising from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (10) - Eurocrypt 2004 status (Camenisch) (5) Reports ======= - Newsletter/eprint archive report (Cachin) (5) - Journal of Cryptology report (Maurer) (5) - Financial report (Langford) (5) Committees ========== - IT Strategy/Online transactions (McCurley) (20) - Appoint 2004 Election Committee (Clark) (5) Past Conferences/Workshops ========================== - Eurocrypt 2003 review (?) (5) - Crypto 2003 review (Rose) (5) - Asiacrypt 2003 review (?) (5) - CHES 2003 review (Quisquater) (5) - FSE 2004 review (Preneel/Clark) (2) - PKC 2004 review (?) Forthcoming Conferences ======================= - CHES 2004 Update (Quisquater) (5) - Crypto 2004 (Hughes) (5) - Eurocrypt 2005 (Damgaard) (5) - Asiacrypt steering committee report (?) (10) - Discuss Asiacrypt 2005 Local issues (Preneel) (10) - Asiacrypt 2006 proposal (Prof. Pei) (15) - FSE 2005 proposal (Preneel) (10) - CHES 2005 Informal Proposal (Quisquater) (5) - PKC 06 Proposal (10) - Eurocrypt 2007 Update (Preneel) (5) Program Chairs ============== - Program and General Chair List Maintenance (Benaloh) (5) - Discuss/Appoint Asiacrypt 2006 Program Chair (Benaloh/Clark) (10) - Discuss/Appoint Eurocrypt 2006 Program Chair (Benaloh/Clark) (10) Other Business ============== - "In Co-Operation With" Status (Clark) (2) - Cooperation between IACR and ITS (IEEE Information Theory Society) (Junji Shikata) (10) - Distinguished Lecturer Crypto 2005 (Clark) (5) - The email bcc protocol problem (Clark) (1) - The protocol for parallel submission problem (Preneel) (5) - Further S-V CD to fill gaps in coverage (Clark/Preneel) (5) - Best paper award (Clark - obo Vaudenay) (5) Closing Matters =============== - Draft agenda for general business meeting of members (all) (10) - Review of action items ________________________________________________________________________ Clark began by asking that laptops be used during the meeting only for IACR business and that mobile phones be shut off (except, of course, for the conference organizer). The agenda was then reviewed and no amendments were offered. The previous meeting minutes were then reviewed and several corrections were offered. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on open action items. He indicated that Preneel still had not received feedback from Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki. Haber arrived at this time. Clark reported that Langford had completed the finances for Eurocrypt 2003. He said that issues regarding the relationship between the IACR and Springer-Verlag were still under discussion. He indicated that McCurley was still working on migration of the IACR database. Clark said that he was still seeking additional IT support. He also said that McCurley was still working on issues regarding the relationship with the IACR Secretariat and that Clark, Langford, and Micky Swick were still working to define terms of reference for the Secretariat. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2004 General Chair Camenisch then reported on the status of the conference. He said that there had been 410 registrants as of 1 May of which all but 30 had prepaid, that everything was going smoothly, and that finances were expected to be on target. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2004 Program Chair Cachin then reported on the conference. He said that the rump session would be in an "unusual" setting that would include a band. He added that the program was good with 36 papers accepted out of 206 submissions (more than any prior IACR conference). McCurley asked about interaction with the IACR Secretariat. Cachin reported that there had been some issues with data for a mailing that had been sent in a zip file which was discarded resulting in an unrevised mailing being sent to members. McCurley asked who in the Secretariat had been worked with, and Cachin and Camenisch said they dealt mostly with Joe Allegretti and to a lesser extent with Sally Vito. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the Newsletter and ePrint Archive. He said that there were no issues with the Newsletter but that the ePrint Archive was receiving many more questionable submissions. Preneel asked whether this process could be somehow automated or delegated, and Cachin replied that he had solicited some help. Haber asked how many submissions were rejected, and Cachin responded that the number was approximately 20%. Biham asked whether this meant that about 40 submissions were rejected per year, and Cachin confirmed this number. Langford asked whether the same people were responsible for most of the rejections, and Cachin replied that some but not all were from a small set of frequent submitters. Clark inquired about the magnitude of the problem, and Cachin responded that it was not yet substantial. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark noted that Journal of Cryptology Editor-in-Chief Maurer was not present but that there was nothing new to report. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then presented the highlights of a pre-circulated report. She said that the IACR had endured a difficult year in 2003. She detailed an approximately $40,000 loss incurred by Eurocrypt 2003, a small surplus returned by Crypto 2003, and an approximately $500 loss (corrected from the original report) suffered by Asiacrypt 2003. She then thanked McCurley for his efforts at establishing web-based registration -- noting that there had been 8 transactions in the initial test. Dawson asked about the financial status of IACR sponsored workshops. Langford replied that she thought that PKC was close to even, and Preneel responded that he thought that FSE was also close to even. McCurley asked how workshop financials were run, and Langford responded that the finances were managed independently of IACR conference financials. McCurley suggested that a persistence of accounts would be nice to have. Clark then reported that he had researched multi-currency accounts and had found HSBC to be the best option. He added that costs were still uncertain and that authentication of authorized signatures appeared to be cumbersome. McCurley noted that Wells-Fargo was willing to do this but that the costs would be very high. Langford then added that credit card payments were being run through Wells-Fargo and asked if a single account would be better. Camenisch noted that setting up a local account for Eurocrypt 2004 had been easy, and Cachin added that local accounts have advantages and organizers would need them anyway. McCurley replied that the infrastructure required to receive money into new accounts is difficult. Clark took an action item to attempt to formalize finances of IACR workshops and check further with the Secretariat about its possible role in this matter. Berson then asked about IACR assets, and Langford replied that net assets were approximately $367,000 as of January 1 and had been approximately $305,000 the prior year. Rose noted that since the association between IACR and its sponsored workshops is recent, the Secretariat may not be up to date on the essential details. Preneel asked about the effect on monetary changes, and Langford replied that there is an effort made to separate out currency fluctuation when feasible. Clark added that budget proposals include exchange rate projections. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then made a presentation regarding IT status and options. He described the scope of his study as including the membership database, conference registration, electronic payments, and a variety of other topics which were deferred for this report comprising e-mail issues, web site management, the ePrint Archive, conference submission and review software, and the IACR archive. He described the goals of better integration, but expressed concern at the difficulty of outsourcing since it would pose issues with the By-Laws, the Secretariat, and the small size of the IACR. He added that the membership database, which is currently in Access format, is labor intensive to manage and that he planned to migrate it to another database management system. Security concerns were also identified as a major issue. McCurley noted that there were many good aspects of the current web host at Southwest Cyber Port but also many limitations. He then described the electronic registration pilot which is using an integrated membership database and authorize.net for payment processing. McCurley expressed the hope that management of IT could be put under the purview of the Membership Secretary and described his desire to transition that effort soon since he did not intent to seek re-election to the Board. Clark and the Board thanked McCurley for his efforts. Damgaard asked what impact this would have on General Chairs, and McCurley responded that General Chairs must be able to manage the IT system and deal with problems. Clark then noted that there had been a previous action item that he had together with McCurley to prepare a strawman document. McCurley replied that a document had been written for Crypto 2003, and the action item was closed. Clark then noted that the Membership Secretary position was open and said that he would revise the terms of reference for the position to include IT. McCurley noted that this role also overlaps that of the Newsletter Editor, and Clark committed to discuss this with McCurley and Cachin and present a plan at the forthcoming Crypto conference Board meeting. McCurley then asked what would be presented at the Membership meeting. Clark said that he would have to begin by meeting with upcoming General Chairs, and Hughes committed his cooperation. Clark then said that at the Membership meeting he would present a commitment to provide on-line registration for Crypto 2004. McCurley noted that the electronic process would separate conference registration from room and board reservations. Rose then asked if Southwest Cyber Port would manage back-ups and security patches, and McCurley replied that they would do so only if the IACR system were configured identically to their own. Rose then suggested that we consider purchasing more bandwidth from Southwest Cyber Port rather than purchasing a new machine. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then turned the discussion to planning for the 2004 elections. He noted that many offices would be up for election and poled Board members as to their intentions. Clark began by stating his intention to stand for re-election as IACR President but committed himself to serving at most one more term. Preneel indicated his intention to stand for re-election as Vice President. Benaloh stated that he did not intend to seek re-election as Secretary. Langford stated that she did not intend to seek re-election as Treasurer. McCurley stated that he did not intend to seek re-election to the Board. Biham said that he was unsure as to whether he would seek re-election to the Board. Matsumoto was not present. Clark then asked for volunteers for the 2004 Election Committee. Dawson, Quisquater, and Hughes agreed to serve. Hughes suggested that paper ballots may be less reliable than web-based alternatives. McCurley noted that the Election Committee has responsibility both to run the election and seek candidates. Clark encouraged Board members to also solicit candidates, and Preneel encouraged an earlier start to the process. The Election Committee accepted this responsibility. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for a break at 11:17. The Board reconvened at 11:31. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on the work of the IACR Fellows Selection Committee. He thanked the committee for its work and noted that there had been ten nominations from which six Fellows had been selected. Clark then announced that the membership of the Selection Committee would remain unchanged but that Damgaard would take over as Committee Chair. Lenstra asked about targeted number of additional IACR Fellows, and Damgaard replied that he expected smaller numbers in the future. Clark announced that he would award plaques to the new Fellows at the Eurocrypt banquet. Damgaard asked that members be reminded that the fellowship selection process is continuing, and Haber suggested that this be mentioned at the conference opening. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark and Langford then proceeded to a review of Eurocrypt 2003 but said there was nothing to add beyond the prior report. ________________________________________________________________________ Rose then reported on Crypto 2003. He said that the conference returned a surplus of approximately $50,000. He noted that this was partially due to a catering glitch which resulted in too little food being provided at the rump session. Rose added that he found Joe Allegretti and the Secretariat easy to work with. He also noted that visas were a problem for some and suggested a three to four month lead in future visa applications. Clark noted that it is IACR policy to hold conferences only in locations that allow full attendance. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair Dawson then reported on Asiacrypt 2003. He said that there were 50 student attendees and a total of 40 total Taiwanese attendees together with 110 attendees from outside of Taiwan. He added that the conference was a success and had had about 170 total submissions. Knudsen noted that he has a web page with statistics about IACR conference submissions. ________________________________________________________________________ Quisquater then reported on CHES 2003. He said that there were 230 attendees and that 32 papers were accepted from among 110 submissions. He added that there were 3 invited talks and a panel. Quisquater said that the workshop had been held in Cologne, Germany, that many student grants had been awarded, and that a CD of past CHES workshops was produced and given to attendees. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then reported on FSE 2004. He said that the workshop had been held in New Delhi, India, that 27 papers were accepted from among 75 submissions, and that there were 65 regular and 10 student attendees. Preneel said that the workshop lost approximately $900 that would be covered by the local committee. He added that registration costs in excess of US$100 were difficult for many Indian professors. ________________________________________________________________________ No report was received on PKC 2004. ________________________________________________________________________ Quisquater then reported on the status of CHES 2004. He began by saying that there needs to be greater formalization of the relationship between the IACR and the CHES Steering Committee. He then said that the workshop would be held in the time between SAC and Crypto and that 32 papers had been accepted from among the 125 submissions. Quisquater said that IACR membership dues had been collected but that they had mistakenly been listed as $80 rather than $88. He noted that there had been some issues with duplicate submissions and added that it was too late to establish electronic registration for the workshop. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2004 General Chair Hughes then reported on the status of the conference. He said that there had been a 6% increase in non-housing costs but that housing costs would be unchanged. He added that issuance of letters of invitation had been a significant issue. McCurley suggested that the General Chair Guidelines include setting the break-even threshold at 80% of the prior year's registration unless extenuating circumstances exist. Berson then noted that the National Academy of Sciences has a web site suggesting how to best write letters of invitation. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2004 General Chair Kim then reported on the status of the conference. He said that the web page was up and that the submission deadline was May 24 with 150-200 submissions expected. He then said that a 40% discount had been obtained from the hotel and that Korean government support was being solicited to subsidize student fees. Kim indicated an expected attendance of 200-250 with projected costs of US$480-500 (excluding IACR membership). Dawson inquired as to the size of the meeting room to which Kim replied that it could hold up to 500 people. Langford asked about electronic registration, and Kim responded that he would work with McCurley to enable electronic registration. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2005 General Chair Damgaard then reported on the status of the conference. He said that finances were under control and that contracts had been signed with the conference center and management company. He projected registration costs of US$525 (excluding IACR membership dues) at the current exchange rate with a break-even threshold set at 330 attendees. He added that an organizing committee had been set and that a preliminary web site had been completed. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair Dawson then reported that Shanghai had been selected as the venue for Asiacrypt 2006. He said that non-registered attendees had been a problem at some Asiacrypt conferences and noted that two new countries -- Indonesia and Viet Nam -- had joined the Steering Committee. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark and Preneel then turned to the problem of non-paying attendees. Questions were raised about the difficulty that IACR membership dues presented to some potential registrants and the possibility of a "lectures only" registration category. Clark asked if guidance could be provided to General Chairs and wondered about recommending the seeking of sponsorships. A discussion then ensued about possible guidelines and ways to encourage registration without creating undue burden. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for lunch at 12:39. The Board reconvened at 14:21. ________________________________________________________________________ Cachin gave his proxy to Lenstra and departed. Camenisch gave his proxy to Langford and departed. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then presented the proposal for FSE 2005 as prepared by the FSE Steering Committee. He said that the workshop would be held in Paris using university facilities. He then said that the dates could not yet be finalized and that a break-even point had been set at 60 attendees. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted 15-0 to accept the proposal to hold FSE 2005 in Paris. ************************************************************************ Quisquater then presented information on CHES 2005 from the CHES Steering Committee. He said that locations were being explored with Edinburgh as a possible venue and that a formal proposal would be presented at Crypto. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark reported that a proposal for PKC 2006 would also be presented at Crypto. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then asked that the Board formalize the plan for Eurocrypt 2006. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted 15-0 with 1 abstention to accept the proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia with Anatoly Lebedev as General Chair. ************************************************************************ Preneel then reported on preliminary planning for Eurocrypt 2007. He said that proposals were being received for Mikonos, Greece and by Malaga, Spain. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then updated IACR service lists. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then discussed Program Chair candidates for Eurocrypt 2006. ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Serge Vaudenay to serve as Eurocrypt 2006 Program Chair [Vaudenay subsequently accepted]. ************************************************************************ Clark then raised the issue of conferences and workshops held "in cooperation with the IACR". He noted that no meetings had been granted this status recently but that the IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy (Oakland Conference) had held this status for many years and still held it. Berson then proposed that guidelines be established for granting of "in cooperation with" status. Clark announced that he had granted this status to the forthcoming Conference on Email and Anti-Spam. Dawson suggested that meetings granted this status should avoid time conflicts with major IACR conferences. Preneel suggested that other meetings should be sought to accept this status. Haber thanked Clark and Berson for there efforts at re-establishing this status. ________________________________________________________________________ Junji Shikata (on behalf of Matsumoto) then presented a proposal for cooperation between the IACR and the IEEE Information Theory Society. The proposal suggested joint conferences, liaison officers, sharing of the ePrint Archive, mutual discounts, and a special issue of IEEE Transactions of Information Theory devoted to joint work. Clark committed to contacting Hideki Imai, the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, to offer "in cooperation with" status and discuss liaison officers. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then asked for nominations for the IACR Distinguished Lecturer. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then raised the issue of parallel submissions of essentially identical papers to multiple conferences. He said that this is a growing problem which is difficult to detect with blind submissions and rules restricting the exchanging of information between Program Committees. Clark suggested more explicit wording in Calls for Papers and asked for suggestions. McCurley suggested better sharing of submission information between Program Committees and, if needed, changing Calls for Papers to explicitly allow such sharing. Berson suggested including a statement that "violators of this policy should have no expectation of anonymity." Clark questioned whether a formal protocol is necessary at this time. Dawson suggested adding a sentence to Calls for Papers to explicitly allowing sharing of information across Program Committees. Clark suggested the wording "IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other Program Committees." Knudsen said that he would make suitable updates to the Program Chair Guidelines. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then thanked Preneel and Cachin for their work in updating the CD of past IACR proceedings. Preneel noted that there is still no CD for early Asiacrypts, early FSE workshops, and early PKC workshops, and he asked if a CD could be produced to fill this gap. Clark committed to discussing this with Springer-Verlag. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then brought forward a proposal from Serge Vaudenay to establish a best paper award for IACR conferences. Hughes noted that the first paper is generally that which was regarded as the best. McCurley said that he now supports such awards since they have become common elsewhere. Berson offered the opinion that this should be done if it helps members receive appropriate credit for their work. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted 13-0 with 4 abstentions to encourage its conference and workshop Program Committees to select one or more papers for a best paper award. ************************************************************************ McCurley then suggested that process is important in this respect. Clark added that authors should be notified and announcements made at conference and workshop openings. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then asked for other business. Hughes asked about the rate that students should be charged for conference registration and was told that this rate has traditionally been half the standard registration fee. ________________________________________________________________________ An agenda for the Membership Meeting was then prepared. This included the usual preamble, identification of members of the Board, information about IACR membership, information about 2004 IACR elections, a finance report, a report on forthcoming IACR conferences and workshops, a report on the Journal of Cryptology, discussion of current issues, information about the CD of recent IACR conferences and workshops, description of "in cooperation with" status, information about electronic registration, a reminder that conference proposals should be decoupled from Program Chair suggestions, and announcement of the suggestion to establish "best paper" awards. ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 16:26. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ Attachments ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2005 status report Ivan Damgaard Eurocrypt 2005 General Chair 21-APR-2004 Dear Board of Directors, Various things on Eurocrypt 05 for your information (I do plan to attend the board meeting, but maybe this can save a little time at the meeting): The budget is essentially unchanged since the last version I sent to Andy and Susan, in particular we have dropped the lunch on the last day, as suggested. I enclose a copy. There are all sorts of ways to play with the break-even point, as a function of the registration fee and what we think the euro/dollar exchange rate is going to be. For instance, at the current exchange rate we can have a registration fee of 525$ and break even at 330 participants. This doesn't look as good as when we did the first budget, but this is due only to the drop in the dollar exchange rate. If the dollar would go back to its level before the big drop, 485$ would be a reasonable registration fee. The sponsorships in the budget are essentially already secured, and we are still working on this, so things may improve later. To Andy, who asked about VAT: we will be considered a non-profit event, and so we do not have to pay VAT on top of the prices we charge. On the other hand, we cannot get refund for VAT on the expenses we have. This is all reflected in the current budget. Also to Andy about insurance: I asked around and it seems that virtually no one buys insurance for conferences held in Denmark. I have therefore not done anything further on this, but I'm happy to listen to advice. We will set up a preliminary web page next week. It will be called www.brics.dk/eurocrypt05/ I'll let you know when it's up. Ronald tells me that the PC is complete except perhaps for 1-2 members. That's all for now, see you in Interlaken! regards, Ivan ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Financial Report Susan Langford IACR Treasurer 30-APR-2004 Treasurer's Report for calendar year 2003 As of December 31, 2003, the IACR had $206,000 held in certificates of deposit, approximately $357,000 held in the main IACR and Crypto checking accounts, and approximately 25,000 at UCSB. Of these amounts about $71,000 were due from 2003 expenses and $150,000 is already set aside for specific expenditures in 2003, leaving about $367,000 as the true surplus. 2003 Conferences Total Income Membership Secretariat Surplus Eurocrypt $170,000 $16,000 $3000 -$39,500 Crypto $323,000 $25,000 $11,000 $42,000 Asiacrypt $74,000 $8,000 $1500 -$1,500 The Crypto income does not include on campus housing. The IACR ran a web registration trial for Eurocrypt 2004. We have opened a merchant account, and have processed transactions. As of 4/29, we have settled 8 transactions for a total of $6822. Susan Langford IACR Treasurer ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the [1]Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ (The list contains reports posted since the last newsletter issue appeared.) _________________________________________________________________ 2004/330 ( PDF ) Multicollision Attacks on Generalized Hash Functions M. Nandi and D. R. Stinson 2004/329 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Hardness amplification of weakly verifiable puzzles Ran Canetti and Shai Halevi and Michael Steiner 2004/328 ( PDF ) Security Analysis of a 2/3-rate Double Length Compression Function in Black-Box Model Mridul Nandi and Wonil Lee and Kouichi Sakurai and Sangjin Lee 2004/327 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Identity Based Ring Signature Sherman S.M. Chow and S.M. Yiu and Lucas C.K. Hui 2004/326 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Qiu-Gu-Chen Variant Group Signature Scheme Zhengjun Cao 2004/325 ( PDF ) Complexity of the Collision and Near-Collision Attack on SHA-0 with Different Message Schedules Mitsuhiro HATTORI and Shoichi HIROSE and Susumu YOSHIDA 2004/324 ( PDF ) On a Probabilistic Approach to the Security Analysis of Cryptographic Hash Functions G. Laccetti and G. Schmid 2004/323 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A note on L\'opez-Dahab coordinates Tanja Lange 2004/322 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure and Anonymous Identity-Based Key Issuing without Secure Channel Ai-fen Sui and Sherman S.M. Chow and Lucas C.K. Hui and S.M. Yiu and K.P. Chow and W.W. Tsang and C.F. Chong and K.H. Pun and H.W. Chan 2004/321 ( PDF ) The conjugacy search problem in public key cryptography: unnecessary and insufficient Vladimir Shpilrain and Alexander Ushakov 2004/320 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Upper Bounds for the Selection of the Cryptographic Key Lifetimes: Bounding the Risk of Key Exposure in the Presence of Faults Alfonso De Gregorio 2004/319 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Badger - A Fast and Provably Secure MAC Martin Boesgaard and Thomas Christensen and Erik Zenner 2004/318 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Upper Bounds on the Communication Complexity of Cryptographic Multiparty Computation Martin Hirt and Jesper Buus Nielsen 2004/317 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Adaptively-Secure, Non-Interactive Public-Key Encryption Ran Canetti and Shai Halevi and Jonathan Katz 2004/316 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On a Threshold Group Signature Scheme and a Fair Blind Signature Scheme Zhengjun Cao 2004/315 ( PDF ) Security Arguments for Partial Delegation with Warrant Proxy Signature Schemes Qin Wang, Zhenfu Cao 2004/314 ( PDF ) A Technical Comparison of IPSec and SSL AbdelNasir Alshamsi and Takamichi Saito 2004/313 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of a threshold proxy signature with known signers Fuw-Yi Yang, Jinn-Ke Jan, and Woei-Jiunn Jeng 2004/312 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Ramanujan Graphs and the Random Reducibility of Discrete Log on Isogenous Elliptic Curves David Jao and Stephen D. Miller and Ramarathnam Venkatesan 2004/311 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Hierarchical Group Signatures Marten Trolin and Douglas Wikstrom 2004/310 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Verifiable Random Function With Short Proofs and Keys Yevgeniy Dodis and Aleksandr Yampolskiy 2004/309 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Power of Verification Queries in Message Authentication and Authenticated Encryption Mihir Bellare and Oded Goldreich and Anton Mityagin 2004/308 ( PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Noel McCullagh and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto¡¯s two-party identity-based key agreement Guohong Xie 2004/307 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Universal Forgeability of Wang-Wu-Wang Key-Insulated Signature Scheme Zhengjun Cao 2004/306 ( PS PS.GZ ) The Static Diffie-Hellman Problem Daniel R. L. Brown and Robert P. Gallant 2004/305 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A note on efficient computation of cube roots in characteristic 3 Paulo S. L. M. Barreto 2004/304 ( PDF ) Second Preimages on n-bit Hash Functions for Much Less than 2^n Work John Kelsey and Bruce Schneier 2004/303 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Tate Pairing Computation for Supersingular Elliptic Curves over Binary Fields Soonhak Kwon 2004/302 ( PDF ) Security of Wang-Li Threshold Signature Scheme Lifeng Guo 2004/301 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) VMPC-MAC: A Stream Cipher Based Authenticated Encryption Scheme Bartosz Zoltak 2004/300 ( PS PS.GZ ) Relating Symbolic and Cryptographic Secrecy Michael Backes and Birgit Pfitzmann 2004/299 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Security Flaws in a Pairing-based Group Signature Scheme Zhengjun Cao and Sherman S.M. Chow 2004/298 ( PDF ) Nominative Proxy Signature Schemes Zuo-Wen Tan,Zhuo-Jun Liu 2004/297 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Post-Quantum Signatures Johannes Buchmann and Carlos Coronado and Martin Döring and Daniela Engelbert and Christoph Ludwig and Raphael Overbeck and Arthur Schmidt and Ulrich Vollmer and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann 2004/296 ( PDF ) A Class of secure Double Length Hash Functions Mridul Nandi 2004/295 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Access Control Scheme for Partially Ordered Set Hierarchy with Provable Security Jiang Wu and Ruizhong Wei 2004/294 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Optimal Lower Bounds on the Number of Queries for Solving Differential Equations of Addition Souradyuti Paul and Bart Preneel 2004/293 ( PS PS.GZ ) Provably Secure Authentication of Digital Media Through Invertible Watermarks Jana Dittmann and Stefan Katzenbeisser and Christian Schallhart and Helmut Veith 2004/292 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Asynchronous Proactive RSA Ruishan Zhang and Kefei Chen 2004/291 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Rabbit Stream Cipher - Design and Security Analysis Martin Boesgaard and Thomas Pedersen and Mette Vesterager and Erik Zenner 2004/290 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Security of the FDH Variant of Chaum's Undeniable Signature Scheme Wakaha Ogata and Kaoru Kurosawa and Swee-Huay Heng 2004/289 ( PDF ) Fault attack on the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm Kai Wirt 2004/288 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A New Designated Confirmer Signature Variant with Intended Recipient Yong Li and Dingyi Pei 2004/287 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Almost Ideal Contrast Visual Cryptography with Reversing Duong Quang Viet and Kaoru Kurosawa 2004/286 ( PS PS.GZ ) Generalized compact knapsacks, cyclic lattices, and efficient one-way functions from worst-case complexity assumptions Daniele Micciancio 2004/285 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Generation of random Picard curves for cryptography Annegret Weng 2004/284 ( PDF ) ON THE DEGREE OF HOMOGENEOUS BENT FUNCTIONS Qingshu Meng and Huanguo Zhang and Min Yang and Jingsong Cui 2004/283 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Fault and Side-Channel Attacks on Pairing Based Cryptography D. 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Carlet 2004/275 ( PDF ) An e-Voting Scheme with Improved Resistance to Bribe and Coercion Wei-Chi Ku and Chun-Ming Ho 2004/274 ( PDF ) A NOVEL ALGORITHM ENUMERATING BENT FUNCTIONS Meng Qing-shu and Yang min and Zhang huan-guo and Cui jing-song 2004/273 ( PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Threshold-Multisignature schemes Lifeng Guo 2004/272 ( PDF ) A Characterization of Authenticated-Encryption as a Form of Chosen-Ciphertext Security Tom Shrimpton 2004/271 ( PDF ) The Mundja Streaming MAC Philip Hawkes and Michael Paddon and Gregory G. Rose 2004/270 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Enhanced and Secure Protocol for Authenticated Key Exchange Fuw-Yi Yang and Jinn-Ke Jan 2004/269 ( PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Threshold-Multisignature Schemes Lifeng Guo 2004/268 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Untraceability of Wang-Fu Group Signature Scheme Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu 2004/267 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Separable Linkable Threshold Ring Signatures Patrick P. Tsang and Victor K. Wei and Tony K. Chan and Man Ho Au and Joseph K. Liu and Duncan S. Wong 2004/266 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A New Minimal Average Weight Representation for Left-to-Right Point Multiplication Methods M. Khabbazian and T.A. Gulliver 2004/265 ( PDF ) sSCADA: Securing SCADA Infrastructure Communications Yongge Wang and Bei-Tseng Chu 2004/264 ( PDF ) Musings on the Wang et al. MD5 Collision Philip Hawkes and Michael Paddon and Gregory G. Rose 2004/263 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Applications of $\mathcal{M}$ultivariate $\mathcal{Q}$uadratic Public Key Systems Christopher Wolf and Bart Preneel 2004/262 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Universal Forgeability of a Forward-Secure Blind Signature Scheme Proposed by Duc et al. Lihua Liu and Zhengjun Cao 2004/261 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Improved Efficiency for CCA-Secure Cryptosystems Built Using Identity-Based Encryption Dan Boneh and Jonathan Katz 2004/260 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Group Communications over Combined Wired/Wireless Networks Junghyun Nam, Seungjoo Kim, Hyungkyu Yang, and Dongho Won 2004/259 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Boolean Functions with Generalized Cryptographic Properties An Braeken, Ventzislav Nikov, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel 2004/258 ( PS PS.GZ ) Escrow-Free Encryption Supporting Cryptographic Workflow S.S. Al-Riyami and J. Malone-Lee and N.P. Smart 2004/257 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Interleaving Attack on ID-based Conference Key Distribution Schemes Junghyun Nam, Seungjoo Kim, and Dongho Won 2004/256 ( PDF ) On the supports of the Walsh transforms of Boolean functions Claude Carlet and Sihem Mesnager 2004/255 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Point Halving Algorithm for Hyperelliptic Curves Izuru Kitamura and Masanobu Katagi and Tsuyoshi Takagi 2004/254 ( PS PS.GZ ) New paradigms for digital generation and post-processing of random data Jovan Dj. Golic 2004/253 ( PDF ) Design Principles for Iterated Hash Functions Stefan Lucks 2004/252 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Security Proofs for Identity-Based Identification and Signature Schemes Mihir Bellare and Chanathip Namprempre and Gregory Neven 2004/251 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Attacks on Bresson-Chevassut-Essiari-Pointcheval's Group Key Agreement Scheme for Low-Power Mobile Devices Junghyun Nam, Seungjoo Kim, and Dongho Won 2004/250 ( PDF ) Identity Based Threshold Proxy Signature Jing Xu and Zhenfeng Zhang and Dengguo Feng 2004/249 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Attacks On An ISO/IEC 11770-2 Key Establishment Protocol Zhaohui Cheng and Richard Comley 2004/248 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Classification of Boolean Functions of 6 Variables or Less with Respect to Cryptographic Properties An Braeken and Yuri Borissov and Svetla Nikova and Bart Preneel 2004/247 ( PS PS.GZ ) Vectorial fast correlation attacks Jovan Dj. Golic and Guglielmo Morgari 2004/246 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Upper and Lower Bounds on Black-Box Steganography Nenad Dedic and Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin and Scott Russell 2004/245 ( PDF ) On codes, matroids and secure multi-party computation from linear secret sharing schemes Ronald Cramer and Vanesa Daza and Ignacio Gracia and Jorge Jimenez Urroz and Gregor Leander and Jaume Marti-Farre and Carles Padro 2004/244 ( PDF ) Signcryption in Hierarchical Identity Based Cryptosystem Sherman S.M. Chow and Tsz Hon Yuen and Lucas C.K. Hui and S.M. Yiu 2004/243 ( PDF ) On the Key Exposure Problem in Chameleon Hashes Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros 2004/242 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Combinatorial group theory and public key cryptography Vladimir Shpilrain and Gabriel Zapata 2004/241 ( PDF ) A Comparison of Point Counting methods for Hyperelliptic Curves over Prime Fields and Fields of Characteristic 2 Colm O hEigeartaigh 2004/240 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Weil Descent Attack against Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems over Quartic Extension Fields Seigo Arita and Kazuto Matsuo and Koh-ichi Nagao and Mahoro Shimura 2004/239 ( PDF ) Geometric Key Establishment Arkady Berenstein and Leon Chernyak 2004/238 ( PDF ) Security Analysis of A Dynamic ID-based Remote User Authentication Scheme Amit K Awasthi and Sunder Lal 2004/237 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Cryptanalysis of RSE(2)PKC and RSSE(2)PKC Christopher Wolf and An Braeken and Bart Preneel 2004/236 ( PDF ) Forgery Attacks on Chang et al.'s signature scheme with message recovery FU Xiaotong, XU Chunxiang and XIAO Guozhen 2004/235 ( PDF ) Cryptographic Implications of Hess' Generalized GHS Attack Alfred Menezes and Edlyn Teske 2004/234 ( PDF ) On the security of some nonrepudiable threshold proxy signature schemes with known signers Zuo-Wen Tan and Zhuo-Jun Liu 2004/233 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange in the Three-Party Setting Michel Abdalla and Pierre-Alain Fouque and David Pointcheval 2004/232 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Extending the Resynchronization Attack Frederik Armknecht and Joseph Lano and Bart Preneel 2004/231 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) New Approaches to Timed-Release Cryptography Ivan Osipkov and Yongdae Kim and Jung Hee Cheon 2004/230 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Provable Secure Scheme for Partially Blind Signatures Fuw-Yi Yang and Jinn-Ke Jan 2004/229 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Direct Communication Using Quantum Calderbank-Shor-Steane Codes Xin L¨¹ and Zhi Ma and Dengguo Feng 2004/228 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) DISTRIBUTION OF R-PATTERNS IN THE KERDOCK-CODE BINARY SEQUENCES AND THE HIGHEST LEVEL SEQUENCES OF PRIMITIVE SEQUENCES OVER $Z_{2^l}$ Honggang Hu and Dengguo Feng 2004/227 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Sign Change Fault Attacks On Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems Johannes Blömer and Martin Otto and Jean-Pierre Seifert 2004/226 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Lower Bounds for Non-Black-Box Zero Knowledge Boaz Barak and Yehuda Lindell and Salil Vadhan 2004/225 ( PS PS.GZ ) Vectorial Boolean functions and induced algebraic equations Jovan Dj. Golic 2004/224 ( PS PS.GZ ) The Polynomial Composition Problem in $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})[X]$ Marc Joye and David Naccache and St\'ephanie Porte 2004/223 ( PDF ) Inversion-Free Arithmetic on Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curves Xinxin Fan and Yumin Wang 2004/222 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Study of the Security of Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Signature Schemes An Braeken and Christopher Wolf and Bart Preneel 2004/221 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Towards Plaintext-Aware Public-Key Encryption without Random Oracles Mihir Bellare and Adriana Palacio 2004/220 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Oleshchuk's Public Key Cryptosystem Heiko Stamer and Friedrich Otto 2004/219 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Entropic Security and the Encryption of High Entropy Messages Yevgeniy Dodis and Adam Smith 2004/218 ( PDF ) Plaintext-Simulatability Eiichiro Fujisaki 2004/217 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalyzing the Polynomial-Reconstruction based Public-Key System Under Optimal Parameter Choice Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung 2004/216 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Tree Parity Machine Rekeying Architectures Markus Volkmer and Sebastian Wallner 2004/215 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Transitive Signatures: New Schemes and Proofs Mihir Bellare and Gregory Neven 2004/214 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Classification of Highly Nonlinear Boolean Power Functions with a Randomised Algorithm for Checking Normality An Braeken, Christopher Wolf, and Bart Preneel 2004/213 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Chang et al.'s Signature Scheme with Message Recovery Fangguo Zhang 2004/212 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) ID-Based Encryption for Complex Hierarchies with Applications to Forward Security and Broadcast Encryption Danfeng Yao and Nelly Fazio and Yevgeniy Dodis and Anna Lysyanskaya 2004/211 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Scalable, Server-Passive, User-Anonymous Timed Release Public Key Encryption from Bilinear Pairing Ian F. 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Rose 2004/206 ( PDF ) ID-Based Proxy Signature Using Bilinear Pairings Jing Xu and Zhenfeng Zhang and Dengguo Feng 2004/205 ( PDF ) Direct Anonymous Attestation Ernie Brickell and Jan Camenisch and Liqun Chen 2004/204 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Authenticated tree parity machine key exchange Markus Volkmer and Andre Schaumburg 2004/203 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) How to Cheat at Chess: A Security Analysis of the Internet Chess Club John Black and Martin Cochran and Ryan Gardner 2004/202 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Covering Radius of the $(n-3)$-rd Order Reed-Muller Code in the Set of Resilient Functions Yuri Borissov, An Braeken, Svetla Nikova 2004/201 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Non-Interactive and Information-Theoretic Secure Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing Chunming Tang and Dingyi Pei and Zhuojun Liu and Yong He 2004/200 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Cheating Immune Secret Sharing An Braeken, Svetla Nikova, Ventzislav Nikov 2004/199 ( PDF ) Collisions for Hash Functions MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128 and RIPEMD Xiaoyun Wang and Dengguo Feng and Xuejia Lai and Hongbo Yu 2004/198 ( PDF ) Long Modular Multiplication for Cryptographic Applications Laszlo Hars 2004/197 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) SPA-based attack against the modular reduction within a partially secured RSA-CRT implementation Helmut Kahl 2004/196 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Password Based Key Exchange with Mutual Authentication Shaoquan Jiang and Guang Gong 2004/195 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Signed Binary Representations Revisited Katsuyuki Okeya and Katja Schmidt-Samoa and Christian Spahn and Tsuyoshi Takagi 2004/194 ( PDF ) A Note on An Encryption Scheme of Kurosawa and Desmedt Rosario Gennaro and Victor Shoup 2004/193 ( PDF ) The Security and Performance of the Galois/Counter Mode of Operation (Full Version) David A. McGrew and John Viega 2004/192 ( -- withdrawn -- ) Security Pitfalls of an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards Manoj Kumar 2004/191 ( PS PS.GZ ) Scalar Multiplication in Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems: Pipelining with Pre-computations Pradeep Kumar Mishra 2004/190 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Distributed Ring Signatures for Identity-Based Scenarios Javier Herranz and Germ\'an S\'aez 2004/189 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Computing Modular Polynomials Denis Charles and Kristin Lauter 2004/188 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Grey Box Implementation of Block Ciphers Preserving the Confidentiality of their Design Vincent Carlier and Hervé Chabanne and Emmanuelle Dottax 2004/187 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Parallel FPGA Implementation of RSA with Residue Number Systems - Can side-channel threats be avoided? - Extended version Mathieu Ciet and Michael Neve and Eric Peeters and Jean-Jacques Quisquater 2004/186 ( -- withdrawn -- ) A New Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards with Forward Secrecy Manoj Kumar 2004/185 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Existence of low-degree Equations for Algebraic Attacks Frederik Armknecht 2004/184 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) ID-based Ring Signature and Proxy Ring Signature Schemes from Bilinear Pairings Amit K Awasthi and Sunder Lal 2004/183 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A New Forward Secure Signature Scheme Bo Gyeong Kang and Je Hong Park and Sang Geun Hahn 2004/182 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Simpler Session-Key Generation from Short Random Passwords Minh-Huyen Nguyen and Salil Vadhan 2004/181 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement Yehuda Lindell and Anna Lysyanskaya and Tal Rabin 2004/180 ( PDF ) Efficient Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles Brent R. Waters 2004/179 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Identity Based Threshold Ring Signature Sherman S.M. Chow and Lucas C.K. Hui and S.M. Yiu 2004/178 ( PDF ) Optimal Updating of Ideal Threshold Schemes S. G. Barwick and W.-A. Jackson and K. M. Martin and C. M. O'Keefe 2004/177 ( PDF ) Updating the Parameters of a Threshold Scheme by Minimal Broadcast S. G. Barwick and W.-A. Jackson and K. M. Martin 2004/176 ( PDF ) A Biometric Identity Based Signature Scheme Andrew Burnett and Adam Duffy and Tom Dowling 2004/175 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Proof of Yao's Protocol for Secure Two-Party Computation Yehuda Lindell and Benny Pinkas 2004/174 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Short Group Signatures Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen and Hovav Shacham 2004/173 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Identity Based Encryption Without Random Oracles Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen 2004/172 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Selective-ID Secure Identity Based Encryption Without Random Oracles Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen 2004/171 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Short Signatures Without Random Oracles Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen 2004/170 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Consistency Proofs for Generalized Queries on a Committed Database Rafail Ostrovsky and Charles Rackoff and Adam Smith 2004/169 ( PDF ) Regional Blackouts: Protection of Broadcast Content on 3G Networks. Alexander W. Dent and Allan Tomlinson 2004/168 ( PS PS.GZ ) Building Instances of TTM Immune to the Goubin-Courtois Attack and the Ding-Schmidt Attack T.Moh and J.M.Chen and Boyin Yang 2004/167 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Secure and Efficient Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Communications Fuw-Yi Yang and Jinn-Ke Jan 2004/166 ( PDF ) FRMAC, a Fast Randomized Message Authentication Code Eliane Jaulmes and Reynald Lercier 2004/165 ( PS PS.GZ ) A comparison of MNT curves and supersingular curves D. Page and N.P. Smart and F. Vercauteren 2004/164 ( PDF ) ID-based Cryptography from Composite Degree Residuosity Man Ho Au and Victor K. Wei 2004/163 ( -- withdrawn -- ) On the Weaknesses and Improvements of an Efficient Password Based Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards Manoj Kumar 2004/162 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Key-Uncertainty of Quantum Ciphers and the Computational Security of One-way Quantum Transmission Ivan Damgaard and Thomas Pedersen and Louis Salvail 2004/161 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Improvement of ThLeriault Algorithm of Index Calculus for Jacobian of Hyperelliptic Curves of Small Genus Ko-ichi Nagao 2004/160 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Scalable Public-Key Tracing and Revoking Yevgeniy Dodis and Nelly Fazio and Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung 2004/159 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Towards Provable Security for Ad Hoc Routing Protocols Levente Butty\'{a}n and Istv\'{a}n Vajda 2004/158 ( PDF ) Mobile Terminal Security Olivier Benoit and Nora Dabbous and Laurent Gauteron and Pierre Girard and Helena Handschuh and David Naccache and St\'ephane Soci\'e and Claire Whelan 2004/157 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Hardware and Software Normal Basis Arithmetic for Pairing Based Cryptography in Characteristic Three R. Granger and D. Page and M. Stam 2004/156 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Why Quantum Cryptography? Kenneth G. Paterson and Fred Piper and Ruediger Schack 2004/155 ( PDF ) TrustBar: Protecting (even Naïve) Web Users from Spoofing and Phishing Attacks Amir Herzberg and Ahmad Gbara 2004/154 ( PDF ) Controlling Spam by Secure Internet Content Selection Amir Herzberg 2004/153 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A double large prime variation for small genus hyperelliptic index calculus Pierrick Gaudry and Emmanuel Thomé 2004/152 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Another Look at ``Provable Security'' Neal Koblitz and Alfred Menezes 2004/151 ( PDF ) Suitable Curves for Genus-4 HCC over Prime Fields: Point Counting Formulae for Hyperelliptic Curves of type $y^2=x^{2k+1}+ax$ Mitsuhiro Haneda and Mitsuru Kawazoe and Tetsuya Takahashi 2004/150 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Authenticated Certificateless Public Key Encryption Scheme Young-Ran Lee and Hyang-Sook Lee 2004/149 ( PDF ) Secure and Efficient AES Software Implementation for Smart Caards E. Trichina and L. Korkishko 2004/148 ( PDF ) Provably Secure Delegation-by-Certification Proxy Signature Schemes Zuowen Tan and Zhuojun Liu 2004/147 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Key Recovery Method for CRT Implementation of RSA Matthew J. Campagna and Amit Sethi 2004/146 ( PS PS.GZ ) Near-Collisions of SHA-0 Eli Biham, Rafi Chen 2004/145 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Electromagnetic Side Channels of an FPGA Implementation of AES Vincent Carlier, Hervé Chabanne, Emmanuelle Dottax and Hervé Pelletier 2004/144 ( PS PS.GZ ) Plateaued Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions on Odd Number of Variables Alexander Maximov and Martin Hell and Subhamoy Maitra ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology. 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On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for sponsors for its conferences. _________________________________________________________________ University of London, UK Academic Fellowship in Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of Lo ndon, UK Applications are invited from outstanding researchers for a Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship in Information Security to be held at Royal Holloway, University of London. A Fellow will undertake one or more research projects, with some teaching duties, over the first five years of the appointment; thereafter, funding will be taken over by the University with an established lectureship. Candidates should have a PhD and postdoctoral experience. Salary is in the range £21,594 to £31,262 inclusive depending on qualifications and experience. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 10th December 2004. Interviews will be held in January 2005 and the successful candidates will be expected to take up their appointments between April and September 2005. Informal enquiries may be made by email to Professor Peter Wild, p.wild@rhul.ac.uk For details on the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, please visit: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/ For further details of this position and how to apply, please visit: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/ads/AcademicFellows.html For further information on the Research Councils Fellowship scheme please visit: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/acfellow (26-Nov-04) _________________________________________________________________ Indiana University at Bloomington, USA The School of Informatics and the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University at Bloomington are expanding their Cybersecurity research team and invite applications for a tenure-track or tenured position starting Fall 2005. Applicants must possess an outstanding record of research and a sincere commitment to teaching. Additionally, a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in computer science or a related discipline is required. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated strength in network security but applications from extraordinary candidates in all areas of computing research are welcome. Please see http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/positions/cspos.htm for more information. (17-Nov-04) _________________________________________________________________ University of Wyoming, USA http://math.uwyo.edu/employ.html Tenure Track Position in Information Theory Applications are invited for an assistant professor tenure-track position starting August 2005. A higher rank is possible for persons with outstanding research qualifications. The minimum qualifications are an earned Ph.D., significant record of accomplishments in research, including computational aspects, and evidence of a strong commitment to teaching, with demonstrated strength in communication skills. Candidates with research emphasis in Computational Combinatorics, Computational Geometry/Algebraic Geometry, or Computational Number Theory with expertise in Information Theoretic applications including Coding Theory and/or Cryptology are preferred. The position requires the ability and interest to supervise masters and doctoral students, to advise undergraduate students, to teach a variety of our graduate and undergraduate, and outreach courses, to collaborate with colleagues in the math department and faculty in related disciplines, and to develop a competitive, externally funded, research program. Review of complete applications will begin December 15, 2004. A complete application will consist of a letter of application, complete CV, statement of research interests and accomplishments, and statement of teaching philosophy. Please forward applications to: The Information Theory Search Committee, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3036. Please have at least three letters of recommendations, one of which should address the candidate's teaching, sent directly to the search committee. For further information please refer to: http://math.uwyo.edu. UW is an EO/AA employer. For more information about the position or institution/company: http://math.uwyo.edu Deadline for Applications: December 15, 2004 (30-Oct-04) _________________________________________________________________ Bristol University, UK Lecturers in Computer Science (Two posts) (ref. 10769) Department of Computer Science Working in the Department of Computer Science, you will have a proven research record or show excellent research promise. You will be expected to contribute to the research of the department, to teach undergraduate courses and to supervise PhD students and postdoctoral workers. We have a lively research culture with current interests in Digital Media, Cryptography and Security, Architecture and Design, Machine Learning, Mobile and Wearable Computing, and Quantum Computing. We also have many links with the computer, communications, microelectronics, and media industries in the Bristol region, providing opportunities for collaborative research and teaching, secondments and new ventures. We are interested in applicants from any research area; however we are especially interested in those with a background in computer architecture or quantum/classical algorithms. Grade : Lecturer Grade B Salary : £27,989-£35,883 Contact for informal enquiries : Prof D May d.may@bristol.ac.uk Tel. 0117 954 5134 Contract : Permanent Closing date for applications : 9.00 am on 02 November 2004 See http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/ads?ID=28735 (29-Oct-04) _________________________________________________________________ ETH Zurich, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Switzerland http://www.president.ethz.ch/prof/profapinfosich_en.html Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Information Security Duties of this position include teaching and research in Information Security within the Department of Computer Science. Courses at Master level may be taught in English. The new professor will be expected to contribute to a studies program in Information Security and to carry out research projects with industry, in collaboration with the Zurich Information Security Center. Applicants should have a strong record of high-quality research in Information Security. Applicants working in all areas of Information Security will be considered, but candidates working on research questions in designing, constructing, and evaluating secure systems are especially encouraged to apply. This assistant professorship has been established to promote the careers of younger scientists. The initial appointment is for four years with the possibility of one renewal for an additional two-year period and merit-based promotion to a permanent professorship. Applications with a curriculum vitae and a list of publications should be submitted to the President of ETH Zurich, Prof. Dr. O. Kuebler, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, no later than November 30, 2004. ETH Zurich specifically encourages female candidates to apply with a view towards increasing the proportion of female professors. For further information about the Department of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich, see www.inf.ethz.ch. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact the department chair, Prof. Dr. B. Meyer, at bertrand.meyer@inf.ethz.ch for additional details. (14-Oct-04) _________________________________________________________________ Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland http://professeurs.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/professeurs/op/edit/pid/51493 The School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL invites applications for faculty positions in computer science. We are primarily seeking candidates for tenure-track assistant professor positions, but suitably qualified candidates for senior positions will also be considered. Successful candidates will develop an independent and creative research program, participate in both undergraduate and graduate teaching, and supervise PhD students. The language of instruction in the graduate school is English. Candidates from all areas of computer science will be considered, but preference will be given to candidates with interests in algorithms, hardware and software systems, security, and foundations and applications of verification. Salaries ares internationally competitive. Positions come with substantial institutional resources, at all ranks. Screening will start on January 15, 2005. Further questions can be addressed to: Professor Willy Zwaenepoel Dean School of Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland recruiting.ic@epfl.ch (7-Oct-04) _________________________________________________________________ University of Waterloo http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/security.shtml Faculty Positions in Information Security and Assurance University of Waterloo Applications are invited for tenure-track/tenured faculty positions at the ranks of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the general area of information security and assurance with special interests in the security of software, systems, networks or closely related areas. Applicants for junior positions early in their careers should have demonstrated potential for quality research and teaching. For senior positions, exceptional applicants with leadership, vision, and strong records of research accomplishments are sought. The University of Waterloo is recognized internationally as a premier research-intensive institution with research strengths across a broad spectrum of areas in computer science, computer engineering, and mathematics. There are outstanding research groups in software engineering (Software Engineering Research Group), wireless communications (Centre for Wireless Communications), cryptography (Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research), and quantum computing (Institute for Quantum Computing). Given the multi-disciplinary nature of information security, this wide range of expertise provides a rich research environment. More information is here: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/security.shtml (7-Oct-04) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 [1]fill out this form. (The current condition for being listed is that the description of an event must contain the substring "crypt" anywhere.) Events are sorted by date. [2]Sort by submission deadline. 2004 * [3]The 7th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2004), December 2-3, Seoul, Korea. * [4]Asiacrypt 2004, December 5-9, Jeju Island, Korea. * [5]National conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DMA 2004), December 9-11, Amrita, India. * [6]5th International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2004), December 20-22, Chennai (Madras), India. 2005 * [7]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2005), January 23-26, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. * [8]Australasian Information Security Workshop (AISW 2005), January 31-February 3, Newcastle, Australia. * [9]Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 05), February 10-12, Cambridge MA, United States. * [10]RSA Conference 2005 Cryptographers Track (CT-RSA 05), February 14-18, San Francisco, USA. * [11]Fast Software Encryption (FSE 2005), February 21-23, Paris, France. * [12]Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems (SHARCS), February 24-25, Paris, France. (Submissions due: 3 January 2005.) * [13]10th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS'05), February 27-March 4, Palmse, Estonia. * [14]Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC05), February 28-March 3, Roseau, The Commonwealth Of Dominica. * [15]2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communications Security (PerSec \'05), March 8-8, Kauai island, Hawaii, USA. * [16]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2005), March 14-18, Bergen, Norway. (Submissions due: 15 December 2004.) * [17]Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005 (BCS2005), March 21-24, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Submissions due: 15 January 2005.) * [18]Indonesia Cryptology and Information Security Conference 2005 (INA-CSIC2005), March 30-31, Jakarta, Indonesia. * [19]2. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit in der Gesellschaft für Informatik (Sicherheit 2005), April 5-8, Regensburg, Germany. * [20]2nd International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (SPC 05), April 6-8, Boppard, Germany. * [21]1st Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2005), April 11-14, Singapore, Singapore. * [22]ITCC'2005 E-Gaming Track: Heuristics and Cryptographic Protocols (ITCC'2005 E-Gaming), April 11-13, Las Vegas, NV, United States. * [23]4th Annual PKI R&D Workshop (PKI05), April 19-21, Gaithersburg MD, USA. * [24]2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP05), May 8-11, Oakland, USA. * [25]Information Security & Hiding (ISH '05) Workshop (in conjunction with ICCSA '05) (ISH '05), May 9-12, Suntec City, Singapore. (Submissions due: 10 December 2005.) * [26]37th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2005), May 22-24, Baltimore, MD, USA. * [27]Eurocrypt 2005, May 22-26, Aarhus, Denmark. * [28]Third International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS 2005), May 24-25, Miami, USA. * [29]The 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC2005), May 30-1, Chiba, Japan. * [30]7th Information Hiding Workshop (IHW\'05), June 6-8, Barcelona, Spain. * [31]3rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS'05), June 7-10, Now York, USA. * [32]First International Workshop on First International Workshop on Trust, Securi (TSPUC2005), June 13-13, Taormina, Italy. (Submissions due: 7 January 2005.) * [33]10th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP2005), July 4-6, Brisbane, Australia. (Submissions due: 11 February 2005.) * [34]Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '05), July 6-8, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Submissions due: 25 February 2005.) * [35]32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '05), July 11-15, Lisboa, Portugal. (Submissions due: 13 February 2005.) * [36]24th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2005), July 17-20, Las Vegas (Nevada), USA. * [37]12th Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2005), August 11-12, Kingston ONTARIO, CANADA. (Submissions due: 13 May 2005.) * [38]Crypto 2005, August 14-18, Santa Barbara California, United States. (Submissions due: 14 February 2005.) * [39]7th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2005), August 30-September 1, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Submissions due: 1 March 2005.) * [40]9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2005), September 19-21, Salzburg, Austria. * [41]8th Information Security Conference (ISC'05), September 20-23, Singapore, Singapore. (Submissions due: 11 April 2005.) * [42]4th International Workshop for Applied PKI (IWAP'05), September 21-23, Singapore, Singapore. (Submissions due: 16 June 2005.) * [43]ECRYPT Summerschool on Multimedia Security, September 22-24, Salzburg, Austria. * [44]Asiacrypt 2005, December 1-4, Chennai, India. 2006 * [45]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2006), April 24-26, New York City, USA. * [46]2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2006), May 21-26, Berkeley, USA. * [47]Crypto 2006, August 20-24, (tentative date), Santa Barbara (CA), USA. 2007 * [48]2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2007), May 20-23, Berkeley, USA. Past events are [49]archived here. _________________________________________________________________ Journal Calls for Papers Other Calendars * [50]Cipher's calendar (security & privacy) * [51]ACM SIGACT Theory Calendar (theory of computation) * [52]Calendar from UCL Crypto Group (crypto, security) * [53]a systems and networking calendar from UCSD * [54]ACM Calendar of Events References 1. http://www.iacr.org/events/submit.html 2. http://www.iacr.org/events/eventsbysubmission.php4 3. http://www.icisc.org/ 4. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2004/ 5. http://www.amrita.edu/dma2004 6. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/indocrypt2004/ 7. http://www.iacr.org/workshops/pkc2005/ 8. http://www.sitacs.uow.edu.au/aisw2005/ 9. http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/tcc05/ 10. http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2015 11. http://crypto.rd.francetelecom.com/fse2005/ 12. http://www.sharcs.org/ 13. http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2005/ 14. http://www.ifca.ai/fc05/ 15. http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/persec2005/ 16. http://www.selmer.uib.no/WCC.html 17. http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005 18. http://www.ncisc.or.id/ 19. http://www.sicherheit2005.de/ 20. http://www.spc-conf.org/ 21. http://ispec2005.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ 22. http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/itcc2005 23. http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki05/ 24. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2005/oakland05-cfp.html 25. http://www.swinburne.edu.my/rphan/ISH05.htm 26. http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~stoc05/ 27. http://www.brics.dk/eurocrypt05/ 28. http://www.iceis.org/workshops/wosis/wosis2005-cfp.html 29. http://www.sec2005.org/ 30. http://kison.uoc.edu/IH05 31. http://acns2005.cs.columbia.edu/ 32. http://www.iit.cnr.it/TSPUC2005/ 33. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/events/acisp2005/ 34. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/index.html 35. http://icalp05.di.fct.unl.pt/ 36. http://www.podc.org/podc2005/ 37. mailto:tavares at ee queensu ca 38. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2005/ 39. http://www.chesworkshop.org/ 40. http://cms2005.sbg.ac.at/ 41. http://isc05.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ 42. http://iwap05.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ 43. http://cms2005.sbg.ac.at/ 44. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2005/ 45. mailto:tal at cs columbia edu 46. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html 47. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2006/ 48. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html 49. http://www.iacr.org/events/archive.html 50. http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/cipher/cipher-hypercalendar.html 51. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/theoryc/ 52. http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/call_for_papers.html 53. http://batalion.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/conf.cgi 54. http://www.acm.org/events/ 55. http://www.iacr.org/events/ 56. http://www.iacr.org/ 57. http://www.iacr.org/copyright.html ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Officers and Directors of the IACR (2004) Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. 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