International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice (IV)

December 6, 2013

Venue: JW Marriott Hotel, Bangalore, India (preliminary)

Participation:

Please contact Claire Vishik(claire.vishik@intel.com) if interested in participation

Workshop Description

Building on the workshop in Dagstuhl in June-July 2011 (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice), Beijing  (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice  II), and Athens (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice  III) that set the stage for discussions on cryptography among a group of key researchers from Europe, Asia, and North America, the  one day workshop in Bangalore, following AsiaCrypt 2013  will again bring together internationally recognized scientists to discuss direction and development in  theoretical and applied cryptography and surrounding societal issues. 

There will be four focus areas:

  • Real-life cryptography
  • Standardization
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Innovative use cases for cryptography

Each focus area will be anchored in an invited talk and/or panel, but the emphasis will be on discussion. The participants will address broad research directions in encryption and secure computation and their applications in cloud computing, smart grid, mobile and embedded computing, hardware, software, and network security. They will also examine non-technical issues surrounding deployment and adoption of new security technologies using encryption, such as privacy or economic consideration. Approaches and projects in different countries will be discussed, in order to increase awareness of the R&D activities internationally and continue to for a strong community of research and practice and in order to generate new ideas in this field.

Although the workshop will cover a broad spectrum of issues from the list presented below with a specific focus that will be announced shortly. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following subjects:

  • Secret versus public ciphers
  • Cipher and algorithm development process
  • Algorithms maturity and review
  • Lightweight cryptography
  • New requirements for cryptography for novel applications
  • Cipher implementation and interoperability
  • Standardization
  • Regulatory initiatives
  • Privacy enhancing cryptography

 

Preliminary Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:15am

 

Registration

8:30am

 

Opening statement (Organizers)

8:40am

 

Opening keynote (TBD)

9:10am

 

Panel 1 and discussion: Advances in cryptography; new use cases, Participants:  Dan Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tanja Lange (Eindhoven), Veni Madhavan (ERNET), others TBD

10:30am

 

Coffee break

11am

 

Panel II and  discussion: Regulatory environment and standardization: Sunil Abraham (India CIS), Kazue Sako (NEC), Claire Vishik (Intel), others TBD

12:30pm

 

Lunch

 

1:30pm

 

Panel 3 and discussion: Implementation and interoperability for new environments (e.g., smart grid, Internet of things): Reji Kumar (Smart Grid India), other TBD

 

3pm

 

Coffee break

 

3:30pm

 

Panel IV and discussion: Privacy, social networking, ubiquitous connectivity and cryptography: Rene Peralta (NIST), Kumar Ranganathan, others TBD

 

5pm

 

Thoughts and next workshop

 

5:20pm

 

Closing statements (Organizers)

 

5:30pm

 

Adjourn