Crypto '96 Preliminary Program

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International Association for Cryptologic Research

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All sessions are in Lotte Lehmann Auditorium, except as noted. All breakfasts and lunches are in De La Guerra Dining Commons. Entry to the dining hall for breakfast is 7:00 - 8:00; lunch 12:00 - 1:00.

Sunday, August 18, 1996

8:00-5:00 Excursion to Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Transportation to Sea Landing leaves outside Anacapa Hall at 7:30.
4:00-8:00 Registration, Anacapa Hall
6:30-10:00 Reception, Anacapa Lawn

Monday, August 19, 1996

8:00 Registration outside Lotte Lehmann Auditorium
8:30-8:45 Welcome

Session 1: Hashing and Authentication I (Bart Preneel, Chair)

8:45-9:05 Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication
Mihir Bellare, Univ. California at San Diego, USA
Ran Canetti, MIT, USA
Hugo Krawczyk, IBM, USA
9:10-9:30 Universal Hashing and Multiple Authentication
M. Atici, Univ. Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Douglas Stinson, Univ. Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
9:35-9:55 Universal Hash Functions from Exponential Sums over Finite Fields and Galois Rings
Tor Helleseth, University of Bergen, Norway
Thomas Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
10:00-10:25 Break

Session 2: New Systems (Tsutomu Matsumoto, Chair)

10:30-10:50 Asymmetric Cryptography with a Hidden Monomial
Jacques Patarin, CP8 TRANSAC, France
10:55-11:15 Anonymous Communication and Anonymous Cash
Daniel Simon, Microsoft, USA

Session 3: Invited Lecture (Neal Koblitz, Chair)

11:20-12:12 Export Controls: Past, Present, and Future
Andy Clark, Independent consultant
12:15-1:00 Lunch

Session 4: Cryptanalysis I: Asymmetric Systems (Matt Blaze, Chair)

1:40-2:00 Weaknesses in Some Threshold Cryptosystems
Susan Langford, Atalla Corp., USA
2:05-2:15 Hidden Collisions on DSS
Serge Vaudenay, Ecole Normal Supérieure, France
2:20-2:40 The Dark Side of 'Black-Box' Cryptography, or: Why Should We Trust Capstone?
Adam Young, Columbia Univ., USA
Moti Yung, IBM, USA
2:45-3:05 Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems
Paul Kocher, Stanford, USA
3:10-3:35 Break

Session 5: Hard Bits (Andy Klapper, Chair)

3:40-4:00 All Bits in ax+b mod p Are Hard
Mats Näslund, Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden
4:05-4:25 Hardness of Computing the Most Significant Bits of Secret Keys in Diffie-Hellman and Related Schemes
Dan Boneh, Princeton Univ., USA
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Bellcore, USA

Session 6: Invited Lecture (Neal Koblitz, Chair)

4:30-5:20 [title to be announced]
Cliff Stoll
7:00-10:00 Reception (De La Guerra Lawn)

Tuesday, August 20, 1996

Session 7: Signatures (Peter Landrock, Chair)

8:30-8:50 Security of 2t-Root Identification and Signatures
Claus P. Schnorr, Univ. Frankfurt, Germany
8:55-9:15 Robust and Efficient Sharing of RSA Functions
Rosario Gennaro, MIT, USA
Stanislaw Jarecki, MIT, USA
Hugo Krawczyk, IBM, USA
Tal Rabin, MIT, USA
9:20-9:40 New Generation of Secure and Practical RSA-Based Signatures
Ronald Cramer, CWI, The Netherlands
Ivan Dåmgard, Aarhus Univ., Denmark
9:45-10:10 Break

Session 8: Zero Knowledge (Mihir Bellare, Chair)

10:15-10:35 Proving Without Knowing: On Oblivious, Agnostic and Blindfolded Provers
Markus Jakobsson, Univ. California at San Diego, USA
Moti Yung, IBM, USA
10:40-11:00 Practical and Provably-Secure Commitment Schemes from Collision-Free Hashing
Shai Halevi, MIT, USA
Silvio Micali, MIT, USA

Session 9: Invited Lecture (Josh Benaloh, Chair)

11:05-11:55 Relation of Theory to Practice in Cryptography [exact title to be announced]
Ron Rivest, MIT, USA
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Free afternoon, or
2:00-4:00 Family Crypto
led by Michael Fellows
Location to be announced

Rump Session (Stuart Haber, Chair)

7:00-11:00 Informal presentations to be announced
Corwin Pavillion in the University Center

Wednesday, August 21, 1996

Session 10: Cryptanalysis II: Symmetric Systems (Rainer Rueppel, Chair)

9:00-9:20 Improved Differential Attacks on RC5
Lars Knudsen, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium
Willi Meier, HTL, Switzerland
9:25-9:45 Improving Implementable Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks by Orders of Magnitude
Paul van Oorschot, Bell-Northern Research, Canada
Michael Wiener, Bell-Northern Research, Canada
9:50-10:15 Break

Session 11: More on Symmetric Systems (Lars Knudsen, Chair)

10:20-10:40 Key-Schedule Cryptanalysis of IDEA, G-DES, GOST, SAFER, and Triple-DES
John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, USA
Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems, USA
David Wagner, Univ. California at Berkeley, USA
10:45-11:05 How to Protect DES Against Exhaustive Key Search
Joe Kilian, NEC Research Institute, USA
Phillip Rogaway, Univ. California at Davis, USA

Session 12: Invited Lecture (Joan Feigenbaum, Chair)

11:10-12:00 Cryptographic applications in electronic commerce
Ernest Brickell
12:00-1:00 Lunch

Session 13: Diffie-Hellman Oracle (Johannes Buchmann, Chair)

1:30-1:50 Diffie-Hellman Oracles
Ueli Maurer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Stefan Wolf, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
1:55-2:15 Algorithms for Black-Box Fields and Their Application to Cryptography
Dan Boneh, Princeton Univ., USA
Richard Lipton, Princeton Univ., USA

Session 14: Hashing and Authentication II (Paul van Oorschot, Chair)

2:20-2:40 Fast Hashing on the Pentium
Antoon Bosselaers, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium
René Govaerts, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium
Joos Vandewalle, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium
2:45-3:05 On Fast and Provably Secure Message Authentication Based on Universal Hashing
Victor Shoup, Bellcore, USA
3:10-3:35 Break

Session 15: Invited Lecture (Joan Feigenbaum, Chair)

3:40-4:30 Cryptology, Technology, and Politics
Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems
4:30-5:15 IACR Business Meeting
6:00-9:00 Beach barbecue, Goleta Beach

THURSDAY August 22, 1996

Session 16: Quantum Crypto (Gilles Brassard, Chair)

9:00-9:25 Quantum Cryptography over Underground Optical Fibers
R. J. Hughes, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
G. G. Luther, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
G. L. Morgan, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
C. G. Peterson, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
C. Simmons, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
9:30-9:55 Quantum Key Distribution and String Oblivious Transfer in Noisy Channels
Dominic Mayers, Univ. de Montréeal, Canada

Session 17: Stream Ciphers (Jacques Stern, Chair)

10:00-10:20 Linear Complexity of Periodic Sequences: A General Theory
James Massey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Shirlei Serconek, Univ. Federal de Goias, Brazil
10:25-10:45 Generalization of Siegenthaler Inequality and Schnorr-Vaudenay Multipermutations
Paul Camion, INRIA, France
Anne Canteaut, INRIA, France
10:50-11:15 Break

Session 18: Secret Sharing (Josh Benaloh, Chair)

11:20-11:40 Trade-offs Between Communication and Storage in Unconditionally Secure Schemes for Broadcast Encryption and Interactive Key Distribution
Carlo Blundo, Univ. di Salerno, Italy
Luiz Frota Mattos, CEPESC/SAE, Brazil
Douglas Stinson, Univ. Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
11:45-12:05 New Results on Visual Cryptography
Stefan Droste, Univ. Dortmund, Germany
12:10-1:00 Lunch
Adjourn

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