International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Some videos of IACR lectures have been posted on youtube in the IACR channel at http://www.youtube.com/TheIACR Videos of talks are also being incorporated into cryptodb - see the example of Roger Dingledine's talk at Crypto 2011.

Videos are now available for Crypto 2011 and PKC 2010, Videos are also available from the Crypto 2011 rump session.

The current version of the newsletter is available. It has been sent out 25 November 2011 to all members.

Eli Biham will hold the IACR Distinguished Lecture 2013 at Eurocrypt in Athens, Greece. Title and abstract will be posted on the IACR web site close in time to the talk.

Dan Boneh will hold the IACR Distinguished Lecture 2012 at Asiacrypt in Beijing, China. Title and abstract will be posted on the IACR web site close in time to the talk.

The distinguished lectures of Gus Simmons (1994) and Ron Rivest (2011) are now online on the IACR web page. You also find slides, abstracts or notes of other, previously held lectures there.

We have been witnessing the dramatic consequences of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan of March 11; we are devastated about the loss of lives and homes. We sincerely hope that the Japanese members of the IACR, their relatives, friends, and colleagues will manage to cope with this disaster, and we wish them a lot of courage and strength. Our thoughts are with all of you.

The IACR board and the CHES steering committee are in close contact with the organizers of CHES 2011, which has been rescheduled for September 28-October 1 in Nara. We are all strongly committed to make CHES 2011 a success.

The membership meeting at Crypto 2011 has dealt with the following questions:

• About IACR & Your Board
• Membership & Elections
• Conferences & Workshops
• IACR Fellows
• Publications
• Current Board Activities

The full set of slides (PDF, 60 MB) is available via http://www.iacr.org/news/files/2011-08-IACR_Membership_Meeting_CryptoColour.pdf

The latest entries at the IACR Archive are

• Theory of Cryptography 2008
• Fast Software Encryption 2008
• Public Key Cryptography 2008
• Eurocrypt 2008
• Crypto 2008
• Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2008
• Asiacrypt 2008
• Theory of Cryptography 2009
• Fast Software Encryption 2009
• EUROCRYPT 2009
• Public Key Cryptography 2009

You can access all the articles of all these workshops and conferences in full text and without charge at the IACR Archive.

The One-Time Pad is the first perfectly secure cipher. Its invention is usually credited to Gilbert S. Vernam and Joseph O. Mauborgne. Prof. Steven M. Bellovin from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University shows that it was known approx. 35 years earlier to a Sacramento banker named Frank Miller. He also published his scheme in the book Telegraphic Code to Insure Privacy and Secrecy in the Transmission of Telegrams. Steven Bellovin rediscovered this book in the Library of Congress. He has published his findings in Steven M. Bellovin: 'Frank Miller: Inventor of the One-Time Pad', Cryptologia, Volume 35, Issue 3, pages 203-222, July 2011.

• Research Manuscript: https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1460
• Cryptologia article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2011.583711
• Article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/science/26code.html