International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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