International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 06 August 2024

Award Award
We are proud to announce the winners of the 2024 IACR Test-of-Time Award for Crypto.

The IACR Test-of-Time Award honors papers published at the 3 IACR flagship conferences 15 years ago which have had a lasting impact on the field.

The Test-of-Time award for Crypto 2009 is awarded to the following two papers:

Dual-System Encryption, by Brent Waters.
For introducing the dual-system technique, breaking through the partitioning-reductions barrier of pairing-based cryptography and enabling new and improved pairing-based cryptosystems.


Reconstructing RSA Private Keys from Random Key Bits, by Nadia Heninger and Hovav Shacham.
For introducing the go-to tool for side channel attacks on CRT-RSA that played a pivotal role in helping secure the Internet.

For more information, see https://www.iacr.org/testoftime.

Congratulations to all winners!
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