______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2001. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * President's Message * IACR 2001 Elections * 2001 IACR Distinguished Lecture by Andrew Odlyzko * Treasurer's Report for Calendar Year 2000 * New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * Crypto 2001: List of Accepted Papers * Claude Shannon Dies at 84 * Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Crypto 2000 * Minutes of the Business Meeting at Crypto 2000 * Announcements + FSE 2002 + Honors * New Books * Open Positions * Calender of Events in Cryptology * IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 9th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! On a recent visit to a mega-bookstore in the u.s., I found three books on a prominent display table that had the word crypto on the cover. They were Levy's crypto, Singh's code book and Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, sitting there next to stacks of popular literature and lifestyle books. Does this mark the entrance of cryptology to the mainstream of topics that everyone knows and talks about? Will I no longer hear "cryp... what?" in conversations about my work next year? After all, author Steven Levy has previously written up the histories of pop culture pets like the Macintosh and hackers. Indeed, I think cryptology has established itself today not only in the high-tech world -- the Internet has also brought it to many businesses and homes around the world. Not all of its users are aware of cryptology (nor need they be), but they will have more questions and demand more knowledge about it in the future. Fortunately, cryptology has also grown into a mature science that can offer some answers to their questions. You'll find my impressions of reading crypto in the new books section. Noteworthy items in this issue: * Upcoming IACR elections * IACR Distinguished Lecture by Andrew Odlyzko held at Eurocrypt 2001 in Innsbruck If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by email and would like to receive it in the future, then check out your email address in the IACR member list that is mailed yearly (last in early 2000). Please send your input to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in October 2001. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as soon as possible. Christian Cachin IACR Newsletter Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ President's Message ______________________________________________________________________________ There have been substantial changes that have swept through our field during my tenure as President of IACR for the last six years. The most startling is probably the growth of the Internet as a universal medium of communication. As a result of this growth, cryptology is no longer just an arcane subdiscipline of mathematics and computer science, but is instead widely reconized as an important field of scientific study, for both economic and social reasons. It has been a time of great prosperity for our field. During this time, IACR has also undergone many changes. One important change has been the professionalism and steady improvement of our member services. This is largely as a result of the efforts of our Vice President and former membership secretary, Andy Clark. Because the Crypto conference has always been held at the University of California in Santa Barbara, IACR has always had a strong relationship with UCSB. In recent years we have started using their conference services to provide registration, mailing, and database services for our members. Andy Clark deserves most of the credit for having designed these processes used for serving the members, and continues to provide leadership in this and many other of our activities. His service deserves a special thanks from each of you. The operations of the IACR are overseen by a strong board of directors, most of whom are directly elected by the members in an election held each year (the rest of the positions are appointed by vote of the board). I encourage each of you to consider running for a position on the board, as it is a wonderful experience. This year's election will have seven positions open on the board, including three directors and four officer positions. Those of you interested in serving on the board should consult one of the members of the nomination committee (see the announcement later in this issue). As editor of the IACR newsletter, Christian Cachin has brought the newsletter through a transition from a traditional paper document sent through the postal mail to an electronic newsletter that is sent by email and available on the web. In addition, Christian has also assumed editorship for the IACR web site after I started it in 1995. Christian has performed an absolutely wonderful job in these roles, and he deserves our sincere thanks for continuing to provide an excellent service to the community. When you see him, be sure to thank him for his tireless efforts. The field of scientific publishing is one of many human activities that are undergoing tremendous change in the fact of the world wide web. As a natural outgrowth of the IACR web site, we now have an e-print archive available on the web as a means to provide rapid access to current research material. This is maintained by Mihir Bellare, Bennet Yee, and Christian Cachin, and is linked through the IACR web site at eprint.iacr.org. Springer-Verlag also now provides electronic access to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, in which our conference proceedings are published. As the field of scientific publishing continues to evolve, we should probably expect electronic distribution to supplant other forms as time goes forward. IACR has always had a very strong international participation, and one of the things that I am most proud of is the change to have IACR sponsor the annual Asiacrypt conference. By adding Asiacrypt, IACR now sponsors three major conferences each year in the three regions of the world where most of our members live and work. Science thrives on communication, and broad international participation is important to the health of our field. I encourage you to consider submitting your best papers to the Asiacrypt conference. The FSE workshop has been running for several years as an independent workshop under the competent management of a group of researchers in the field. At the IACR board of directors meeting in Innsbruck this year, we voted to accept a proposal from this steering committee for IACR to assume sponsorship of FSE. In this relationship, the steering committee will continue to run the workshop, under the watchful eye of the IACR board. The purpose of the new relationship is to provide financial backing, availability of membership services, and stewardship of copyright for the proceedings of the workshop. IACR members will also benefit from continuing to have a strong workshop of interest to many of our members. IACR functions as a society because of the volunteer efforts of many people. In addition to the people who have been mentioned previously, Joan Feigenbaum has performed a wonderful job as editor in chief of the Journal of Cryptology, and in so doing has provided the society with the premier journal of the field. In addition, the general chairs of the conferences perform a vital task in making sure that our annual gatherings are well organized and foster a pleasant environment in which to pursue our research. The program chairs for the conferences also serve admirably by putting together and leading a committee to select the best research to be presented at the conferences. Each and every member of the board of directors has served in important capacities for the society, and I am proud to be a member of a society that has such strong member participation. Kevin McCurley ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR 2001 Elections ______________________________________________________________________________ The election committee consists of: Dave Balenson Kevin McCurley (chair) Yvo Desmedt Positions to be filled at this election: POSITION TERM CURRENTLY President Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Kevin S. McCurley Vicepresident Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Andrew J. Clark Secretary Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Josh Benaloh Treasurer Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Susan Langford Director Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Eli Biham Director Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Whitfield Diffie Director Jan 1 2002 - Dec 31 2004 Peter Landrock Nominators and Nominees must be regular members of IACR. A member may be nominated for a position as an Officer of IACR and also as a Director. In the event that the candidate is elected as an Officer, their name will be removed from consideration (in the counting of ballots) as a Director. Candidates must submit a statement of up to 50 words in length which will be included on the election ballot form if submitted in time. DATES: Nominations must be faxed or mailed to be received no later than SEPTEMBER 16, 2001. Candidates' Statements must be faxed or mailed to be received no later than SEPTEMBER 20, 2001 (Note: e-mails or hand delivered "forms" will NOT be accepted). All correspondence concerning the 2001 election must be directed to: Kevin S. McCurley 6721 Tannahill Drive San Jose, CA 95120 USA Tel: +1 408 927 1838 Nominations and statements will be acknowledged by fax or e-mail within two (2) working days of receipt (before the deadlines). It is the responsibility of the candidates to ensure the nominations and statements are received! Ballots will be mailed by October 1, 2001. Ballots must be mailed to be received by the Returning Officer in the official envelopes by NOVEMBER 15, 2001. Nomination form available at http://www.iacr.org/elections/2001/nom_form.html. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2001 IACR Distinguished Lecture ______________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Odlyzko Economics and Cryptography presented May 8, 2001 at EUROCRYPT 2001, in Innsbruck, Austria. Slides from the lecture are available in gnuzipped Postscript and PDF format from http://www.iacr.org/publications/dl/odlyzko01/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer's Report for Calendar Year 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ The IACR remains fiscally sound, with adequate reserves. Eurocrypt 2000 had a total income of $221,000. Of that amount, a total of $60,000 was returned to the IACR ($33,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat and a surplus of $17,000). The remainder of the funds covered the expenses of the conference. Crypto 2000 had a total income of $236,000 (not including income for on-campus lodging). Of that amount, a total of $83,000 was returned to the IACR ($27,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, and a surplus of $46,000). The remainder of the funds covered the expenses of the conference. Asiacrypt 2000 had a total income of $112,000. Of that amount, a total of $26,000 was returned to the IACR ($12,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, and a surplus of $4000). The remainder of the funds covered the expenses of the conference. As of December 31, 2000, the IACR had $203,000 held in certificates of deposit, approximately $149,000 held in the main IACR and Crypto checking accounts, and $175,000 held by UCSB. Of these amounts about $66,000 is the cost of the 2000 Journal (the bill arrived in January) and $110,000 is already designated for specific expenditures in 2001, leaving about $350,000 as the true surplus. Susan Langford IACR Treasurer ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ 2001/044 Optimistic Asynchronous Multi-Party Contract Signing with Reduced Number of Rounds Birgit Baum-Waidner 2001/043 Cryptanalysis of the Vesta-2M Stream Cipher Marina Pudovkina 2001/042 Simple Forward-Secure Signatures From Any Signature Scheme Hugo Krawczyk 2001/041 Solving Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problems Using Weil Descent Michael Jacobson and Alfred Menezes and Andreas Stein 2001/040 Analysis of Key-Exchange Protocols and Their Use for Building Secure Channels Ran Canetti and Hugo Krawczyk 2001/039 Robust Software Tokens: Towards Securing a Digital Identity Taekyoung Kwon 2001/038 Flaws in differential cryptanalysis of Skipjack Louis Granboulan 2001/037 EMpowering Side-Channel Attacks Josyula R. Rao and Pankaj Rohatgi 2001/036 Anti-persistence: History Independent Data Structures Moni Naor and Vanessa Teague 2001/035 Forward security in private key cryptography Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee 2001/034 Composition and Efficiency Tradeoffs for Forward-Secure Digital Signatures Tal Malkin and Daniele Micciancio and Sara Miner 2001/033 Dual of New Method for Upper Bounding the Maximum Average Linear Hull Probability for SPNs Liam Keliher and Henk Meijer and Stafford Tavares 2001/032 Efficient and Non-Interactive Non-Malleable Commitment Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Jonathan Katz and Rafail Ostrovsky and Adam Smith 2001/031 Efficient Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Human-Memorable Passwords Jonathan Katz and Rafail Ostrovsky and Moti Yung 2001/030 On the Power of Nonlinear Secret-Sharing Amos Beimel and Yuval Ishai 2001/029 On multivariate signature-only public key cryptosystems Nicolas T. Courtois 2001/028 Efficient Encryption for Rich Message Spaces Under General Assumptions Alexander Russell and Hong Wang 2001/027 PMAC Phillip Rogaway and John Black 2001/026 OCB Mode Phillip Rogaway and Mihir Bellare and John Black and Ted Krovetz 2001/025 Cryptanalysis of some elliptic curve based cryptosystems of Paillier Steven D. Galbraith 2001/024 Secure Multiparty Computation of Approximations Joan Feigenbaum and Yuval Ishai and Tal Malkin and Kobbi Nissim and Martin Strauss and Rebecca N. Wright 2001/023 Robustness for Free in Unconditional Multi-Party Computation Martin Hirt and Ueli Maurer 2001/022 Optimistic Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast Klaus Kursawe and Victor Shoup 2001/021 The Rectangle Attack - Rectangling the Serpent Biham Eli, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller 2001/020 Some observations on the theory of cryptographic hash functions D.R. Stinson 2001/019 An Efficient System for Non-transferable Anonymous Credentials with Optional Anonymity Revocation Jan Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya 2001/018 Analysis of a Subset Sum Randomizer Peter Gemmell and Anna Johnston 2001/017 On adaptive vs. non-adaptive security of multiparty protocols Ran Canetti and Ivan Damgard and Stefan Dziembowski and Yuval Ishai and Tal Malkin 2001/016 Efficient Traitor Tracing Algorithms using List Decoding Alice Silverberg and Jessica Staddon and Judy Walker 2001/015 An observation regarding Jutla's modes of operation Shai Halevi 2001/014 Timed-Release Cryptography Wenbo Mao 2001/013 Digitally Watermarking RSA Moduli Anna M. Johnston 2001/012 Ciphers with Arbitrary Finite Domains John Black and Phillip Rogaway 2001/011 New Zero-knowledge Undeniable Signatures - Forgery of Signature Equivalent to Factorisation Wenbo Mao 2001/010 How to achieve a McEliece-based Digital Signature Scheme Nicolas Courtois, Matthieu Finiasz and Nicolas Sendrier 2001/009 Robust key-evolving public key encryption schemes Wen-Guey Tzeng, Zhi-Jia Tzeng 2001/008 Fully Distributed Threshold RSA under Standard Assumptions Pierre-Alain Fouque and Jacques Stern 2001/007 Are 'Strong' Primes Needed for RSA Ron RIvest & Robert Silverman 2001/006 Secure and Efficient Asynchronous Broadcast Protocols Christian Cachin and Klaus Kursawe and Frank Petzold and Victor Shoup ______________________________________________________________________________ Papers accepted to Crypto 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ A Chosen Ciphertext Attack On RSA Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) as Standardized In PKCS #1 James Manger An Efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle Jun Furukawa, Kazue Sako and Satoshi Obana An Identity Escrow Scheme with Designated Verifiers Jan Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya Correlation Analysis of the Shrinking Generator Jovan Golic Cryptanalysis of RSA Signatures With Fixed-Pattern Padding Jean-Sebastien Coron, Eric Brier, Christophe Clavier And David Naccache Faster Point Multiplication on Elliptic Curves with Efficient Endomorphisms R. Gallant, R. Lambert and S. Vanstone Forward-Secure Signatures with Optimal Signing and Verifying Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin Hard Core Bits for the Elliptic Curve Diffie--Hellman Secret Dan Boneh and Igor Shparlinski Hash-CBC: A General On-Line Cipher And Its Proof Of Security Mihir Bellare, Alexandra Boldyreva, Lars Knudsen and Chanathip Namprempre Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing Dan Boneh And Matt Franklin Improved On-Line/Off-Line Signature Schemes Adi Shamir and Yael Tauman Minimal Complete Primitives for Secure Multi-Party Computation Matthias Fitzi, Juan Garay, Ueli Maurer And Rafail Ostrovsky New Public Key Cryptosystem Using Finite Non Abelian Groups Seong-Hun Paeng, Kil-Chan Ha, Jae Heon Kim, Seongtaek Chee and Choonsik Park Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge in the Multi-Party Setting Alfredo De Santis, Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Rafail Ostrovsky, Giuseppe Persiano and Amit Sahai Nonlinear Vector Resilient Functions Jung Hee Cheon OAEP Reconsidered Victor Shoup Oblivious Transfer in the Bounded Storage Model Yan Zong Ding On the (Im)Possibility of Obfuscating Programs Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, Russell Impagliazzo, Steven Rudich, Amit Sahai, Salil Vadhan and Ke Yang On the Cost of Reconstructing a Secret, or VSS with Optimal Reconstruction Phase Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgaard and Serge Fehr Parallel Coin-Tossing and Constant-Round Secure Two-Party Computation Yehuda Lindell Pseudorandomness From Braid Groups Eonkyung Lee, Sang Jin Lee and Sang Geun Hahn RSA--OAEP is Secure Under the RSA Assumption Eiichiro Fujisaki, Tatsuaki Okamoto, David Pointcheval and Jacques Stern Revocation And Tracing Schemes For Stateless Receivers Jeff Lotspiech, Dalit Naor and Moni Naor Robustness For Free in Unconditional Multi-Party Computation Martin Hirt and Ueli Maurer Secure Distributed Linear Algebra In A Constant Number Of Rounds Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damgaard Secure and Efficient Asynchronous Broadcast Protocols Christian Cachin, Klaus Kursawe, Frank Petzold and Victor Shoup Security Issues with Practical Realizations of the Ideal Cipher Model Simon Blake-Wilson, Alfred Menezes, Rene Struik and Yongge Wang Self Protecting Pirates and Black-Box Traitor Tracing Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung Session-Key Generation Using Human Passwords Only Oded Goldreich and Yehuda Lindell Simplified OAEP for the RSA and Rabin Functions Dan Boneh Soundness in the Public-Key Model Silvio Micali and Leonid Reyzin The Order Of Encryption And Authentication For Protecting Communications (Or: How Secure Is SSL?) Hugo Krawczyk Two-Party Generation Of DSA Signatures Phil Mackenzie And Mike Reiter Universally Composable Commitments Ran Canetti and Marc Fischlin ______________________________________________________________________________ Claude Shannon Dies at 84 ______________________________________________________________________________ Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, and one of the fathers of the science of cryptology, died in February 2001. See the news reports by * MIT http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/shannon.html * Bell Labs http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Crypto 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2000 Santa Barbara 20 August 2000 _______________________________________________________________________ The Board President called the meeting to order at 10:00am. Present were Balenson, Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Dawson, Feigenbaum, Franklin, Kim, Landrock, Langford, McCurley, E. Okamoto, T. Okamoto, Preneel, and Van Oorschot. Also present as an observer was Mickey Swick. Proxies were held by McCurley for Maurer, by Van Oorschot for Diffie, by Landrock for Vanderwalle, by Preneel for Posch, and by T. Okamoto for Matsumoto. _______________________________________________________________________ McCurley solicited additions to the agenda. Feigenbaum asked for maintenance of service lists to be added to the agenda. Landrock asked that the election committee be discussed. ************************************************************************ Minutes of the 14 May 2000 meeting were approved with a spelling correction. Motion by McCurley seconded by Feigenbaum carried 19 to 0. ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________________________________ Feigenbaum congratulated Franklin on his recent marriage. Congratulations were added by others. _______________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2000 General Chair Franklin then reported on Crypto 2000 status. He indicated 468 registrants as of August 17 which appeared to be slightly lower than that of '99. He said that management closely matched that of the previous year and that budget items were on target. Beaver asked about student support. Franklin said that this was the same as the previous year. He added that support totaling $13,100 was given to 21 students and that student authors were given free registration and stipends while student non-authors were generally given free registration alone. McCurley asked if registration had been smooth. Franklin responded that it had been but that budget formats differed from the previous year. Langford agreed to meet with Swick to look into this. McCurley asked about sponsorships and conference facilities. Franklin responded that the facilities were in good shape and that no corporate sponsorships had been solicited. McCurley asked about travel expenses and other difficulties. Franklin responded that there had been some co-ordination difficulties with Crypto 2000 Program Chair Bellare, and it was agreed that guidelines for reimbursement of program committee member travel expenses need to be clarified. McCurley offered thanks to Franklin for his work and all concurred. _______________________________________________________________________ The issue of IACR Distinguished Lectures was then raised. McCurley reported that Tom Berson would be delivering the IACR Distinguished Lecture at Asiacrypt 2000. It was felt by McCurley and others that a clear process was needed to select the venue and lecturer for future distinguished lectures. Feigenbaum suggested better co-ordination with program chairs was necessary. Biham suggested that these decisions needed to be made further in advance. Cachin observed that the Board had decided that it would select lecturers. McCurley suggested that many of the difficulties could be avoided if the board established a clear process and made its selections far in advance. He then asked how often distinguished lectures should be given suggesting one per year or one per conference as possible schedules. Benaloh suggested that the schedule would be simplest if distinguished lectures were given at every conference or annually at the same conference. Feigenbaum and Landrock suggested that the lecture should rotate between conferences. McCurley supported the idea of one distinguished lecture per conference. Van Oorschot suggested a rotation and observed that a "backwards" rotation with a lecture given at every other conference would allow an increased frequency over a once per year schedule. Preneel suggested that some flexibility might be beneficial. Cachin suggested a schedule wherein lectures would rotate, in order, from Eurocrypt to Crypto to Asiacrypt. Biham and McCurley supported Preneel's view that more flexibility might be desirable. Cachin expressed a desire for clarity. Van Oorschot suggested an "overridable" default. ************************************************************************ Feigenbaum offered a motion that there be one IACR Distinguished Lecture per year with the venue alternating in order from Eurocrypt to Crypto to Asiacrypt (beginning with Eurocrypt in 2001) and that the distinguished lecturer be chosen the prior year at the August meeting of the Board. Cachin seconded the motion which carried by a vote of 16 to 0 with 4 abstentions. ************************************************************************ McCurley wanted to make clear that the intent of the designation was to honor long-term contributions to the field. An e-mail message from Maurer was read which included the suggestion that the award should be given for profound and continuing achievement in the field. Feigenbaum suggested that "lifetime" be substituted for "long-term". Berson asked what fraction of conference attendees are "first-timers" and wondered how important continuing achievements were to this constituency. Feigenbaum suggested that one of the selection criteria could be speaking ability. Biham asked whether the title "Distinguished Lecturer" was appropriate. McCurley suggested that the criteria should include "profound and continuing research achievements and influence on the field". Cachin asked if the selection should be accompanied by a citation and referred to Maurer's e-mail message suggesting that the introduction be given by the IACR President whenever possible and that an announcement of the selection be made at the August Business meeting. Van Oorschot and Cachin suggested that the introduction always be made by a member of the Board. Berson emphasized the importance of putting these rules in writing as part of the general chair guidelines. Van Oorschot suggested that information on distinguished lectures be added to the IACR web site. Cachin agreed to make this addition and to include the actual addresses when available. McCurley summarized that we have agreed that a citation by the Board should be given with each distinguished lecture and that the introduction should be given by the IACR President. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to select Andrew Odlyzko as the IACR Distinguished Lecturer with the lecture to be presented at Eurocrypt 2001. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Membership Secretary Beaver then reported on current issues. Beaver said that a formal contract with the IACR Secretariat at Santa Barbara was to be finalized. There was to be no on-site secretariat support available after Asiacrypt 2000. He then asked whether off-site services might be available and reported on concerns from some members that payments always be in US dollars. Langford said that the infrastructure provided by the Secretariat is advantageous. Benaloh asserted that the single payment type was preferable. Swick offered that the Secretariat could manage payments and services remotely. Beaver expressed concerns about flexibility for individual conferences. Dawson noted that Asiacrypt 2001 is using a booking service. McCurley rued that for Asiacrypt 2000, two separate forms must be submitted. Swick noted that this causes confusion and that it would be helpful to have a database of bookings available. Swick then reported that in 1999, the IACR had 992 members (including 82 students) and that this decreased in 2000 to 937 members (including 65 students). Berson asked how many nationalities were represented and Swick agreed to explore this. Benaloh asked what the expectation was for a new contract. Swick responded that having a contract this year would be desirable. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then adjourned for lunch at 11:57 and reconvened at 12:14. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal Editor Feigenbaum reported on the Journal of Cryptology. She announced that five new members had been added to the editorial board replacing five members who had retired. She indicated that approximately two or three issues were complete and ready for publication and that roughly ten additional papers were nearly ready. She also said that she was contemplating special issues and soliciting ideas in that regard. McCurley asked about cost of the Journal, and Langford responded that we had no guarantees for the coming year. Feigenbaum offered to get McCurley the name of a contact at Springer-Verlag. McCurley asked about electronic publishing, and Feigenbaum responded that she believed that the production and formatting work done by Springer-Verlag were very valuable. McCurley thanked Feigenbaum for her work on the Journal and unanimous applause was given. ________________________________________________________________________ A financial report was then given by Treasurer Langford. Langford recommended no change in IACR dues and reported moving approximately $75,000 in funds from a checking account to a higher interest liquid account. She reported that 1999 taxes had been filed and that errors had been discovered in the 1998 tax forms which showed approximately $70,000 in excess revenues and for which a specialist CPA had been hired to make corrections. Langford also reported IACR assets of approximately $300,000 with funds from the current Crypto conference forthcoming. Additionally, she noted that the Secretariat had thus far only billed the IACR for services through September 1999. Langford indicated that the two major outstanding issues were the Journal and the Secretariat. ________________________________________________________________________ Editor Cachin then reported on the Newsletter and Web Site. Cachin noted that job listings had been added to the Newsletter. He said that each listing is in a precise, pre-structured format and is included in only one issue of the Newsletter. He also reported that the Newsletter was being sent to 840 addresses of which approximately 35-45 are returned as invalid. Cachin also asked if a version of the IACR logo was available in electronic form. McCurley answered that the original logo was in "Corel Draw Format" (.cdr) and came from Jimmy Upton. Benaloh observed that the Board of Directors lists on the Web Site needed updating. McCurley asked about archiving a video of the Crypto '98 conference. Feigenbaum suggested that we should avoid cluttering the Web Site. McCurley then thanked Cachin for his work on the Newsletter and Web Site and unanimous applause was given. Berson then noted that Langford had not been thanked for her work as Treasurer and thanked her as she received unanimous applause. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of Board elections noting that the terms of Berson, T. Okamoto, and van Oorschot were expiring. He noted that nomination forms were available. McCurley asked how many ballots were spoiled in the last election, and Landrock responded that there had been approximately 50 spoiled ballots. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then reported on Eurocrypt 2000. He said that complete numbers were not yet available as some invoices may be pending. He reported 481 attendees of which 91 were students. Approximately $232,000 in registration fees were collected and approximately $14,500 was received from sponsors. Approximately $103,000 was spent on catering and approximately $7,000 on student stipends. After other expenses, the conference would likely return a surplus of between $20,000 and $25,000. ________________________________________________________________________ E. Okamoto then reported on the Asiacrypt Steering Committee. He said that the steering committee had met during the Eurocrypt 2000 conference to consider proposals for Asiacrypt 2002. Proposals were received for New Zealand, Hong Kong, and India, and he reported that the Steering Committee was recommending the New Zealand proposal together with recommendations for a Program Chair. McCurley asked if the Steering Committee was satisfied with the selection process and E. Okamoto responded that the members were happy. McCurley expressed his pleasure with the Asiacrypt process and suggested a similar process be considered for Eurocrypt. Cachin seconded the idea. ________________________________________________________________________ E. Okamoto then reported on the upcoming Asiacrypt 2000 conference. He noted that two separate registrations were required -- one for the conference and another for the hotel. He reported 140 papers submitted with 1 paper withdrawn and 45 acceptances (a 32% acceptance rate). He indicated that it was decided to not distinguish between the accepted papers but that the presentation times would vary between 20 and 25 minutes. He also noted two invited talks -- the IACR Distinguished Lecture to be given by Berson and a talk by Professor Imai on Japanese Government hardware standardization. McCurley asked that 30 minutes be reserved for an IACR business meeting and T. Okamoto agreed to do so. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of Asiacrypt 2003. E. Okamoto reported that two previously rejected proposals would both be resubmitted. Dawson reported that the Taiwan proposal (withdrawn after the earthquake) would also be resubmitted. E. Okamoto said that a recommendation would be made by the Asiacrypt steering committee at the Asiacrypt 2000 meeting in Kyoto and that this recommendation would be presented to the Board at its meeting during Eurocrypt 2001. ________________________________________________________________________ Progress in planning for Eurocrypt 2003 was then discussed. McCurley described an attempt to move to London the site of an earlier proposal for Bristol. Landrock told of a planned exploratory visit to Poland. Preneel said that there would be another conference in Poland in late 2002. Berson noted that IACR has a growing Polish membership. Landrock said that he had not heard from the sponsors of last year's proposal for Italy about the possibility of resubmitting this year. McCurley thanked Landrock for his efforts. ________________________________________________________________________ Feigenbaum then asked for a volunteer to take on the task of maintaining lists of general chairs, program committee members and chairs, and potential new committee members. Benaloh agreed to add this to the responsibilities of the IACR Secretary. ________________________________________________________________________ Franklin then left to attend to conference duties and gave his proxy to Berson. ________________________________________________________________________ Planning for Asiacrypt 2002 was then discussed. E. Okamoto presented the Asiacrypt Steering Committee's recommendation for New Zealand. Henry Wolfe presented the proposal for conference dates of 1-5 December 2002 at the Millennium Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand. The hotel costs would be under $100 per night. ************************************************************************ The motion to accept the New Zealand bid was offered by Berson and seconded by Beaver. The motion carried 19 to 0 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to ask Yuliang Zheng to serve as program chair. [This offer was subsequently accepted.] ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2001 General Chair Balenson then reported on the status of the conference. Balenson asked the Board about possible corporate sponsorship. Members felt that seeking sponsorship was not necessary but could benefit students by funding stipends. It was also noted that if sponsorships were obtained then they should be explicitly acknowledged by the IACR President at the business meeting and any other opportunities. Balenson also raised questions about exhibits, the rump session, and a possible 20th anniversary celebration. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then discussed planning for Crypto 2002. The Board voted to ask Rebecca Wright to serve as General Chair and Moti Yung to serve as Program Chair. [Both offers were subsequently accepted.] ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then heard from Preneel representing the ad hoc Conference Committee consisting of Biham, Maurer, and Preneel. Preneel reported on many Crypto-related workshops that had become established. These included the Fast Software Encryption Workshop (since 1993), the Information Hiding Workshop (since 1996), Financial Cryptography (since 1997), the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (since 1998), and the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (since 1999). He noted that the IACR currently sponsors three major annual conferences and recommended that sponsorship be selectively extended to workshops that have been well-established for at least two years, that have crypto-related content, scientific criteria for acceptance, are ongoing, do not conflict in scheduling with other IACR activities, are open and non-profit, and have reliable people in charge. He proposed that a steering committee make recommendations to the IACR board on General Chairs, Program Chairs, and conference venues. He also proposed an exchange of representatives between the proposed steering committee and the IACR Board and a financial commitment from the IACR. Finally, it was recommended that the IACR maintain a list of candidate workshops. Feigenbaum asked why the IACR should consider this expansion. Biham responded that he felt that more specialized conferences were useful and good for the IACR. Berson observed that the IACR was established as a way to keep the resources in the community. McCurley observed that the IACR was already paying for Secretariat services that allowed for better growth. Berson said that he found the Asiacrypt Steering Committee model attractive. Cachin observed that this would change the managerial model for the IACR Board. McCurley suggested the need for a permanent conference committee. Benaloh suggested separate steering committees for each affiliate workshop. Feigenbaum agreed adding a suggestion that these steering committees provide the IACR Board with a short list of possible Program Chairs (rather than a single selection). Preneel agreed that the IACR should maintain control of Program Chair selections. Van Oorschot asked whether these events were best labeled as workshops or conferences. Cachin added that we need to avoid calling Crypto a workshop. Preneel suggested the formation of a permanent conference committee to consider budgets for such affiliated workshops. McCurley questioned whether this was the best use of the Board's time. Dawson suggested that this might be too much work for the Board and suggested starting with a Eurocrypt steering committee. Benaloh asked how such a committee would be structured. Cachin suggested that such a committee could be an outgrowth of the Board with both Board members and non-members. McCurley again suggested the formation of a permanent conference committee. Benaloh asked if this would be an unnecessary layer. Van Oorschot offered a motion to create a Eurocrypt steering committee with the responsibility of soliciting, evaluating, and recommending conference particulars including General Chairs, possible Program Chairs, and venues. He also proposed that the Board appoint a chair of this committee who is empowered to add other members. Preneel seconded this motion. Benaloh asked if there would be rules for who could join this committee. McCurley appointed Cachin, Clark, Landrock, Maurer, and Preneel to serve as members of a new Eurocrypt Steering Committee. McCurley then asked about the financial status of the Fast Software Encryption Workshop. Preneel reported that the workshop had no reserves and had run on a break-even basis each year. Kim said the he doesn't know what the financial model is for the Public Key Cryptography conference. McCurley suggested that this process was optional. ************************************************************************ The formal motion to establish a Eurocrypt steering committee with the responsibility of soliciting, evaluating, and recommending conference particulars including General Chairs, possible Program Chairs, and venues was then voted on. The motion carried 18 to 1 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ McCurley then asked for volunteers to take responsibility for contacting other conferences to explore the possibility of creating affiliations and/or sponsorships. ________________________________________________________________________ At this point, Berson noted that Clark had volunteered to serve as the IACR election returning officer but NOT as the Election Committee Chair. Benaloh agreed to serve as Chair of the Election Committee. ________________________________________________________________________ The issue of the published IACR membership list was then discussed. McCurley reported that several members have complained about SPAM originating from conference attendee list data. Feigenbaum said that the consensus was that we allow members to not have their names listed. Beaver asked if this was an issue for the business meeting. Preneel asked if IACR members could use the lists for announcements. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported that he had two boxes of leftover proceedings from Crypto '98 and '99. Preneel suggested that Program Committee members who did not attend the conference get copies. The consensus was that any leftover proceedings be sold. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then suggested amending the IACR by-laws by changing the quorum requirement of 25 members at a business meeting to 25% of the membership. Preneel expressed a view that such a change was not necessary. Cachin asked if the by-laws should be amended to reflect new committees being established. Berson said that the by-laws are a legal document and that these details did not belong there. ________________________________________________________________________ Cachin then reported that the E-print library was doing well and was up to 50 submissions. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then solicited topics to be covered in the business meeting. It was agreed that the following topics should be included. - Announcement of Andrew Odlyzko as the 2001 IACR Distinguished Lecturer - Journal of Cryptology report (Feigenbaum) - Membership report (Beaver) - Elections report (Benaloh) - Discussion of possible affiliate workshops - Discussion of membership list usage - Asiacrypt 2000 report (E. Okamoto) - Solicitation of future conference proposals - Treasurers report (Langford) - Newsletter report (Cachin -- to be delivered by McCurley) - Announcements of upcoming conferences, Program Chairs, and General Chairs ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 17:27. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Business Meeting at Crypto 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ Business Meeting Crypto 2000 Santa Barbara 23 August 2000 IACR President McCurley convened the business meeting at 16:35. He reminded conference attendees that they were all members of the IACR unless they had explicitly declined membership. He described the history of the IACR which began in 1983 and has grown to approximately 1000 members, and he described activities of the IACR including its conferences, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, the e-print server, and the web site at http://www.iacr.org. McCurley then introduced the Officers and Directors of the IACR. ________________________________________________________________________ Election Committee Chair Benaloh then gave a report on the upcoming IACR elections. He indicated that the terms of IACR Directors Tom Berson, Tatsuaki Okamoto, and Paul Van Oorschot were expiring and that nominations were solicited for members to serve on the Board of Directors for three-year terms commencing January 1, 2001. He introduced the members of the Election Committee consisting of himself, Andrew Clark (serving as the Returning Officer), and Kwangjo Kim. He then described the procedures for obtaining nomination forms and submitting nominations. Finally, he described the procedures of the actual election. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on upcoming IACR conferences. Asiacrypt 2000 was scheduled for 3-7 December 2000 in Kyoto, Japan. Tsutomu Matsumoto was the General Chair and Tatsuaki Okamoto was the Program Chair. 45 papers were accepted out of 139 submissions. Tom Berson was scheduled to deliver the IACR Distinguished Lecture. Eurocrypt 2001 was scheduled for 6-11 May 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. Reinhard Posch was the General Chair and Birgit Pfitzmann was the Program Chair. Andrew Odlyzko was scheduled to deliver the IACR Distinguished Lecture. Crypto 2001 is scheduled for 19-23 August 2001 in Santa Barbara. Dave Balenson is the General Chair and Joe Kilian is the Program Chair. Asiacrypt 2001 is scheduled for 9-13 December 2001 on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Ed Dawson is the General Chair and Colin Boyd is the Program Chair. Eurocrypt 2002 is scheduled for May 2002 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Berry Schoenmakers is the General Chair and Lars Knudsen is the Program Chair. Crypto 2002 is scheduled for August 2002 in Santa Barbara. Rebecca Wright is the General Chair and Moti Yung is the Program Chair. Asiacrypt 2002 is scheduled for 1-5 December 2002 in Queenstown, New Zealand. Henry Wolfe is the General Chair and Yuliang Zheng is the Program Chair. McCurley then said that bids were being solicited for Eurocrypt 2003. ________________________________________________________________________ Next, McCurley described the role of the IACR Secretariat and membership services provided by the University of California at Santa Barbara Conference Services. They can be contacted at iacrmem@iacr.org. ________________________________________________________________________ IACR Treasurer Langford then presented a report. She said that IACR dues were remaining constant and were used as follows. - Journal of Cryptology - 73% - Mailing List Distribution - 10% - Secretariat Services - 8% - Student Support - 5% - Other costs (including web costs) - 4% She said that IACR finances were strong with reserves of approximately $260,000 as of 31 December 1999. She reported that Eurocrypt '99 had broken even, that Crypto '99 had returned a surplus, that Eurocrypt 2000 had returned a small surplus, and that Crypto 2000 finances were looking solid. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal of Cryptology Editor Feigenbaum then reported on the state of the Journal. She mentioned that the IACR web site includes a section on the Journal and then described several changes on the Editorial Board. Jacques Stern, Andrew Odlyzko, and Ivan Daamgard were retiring after many years of good service, and Matt Franklin, Ron Cramer, and Arjen Lenstra were joining the Editorial Board. She reported that the backlog (time from completion of the submission, review, and editing process to publication) was long. Due to a recent special issue and increase in the number of pages used, approximately one or two issues were ready for publication and another one or two were nearly ready except for scheduling. She added that the backlog of papers was small and that new submissions could appear within a year of submission. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the Newsletter. He said that it was distributed thrice annually and also available from the IACR web site at http://www.iacr.org. Cachin also reported on the e-print archive at http://eprint.iacr.org. He said that there was minimal review of submissions with simple approval by the editor, an automated interface, and opportunities for a submitter to remove or update submissions as well as add comments. A member suggested that ".ps" format was not as good as ".pdf", and Cachin responded that papers could be submitted in either or both formats. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on the Board of Directors meeting. He noted the issue of extending IACR sponsorship to workshops such as Fast Software Encryption, the use of the IACR membership list, and copyrights in IACR proceedings. He referred members to the IACR web site for details on copyright agreements. ________________________________________________________________________ At 17:03, McCurley opened the floor to the membership for new business. ________________________________________________________________________ Cachin asked why IACR Proceedings say that copyright is owned by Springer-Verlag. McCurley answered that there is no legal basis for this as copyright is owned by the IACR. ________________________________________________________________________ Phil Rogaway then presented a transparency about the so-called "Deadline Problem." He noted that paper submission deadlines for the Crypto conference in the years 1996 through 2000 were set at February 14, 13, 7, 6, and 10 respectively and that Eurocrypt deadlines for the years 1196 through 2001 were set at November 8, 4, 11, 12, 3, and 6, respectively. [Note that the Eurocrypt '99 deadline was apparently actually October 12.] He added that Asiacrypt deadlines in 1999 and 2000 were May 20 and 25, respectively. Rogaway then noted that the time from the Eurocrypt deadline to the Crypto deadline averaged 94 days while the time from the Crypto deadline to the Eurocrypt deadline averaged 271 days (102 days on average from Crypto to Asiacrypt and 169 days on average from Asiacrypt to Eurocrypt). He argued that this imbalance causes the Crypto conference to receive a smaller number of high-quality submissions then does Eurocrypt and that without a change the parity in the conferences would be lost. McCurley responded that people like conferences during warm weather and that he would like Eurocrypt to be scheduled earlier but that many scheduling difficulties exist. Benaloh asked about the possibility of artificially early deadlines for Eurocrypt, and the membership expressed a resounding dislike for this option. Yvo Desmedt claimed that this schedule had been affected by having Proceedings completed in time for the conference. Arjen Lenstra suggested that people would like to move Crypto from Santa Barbara. The membership expressed a strong preference for staying in Santa Barbara. Nigel Smart suggested moving the date of the Crypto conference. Jimmy Upton replied that UCSB's academic schedule prevents moving Crypto later. A member suggested that the conference structure could be changed to either add more conferences or combine some. Whit Diffie suggested the addition of a "Southern Hemi-Crypt". Niels Ferguson suggested changing the emphasis of the conferences. McCurley replied that the three "premier" IACR conferences are intended to be general in nature. Rich Schroeppel suggested that giving up printed conference proceedings would allow submission deadlines to be delayed. Members generally expressed a preference for having proceedings available at the conference. Dan Simon asked why this was an issue asserting that it doesn't matter if the quality of the conferences are not in parity. Rich Schroeppel asked about submission counts and was told that there had been 150 submissions to Eurocrypt 2000 and 120 submissions to Crypto 2000. Tal Rabin asked about making the submission deadline for Eurocrypt artificially early. Yvo Desmedt responded that this would impose risks on authors. Niels Ferguson said that Eurocrypt used to be considered a bit weaker than Crypto and asked why this mattered. Phil Rogaway asked that a poll be taken of the membership on the suggestion of requiring at least four months between submission deadlines. A rough count of the membership in attendance showed that about 12 supported the proposal, about 50 opposed it, and about 40 did not care. Stuart Haber suggested simply moving Eurocrypt earlier in the year. Yvo Desmedt agreed. Greg Rose said that he thought adequate time for revision and resubmission were important. ________________________________________________________________________ A member then asked about the possibility of on-line proceedings. Feigenbaum said that she would like an electronically published Journal but that the change is happening slowly. She added her view that the IACR should not take on the publisher's role. McCurley referred members to Andrew Odlyzko's home page for a report from the American Physical Society. He said that IACR's ownership of copyrights was now clear and that we can do whatever we, as an organization, want. He observed, however, that there were complaints that tenure hearings often give favor to paper publications. A member asked if we could not just post the proceedings on the web. McCurley suggested that this would likely cause Springer-Verlag to bail. McCurley then asked how many people were unhappy with Springer-Verlag. Feigenbaum then asked who we would get instead. Hilarie Orman then asked if we could renegotiate with Springer-Verlag. McCurley responded that we had already done so. Niels Ferguson and Jacques Stern both observed that authors can just post papers on their own web sites. McCurley offered that this is why the IACR now owns the copyrights and that the IACR has no policy on what authors do with their own papers. Whit Diffie asked if Springer-Verlag could give IACR members electronic access to IACR publications. McCurley responded that Springer-Verlag did not want to maintain and enforce a membership database. A member asked about IACR running a proxy server. McCurley responded that the IACR community was too paranoid to do this. Greg Rose observed that the IACR may not want to provide on-line authentication services. Rich Schroeppel suggested that the IACR could encourage authors to place papers on the IACR e-print server. McCurley responded that authors are free to do whatever they want with their papers. Nigel Smart asked how many members were happy with the status quo, and most members present responded that they were. Rich Schroeppel indicated that he wanted coffee. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2000 Program Chair Bellare then presented information on the conference. Bellare said that web submissions were allowed and no hardcopy submissions were received. He said that there had been 120 submissions of which 32 were accepted (for a 26% acceptance rate). He observed that Crypto '99 had received 169 submissions and that Eurocrypt had received fewer. Bellare said that most submissions were in Postscript format but that there are many varieties of Postscript and that some had worked better than others. He added that a few submissions had been in Microsoft Word or other formats and that the Word format had been a problem. He then gave his thanks to the many people who helped him with the program. McCurley and the audience gave their thanks to Bellare for his work as Program Chair and to Franklin as the General Chair. Plaques were given to both. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then thanked the membership and encouraged them to volunteer. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley moved the Business Meeting be adjourned, Van Oorschot seconded the motion, and the meeting adjourned at 17:48. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcements ______________________________________________________________________________ ** FSE 2002 FSE Workshop 2002 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS February 4-6, 2002, Leuven, Belgium The Fast Software Encryption (FSE) workshop has been held 8 times, the first one in Cambridge December 1993, and the latest in Yokohama April 2001. The workshop concentrates on all aspects of fast symmetric primitives: se- cret key ciphers, including the design and cryptanalysis of block and stream ciphers, as well as hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). The ninth Fast Software Encryption workshop will be held in February 2002 in Leuven, Belgium. The workshop is organized by Matt Landrock (General Chair), Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen (Program Co-chairs). Instructions for Authors Interested parties are invited to submit original unpublished papers on the design and analysis of fast encryption algorithms and hash functions. The papers must not be submitted simultaneously to other workshops or con- ferences with proceedings. The submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It is strongly preferred that submissions be processed in LaTeX according to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html since this will be a manda- tory requirement for the final papers. The paper must not exceed 15 pages in length. The papers are to be sent electronically in LaTeX, PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF), together with the email and physical addresses of the sender. Preproceedings will be available at the meeting and the final proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by January 1, 2002. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Address for Submission: FSE-Submission@protonworld.com Important Dates Paper submission: November 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2002 Final copy for preproceedings: January 20, 2002 The workshop: February 4-6, 2002 Final copy for the proceedings:March 31, 2002 Program Committee: Vincent Rijmen (co-chair, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Joan Daemen (co-chair, ProtonWorld Int'l) Ross Anderson (Cambridge University) Eli Biham (Technion) Don Coppersmith (IBM) Cunsheng Ding (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Thomas Johansson (Lund University) Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi Electric) Willi Meier (Fachhochschule Aargau) Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Further Information Further information will be made available on the conference web site: http://www.cryptomathic.com/fse2002. ** Honors - Jean-Jacques Quisquater held the national 2000-2001 Francqui chair on cryptography at the University of Namur (see chaire.org). - Jean-Jacques Quisquater received the 2000 George Montefiore prize for recognition of outstanding achievements in research and development in the fields of electrical science and engineering (see http://www.ulg.ac.be/aimulg/pgm/an-pgm-e.htm). ______________________________________________________________________________ New Books ______________________________________________________________________________ This page lists new books about cryptology, and occasionally reviews one. crypto: how the code rebels beat the government -- saving privacy in the digital age by Steven Levy ISBN 0-670-85950-8 viking Hardcover - $25.95. This is the first popular book about the history of modern cryptology. It tells many readable stories of the last 25 years of cryptography -- from Whit Diffie's personal adventure to search for knowledge about encryption, the story behind the invention of RSA at MIT, the battle over export control and missed business opportunities, the clipper chip saga, to the advent of cryptography for everyone with PGP and Netscape. Its journalistic style will it make an easy read for your friend that was always wondering what you did, and the stories always focus on the characters and persons behind the developments. (But your friend will not know more about cryptology afterwards.) Unfortunately, the author weaves these stories together in a plot about the fight of the "crypto rebels" to "free" cryptography from the government and N.S.A. monopoly. There are a bit too many details about U.S. politics, and the book misses a global perspective althogether. The only exception is its valuable insight into the parallel invention of public-key cryptography at the British GCHQ. Levy's book comes timely for this plot, about one year after the general U.S. export restrictions have been relieved. But despite its focus on North-American national politics, he barely mentions the recent AES development process. This is a pity because it would have added another interesting twist to this story and shown the U.S. government from a different perspective, after it has recognized the importance of open scientific review. -- Christian Cachin ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology. The listing is available on the Web at http://www.iacr.org/jobs/ and also included in the IACR Newsletter that is sent to members three times per year. To advertise your job opportunities, please send a description of no more than 150 words in plain ASCII text by email to jobs(at)iacr.org. This should include an URL and further contact information. No attachments or word documents, please! (Submissions in other formats than text will not be posted.) As this is intended to be a service to the members of IACR, it is free for all members. We ask that commercial enterprises who want to advertise their openings identify at least one of their employees who is a member of IACR. (IACR does not know corporate membership.) Please contact the membership secretariat to become a member of IACR. On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for sponsors for its conferences. _________________________________________________________________ Macquarie University Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 1-2 permanent positions are available for specialists in cryptography at the Department of Computing, Macquarie Univ. Successful candidates are expected to become members of the Algorithms and Cryptography group, see http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/algcomp/ For more information please see http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/position/index.html (03-jun-01) _________________________________________________________________ Cryptography Specialist Jeffrey Hilles, VP Networks & Wireless Williams & Delmore, Inc. 919-217-4600 www.wdinc.net Lead NSA certification for embedded cryptography in modern Satellite Communication Terminals. Analyze and allocate INFOSEC requirements at System, HW and SW levels. Review systems architecture, HW and SW and provide guidelines for INFOSEC features. Interact with NSA and other Government reps, including preparation and presentation of INFOSEC PDR and CDR material. Generate and/or review certification documents including Theory of Equipment Operation, Theory of Compliance, Security Fault Analysis, INFOSEC SW documentation, and INFOSEC test plans, procedures and reports. Support mechanical and TEMPTEST design and related documentation. Required ability to analyze requirements and implementation across a broad spectrum ranging from high level requirements to requirements flow down to detailed HW and SW implementation and mechanical design. Understanding of state-of-the-art computer architectures, robust design methods, and HW/SW tradeoffs. Secret/COMSEC clearance essential. (26-may-01) _________________________________________________________________ Université Libre de Bruxelles UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Faculte des Sciences Departement d'Informatique FACULTY POSITION AVAILABLE We invite applications for 3 full-time faculty positions at the level of tenure-track "Charge de Cours" (first professorial level) to begin from October, 2001. see also http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/ _________________________________________________________________________ The Universite Libre de Bruxelles is opening three full-time tenure-track academic positions in its Computer Science Department, in the Faculty of Sciences. The responsabilities of the new professors include teaching (typically at most 150 hours per year), research including supervision of PhD and Master students and some comittment to the administrative life of the institution. Preference will be given to candidates with research achievements in one or several of the areas relating to the following fields : Algorithms Software Engineeiring Formal Methods and Verification Stochastic modeling Security Distributed Systems Still, other areas of competence will also be considered based on the quality of the research achievements of the candidate. The candidates will be evaluated on their capacity to either reinforce existing research lines within the Department or to create new ones, and produce a high level teaching. The candidates must have a PhD thesis in a subject related to Computer Science, have a strong international publication record and show capacity for teaching (in french, a working knowlegde of french or at least a commitment to acquire it within a reasonable period is expected). People from outside of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will first be given a probationary period of three years, after that period, the position will become permanent. (21-may-01) _________________________________________________________________ Atmel Smart Card ICs, U.K. Job Title: Senior Software Security Scientist Job Grade: Dependent on experience Responsibilities :- The successful candidate will play a leading role within the Atmel, East Kilbride, Applications Engineering Group with a particular focus on Security Evaluation and Improvement, though contribution across the spectrum of activity within the group would be expected. The role will involve development of security evaluation techniques and attack capability, product security evaluation, development of secure software (including cryptographic software) and consultation of hardware security improvement. Qualifications/Experience:- The successful candidate will be qualified to degree level in software engineering, computing, mathematics or electronic engineering and will have at least five years of experience in a relevant aspect of engineering. Experience of the development or testing of embedded software is essential, as are good team and communication skills. The following areas of experience would be beneficial, but not necessarily essential; Smartcard systems and software, cryptography, software or computer security, electronic hardware design or test, microcontroller applications, project leadership, customer interfacing. Contact information: Human Resources Atmel Smart Card ICs The Maxwell Building Scottish Enterprise Technology Park East Kilbride G75 0QR UK email: hr@ascic.co.uk phone: (44) 1355 803 476 URL: http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod37.htm (1-apr-01) University of Sydney, Australia Sesqui Lecturer in Cryptography School of Mathematics and Statistics UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY The University has created a Sesqui Lecturership in Cryptography within the School of Mathematics and Statistics to support a newly established teaching program in cryptography and to strengthen existing research in the area. The appointee will be expected to play a major role in teaching undergraduate units in cryptography. Preference will be given to applicants with a research record that strengthens existing areas of cryptographic research in the School: elliptic/hyperelliptic curve cryptography, applications of number theory to cryptography (factorization, discrete logarithms, etc), lattice-based cryptography, software tools for cryptography, broadcast encryption and wireless security. Remuneration Package: $60,809 - $72,186 p.a. (which includes a base salary Lecturer Level B $51,385 - $61,020 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation) For further information contact Professor J Robinson on (02) 9351 5773, fax (02) 9351 4534 or e-mail: hos@maths.usyd.edu.au Full details and method of application may be found at http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au Closing Date: 22/3/2001 REF NO: A06/001265 (1-apr-01) DoCoMo USA Labs TITLE : Research Engineer EDUCATION : PhD in computer science, mathematics or a related field HOURS : Full Time, Regular JOB BENEFITS/SALARY : Competitive Package will be provided PROJECT NAME : Mobile Internet JOB NAME : Real-time security JOB CODE : ????? JOB DESCRIPTION : Future cellular network is expected to be fully IP-based. This means 1) that mobility is supported at layer 3, and 2) that the network must support both real-time and non-real-time applications. A typical example of the real-time applications is Voice over IP. In order to be secure, the network must deploy Internet security technologies such as IPsec and IKE, and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). However, it's very difficult to provide security in real-time. The goal of this position is to create new technologies to achieve real-time security. To this end, prototype systems supporting new protocols for real-time security should be developed. In-depth and broad knowledge of cryptography, especially public key cryptosystem and digital certificates, are required. Industry experience in Internet protocols (such as TCP/IP) and related security protocols (such as IPsec) is also strongly preferred CONTACT: Keith E Morrissey Vice President, Professional Services DoCoMo USA Labs 1-408-573-1050 1-800-499-1820 www.docomo-usa.com (06-mar-01) ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ The IACR calendar lists events (conferences, workshops, ...) that may be of interest to IACR members or deal with research in cryptology. If you want to have an event listed here, please send email to webmaster(at)iacr.org . 2001 * [1]14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, June 11-13, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. * [2]Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography, June 25-27, KIAS, Seoul, Korea. * [3]33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), July 6-8, Crete, Greece. * [4]RSA Conference 2001 Asia, July 9-12, Singapore. * [5]6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP'01), July 11-13, Sydney, Australia. * [6]Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of Coding Theory and Cryptology, July 16-20, National University of Singapore, Singapore. * [7]Eighth Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2001), August 16-17, Toronto, Canada. * [8]Crypto 2001, August 19-23, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [9]20th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2001), August 26-29, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. * [10]10th USENIX Security Symposium, August 13-17, Washington, D.C., USA. * [11]Second NESSIE Workshop, September 12-13, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. * [12]Workshop on Information Security Applications(WISA2001), September 13-14, Seoul Korea. * [13]Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, September 10-14, National University of Singapore, Singapore. * [14]5th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2001), September 17-19, Waterloo, Canada. * [15]Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE 2001), September 26-28, London, UK. * [16]International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security, September 26-28, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. * [17]Information Security Conference 2001, October 1-3, Malaga, Spain. * [18]42nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2001), October 14-17, Las Vegas, USA. * [19]RSA Conference 2001 Europe, October 15-18, Amsterdam, Netherlands. * [20]Workshop on Security and and Privacy in Digital Rights Management (SPDRM 2001), 5 November, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. * [21]Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 6-8 November, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. * [22]Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, 7-8 November, Ruhr-Universität Bochu, Germany. * [23]Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), November 13-16, Xian, China. * [24]Workshop on Applied Cryptology, December 3-7, National University of Singapore, Singapore. * [25]Fourth International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC), December 6-7, Seoul, Korea. * [26]Asiacrypt 2001, December 9-13, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. * [27]Second International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2001), December 16-20, Madras, Chennai, India. 2002 * [28]Fast Software Encryption Workshop 2002, February 4-6, Leuven, Belgium. * [29]ISOC 2002 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), February 6-8, San Diego, California, USA. * [30]RSA Conference 2002 Cryptographers' Track, February 18-22, San Jose, USA. * [31]Eurocrypt 2002, April 28-May 2, Amsterdam, Netherlands. * Crypto 2002, (tentatively: third week in August), Santa Barbara, California, USA. * Asiacrypt 2002, (tentatively: December 1-5), Queenstown, New Zealand. References 1. http://www2.csl.sri.com/csfw/csfw14/ 2. http://www.kias.re.kr/ 3. http://sigact.acm.org/stoc01/ 4. http://www.rsaconference.com/rsa2001/asia/ 5. http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~acisp01/ 6. http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/programs/coding.html 7. http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/sac2001/ 8. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2001/ 9. http://www.podc.org/podc2001/ 10. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01 11. http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/nessie/ 12. http://elec.sch.ac.kr/wisa2001/ 13. http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/programs/coding.html 14. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2001/ecc/announcement.html 15. http://www.eema.org/isse/ 16. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Chuan.Wu/conference/cns01_cfp.html 17. http://www.isconference.org/ 18. http://theory.stanford.edu/focs2001/ 19. http://www.rsaconference.com/rsa2001/europe/ 20. http://www.star-lab.com/sander/spdrm/ 21. http://www.bell-labs.com/user/reiter/ccs8/ 22. http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Lothar.Gerritzen/GKAMWork.html 23. http://homex.coolconnect.com/member2/icisa/icics2001.html 24. http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/programs/coding.html 25. http://cnscenter.future.co.kr/icisc01/ 26. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/asiacrypt/ 27. http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/indocrypt/ 28. http://www.iacr.org/workshops/fse2002/ 29. http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/02/ 30. http://www.rsaconference.com/rsa2002/cryptotrack.html ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Officers and Directors of the IACR (2001) Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. 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