______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter The newsletter of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2003. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * Newsletter distribution * 2002 Elections results * List of accepted papers for Eurocrypt 2003 * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002 * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2002 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2002 * Announcements + Theory of cryptography conference (TCC) + NESSIE project announces final selection of crypto algorithms * New reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * New books * Open positions * Calendar of events in cryptology * IACR contact information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 14th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! Thanks to all of you who responded to my survey in the last IACR newsletter. The results are available in the newsletter distribution section. Surprisingly to me, you have expressed an overwhelming preference for the full-text email distribution. Which means that I will continue to produce the full-text version and distribute it by email. This newsletter issue also contains the regular announcements, including the ever-growing list of events in cryptology. Please send your contributions to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in June 2003. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as soon as possible. Christian Cachin IACR Newsletter Editor P.S. If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by email and would like to receive it in the future, then please make sure that the IACR membership directory contains your current email address. A printed copy of the membership list is mailed yearly to all members. ______________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter distribution ______________________________________________________________________________ In the last issue of the IACR newsletter, I asked for your opinion on the distribution medium of the newsletter. Most readers see a new issue of the newsletter in their email inbox. They have then two options: either turn to the web pages or read the web pages converted to text format which I include in the email. I wanted to know how many readers can live with the web-only option and how many prefer to read the full-text version in the email. The answers from 89 distinct readers (not counting a double-answer that I spotted by coincidence) were as follows: prefer Reminder only by email 33 prefer Full-text by email 56 Among both groups were also a few answers of the form "prefer this, but can live with that", but these were balanced. One reason for the popularity of the email format may be that you can process the newsletter and absorb its information right there, in the same way as you process other inputs in the email inbox. Apparently, this is the preferred choice for those among us whose inbox is equivalent to their to-do list! I take this clear verdict -- an overwhelming majority (almost by two to one) in favor of the email distribution -- as my duty as your newsletter editor and will continue to produce the full-text version. Thanks to all who responded for their input and also for all other feedback. ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR 2002 Election Results ______________________________________________________________________________ We thank all who voted. The Election Committee is pleased to report the results of the 2002 Election, being: * The proposed amendment to the IACR Bylaw passes. * Those elected for Director are: Rebecca Wright Ed Dawson Jean-Jacques Quisquater Their terms will expire on 31 December 2005. We thank all the candidates, whether they were successful or not, for their significant support of IACR. People such as these, who are willing to accept an office and to then give generously of their time and expertise, are vital to the smooth working of our all-volunteer community. We declare the above information to be true and correct. --Election Committee --Witnesses Josh Benaloh Miriam Wiggers de Vries Yvo Desmedt Phil Hawkes Greg Rose The detailed results are also available on http://www.iacr.org/elections/2002/details.html. ______________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2003 Papers ______________________________________________________________________________ Cryptanalysis I Cryptanalysis of the EMD Mode of Operation Antoine Joux On the Optimality of Linear, Differential and Sequential Distinguishers Pascal Junod A Toolbox for Cryptanalysis: Linear and Affine Equivalence Algorithms Alex Biryukov, Christophe De Canniere, An Braeken, and Bart Preneel Secure Multi-Party Computation I Two-Threshold Broadcast and Detectable Multi-Party Computation Matthias Fitzi, Martin Hirt, Thomas Holenstein, and Jurg Wullschleger On the Limitations of Universally Composable Two-Party Computation Without Set-up Assumptions Ran Canetti, Eyal Kushilevitz, and Yehuda Lindell Fair Secure Two-Party Computation Benny Pinkas Invited Talk I Facts and Myths of Enigma: Breaking Stereotypes Arkadiusz Orlowski and Kris Gaj Zero-Knowledge Protocols Resettable Zero-Knowledge in the Weak Public-Key Model Yunlei Zhao, Xiaotie Deng, C. H. Lee, and Hong Zhu Simulatable Commitments and Efficient Concurrent Zero-Knowledge Daniele Micciancio and Erez Petrank Simulation in Quasi-polynomial Time, and its Application to Protocol Composition Rafael Pass Strengthening Zero-Knowledge Protocols Using Signatures Juan Garay, Phil MacKenzie, and Ke Yang Foundations and Complexity Theoretic Security Nearly One-Sided Tests and the Goldreich-Levin Predicate Gustav Hast Efficient and Non-Malleable Proofs of Plaintext Knowledge and Applications Jonathan Katz Public Key Encryption A Public Key Encryption Scheme Based on the Polynomial Reconstruction Problem Daniel Augot and Matthieu Finiasz A Simpler Construction of CCA2-Secure Public-Key Encryption Under General Assumptions Yehuda Lindell A Forward-Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, and Jonathan Katz Certificate-Based Encryption and the Certificate Revocation Problem Craig Gentry New Primitives CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems For Security Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper, and John Langford Concealment and its Applications to Authenticated Encryption Yevgeniy Dodis and Jee Hea An Cryptanalysis II Predicting the Shrinking Generator with Fixed Connections Patrik Ekdahl, Willi Meier, and Thomas Johansson Algebraic Attacks on Stream Ciphers with Linear Feedback Nicolas T. Courtois and Willi Meier Elliptic Curves Cryptography Counting Points on Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields of Small Characteristic in Quasi Quadratic Time Reynald Lercier and David Lubicz The GHS Attack Revisited Florian Hess Improved Algorithms for Efficient Arithmetic on Elliptic Curve Using Fast Endomorphisms Mathieu Ciet, Tanja Lange, Francesco Sica, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater Digital Signatures A Signature Scheme as Secure as the Diffie-Hellman Problem Eu-Jin Goh and Stanislaw Jarecki Aggregate and Verifiably Encrypted Signatures from Bilinear Maps Dan Boneh, Craig Gentry, Ben Lynn, and Hovav Shacham Hypercubic Lattice Reduction and Analysis of GGH and NTRU Signatures Michael Szydlo Invited Talk II Why Provable Security Matters? Jacques Stern Cryptanalysis III On the Security of RDSA Pierre-Alain Fouque and Guillaume Poupard Cryptanalysis of the Public-Key Encryption Based on Braid Groups Eonkyung Lee and Je Hong Park A Theoretical Treatment of Related-Key Attacks: RKA-PRPs, RKA-PRFs, and Applications Mihir Bellare and Tadayoshi Kohno Key Exchange Provably Secure Threshold Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Mario Di Raimondo and Rosario Gennaro A Framework for Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange Rosario Gennaro and Yehuda Lindell Information Theoretic Cryptography The Security of Many-Round Luby-Rackoff Pseudo-Random Permutations Ueli Maurer and Krzysztof Pietrzak New Bounds in Secret-Key Agreement: The Gap Between Formation and Secrecy Extraction Renato Renner and Stefan Wolf Secure Multi-Party Computation II Round Efficiency of Multi-Party Computation with a Dishonest Majority Jonathan Katz, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Adam Smith Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, and Eyal Kushilevitz Group Signatures Foundations of Group Signatures: Formal Definitions, Simplified Requirements, and a Construction Based on General Assumptions Mihir Bellare, Daniele Micciancio, and Bogdan Warinschi Extracting Group Signatures from Traitor Tracing Schemes Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on April 28, 2002 during Eurocrypt 2002 in Amsterdam. Reports were received on the final disposition of Asiacrypt 2001 and FSE 2002 and the status of Eurocrypt 2002, Crypto 2002, Asiacrypt 2002, Eurocrypt 2003, and Crypto 2003. Additional reports were received on the status of the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive, IACR membership and Secretariat issues, IACR finances, the Asiacrypt Steering Committee, and on results of an exploration of costs for accepting the euro currency at Eurocrypt. The Board accepted a proposal to hold FSE 2003 in Lund, Sweden. The Board accepted a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2004 in Interlaken, Switzerland with Jan Camenisch as General Chair. The Board voted to ask Christian Cachin to serve as Eurocrypt 2004 Program Chair. The Board accepted a proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 on Cheju Island, Korea with Kwangjo Kim as General Chair. The Board voted to ask Pil Joong Lee to serve as Asiacrypt 2004 Program Chair. The Board voted to Re-appoint Cachin as Newsletter Editor for the 2002-2004 term. The Board voted to accept sponsorship of PKC workshops beginning in 2003. The Board decided not to set up a "partial" electronic registration system but rather to work towards a fully-integrated system. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Eurocrypt 2002 Amsterdam 28 April 2002 Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:02. Present were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Desmedt, Gawinecki, Kim, Knudsen, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, Preneel, Rose, Schoenmakers, Wolfe, and Wright. Proxies were held for Dawson by Kim, for Feigenbaum by Berson, for McCurley by Clark, and (subsequently) for Schoenmakers by Knudsen. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark asked for additions to the agenda which was then approved with a minor correction. The minutes of the 19 August 2001 Board meeting were then approved without objection. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2002 General Chair Schoenmakers then gave a status report on the conference. He said that there had been 457 registrants including the organizing committee and 93 students and that there were 12 accompanying persons. He said that the computer room providing Internet access would include 10 computers and additional laptop connections but would not be ready until Monday. Clark asked if there were delegates from countries not previously represented and Schoenmakers responded that he was uncertain but would give a national overview during the Membership Meeting. Clark asked if there had been any problems and Schoenmakers responded that he learned late about the need to send official letters of invitation to some delegates. Clark said that this information was now in the Guidelines thanks to Preneel. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then gave a report on IACR finances. Langford circulated a report prior to the meeting indicating a surplus of approximately $376,000 and surpluses received from each of the 2001 IACR conferences (approximately $35,000 from each of Eurocrypt and Crypto and $3,000 from Asiacrypt). Clark asked about Secretariat issues and Langford responded that we would begin charging conferences directly for secretariat services at the rate of $25 per person for Crypto and $10 per person for each of Asiacrypt and Eurocrypt (she indicated that the larger rate for Crypto was to cover the on-site services provided by the Secretariat). Wright asked where the break-even points were and Langford responded that it was 400 participants for Crypto and lower for each of Asiacrypt and Eurocrypt. Clark noted that this structure makes direct comparisons easier and thanked Langford for her work. ________________________________________________________________________ Schoenmakers then responded to a question about Eurocrypt 2002 proceedings by saying that they were 550 pages and thanked Eurocrypt 2002 Program Chair Knudsen for his work in creating the program and assembling the proceedings. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on issues regarding the euro currency. He noted that one IACR member was unhappy with euros not being accepted at Eurocrypt conferences, and Clark and Langford provided information to the Board on their research as to costs that would be incurred to enable acceptance of the euro. It was reported that since the UCSB can only process credit card fees in U.S. dollars, an alternate entity would have to be engaged to process euro credit cards, and the costs were estimated at approximately $25 (or 30 euros) per delegate. It was noted that previous Eurocrypt conferences had multi-currency registration, and that the process was simplified when the UCSB began to handle Secretariat duties. Desmedt suggested that this issue should be judged based on economics. Schoenmakers noted the problem of forward exchange rate changes for the euro. Biham asked if people could use euro bank transfers, and Langford replied that this could currently be managed only for on-site registration. Schoenmakers asked about the percentage of registrants that use credit cards, and Langford responded that it was in the range of 80-90% with the remainder of fees paid with bank transfers and some on-site cash. Clark noted that Eurocrypt 2003 would be held in Warsaw where the euro is not the local currency. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then discussed the Membership report which had been distributed in advance of the Board meeting by Membership Secretary Beaver. It noted the number of IACR members as slightly over a thousand with a rapidly growing student membership. It was also noted that more work needed to be done on the database to incorporate FSE and bring things up to date. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the status of the Newsletter. He said that the Newsletter was running smoothly but that the web site might require some maintenance. Cachin then reported that the ePrint server was also running smoothly but that he and Mihir Bellare must occasionally reject submission as "out of scope". A particular instance of a an author's complaint about a rejected submission was then raised, and after a discussion the Board decided to support the decision of the ePrint managers while asking that the policy be clarified on the web site. The Board then voted to renew Cachin's position as Newsletter Editor for the 2002-2004 term. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal Editor-in-Chief Maurer then reported on the Journal of Cryptology. Maurer began by reminding the Board that he is serving this year as Editor-in-Chief jointly with his predecessor Feigenbaum. He said that the transition had been smooth and that there would be some changes to the Editorial Board. Maurer then noted that the backlog was fairly short and that there had been some difficulty in filling the winter issue. He added that he had received only eight new submissions in his four months as Editor but emphasized that he would not reduce quality to fill the Journal. Maurer lamented the fact that many good conference papers are never submitted to journals and described the need to encourage authors to publish in the Journal. Cachin asked what kinds of papers Maurer sought, and Maurer responded that he wanted the best papers from conferences to be re-written in journal form and submitted to the Journal of Cryptology. Berson suggested soliciting submissions at the beginning of IACR conferences and during the Membership Meetings. Wright suggested sending letters to invite particular submissions but cautioned against pleading during Membership Meetings. Desmedt suggested having special issues and asking Program Chairs to solicit their best papers. Maurer responded that he had discussed special issues with the Editorial Board and decided that this was not the best course. Clark wondered if the reduction in submissions was a trend due to new publishing paradigms. Maurer then asked the Board for an opinion as to whether he could be a co-author on a paper submitted to the Journal. Wright noted her experience on another journal in which the Editor-in-Chief was required to delegate duties for a paper in which there was a conflict of interests. Clark expressed a desire to support Maurer on his right to submit his own work to the Journal, and the Board agreed. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then turned to the issue of archiving. He described discussions regarding the possible appointment of an IACR Archivist to be charged with managing and maintaining the works to which IACR owns the copyright. Cachin noted that he and McCurley had assembled electronic copies of some past conferences. Beaver arrived at this point. Wright suggested being careful to work in conjunction with Springer-Verlag, and Preneel noted that final submissions to Springer-Verlag are sometimes changed by Springer-Verlag. Schoenmakers asked why the PDF files produced by Springer-Verlag are not sufficient, and Preneel and Cachin responded that the IACR does not own these files. Clark agreed to work with Springer-Verlag on this issue and emphasized the importance of IACR maintaining copies under its own control and ownership. Berson asked if the archive should include Board papers and Wright asked if Rump Session papers should also be included. The Board agreed that the President appoint Hilarie Orman as the IACR Archivist for a renewable period and that she would report progress to the Board. Cachin noted that Board papers are available on the IACR web site and agreed to take responsibility along with McCurley and liaise with the IACR Archivist to assist in maintaining archives. Desmedt suggested negotiating with Springer-Verlag to gain access to their PDF files after one year. ________________________________________________________________________ At 10:49, the Board recessed for a ten-minute break. The Board reconvened at 10:59. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark noted that lunch would be held promptly at 12:30 and said that copies of the FSE 2003 proposal were being made. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on FSE 2002 as reported to him by Vincent Rijmen and Matt Landrock. He said that there had been 70 submissions of which 21 were accepted and that there were 100 participants. Because of the larger than expected number of participants, FSE 2002 would be reporting a surplus. It was also reported that the logistics of initiating IACR sponsorship had caused some minor problems. Schoenmakers said that he had been surprised by the effect of IACR dues being paid at FSE 2002 which caused some Eurocrypt attendees to be exempt from IACR dues. Cachin asked about registration issues, and Langford responded that registration had not been handled by the IACR Secretariat. Clark noted that Eurocrypt 2003 registration forms would need a tick box for those who were already IACR members by virtue of FSE 2003 registration. Rose asked about those not wanting to be IACR members and Wolfe inquired about those who had purchased membership before registration. ________________________________________________________________________ The newly printed FSE 2003 proposal was then circulated. Preneel reported that two proposals had been submitted and that Lund, Sweden had been selected as the preferred venue. ************************************************************************ Desmedt moved to accept the FSE 2003 proposal for Lund, Sweden with a minor date correction. Preneel seconded, and the motion carried 19 to 0. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then raised the issue of electronic registration for IACR conferences. He said that he had contacted several companies who want to handle all registration and payment and that web hosting companies seemed to reference only similar package services. Clark then said that he had found one company that would be willing to simply write a front end for us and do the web hosting. Clark described the detailed process that would be involved and the company that would do the development work. He noted that we would have to pay for the development but that the company would then provide the hosting for free for one year as a trial. Desmedt asked if the UCSB offered any similar services, and Clark replied that it did not. Cachin asked about the company that would be doing the development work, and Clark provided further details. Cachin asked if the same company could also host the IACR web site, and Clark responded that it would be possible but recommended not making that commitment yet. Wright suggested that this could be good as a trial and asked about pre-population of forms. She then asked whether this would be available for Crypto 2003 and how it would be budgeted. Clark responded that it could be available for Crypto 2003 and that funds would come directly from the IACR rather than from a conference budget. Biham asked whether this service could be added to some component of the current IACR environment such as the ePrint server. Clark said that a commercial agreement seemed necessary and that this could presumably be better integrated with other IACR services in the future. Biham asked whether credit card security would be an issue, and Clark agreed to check. Langford noted that the IACR Secretariat had handled credit card numbers from other sources in the past. Beaver expressed a concern about the new application that would have to be learned by the Secretariat and asked whether this could be easier for the Secretariat to use. Clark agreed to explore this issue. Wright asked whether this development work could be performed immediately, and Clark responded that it could. Cachin asked who would own the resulting applications, and Clark responded that the IACR would have ownership. Clark said that form filling and database management were outside of the scope of this proposal and enumerated the risks as including the fact that this would be new work for the company and that hacking could make this service unavailable. Maurer expressed a desire for a more integrated approach. Biham asked whether encrypted e-mail to the Secretariat could be used to provide a more complete solution, and Cachin suggested the use of PGP. Berson noted the need to select an option. Schoenmakers suggested that this not be publicly branded as a trial. Clark outlined two options: waiting for a more integrated approach or going with the trial immediately. A straw poll indicated a slight preference for waiting, and Clark agreed to hold this for further discussion in committee. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the status of the conference. She said that there had been a large number (175) of submissions and that there were about 38-39 acceptances (a rate of 21-22%). She said that things were generally running smoothly. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe then reported on the status of the conference. He said that things were going well and noted that the New Zealand dollar had strengthened. ________________________________________________________________________ Kim then reported on Asiacrypt 2001 for General Chair Dawson. He circulated a report showing a final surplus of $2,307.88. ________________________________________________________________________ Kim then reported on Asiacrypt 2004 for Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair Dawson. He reported on a proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 at the Shilla Cheju Hotel on Korea's Cheju Island south of the Korean mainland. McCurley arrived at this point. Clark asked about hotel rates, and Desmedt responded that off-season rates were low while Kim added that this would be during the off-season. Desmedt reported his personal experience with and support for this facility. Clark offered his thanks to the Asiacrypt Steering Committee. Benaloh asked about the facilities for the technical sessions, the Kim detailed many suitable meeting rooms at the hotel. ************************************************************************ Preneel moved to accept the proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 on Cheju Island, Korea with Kim as the General Chair. The motion was seconded by Berson and carried 18-0 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki then reported on the status of the conference. He began by describing his exploration of support from various official organizations but his need to have the full Program Committee in place before obtaining such support. Gawinecki then described the venue in the TPSA conference hall in Central Warsaw as 20-30 minutes from the airport by taxi or train with many nearby hotels. He noted a 553-person capacity in the venue and meals to be held in the Quo Vadis Restaurant. Clark asked if preparations were going well, and Gawinecki responded that they were and that he would be discussing the full Program Committee with Program Chair Biham. Preneel asked how hotel booking would be handled, and Gawinecki responded that he will be negotiating with hotels. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the conference. He said that not much active work had yet been done and that no substantive changed were planned. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then reported that no formal proposals had yet been received for Eurocrypt 2004 and that he had asked Cachin to post a request for proposals on the web site. Cachin said that he had done so and also taken the opportunity to prepare with Jan Camenisch a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2004 in Interlaken, Switzerland with hotels within walking distance of the conference venue. McCurley asked how hotel booking would be handled, and Cachin responded that it would not yet be high season and that a conference organizer would give a good deal to handle everything. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for lunch at 12:32. The Board reconvened at 14:15. ________________________________________________________________________ Discussion of the Eurocrypt 2004 proposal for Interlaken, Switzerland then resumed. ************************************************************************ Desmedt moved acceptance of the Interlaken, Switzerland proposal with Jan Camenisch as General Chair subject to details which it empowered the President to work out during the week. Beaver seconded the motion which carried 17-0 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to ask Cachin to serve as Program Chair for Eurocrypt 2004. [Cachin subsequently accepted.] The Board also voted to ask Pil Joong Lee to serve as Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2004. [Lee subsequently accepted.] ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then initiated a discussion on the issue of quality control for IACR conferences. He suggested that formal requirements be established for Program Chairs to create lists of proposed Program Committee members together with justifications and submit these lists to the Board. Wright suggested that this might best be limited to new conferences, and Clark suggested expanding the Program Chair Guidelines in the alternative. Biham expressed a concern that this would only shift to the Board the problem of selecting Program Committees rather than just selecting Program Chairs. He then asked how Program Chairs would go about soliciting Committee members. Would it be necessary to bring an ordered list to the Board? Benaloh expressed the view that this could be done as a condition of new IACR sponsorship of conferences but that it did not seem reasonable to impose such a new condition on extant conferences. Wolfe suggested that presence on the Board's internal list should indicate prior approval by the Board. Wright observed that this is a procedural matter and suggested the need for the process to be clear to both the Board and all other parties. Berson expressed the view that this kind of micromanagement and attempts at optimization were unnecessary since the quality of conferences is determined by their papers. Preneel expressed the view that the internal list should be informal. Clark then asked for a volunteer to amend the Program Chair Guidelines, and Preneel responded that Program Committee selection is already discussed in the Guidelines but not enforced. Desmedt said that he didn't care what method was used but that quality control was important. Clark said that he did not want the Board more involved in Program Committee selection. Wright suggested the possibility of having a Board member (perhaps whichever Director is charged with maintaining the Program Chair Guidelines) act as a mentor to the Program Chair, and Desmedt immediately volunteered to fill the role. Maurer said that he viewed Knudsen's role of managing Program Chair Guidelines to include serving as a liaison between the Board and Program Chairs, and Clark said that he thought it was clear that the role of managing the Program Committee Guidelines included working with Program Chairs. Benaloh suggested that the Guidelines manager should provide a specific contact when delivering the Guidelines, and Berson suggested that this contact should be the Guidelines manager. Clark then asked Knudsen to fill this role, and Knudsen agreed to do so. Several Board members then expressed the view that this discussion had not been productive. McCurley suggested the possibility that the Board should create a list of potential Program Committee members and mandate that a minimum percentage of Program Committee members be chosen from the list. Knudsen expressed his preference to place trust in Program Chairs, and the discussion ceased. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for a ten-minute break at 15:55. The Board reconvened at 16:07. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then raised the issue of IACR sponsorship of the PKC workshop. He circulated a revised version of an earlier proposal that eliminated the prior option for PKC attendees to NOT pay an IACR membership fee. Several concerns were expressed and discussed including the 12,000 euro loss suffered by PKC 2002, the high variability of PCK attendance, the relatively short history of PKC, and the process for selecting members of the PKC Steering Committee. ************************************************************************ After a lengthy discussion, Desmedt moved that PKC become an IACR sponsored workshop as of 2003. Kim seconded the motion which carried 17-1 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then presented a proposal made by Feigenbaum to establish a program for designating IACR Fellows. Benaloh expressed the view that the decision of whether or not to establish a fellows program should be made by the IACR membership rather than the Board. Desmedt suggested that such a program should distinguish between research and service with a different selection process for each. Berson observed that the ACM model is for fellows to have distinguished themselves in BOTH research and service. Wolfe suggested the possibility of reserving "fellows" for those who had distinguished themselves for performance and using "honorary fellows" for those who had distinguished themselves for service. McCurley said that he was now in favor of a fellows program but that the current proposal was sketchy. He added the view that we should not try to match every aspect of the ACM Fellows program. Cachin expressed his agreement with McCurley as well as his support for a single category of fellow. Clark expressed a concern that the proposal had too much motivation and too little process. Wright expressed the concern that the small size of the IACR might make it seem as an attempt to give IACR Fellow status to people who didn't get honors elsewhere. Maurer noted the difference in culture between the U.S. and Europe which he described as that in the U.S. people are more willing to promote themselves and those around them. Desmedt suggested that a sub-committee study this matter, and Clark said that he would ask Feigenbaum to flesh out the proposal. McCurley asked how decisions would be made as to the targeted number of fellows -- would a certain number be given annually or would a certain percentage of the membership be targeted. He also asked whether we would want one or two categories of fellows and how and when announcements would be made. Clark noted that 0.2% of IEE members are fellows. A straw poll indicated that most of the Board favored a single category of fellows. McCurley suggested that an award ceremony would be desirable, and Wright suggested that it would be good to hold such ceremonies during conferences while staggering the venues. Clark said that he would ask Feigenbaum to respond to these issues. ________________________________________________________________________ Wright then raised the issue of the IACR logo. She noted that the official logo was almost always replaced by a color version in web postings. Clark proposed endorsing the color logo and agreed to work with Cachin to clean this up. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then brought to the attention of the Board a proposal by a member to videotape IACR conferences. The proposal included the establishment of a Director position for a videotaper. Concerns were also raised about FSE not always accepting credit cards and the provision of Internet access at conferences and workshops. Rose noted that good quality videotaping is difficult and expensive. Wolfe observed the need to have an "opt out" option for speakers. Clark estimated the cost at 5,000 pounds per conference. Benaloh suggested that videotaping could be put under the purview of an IACR archivist. McCurley suggested instead videotaping just the Distinguished Lectures. Clark suggested that future General Chairs might wish to obtain quotes. McCurley noted that MSRI has a paid staff responsible for videotaping and offered to seek details. Rose said that he would also like to explore this issue. In response to the other topic mentioned, Clark noted that Internet access is generally provided at IACR conferences. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then gave a brief follow-up on issues related to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Wright mentioned that she had drafted a letter together with Feigenbaum on the subject. ________________________________________________________________________ In the category of other business, McCurley suggested that the Board members think about how they feel about the health of the IACR, whether the IACR should expand to include computer security, and whether the IACR should do more in education. ________________________________________________________________________ An agenda was then prepared for the Membership Meeting which was scheduled for 16:10 on Wednesday. Clark and Langford agreed to take the lead in any discussions on the use of the euro currency. ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 17:23. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Membership Meeting Eurocrypt 2002 Amsterdam 1 May 2002 IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 16:10. Raffle tickets were distributed to those in attendance for a drawing for a bottle of Champagne. Clark presented the meeting agenda which consisted of information about the IACR, its Board of Directors, its finances, its conferences and workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, current issues including euro-denominated conference registration and electronic registration, and a period of open discussion. Clark quoted the purposes of the IACR from the Bylaws as "to advance the theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and to promote the interests of its members with respect thereto, and to serve the public welfare." He then described the three annual IACR conferences of Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt and the two IACR-sponsored workshops: FSE and PKC. He then described IACR publications of the Journal of Cryptology and the IACR Newsletter and noted the web site at www.iacr.org. Clark then introduced the members of the Board of Directors. Clark next presented a brief financial report noting that IACR finances were stable with reserves of approximately $376,000 (approximately $350,000 at the end of 2001) and observed that costs of a typical conference are approximately $250,000. He added that all three IACR conferences in 2001 had returned modest surpluses and that the 2002 conferences were on track. Clark then expressed thanks to Eurocrypt 2002 General Chair Berry Schoenmakers and Program Chair Lars Knudsen and awarded them plaques of appreciation. Clark then enumerated upcoming IACR conferences and workshops as follows. Crypto 2002 Santa Barbara August 18-22 Asiacrypt 2002 Queenstown, New Zealand December 1-5 PKC 2003 Miami, Florida January 5-7 FSE 2003 Lund, Sweden February 24-26 Eurocrypt 2003 Warsaw, Poland May 4-8 Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara August 17-21 Asiacrypt 2003 Taipei, Taiwan November 30-December 4 PKC 2004 Singapore March 1-3 Eurocrypt 2004 Interlaken, Switzerland May 2-6 Crypto 2004 Santa Barbara dates TBD Asiacrypt 2004 Jeju, Korea December 5-9 [N.B. Some of these dates conflict with the IACR Calendar of Events on the web site.] Clark then noted that bids were being sought to host Eurocrypt 2005. Clark next proceeded to describe the Journal of Cryptology as the premier journal in this field, and described it as being published by Springer-Verlag and mailed to all IACR members with the cost of the Journal accounting for roughly 75% of member dues. He introduced Ueli Maurer as the new Editor-in-Chief who solicited high-quality papers for the Journal and mentioned its short current backlog. Clark then described the IACR Newsletter which is published thrice annually and emailed to members as well as being available at www.iacr.org/newsletter. Clark then described current issues that were being addressed by the Board beginning with the consideration of acceptance of currencies other than U.S. dollars for IACR conference registration. He said that this had been investigated and considered for the current conference and noted that the UCSB Secretariat gives very favorable rates to the IACR but cannot except currencies other than U.S. dollars. Clark then presented an analysis of the currency options available to the IACR -- specifically with regard to possible acceptance of euros. He stated that commercial acceptance of credit cards could be managed with a contract that either charged a percentage plus a fixed constant per transaction or eliminated the fixed cost in exchange for higher percentage rates. He noted that the current fee from UCSB was 2.75% and that the best commercial deals would likely result in a fee of approximately 5% plus a fixed cost of approximately 10 euros. He computed the estimated additional costs would therefore total about 22 euros which were said to be much higher than the cost of foreign currency exchange, and he asserted that it would therefore still be much less expensive for European delegates to pay in U.S. dollars. Clark also noted that the next two Eurocrypts would be hosted by non-Eurozone nations and stated that the dollar would remain the only currency for at least Eurocrypt 2003 and 2004. Clark then raised the issue of electronic registration. He said that he had hoped to have electronic registration in place for Crypto 2002 but that it had been delayed until Crypto 2003 in hopes of having a full solution rather than an interim approach. ________________________________________________________________________ At 16:30 Clark opened the floor for discussion from the membership. ________________________________________________________________________ Markus Dichtl disputed the analysis of currency costs presented by Clark. He noted that many expenses had to be paid in the local currency, asserted that the credit card costs should not be as high as stated, and added that not all payments are made with credit cards. He also noted the international character of the IACR. Clark responded that the IACR is registered in the U.S. Dichtl expressed the view that this policy was a humiliation to other currencies and made the following motion: "Fees for conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the IACR are payable in the local currency of the country where the conference takes place." The motion was seconded by Evangelos Kranakis. Discussion on the motion then began. Paul Van Oorschot noted that the IACR is a volunteer organization and that it was undesirable to place such impositions on those volunteering their time. Jurjen Bos suggested adding different currencies to the motion, but Dichtl said that he did not want any modifications. Desmedt asserted that many delegates are on tight travel budgets and would not wish actions taken that would raise costs. He added his view that economic factors outweigh nationalistic ones here. Niels Ferguson said that as a Dutch national he is happy with U.S. dollars and doesn't want the IACR spending time on this issue. Brian Snow asked for clarification on the Bylaws rules about such motions and was told that members can make motions during Membership meetings. Dichtl was asked if the motion required that only euros be used in Eurozone nations, and he responded that his proposal was not restrictive. Others suggested that the wording of the motion seemed to restrict payments to only the local currency. Clark then answered Snow's question more thoroughly saying that a motion made from the floor of a Membership meeting with a 25-member quorum would, if approved by a simple majority, be enacted or, if in the opinion of the IACR President not reflective of the majority of IACR members, placed on the ballot to be voted upon by the entire membership. A member suggested the establishment of an IACR arm in Europe that would accept payment in euros. Clark responded that this would also entail additional costs. Tal Rabin asked for clarification on whether both dollars and euros could be accepted, and Dichtl responded that this would be fine. Langford noted that two currencies cause administrative problems, and Clark described his experience as General Chair of Eurocrypt '91, in which two currencies were used, as being difficult. Clark then expressed his opinion that multiple currencies were dropped for good reason. Clark then asked for a vote on whether future conferences should accept payment in the local currency only. Approximately 7 members voted "yes", approximately 93 voted "no", and approximately 15 abstained. Clark then moved to consideration of the possibility of accepting multiple currencies. Cachin suggested that Dichtl's motion be amended to not exclude any other currencies. Moti Yung suggested that arrangements for payments be left up to the General Chair and the IACR Board and Ferguson seconded this suggestion. Cachin asked that we stay with the Dichtl motion, and Dichtl amended his motion by adding the sentence: "This does not exclude payments in other currencies if the IACR Board decides so." Rose seconded this amendment. A vote on the amended motion was then taken in which approximately 11 members voted "yes", approximately 100 voted "no", and approximately 20 abstained. ________________________________________________________________________ Phil Rogaway then expressed his unhappiness with the lack of a policy to protect non-smokers at Eurocrypt and offered the following motion: "IACR conference participants are requested not to smoke in lecture halls, the vicinity of lecture halls, and dining areas." Clark offered to write this recommendation into the General Chair Guidelines. Desmedt added his view that General Chairs should have non-smoking areas clearly marked. Clark repeated that he would write this into the General Chair Guidelines. Rogaway asked for clarification as to why this should not be adopted as IACR policy. Clark then suggested that the General Chair Guidelines include a request that the conference area be designated as non-smoking. Many members then expressed their support for a smoking ban. ________________________________________________________________________ A member then asked if it would be possible to produce a CD-ROM with the conference proceedings. Clark responded that he thought that this would be impractical to do within the time restrictions, and McCurley offered to speak privately on this issue. ________________________________________________________________________ A bottle of Champagne was then raffled off to Membership meeting attendees. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership meeting was then adjourned at 17:10. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on August 18, 2002 during Crypto 2002 in Santa Barbara. Reports were received on the final disposition of Asiacrypt 2001 and the status of Crypto 2002, Asiacrypt 2002, Eurocrypt 2003, Crypto 2003, PKC 2003, and FSE 2003. Additional reports were received on IACR finances, membership and secretariat issues, the status of the Journal of Cryptology, and the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive. The Board voted to raise annual IACR dues to $88 for regular members and $44 for student members. The Board voted to appoint James Hughes as General Chair of Crypto 2004. The Board voted to appoint Matthew Franklin as Program Chair of Crypto 2004. The Board invited Don Coppersmith to deliver the 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecture. The Board appointed an Election Committee consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt (Chair), and Rose (Returning Officer). The Board held a discussion with Hilarie Orman regarding the role and activities of the IACR Archivist. The Board re-appointed Beaver as Membership Secretary for the 2003-2005 term. The Board voted to place a proposal on the fall ballot to establish an IACR Fellow designation. The Board voted to thank Cachin and Mihir Bellare for their outstanding work in managing the ePrint Archive. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2002 Santa Barbara 18 August 2002 Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:00. Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Clark, Dawson, Desmedt, Feigenbaum, Gawinecki, Kim, Langford, Matsumoto, McCurley, Preneel, Rose, Schoenmakers, Wolfe, and Wright as well as Hilarie Orman in the role of IACR Archivist and Micky Swick who represented the IACR Secretariat. Proxies were held for Cachin and Knudsen by Preneel, for Maurer by Berson, and for Biham by Gawinecki. ________________________________________________________________________ The agenda for the meeting was reviewed. It consisted of the following. - Welcome participants - identification of proxies (Clark) (5 minutes) - Review and approve agenda (All) (5 minutes) - Approve Minutes from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (10 minutes) - Crypto 2002 status (Wright) (5 minutes) - Financial report (Langford) (5 minutes) - Membership Secretary report (Beaver) (5 minutes) - Newsletter/ePrint Archive report (Cachin) (10 minutes) - Journal of Cryptology report (Feigenbaum) (5 minutes) - IACR Archivist (Clark/Orman/McCurley) (5 minutes) - 2002 Election (Clark) (10 minutes) - Asiacrypt 2002 status (Wolf) (5 minutes) - Eurocrypt 2003 status (Gawinecki) (10 minutes) - Crypto 2003 status (Rose) (5 minutes) - Program and General Chair List Maintenance (Benaloh) (15 minutes) - Crypto 2004 General Chair Appointment (Clark) (5 minutes) - Crypto 2004 Program Chair Appointment (Clark) (20 minutes) - Fellows Program Proposal (Feigenbaum) (15 minutes) - Appointment of Membership Secretary 2003-2006 (Clark) (10 minutes) - Hosting of IACR website and associated facilities (McCurley/Black) (10 minutes) - DMCA follow up (Clark) (15 minutes) - IACR Logo Update (Clark) (2 minutes) - Other Business (Clark) (no more than 60 minutes) - Draft agenda for Membership meeting (All) (10 minutes) - Review of action items Additions to the agenda were as follows. - Rose to discuss Program Committee Guidelines - McCurley to discuss Springer-Verlag contract - Clark to discuss 2003 Distinguished Lecture - Clark to discuss PKC 2003 - Clark to discuss FSE 2003 - Clark to discuss virtual conference proposal of Nigel Smart - Dawson to deliver Asiacrypt 2001 financial report ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then presented a new form that he intended to use to collect action items in advance of preparation of Board meeting minutes. Berson asked that minutes be circulated sooner, and Benaloh committed to circulating draft minutes within 8 weeks. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the status of the conference. She began by noting that Jim Hughes had set up a wireless network for use by delegates and expressed her appreciation for the work that he had done in this regard. She then said that things were going well with approximately 440 registrants (23 of whom received fee waivers). She enumerated 333 regular registrations and 93 student registrations representing a total of 34 countries. She said that she anticipated a modest surplus of approximately $5,000. Rose asked about the typical walk-in registration, and Wright responded that it was normally around 10-15 people. Wright then took credit for the following new features of the conference (most of which she was largely responsible for): jackets being provided as delegate gifts, provision of wireless networking, placement of cafe tables outside the lecture hall, rebuilding of the beach stairway outside of Anacapa Hall, and the scheduling of a softball game for the free afternoon. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then addressed issues relating to a financial report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting. The report stated that IACR funds were stable, that Eurocrypt 2002 had returned a surplus, and that early estimates were that Crypto 2002 would return a small surplus. It also said that tax filings for 2001 had been completed with no significant issues. It estimated the total IACR surplus at $370,000 and suggested that it might be a little low given total 2001 expenses of $616,225 and the undertaking of two new workshop sponsorships. Nevertheless, the report recommended no increase in the $80 per annum IACR dues even though this would likely result in at least a small loss. Data on registration figures for other conferences was then requested. Orman responded that CHES registration had held roughly even over the past year, but Rose reported that Usenix attendance was down roughly 10% -- although the decline might be attributable to the venue outside of DC. Langford then asked that she be informed as soon as possible regarding any new expenses, changes, or the like. After a discussion, Langford agreed to recommend raising the IACR membership dues to $88 per annum for regular members and $44 per annum for student members. Preneel noted that the largest membership expense is the Journal and asked about a lower submission rate. Feigenbaum responded that submissions were actually not lower but added that long-term support for the continued existence of the Journal was still an open question. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to raise the IACR dues to $88 for regular members and $44 for student members. Motion by Langford, seconded by Desmedt, carried 17-0 with 2 abstentions. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then reported on the status of the Newsletter and related items in place of Newsletter Editor Cachin. Clark said that Cachin had proposed moving to a new server but had reported that everything else was working well. Orman expressed the view that the Newsletter was long and would be more readable if it contained more structure. She suggested a "clickable" table of contents. McCurley suggested that the Newsletter be smaller but more frequent since it had become entirely electronic. John Black arrived at this time. ________________________________________________________________________ Journal Editor-in-Chief Feigenbaum then reported on the status of the Journal. Co-Editor-in-Chief Maurer had distributed a report in advance of the meeting in which he expressed concern about a reduction in the number of submissions. Feigenbaum reported that there had been some confusion regarding the submission numbers and that they were not lower. She added that the fall, winter, and spring issues were already full and that work was progressing on the summer issue. She suggested that this was a nearly ideal backlog. Feigenbaum then suggested that the Board have a discussion at some point regarding the continuation of the Journal in paper form. Desmedt offered his thanks to Feigenbaum for her efforts and noted that the Journal had become the fifth ranked publication in the Scientific Citation Index -- ahead of the Journal of the ACM. McCurley then noted that the contract for the Journal would soon need to be renegotiated and volunteered to add this to his negotiations with Springer-Verlag regarding the Proceedings contract. Feigenbaum suggested that the Springer-Verlag LINK service was inconvenient because of the need to use a shared password and that much material was not available on LINK. McCurley said that Springer-Verlag had been reluctant to guarantee full availability of material. Feigenbaum asked if we necessarily wanted to continue with Springer-Verlag. Orman asked whether Springer-Verlag owned the name "Journal of Cryptology", and McCurley responded that the IACR owned the name. Orman asked whether Feigenbaum's concern about the LINK password was a matter of security or convenience, and Feigenbaum responded that it was convenience. Gawinecki said that access to Proceedings would be nice, and Preneel asked if a new Proceedings CD-ROM was planned. McCurley replied that there were no such plans. Clark then assigned an action item to McCurley to work on contracts with Springer-Verlag and to Cachin to distribute the current LINK password to the membership. ________________________________________________________________________ Membership Secretary Beaver then reported on membership issues. Beaver quoted from a report that was distributed electronically the following day. He mentioned a new username and password for LINK access that would be distributed shortly. He said that IACR membership (as of May) had fallen to 1108 in 2002 from 1129 in 2001. He also reported that the membership included 781 men, 129 women, and 198 who had not indicated a gender. Beaver then reported on the findings of the Information Technology Committee regarding provision of membership services. He said that "KAVI" may be able to provide membership services similar to those provided by the UCSB Secretariat and that the costs were estimated at $6,000 per annum. He said that this option would be investigated further by the Information Technology Committee. Clark asked about the condition of the current IACR database. Beaver responded that FSE delegates were not yet in the database. Desmedt noted that "secret members" who had elected not to have their names published needed to be made known to the Election Returning Officer. Clark then asked that appropriate database statistics be made available to the entire membership. Benaloh asked why Beaver was classifying members by gender at all, and Beaver expressed a view that describing the tabulated results of the collected data could help to identify possible inequities. Wright suggested that this might me done less explicitly, and Rose suggested that when this data is collected (such as for Crypto housing) a footnote be included to explain why this data is being collected. Beaver later confirmed that the reason for collecting the data in the first place was for UCSB housing purposes. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then detailed the appointment of Hilarie Orman to the role of IACR Archivist. He said that Orman would assemble a catalogue of candidate materials for archiving in conjunction with McCurley and Cachin. Orman then requested available information on IACR materials in order to make them permanently accessible. Clark expressed a desire for an on-line archive, and Orman said that she had obtained electronic copies of the last four years of IACR conferences. McCurley asked what the goal was and where these materials would be stored. Orman responded that the goal was to increase access. Feigenbaum asked if paper copies could be scanned to provide electronic access. Orman responded that this could be done but that the primary focus would be on electronic source media. Feigenbaum then noted that LaTeX versions of most Journal articles were available. Clark then described the terms of reference for the Archivist role as determining what is available and where it is found and filling in holes in current availability. Clark then took upon himself the action item of asking Program Chairs to send Orman electronic versions of all IACR conference papers. Orman then asked what materials were covered by the Springer-Verlag contract, and McCurley responded that all IACR conferences and workshops were covered. Clark then requested that all people with relevant data sources provide these data to Orman. McCurley then returned to the issue of the purpose of archiving and expressed the view that if the purpose were to increase access, then this would be encumbered by copyright issues. He then suggested that the real purpose of archiving should be to protect materials to maintain a distribution ability. Preneel then expressed the view that archiving and distribution are related and suggested that it might be preferable to negotiate with Spring-Verlag for materials they already have available. Clark reminded the Board that Springer-Verlag has exclusive paper publication rights for three years and non-exclusive rights thereafter. Clark then said that he would circulate terms of reference for the Archivist position to the Board. McCurley then asked if the rump session materials should be archived, and most Board members seemed to feel that at least the rump session program should be maintained. Preneel took upon himself the action item of updating the General Chair Guidelines to reflect the role of the Archivist and asking Knudsen to do the same for the Program Chair Guidelines. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for a ten-minute break at 11:21. The Board reconvened at 11:32. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark noted that there would be a break for lunch at 12:30 and suggested re-arranging the agenda by dealing with selection of General and Program Chairs after lunch and bringing other items forward. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then addressed the issue of elections and appointment of an Election Committee. He noted that the terms of Kim, Maurer, and Preneel were expiring and that all three of their positions would be open. An Election Committee was then appointed consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt, and Rose. [It was subsequently decided that Desmedt would act as Election Committee Chair and that Rose would serve as Returning Officer.] McCurley noted that an announcement regarding the upcoming elections should be made at the forthcoming Membership meeting. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe then reported on the status of the conference. He said that everything was on track and noted that the boat to be used for the excursion had been recently refurbished and should provide a good experience for all attendees. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair Dawson then presented final financial figures for the conference. He said that there had been 164 paid delegates and 4 stipends given and that even though the conference had set a break even point at 200 attendees, a surplus of $2,307.88 had been returned. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki then reported on the status of the conference. He said that a preliminary version of the web site was ready and that a variety of hotels would be available. He noted in response to a question that the Hotel Sofitel would be the venue for the Board meeting. McCurley asked that Gawinecki and other General Chairs report their experiences with the General Chair Guidelines and suggest any necessary improvements. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the conference. He said that everything was steady and that he anticipated no major changes although he was considering having different regional wines featured each night. McCurley suggested that the effects of wireless network access in the meeting room should be monitored. McCurley also noted that hotels are often difficult to book in Santa Barbara and suggested providing more information with advanced registration. Desmedt suggested that a briefing of the IACR Officers on the status of Asiacrypt 2003 be scheduled. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of contract negotiations with Springer-Verlag and circulated a draft contract. He then described the terms of an agreement in principle which included IACR maintaining ownership of copyrights and Springer-Verlag receiving exclusive paper publication rights for three years and non-exclusive paper publication rights thereafter. He asked whether it was necessary to add an explicit clause carving out the ePrint Archive's right to continue as is. Desmedt asked if it would be possible to obtain on-line access to proceedings, and McCurley responded that it would be expensive. Feigenbaum asked if researchers had had trouble with access, and Rose reported an example of a difficulty. Beaver suggested that the ability to browse indices would be useful. Berson expressed a concern that the relationship between the IACR and Springer-Verlag was too dependent upon a single person at Springer-Verlag, and McCurley responded that he had worked to establish other contacts. Beaver asked if the contract should be reviewed by a lawyer, and Clark responded that it had been decided not to do so. Wolfe asked if the IACR should accede to Springer-Verlag's wish to have German jurisdiction, and McCurley replied that he had done some research on the issue and saw no reason to object. Rose suggested avoiding getting too deep into "legalese". Clark asked if there were objections to signing the contract, and, after some discussion, no objections were raised. Clark then set an action item for Cachin to ensure that the ePrint Archive include a statement that work submitted to the ePrint Archive should not be identical to work appearing elsewhere. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of hosting of the IACR web site. He suggested that it was desirable to have a dedicated IACR machine to obtain maximum flexibility and configurability. John Black said that Cachin wanted a dedicated server that was managed full-time by a third party. Clark said that the Information Technology Committee should meet to select a suitable service. Feigenbaum asked why we were contemplating changes, and McCurley responded that Cachin would like to be able to delegate access. Clark then created an action item to have the Information Technology Committee (consisting of Beaver, Desmedt, Langford, McCurley, and Wright) explore alternative ways to support the needs of the IACR and report back to the Board by the end of January. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for lunch at 12:37. The Board reconvened at 13:15. ________________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then reported on the status of PKC 2003. He said that there had been 104 papers submitted and that everything seemed fine. ________________________________________________________________________ Preneel then reported on the status of FSE 2003. He said that everything was progressing well. Wright noted the need to be careful with overlapping IACR conference and workshop registration periods to ensure that correct dues payments are collected. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then raised the issue of Program Chair selection methods. Clark had circulated in advance of the meeting a proposed process for adding candidates to a selection list. Benaloh said that he didn't want formal candidate lists to be maintained but instead wanted lists to remain informal. Feigenbaum said that the original intention was to simply maintain a list of suggested Program Chairs without structure, and she added that she had wanted to maintain the informal nature. Clark said that he had had a perception of the lists as being more formal with a view that all candidates on these lists had already been deemed suitable. Berson said that he recalled the original purpose of these lists as solely to maintain an institutional memory. He then asked if the process was not working and what needed to be done to improve it. Clark then expressed the view that the Board should ask that Program Chair recommendations not be included in proposals. Preneel suggested that any recommendation of a Program Chair should include a short supporting statement. Clark then said that he did not feel that it was necessary to maintain formal lists. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask James Hughes to serve as General Chair for Crypto 2004. ************************************************************************ [James Hughes subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Matthew Franklin to serve as Program Chair for Crypto 2004. ************************************************************************ [Matthew Franklin subsequently agreed to serve in this role.] ************************************************************************ The Board voted to ask Don Coppersmith to deliver the 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecture at Asiacrypt 2003. ************************************************************************ [Don Coppersmith subsequently agreed to deliver this lecture.] ________________________________________________________________________ The Board recessed for a five-minute break at 14:30. The Board reconvened at 14:38. ________________________________________________________________________ The issue of Program Chair Guidelines was then raised. Rose asked about Program Committee size noting that 175 submissions were received by Asiacrypt 2002. He expressed the view that consistency of reviewing is difficult if the Program Committee is too large. Preneel suggested that this should be the responsibility of the Program Chair. Clark suggested considering two separate issues: consistency or Program Committee work and amount of work per Committee member. Rose expressed the view that Committee members need to understand their responsibilities. Preneel suggested that resubmissions make it desirable to have some overlap between successive Program Committees. Clark proposed that the latest Program Committee Guidelines be posted as soon as possible, and there were no objections to this proposal. Rose suggested that independent Program Committees would be useful. Wright noted that the Program Chair Guidelines currently suggest an overlap with previous Program Committees. Desmedt then suggested extending conferences to accommodate more papers. He also suggested parallel sessions. Clark then suggested having a discussion by email in advance of the next Board meeting. Schoenmakers suggested that Program Chairs communicate with prior Program Chairs. Benaloh suggested that future Program Chairs be official observers on prior Program Committees. Desmedt then suggested that Program Chairs should be observers at Board meetings. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then initiated a discussion of IACR logos. He said that a color logo was in progress. Schoenmakers noted that the Eurocrypt logo is constantly reinvented and suggested that this might be simplified. Wright asked whether other variants would be permitted. Clark expressed the view that variants should not be permitted and that the IACR logo should not be changed. He added his view that conferences should be able to add other distinctive logos. ________________________________________________________________________ Feigenbaum then initiated discussion of a proposal to create an IACR Fellows designation. Feigenbaum asserted that the Board must decide whether or not to support the idea. Benaloh said that he wants this to be decided by the membership rather than the Board. Clark said that he preferred this be decided by the Board. Desmedt expressed the desire that the idea be separated from the process. Rose suggested that the Board should make a decision and then take that decision to the membership. Feigenbaum asked if anyone thought that the designation was a bad idea. Desmedt said that he wanted separate designations for research and service Fellows. Feigenbaum expressed the opinion that a Fellow should be a model citizen of the IACR and not necessarily a brilliant researcher. Clark observed that at Eurocrypt there was a consensus that the proposal lacked sufficient detail and that greater detail had now been provided. Berson asked why we would want to do this. Feigenbaum responded that it would recognize senior members who have been excellent citizens and can use the designation to better represent the IACR and that it would also give better standing to deserving individuals. Berson said that he felt uncomfortable because such a designation would possibly benefit him and Board members but supports the idea because of his expectation that it would benefit the field. Desmedt suggested that Fellows might be able to obtain grants more easily and reiterated his view that the designation not be given for service. Rose expressed the opinion that members of a selection committee would be likely to be very self-critical. Clark asked for a straw pole to get the mood of the Board. Ten members expressed support for the idea and seven abstained. Feigenbaum then expressed the view that the process used by the ACM was good. It consists of a Fellowship Committee with long terms and a rotating chair that receives nominations from and for any ACM members. She said that it targets a maximum of 5% of the membership to receive the Fellow designations. Benaloh asked how the Fellowship Committee members would be selected. Feigenbaum responded that the selection would be made by the Board and/or perhaps by other means. Benaloh asked if election by the membership might be a suitable means, and Feigenbaum responded that she thought not. Desmedt suggested seeding the Fellowship Committee with several luminaries selected by the Board and then have it appoint its own members. Clark expressed general support for the proposal but asked that a specific proposal be tailored to the IACR. Rose suggested that a single vote be taken as part of the fall election ballot. Desmedt insisted that the proposal be specific at the time of the vote. Rose suggested that the IACR Bylaws be amended to establish a Fellowship Committee and include general goals but not details. Clark asked what details would be appropriate, and Desmedt asserted that a Fellowship Committee should not be selected by a single Chair. Rose noted that the ACM Bylaws have a simple high-level description of the existence of ACM Fellows. McCurley expressed the desire that a Fellowship Committee be as independent as possible. Rose suggested an individual be appointed as a Chair and asked to select the first Fellowship Committee. Clark asked for volunteers to support Feigenbaum in drafting a detailed proposal. Berson, McCurley, Preneel, and Rose volunteered. Clark expressed the opinion that the Bylaws should not specify process. Feigenbaum then suggested the need to settle on a process. Desmedt asserted that most Board members are not elected by the membership. [A subsequent count revealed that 12 of 21 Board members were elected directly by the membership with the remaining 9 appointed by the Board to fill various roles.] Feigenbaum suggested that the Board select a Fellowship Chair who then selects 4 other Fellowship Committee members. Clark asked if a five-member Fellowship Committee was reasonable, and general agreement was given to the size. Feigenbaum suggested that the Fellowship Committee be self-replacing. Berson suggested the Committee be seeded with two people selected by the Board. McCurley then suggested that the Board select the first three IACR Fellows and have them seed the Fellowship Committee to continue the process. Rose said that he was happy with Feigenbaum's proposal. McCurley asked why the Bylaws should be amended, and Benaloh responded that it would add credibility to the designation. Feigenbaum then suggested the Fellowship Committee members serve five-year terms, that the Board select a Fellowship Committee Chair who would then be charged with selecting the rest of the initial Fellowship Committee on staggered terms, and that the Committee target a maximum of 5% of the IACR membership for this designation. Clark then asked how the Board felt about appointing a Chair who would appoint the remaining Committee members. McCurley asked if the Chair would be known to the membership at the time of voting on the proposal, and the consensus was that the Chair not be known. Clark then proposed that the Election Committee place on the fall ballot a proposal to establish an IACR Fellows program with an appropriate amendment to the Bylaws and that the Board appoint two members who would be charged with selecting three other members according to Feigenbaum's proposal. Desmedt then suggested that no person should simultaneously be on both the Board and the Fellowship Committee. ************************************************************************ Clark moved the passage of his proposal and Rose seconded. The proposal that the Election Committee place on the fall ballot a proposal to establish an IACR Fellows program with an appropriate amendment to the Bylaws and that the Board appoint two members who would be charged with selecting three other members according to Feigenbaum's proposal carried 10-4 with 4 abstentions. ************************************************************************ Feigenbaum then agreed to post details of the proposal on the IACR web page. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then raised the issue of appointing a Membership Secretary for the 2003-2005 term. Clark asked Beaver if he was willing to continue in the role. Beaver said that he felt that he had gotten behind and that he wanted to have an opportunity to catch up and work on Information Technology issues. He added the view that transitions are difficult. Clark then took upon himself an action item to distribute terms of reference for the Membership Secretary position. Beaver then left the room. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to re-appoint Beaver as Membership Secretary for 2003-2005. ************************************************************************ Upon his return, Beaver accepted the re-appointment. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then addressed a "virtual conference" proposal offered by Nigel Smart. However, it was found that there was insufficient support and bandwidth on the Board to pursue the proposal at this time. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then initiated a follow-up on issues relating to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He said that he was in the process of drafting a letter regarding the DMCA and European Union directives and that he would circulate this letter within the next four weeks. He added that he believed that the IACR should be apolitical but noted that these issues directly impact the ability of IACR members to do their jobs and negatively impacts the field. McCurley suggested many prospective recipients of Clark's letter. ________________________________________________________________________ Clark then compiled action items for the Membership meeting. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then asked that the Board re-affirm support for the editors of the ePrint Archive and their editorial control. ************************************************************************ McCurley then moved a vote of thanks to Cachin and Mihir Bellare for their outstanding work in managing the ePrint Archive. Berson seconded, and the motion carried 18-0 with 1 abstention. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 17:08. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Membership Meeting Crypto 2002 Santa Barbara 21 August 2002 IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 17:15. Clark informed attendees that unless they'd taken action otherwise, they were members of the IACR for 2003. Raffle tickets were distributed to those in attendance for a drawing for a bottle of wine. Clark presented the meeting agenda which consisted of information about the IACR, its Board of Directors, its finances, its conferences and workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, current issues, and a period of open discussion. Clark then quoted the purposes of the IACR from the Bylaws as "to advance the theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and to promote the interests of its members with respect thereto, and to serve the public welfare." He then described the three annual IACR conferences of Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt and the two IACR-sponsored workshops: FSE and PKC. He then described IACR publications of the Journal of Cryptology and the IACR Newsletter and noted the web site at www.iacr.org. Clark then introduced the members of the Board of Directors. Clark next offered his thanks to Kevin McCurley for his six years as IACR President, his work with the IACR web site, his production of a CD of past IACR proceedings, and his many other contributions to the IACR and its members. Clark then presented McCurley with a plaque signed by all of the past presidents of the IACR gratefully acknowledging his many contributions. Clark then presented a brief financial report noting that IACR finances were stable with reserves of approximately $363,000 (approximately $350,000 at the end of 2001). He added that all three IACR conferences in 2001 had returned modest surpluses and that the 2002 conferences were on track. He also noted that attendance at Crypto had decreased by approximately 10% which was less of a drop than had been suffered by many other conferences in Computer Science and related fields. Clark then announced the decision by the Board to raise IACR annual dues from $80 for regular members and $40 for student members to $88 for regular members and $44 for student members. Clark then expressed thanks to Crypto 2002 General Chair Rebecca Wright and Program Chair Moti Yung and presented them plaques of appreciation. He also specifically thanked Wright for her extraordinary efforts in arranging for an IACR softball game and ensuring that the steps to the beach were rebuilt. Clark then enumerated upcoming IACR conferences and workshops as follows. Asiacrypt 2002 Queenstown, New Zealand December 1-5 PKC 2003 Miami, Florida January 6-8 FSE 2003 Lund, Sweden February 24-26 Eurocrypt 2003 Warsaw, Poland May 4-8 Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara August 17-21 Asiacrypt 2003 Taipei, Taiwan December 7-11* *[The Asiacrypt 2003 dates have been amended to November 30 - December 4.] Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Henry Wolfe invited attendees to the conference noting that there had been 175 papers submitted. PKC 2002 General Chair Mike Burmester invited attendees to the workshop and solicited sponsors. It was also noted that as a newly IACR-sponsored workshop, PKC would afford attendees their first opportunity to pay their 2004 IACR membership dues. Clark then solicited proposals to host conferences and workshops in 2005. Clark next reported on the Journal of Cryptology noting that the Editor-in-Chief position was in the process of being passed from Feigenbaum to Maurer. He noted that the Journal of Cryptology is the premier journal in the field and that roughly 75% of the IACR membership dues are used to pay for subscriptions to the Journal. He then solicited high-quality submissions for the Journal. Clark then reported on the Newsletter noting that Cachin had been re-appointed as Editor. He said that a flat text version was distributed by email thrice annually and that a richer version was available on the IACR web site. He asked that items of interest be sent to "newsletter@iacr.org". Clark then asked for a straw poll as to whether members preferred that the entire Newsletter be sent by email of that a notification and pointer be sent instead. A large majority seemed to prefer the notification and pointer option. Clark then reported on the 2002 election noting that three board positions were being vacated. He introduced the Nomination and Election Committee consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt, and Rose and encouraged interested people to speak with a member of the Committee. Clark then described the IACR Fellows designation that had been put forward by Feigenbaum. He said that the proposal included an amendment to the IACR Bylaws that would be placed on the fall ballot. Clark next announced the appointment of Hilarie Orman to the role of IACR Archivist and said that past IACR publications were being catalogued in co-operation with Springer-Verlag. Clark then turned to the issue of electronic registration for IACR conferences. He said that the Board had appointed an Information Technology Strategy Committee and hoped to have electronic registration in place for Crypto 2003. Clark then described the LINK access to publications provided by Spinger-Verlag. He noted the URLs of link.springer-ny.com and link.springer.de and provided a suitable user name and password for access. He then gave a brief demonstration of the service and noted that the earliest available entries were all Cryptology-related. He said that the access password would be emailed to IACR members and agreed to explore with Springer-Verlag the possibility of including earlier volumes of the Journal of Cryptology. ________________________________________________________________________ At 17:43 Clark opened the floor for discussion from the membership. ________________________________________________________________________ Rich Schroeppel asked if a referendum mechanism could be added to the IACR Bylaws and was told that such a mechanism was already in place. A member suggested parallel sessions to enable the acceptance of more papers while shortening the length of the conference. McCurley asked for a show of hands regarding the possibility of parallel sessions, and a strong majority expressed a desire to not have parallel sessions. Niels Ferguson suggested shortening talks to enable acceptance of more papers. Clark responded that he likes the current length of talks. Gideon Yuval suggested that session chairs be more forceful about enforcing the schedule. Dan Bernstein asked that the Springer-Verlag LINK password stay constant, and Clark responded that this was managed by Springer-Verlag. Joe Kilian expressed discomfort with the proposed change to the Bylaws without an opportunity for open debate. He then asked if an on-line discussion mechanism could be made available. Clark responded that the IACR depends upon volunteers and sought suggestions, and Feigenbaum asked for a volunteer to act as a moderator for an on-line discussion. Mike Burmester expressed the view that the cost of the Journal of Cryptology was high and asked why all members had to pay for it. Clark responded that the Journal is the premier scientific publication in its field and expressed concern about raising costs for those who elect to subscribe. Langford noted that the cost was approximately $60 per year. Burmester said that he wanted Springer-Verlag to take commercial responsibility for the Journal, and Feigenbaum responded that it does. Both Clark and Jimmy Upton reported that subscribing directly to the Journal is far more expensive than being an IACR member. Victor Miller asked about the possibility of institutional memberships in the IACR. Clark responded that institutional memberships had been discontinued about 6-7 years ago because of the administrative burden. A member asked if it would be possible to avoid presentation of rejected papers at the rump session. Clark responded that this was up to the rump session chair. McCurley suggested discouraging conference announcements at the rump session, while another member suggested that rejected papers were more valuable at the rump session than accepted papers. A drawing was then held to raffle off a bottle of wine. ________________________________________________________________________ The Membership meeting was then adjourned at 18:00. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcements ______________________________________________________________________________ ***** Theory of cryptography conference (TCC) We would like to announce the formation of a new annual conference called the Theory of cryptography conference (TCC). The first TCC will be held in February 2004 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Please refer to http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/ for information about TCC04 and the series in general. -The Steering Committee of TCC: Mihir Bellare UCSD, USA (Chair) Ivan Damgård Aarhus University, Denmark Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute, Israel Shafi Goldwasser MIT, USA Johan Håstad Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Russell Impagliazzo UCSD, USA Ueli Maurer ETH, Switzerland Silvio Micali MIT, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute, Israel Tatsuaki Okamoto NTT, Japan ***** NESSIE project announces final selection of crypto algorithms An open competition for the crypto algorithms of the 21st century. The NESSIE project (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) (2000-2003) evaluates crypto algorithms. Crypto algorithms are the equivalent of locks, seals, security stamps and identification documents on the Internet. They are essential to protect our on-line bank transactions, credit cards, and personal information and to support e-commerce and e-government. Today, the NESSIE project announces the selection of a strong portfolio of crypto algorithms that will protect the information society. In September 2000, cryptographers from more than 10 different countries all over the globe submitted 42 crypto algorithms. Since then, researchers inside and outside the NESSIE project have tried to attack these algorithms, attempting to find weaknesses that would compromise their security. In addition, the efficiency of these algorithms (how fast are they?) has been assessed. As a consequence of this evaluation, the set of 42 contenders has been reduced to 24 candidates in September 2001. A second selection phase ending today has reduced this number to 12; in addition, NESSIE recommends 5 algorithms that have been selected from existing or emerging standards. Crypto algorithms are mathematical formulas that are essential to protect electronic information. They come in different flavours. Encryption algorithms are essential to protect sensitive information such as medical data, financial information and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) from prying eyes. The project distinguishes between three types of encryption algorithms: block ciphers, stream ciphers and public-key encryption algorithms. Digital signature algorithms (in combination with hash functions) replace manual signatures in electronic transactions. A similar role can be played by MAC algorithms. Identification protocols allow to securely verify the identity of the party at the other end of the line. Standards play an important role in the choice of a cryptographic algorithm. The NESSIE project is not a standardisation body (it does not write NESSIE standards), but the NESSIE project forms the bridge between the research community and the user community by testing and comparing algorithms before standardising them. The NESSIE project intends to input these algorithms to standardisation bodies such as ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). NESSIE has selected the following 12 algorithms from the 42 submissions; in addition, 5 well established standard algorithms have been added to the NESSIE portfolio (indicated with a *): * Block ciphers: + MISTY1: Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan; + Camellia: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan; + SHACAL-2: Gemplus, France; + AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)* (USA FIPS 197) (Rijndael). * Public-key encryption: + ACE Encrypt: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland; + PSEC-KEM: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan; + RSA-KEM* (draft of ISO/IEC 18033-2). * MAC algorithms and hash functions: + Two-Track-MAC: K.U.Leuven, Belgium and debis AG, Germany; + UMAC: Intel Corp., USA, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, USA, IBM Research Laboratory, USA, Technion, Israel and Univ. of California at Davis, USA; + CBC-MAC* (ISO/IEC 9797-1); + HMAC* (ISO/IEC 9797-1); + Whirlpool: Scopus Tecnologia S.A., Brazil and K.U.Leuven, Belgium; + SHA-256*, SHA-384* and SHA-512* (USA FIPS 180-2). * Digital signature algorithms: + ECDSA: Certicom Corp., USA and Certicom Corp., Canada; + RSA-PSS: RSA Laboratories, USA; + SFLASH: Schlumberger, France. * Identification schemes: + GPS: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Télécom and La Poste, France. No weaknesses have been identified in any of these 17 algorithms. We believe that many of these algorithms present a significant improvement in the state of the art. The 10 symmetric primitives in this portofolio (4 block ciphers, 4 MAC algorithms and 2 hash functions) can be used for free. The asymmetric primitives RSA-KEM, RSA-PSS and SFLASH are also in the public domain. PSEC-KEM is available under very favourable conditions. Licenses need to be negotiated for ACE Encrypt, ECDSA and GPS, but the owners have promised to offer reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. It is quite remarkable that none of the six submitted stream ciphers meets the rather stringent security requirements put forward by NESSIE. The evaluation process has been a fully open process based on published evaluation criteria. A significant effort has been spent by the project team. In addition, feedback has been received from the global cryptographic community; all comments have been made public. The project has interacted with a project industry board, which consists of representatives from the key European security vendors and users. Four well attended open workshops have been held to discuss the candidates and the evaluation results: November 2000 in Leuven (B), September 2001 in Egham (UK), November 2002 in Munich (D) and February 2003 in Lund (S). Detailed evaluation reports on security and performance, as well as a document motivating the final selection are available at http://www.cryptonessie.org. The NESSIE project is currently writing a specification of these algorithms which is targeted towards implementers and standardisation bodies. NESSIE encourages the community at large to include the algorithms in the NESSIE portfolio in standards and products. NESSIE is a research project within the Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme of the European Commission (IST-1999-12324). The project partners are: · Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), coordinator; · Ecole Normale Supérieure (France); · Royal Holloway, University of London (U.K.); · Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Germany); · Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel); · Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium); · Universitetet i Bergen (Norway). ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ (The list contains reports posted since the last newsletter issue appeared.) 2003/034 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the (In)security of the Fiat-Shamir Paradigm Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman 2003/033 ( PDF ) Integral Cryptanalysis on reduced-round Safer++ Gilles Piret and Jean-Jacques Quisquater 2003/032 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Framework for Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange Rosario Gennaro and Yehuda Lindell 2003/031 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptographic Tamper Evidence Gene Itkis 2003/030 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings Ronald Cramer and Serge Fehr and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz 2003/029 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Universal Padding Schemes for RSA with Optimal Bandwidth of Message Recovery Wenbo Mao and John Malone-Lee 2003/028 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems in the Presence of Permanent and Transient Faults Mathieu Ciet and Marc Joye 2003/027 ( PS PS.GZ ) Cryptographic Randomized Response Techniques Andris Ambainis and Markus Jakobsson and Helger Lipmaa 2003/026 ( PDF ) Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems: Closing the Performance Gap to Elliptic Curves Jan Pelzl and Thomas Wollinger and Jorge Guajardo and Christof Paar 2003/025 ( PS PS.GZ ) Homomorphic public-key cryptosystems and encrypting boolean circuits D.Grigoriev. I.Ponomarenko 2003/024 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Modeling IND-CCA Security in Cryptographic Protocols Dennis Hofheinz and Joern Mueller-Quade and Rainer Steinwandt 2003/023 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) New identity based signcryption schemes from pairings Benoît Libert and Jean-Jacques Quisquater 2003/022 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Did Filiol Break AES ? Nicolas T. Courtois and Robert T. Johnson and Pascal Junod and Thomas Pornin and Michael Scott 2003/021 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Online Auction Mechanism with Tradeoffs Between Bid Privacy, Cognitive Cost and Number of Rounds Helger Lipmaa 2003/020 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Attacks based on Conditional Correlations against the Nonlinear Filter Generator Bernhard L\"ohlein 2003/019 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Braid Diffie-Hellman Conjugacy Problem Jung Hee Cheon and Byungheup Jun 2003/018 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol on Braid groups HO-KYU LEE, HYANG-SOOK LEE, YOUNG-RAN LEE 2003/017 ( PS PS.GZ ) Perfect Hash Families with Few Functions Simon R. Blackburn 2003/016 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Threshold GQ Signature Scheme Cheng-Kang Chu and Li-Shan Liu and Wen-Guey Tzeng 2003/015 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Universally Composable Cryptographic Library Michael Backes and Birgit Pfitzmann and Michael Waidner 2003/014 ( PS PS.GZ ) Hiji-bij-bij: A New Stream Cipher with Self-Synchronizing and MAC Modes of Operation Palash Sarkar 2003/013 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Security Constraints on the Oswald-Aigner Exponentiation Algorithm Colin D. Walter 2003/012 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The number of initial states of the RC4 cipher with the same cycle structure Marina Pudovkina 2003/011 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Lee-Hwang-Li's Key Authentication Scheme Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim 2003/010 ( PDF ) Differential Fault Analysis on A.E.S. P. Dusart, G. Letourneux and O. Vivolo 2003/009 ( PS PS.GZ ) Domain Extenders for UOWHFs: A Generic Lower Bound on Key Expansion and a Finite Binary Tree Algorithm Palash Sarkar 2003/008 ( PS PS.GZ ) DFA on AES Christophe Giraud 2003/007 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Price Negotiable Transaction System Huafei Zhu 2003/006 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Multi-Party Computation from any Linear Secret Sharing Scheme Ventzislav Nikov, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel 2003/005 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Distributing the Encryption and Decryption of a Block Cipher Keith M. Martin, Rei Safavi-Naini, Huaxiong Wang and Peter R. Wild 2003/004 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) ID-based tripartite Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols from pairings Divya Nalla, and K.C.Reddy 2003/003 ( PS PS.GZ ) Plaintext-dependant Repetition Codes Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers - The AES Case Eric FILIOL 2003/002 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Imperfect Decryption and an Attack on the NTRU Encryption Scheme John Proos 2003/001 ( PDF ) A Mode of Operation with Partial Encryption and Message Integrity Philip Hawkes and Gregory G. Rose 2002/195 ( PS PS.GZ ) An addition to the paper: A polarisation based visual crypto system and its secret sharing schemes H.D.L. Hollmann, J.H.v. Lint, L. Tolhuizen, P. Tuyls 2002/194 ( PS PS.GZ ) A polarisation based Visual Crypto System and its Secret Sharing Schemes P. Tuyls, H.D.L. Hollmann, J.H.v. Lint, L. Tolhuizen 2002/193 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Note on Ideal Tripartite Access Structures Michael J. Collins 2002/192 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Proofs of Security for Password-Based Key Exchange (IEEE P1363 AuthA Protocol and Extensions) Emmanuel Bresson and Olivier Chevassut and David Pointcheval 2002/191 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Linearization Attack on the Bluetooth Key Stream Generator Frederik Armknecht 2002/190 ( PS PS.GZ ) Parallelizable Authentication Trees Eric Hall and Charanjit S. Jutla 2002/189 ( PS PS.GZ ) Bit-Slice Auction Circuit Kaoru Kurosawa and Wakaha Ogata 2002/188 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks on Optimized NTRU Jin Hong and Jae Woo Han and Daesung Kwon and Daewan Han 2002/187 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Entity Authentication Schemes Using Braid Word Reduction Herv\'e SIBERT and Patrick DEHORNOY and Marc GIRAULT 2002/186 ( PS PS.GZ ) Zero-Knowledge twenty years after its invention Oded Goldreich 2002/185 ( PDF ) Turing, a fast stream cipher Greg Rose and Philip Hawkes 2002/184 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Identity Based Authenticated Key Agreement from Pairings Liqun Chen and Caroline Kudla 2002/183 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Simple backdoors to RSA key generation Claude Cr\'epeau and Alain Slakmon 2002/182 ( PS PS.GZ ) Oblivious Keyword Search Wakaha Ogata and Kaoru Kurosawa 2002/181 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Counting Points on the Jacobian Variety of a Hyperelliptic Curve defined by $y^2=x^5+ax$ over a Prime Field Eisaku Furukawa and Mitsuru Kawazoe and Tetsuya Takahashi 2002/180 ( PS PS.GZ ) OMAC: One-Key CBC MAC Tetsu Iwata and Kaoru Kurosawa 2002/179 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Parallel Algorithm for Multiplication on Elliptic Curves Juan Manuel Garcia Garcia and Rolando Menchaca Garcia 2002/178 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Attack on A New Public Key Cryptosystem from ISC'02 (LNCS 2433) Fangguo Zhang, Shengli Liu and Kwangjo Kim 2002/177 ( PDF ) two attacks on xia-you Group Signature Jianhong Zhang Jilin Wang Yumin Wang 2002/176 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Theoretical Analysis of ``Correlations in RC6'' Masahiko Takenaka, Takeshi Shimoyama, Takeshi Koshiba 2002/175 ( PS PS.GZ ) Aggregate and Verifiably Encrypted Signatures from Bilinear Maps Dan Boneh and Craig Gentry and Ben Lynn and Hovav Shacham 2002/174 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Designer's Guide to KEMs Alexander W. Dent 2002/173 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Group Signatures without Trapdoors Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros 2002/172 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) PECDSA. How to build a DL-based digital signature scheme with the best proven security Louis Granboulan 2002/171 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Statistical weaknesses in the alleged RC4 keystream generator Marina Pudovkina 2002/170 ( PS PS.GZ ) An Analysis of RMAC Jack Lloyd 2002/169 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Theoretical Use of Cache Memory as a Cryptanalytic Side-Channel D. Page 2002/168 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) New Signature Scheme Using Conjugacy Problem Ki Hyoung Ko and Doo Ho Choi and Mi Sung Cho and Jang Won Lee 2002/167 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Two New Signature Schemes Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim 2002/166 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Multi-Party Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols from Multilinear Forms Ho-Kyu Lee and Hyang-Sook Lee and Young-Ran Lee 2002/165 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Coercion-Resistant Electronic Elections Ari Juels and Markus Jakobsson 2002/164 ( PS PS.GZ ) Authenticated ID-based Key Exchange and remote log-in with insecure token and PIN number Mike Scott 2002/163 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Man-in-the-Middle in Tunnelled Authentication Protocols N. Asokan and Valtteri Niemi and Kaisa Nyberg 2002/162 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Constructing Locally Computable Extractors and Cryptosystems in the Bounded Storage Model Salil P. Vadhan 2002/161 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Practical Verifiable Encryption and Decryption of Discrete Logarithms Jan Camenisch and Victor Shoup 2002/160 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptology and Physical Security: Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks Matt Blaze ______________________________________________________________________________ New Books ______________________________________________________________________________ This page lists new books about cryptology, and occasionally reviews one. Cryptography, An Introduction by Nigel Smart, McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0 077 09987 7 (PB). Nigel Smart's Cryptography provides the rigorous detail required for advanced cryptographic studies, yet approaches the subject matter in an accessible style in order to gently guide new students through difficult mathematical topics. Covering the latest developments in cryptography, including the Rijndael algorithm chosen for the new Advanced Encryption Standard, the OAEP padding system for RSA, elliptic curve based systems and provable security this book is a complete introduction to cryptography. Part I Mathematical Background 1 Modular Arithmetic, Groups, Finite Fields and Probability 2 Elliptic Curves Part II Symmetric Encryption 3 Historical Ciphers 4 Information Theoretic Security 5 Symmetric Ciphers 6 Symmetric Key Distribution Part III Public Key Encryption and Signatures 7 Basic Public Key Encryption Algorithms 8 Primality Testing and Factoring 9 Discrete Logarithms 10 Key Exchange, Signature Schemes and Hash Functions 11 Implementation Issues 12 Obtaining Authentic Public Keys 13 Protocols Part IV Security Issues 14 Attacks on Public Key Schemes 15 Definitions of Security 16 Complexity Theoretic Approaches 17 Provable Security: With Random Oracles 18 Provable Security: Without Random Oracles Appendices Appendix A Basic Mathematical Terminology Appendix B Java Examples Index More information can be obtained from http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0077099877.html The above site allows you to order the book for most territories. If you wish to adopt this book for a course in North America you should contact Betsy_Jones@mcgraw-hill.com or place an order with McGraw-Hill... call 1-877-833-5524, 8:00AM to 4:30PM EST, Monday through Friday. (US customers only). Orders can also be submitted via mail, fax, or e-mail. McGraw-Hill Companies PO Box 182605 Columbus, OH 43218-2605 Phone: 1-877-833-5524 Students Phone: 1-800-338-3987 Instructors Fax: 1-614-759-3644 email: pbg.ecommerce_custserv@mcgraw-hill.com _________________________________________________________________ Please send your new book announcements to the newsletter editor at newsletter at iacr.org ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology. The listing is available on the Web at [1]http://www.iacr.org/jobs/ and also included in the [2]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 [3]become a member of IACR. On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for sponsors for its conferences. _________________________________________________________________ Cambridge University, Centre for Quantum Computation Please take note of the following job opening: The Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation The Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation wishes to appoint one or more postdoctoral researchers in theoretical quantum cryptography. The position or positions are associated with the EU-funded project PROSECCO, which aims to develop new quantum cryptographic protocols and improved security analyses for quantum cryptography. Funds are available till January 2006 and the position or positions are available immediately. Applicants should send a letter of application supported by a full CV and arrange for three reference letters to be sent to: Kaija Hampson, DAMTP, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, email: K.K.Hampson@damtp.cam.ac.uk Tel +44 (0)1223 760 394. Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Adrian Kent, University Lecturer in Quantum Information, Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K, email: a.p.a.kent@damtp.cam.ac.uk Tel +44 1223 760 379. The closing date: 7 March 2003 Salary in the range £18,265 to £27,339 pa -- Dr Adrian Kent, University Lecturer in Quantum Information Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K. tel +44 1223 760379 (11-Dec-02, revised 16-feb-03) _________________________________________________________________ Macquarie University Department of Computing and Centre for Advanced Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography, Macquarie University One or two full time positions of Research Fellow in Algorithms and Cryptography are available. For more information see http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/acac/positions/ (07-Feb-03) _________________________________________________________________ Carleton University (Canada) We have a faculty opening in Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada), to strengthen our new Digital Security Group. Targeted areas: computer security, network security, applied cryptography. Deadline: 15 January 2003 (but applications accepted until position filled). Start date: 1 July 2003. We have a preference towards fundamental research in practical aspects of security. For formal advertisement and contact details, see the link at the bottom of: http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/dsg/dsgtop.html (17-Nov-02) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 . (The current condition for being listed here is that the description of an event must match the word "*crypt*".) 2003 * [1]FSE 2003, February 24-26, Lund, Sweden. * [2]8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS), March 2-7, Palmse, Estonia. * [3]First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, March 12-14, Boppard, Germany. * [4]New Directions in Scalable Cyber-Security in Large-Scale Networks: Deployment Obstacles, March 13-14, Reston (VA), USA. * [5]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2003), March 24-28, Versailles, France. * [6]Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2003, Mar 26-28, Dresden, Germany. * [7]2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'2003), March 31 through April 4, Paris, France. * [8]Cryptographers' Track RSA Conference 2003 (CT-RSA 2003), April 13-17, San Francisco, USA. * [9]Eurocrypt 2003, May 4-8, Warsaw, Poland. * [10]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 11-14, Oakland, California, USA. * [11]Conference in Number Theory in Honour of Professor H.C. Williams, May 24-30, Banff, Alberta, Canada. * [12]35th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), June 9-11, San Diego, USA. * [13]ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'03), June 9-12, San Diego, USA. * [14]Workshop on Principles of Dependable Systems (PoDSy 2003), June 22, San Francisco, USA. * [15]2003 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'03), June 23-26, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, USA. * [16]Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Combinatorics (CCC 2003), June 23-28, Yellow Mountain City, China. * [17]Foundations of Computer Security (satellite workshop of LICS'03), June 26-27, Ottawa, Canada. * [18]3rd Central European Conference on Cryptology (TATRACRYPT '03), June 26-28, 2003, Bratislava, Slovakia. * [19]2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2003), June 29-July 4, Yokohama, Japan. * [20]Eighth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2003), July 9-11, Wollongong, Australia. * [21]Security in Distributed Computing Special Track (PODC 2003), July 13-16, Boston, USA. * [22]7th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2003), August 11-13, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. * [23]Tenth Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2003), August 14-15, Ottawa, Canada. * [24]Crypto 2003, August 17-21, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [25]Second International Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (TrustBus'03), September 1-5, Prague, Czech Republic. * [26]Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2003, September 7-10, Cologne, Germany. * [27]International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS03), September 24-26, Miami, Florida, USA. * [28]6th Information Security Conference (ISC'03), October 1-3, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. * [29]Fifth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2003), October 10-13, Huhehaote City, Inner-Mongolia, China. * [30]8th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2003), October 13-15, Gjøvik, Norway. * [31]1st MiAn International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, October 16-19, Kunming, China. * [32]Third International Workshop for Asian PKI (IWAP2003), October 27-29, Kokura (Kita-Kyushu), Japan. * [33]10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2003), October 27-30, Washington, DC, USA. * [34]Asiacrypt 2003, November 30-December 4, Taipei, Taiwan. * [35]Fourth International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2003), December 8-10, New Delhi, India. 2004 * [36]Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2004), February 18-20, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. * [37]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2004), March 1-4, Singapore. * [38]Eurocrypt 2004, May 2-6, Interlaken, Switzerland. * [39]Crypto 2004, late August, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [40]Asiacrypt 2004, December 5-9, Jeju Island, Korea. Past events are [41]archived here. References 1. http://www.iacr.org/workshops/fse2003/ 2. http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003 3. http://www.dfki.de/spc2003 4. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/LSN.pdf 5. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2003/ 6. http://www.petworkshop.org/ 7. http://itw2003.enst.fr/ 8. http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/ 9. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2003/ 10. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html 11. http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/numtheory/ 12. http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~bein/stoc03.html 13. http://www.iacr.org/events/ 14. http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/fgaertner/podsy2003/ 15. http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2003/SAM/ 16. http://www.ustc.edu.cn/conference/ccc 17. http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~iliano/fcs03/ 18. http://www.elf.stuba.sk/Katedry/KM/TATRACRYPT/index.htm 19. http://www.isit2003.org/ 20. http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/research/NSLabs/acisp03/index.html 21. http://www.podc.org/podc2003/security-track-cfp.html 22. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2003/ecc2003/announcement.html 23. http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~sac2003/ 24. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2003/ 25. http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/WiWi/pernul/dexa03ws/ 26. http://islab.oregonstate.edu/ches/ 27. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Chuan.Wu/conference/cans03/ 28. http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/isc03 29. http://www.cstnet.net.cn/icics2003 30. http://www.hig.no/esorics2003/ 31. http://www.onets.com.cn/dhe.htm 32. http://tcsg.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/iwap03/ 33. http:/// 34. http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/ac03/ 35. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/ 36. http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/tcc04/ 37. http://pkc2004.lit.org.sg/ 38. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2004/ 39. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2004/ 40. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2004/ 41. http://www.iacr.org/events/archive.html ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Officers and Directors of the IACR (2003) Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. 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