Fast Software Encryption 2006

March 15-17
Graz, Austria

Program

All talks and breaks will be held at "Minoritensaal".

08:00 - 08:50	Registration
08:50 - 09:00	Welcome notes by Vincent Rijmen
Session 1	Stream Ciphers (I)
09:00 - 09:25	"Cryptanalysis of Achterbahn" by T.Johansson, W.Meier, and F.Muller
09:25 - 09:50	"Cryptanalysis of Grain" by C.Berbain, H.Gilbert, and A.Maximov
09:50 - 10:15	"Cryptanalysis of Stream Cipher DECIM" by H.Wu and B.Preneel
	Break
Session 2	Block Ciphers
10:45 - 11:10	"On Feistel Structure Using a Diffusion Switching Mechanism" by T.Shirai and K.Shibutani
11:10 - 11:35	"Pseudo-Random Permutation Families Over Abelian Groups" by L.Granboulan, É.Levieil, and G.Piret
11:35 - 12:00	"A Zero-Dimensional Groebner Basis for AES-128" by J.Buchmann, A.Pychkine, and R.Weinmann

	Lunch at "Schlossberg-Restaurant"

Session 3	Hash Functions (I)
14:00 - 14:25	"Cryptanalysis of the Full HAVAL with 4 and 5 Passes" by H.Yu, X.Wang, A.Yun, and S.Park
14:25 - 14:50	"Collisions and Near-Collisions for Reduced-Round TIGER" by J.Kelsey and S.Lucks
14:50 - 15:15	"Analysis of Step-Reduced SHA-256" by F.Mendel, N.Pramstaller, C.Rechberger, and V.Rijmen

	Break
Session 4	Analysis
15:45 - 16:10	"Improved Linear Distinguishers for SNOW 2.0" by K.Nyberg and J.Wallén
16:10 - 16:35	"Reducing the Space Complexity of BDD-Based Attacks" by M.Krause and D.Stegemann
16:35 - 17:00	"Breaking the ICE: Finding Multicollisions in Iterated Concatenated and Expanded (ICE) Hash Functions" by J.Hoch and A.Shamir
19:00 -	Welcome Reception at "Burg"

Session 5	Proposals
09:00 - 09:25	"A New Dedicated 256-bit Hash Function: FORK-256" by D.Hong, J.Sung, S.Lee, D.Moon, S.Chee
09:25 - 09:50	"Some Plausible Constructions of Double-Block-Length Hash Functions" by S.Hirose
09:50 - 10:15	"Provably Secure MACs from Differentially-Uniform Permutations and AES-Based Implementations" by K.Minematsu and Y.Tsunoo
	Break
Session 6	Hash Functions (II)
10:45 - 11:10	"Searching for Differential Paths in MD4" by M.Schläffer and E.Oswald
11:10 - 11:35	"A Study of the MD5 Attacks" by J.Black, M.Cochran, and T.Highland
11:35 - 12:00	"The Impact of Carries on the Complexity of Collision Attacks" by F.Mendel, N.Pramstaller, C.Rechberger, and V.Rijmen

	Lunch at "Schlossberg-Restaurant"

Session 7	Invited Speaker and Rump Session
14:00 - 14:45	"How to Make a Difference: Early History of Differential Cryptanalysis" by Eli Biham
15:00 - 16:00	Rump Session

	City Tour Graz
departure 17:15	Conference Dinner at Schloss Obermayerhofen

Session 8	Modes and Models
09:00 - 09:25	"A New Mode of Encryption Secure Against Symmetric Nonce Respecting Adversaries" by D.Chakraborty and P.Sarkar
09:25 - 09:50	"New Blockcipher Modes of Operation with Beyond the Birthday Bound Security" by T.Iwata
09:50 - 10:15	"The Ideal-Cipher Model, Revisited: An Uninstantiable Blockcipher-Based Hash Function" by J.Black
	Break
Session 9	Implementation and Bounds
10:45 - 11:10	"How Far Can We Go on the x64 Processors?" by M.Matsui
11:10 - 11:35	"Computing the Algebraic Immunity Efficiently" by F.Didier and J.Tillich
11:35 - 12:00	"Upper Bounds on Algebraic Immunity of Power Functions" by Y.Nawaz, G.Gong, and K.Gupta

	Lunch at "Schlossberg-Restaurant"

Session 10	Stream Ciphers (II)
14:00 - 14:25	"Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against MOSQUITO" by A.Joux and F.Muller
14:25 - 14:50	"Distinguishing Attack on the Stream Cipher Ry" by G.Sekar, S.Paul, and B.Preneel
14:50 - 15:15	"Resynchronization Attack on WG and LEX" by H.Wu and B.Preneel

	*Workshop Closing by Matt Robshaw*

Extra Activities:

A skiing day will be organized after the workshop has ended. More information is here.