ECRYPT is drawing towards the end. It is too early to look back however; we still have some very interesting events planned for the last coming months. We are happy to announce following 3 events:
Joint Summer School on Advanced Topics in Cryptography
ECRYPT: Perspectives and Challenges for Academia and Industry
Summer School on Rational CryptographyWe hope we may welcome you in some of these events!
Time and Place: 12-16 May 2008 Crete (Greece)
Following the great success of the ECRYPT PhD Summer Schools on Cryptanalysis in 2005 and 2007, the Symmetric Techniques and Asymmetric Techniques Virtual Laboratories are pleased to announce a new joint Summer School on Advanced Topics in Cryptography. Covering selected topics in both symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, this summer school will provide a thorough overview of some of the most important cryptographic design and cryptanalysis techniques that have emerged in recent years. While the summer school is aimed primarily at postgraduate students, attendance is open to all.
The Summer School will cover the following topics :
Design and Cryptanalysis of Hash Functions
Design and Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers
Asymmetric Crypto in the Random Oracle and the Standard Model
Identity Based Crypto
Hardness of Asymetric Cryptographic Primitives
Time and Place: 27-29 May 2008 Antwerp (Belgium)
We are happy to announce the 3 day event ‘ECRYPT: perspectives and challenges for Academia and Industry’ which can be considered as the final ECRYPT event. The goals of the event are twofold: To give an overview of the main achievements at one hand and cross-fertilizing industrial and academic interest fields at the other. The event includes 2 parts;
ECRYPT: Achievements and Perspectives 27-28 May 2008
ECRYPT: Achievements and Perspectives summarizes the main results over the full duration of the ECRYPT project. Each ECRYPT virtual lab will highlight 2 main achievements or focus points in their research domain.
Industrial Perspectives on Cryptography 28-29 May 2008
Industrial Perspectives on Cryptography covers the second part of the event, bringing academia and industry closer together. Industry speakers will present problems and good practices related to cryptography in different industry segments. Following areas will be covered: Trusted computing, Cellular and fixed networks, Internet security and privacy, RFID networks, Consumer electronics, Content protection, Car industry, Financial industry and Governmental sector.
Time and Place: 1-6 June 2008 Bertinoro (Italy)
The European Network of Excellence in Cryptography (ECRYPT), Bertinoro international Center for informatics (BiCi) and the center of Algorithmic Game Theory (CAGT) at the University of Aarhus are co-organizing a summer school on rational cryptography.
The school is intended for masters students and PhD students with a background in cryptography or game theory, but participation is open for all those interested in the subject.
The school will first provide the student with an overview of the basic concepts and techniques from game theory and cryptography as used in the emerging field of rational cryptography. The school will then provide an overview of the most important works in rational cryptography, by lectures given by several of the leading researchers of the field.
Confirmed speakers
Ivan Damgård (University of Århus, Denmark)
Yevgeniy Dodis (New York University, USA)
Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland, USA)
Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University, USA)
Peter Bro Miltersen (University of Århus, Denmark)
Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
abhi shelat (University of Virginia, USA)
Nikos Triandopoulos (University of Århus, Denmark)
The list of speakers will be update as speakers are confirmed.