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Saturday April 29,  2017
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Third  Workshop  on

affiliated event to  EUROCRYPT


catastrophic events related to CRYPTography

and security with their possible solutions



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Scope

A workshop about catastrophic events related to cryptography and security. And their prevention, detection, recovery, solutions ...
It is the third event: the first one was in San Francisco (2014), the second one was in Florence, Italy (2015) and this one is very promising organized together with EUROCRYPT (from IACR) as an affiliated event.

The main point is: many cryptographic protocols are only based on the security of one cryptographic algorithm (e.g. RSA) and  we don't know the exact RSA security (including Ron Rivest). What if somebody finds a  clever and fast factoring algorithm? Well, it is indeed an hypothesis but we know several  instances of possible progress. A new fast algorithm is a possible catastroph if not handled  properly. And there are other problems with hash functions, elliptic curves, aso. Think also about the Heartbleed bug (April 2014, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed): the discovery was very late and we were close to a catastrophic situation.

So we are thinking about a regular workshop, the name is cataCRYPT, about these possible problems and their solutions. It includes problems with cryptographic algorithms, protocols, PKI, DRM, TLS-SSL, smart cards, RSA dongles, MIFARE, aso. Quantum computing, resilience and agility are also on the program.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in cryptography and security, from academia and industry. A large committee including many founders of the main concepts of public-key cryptography is pushing this important topic.

Format

The workshop will consist of invited and keynote presentations, full papers, informal contributions, panels, research in progress and discussions.

cataCRYPT : programme April 29, 2017 (tentative: final programme is here)

 

8h30-9h00  registration

9h00-10h30

-          Introduction to cataCRYPT (opening remarks): Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL)

-          Blueprints for a quantum computer : TBA + Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL)

-          Quantum cryptanalysis -- the catastrophe we know and don't know: Tanja Lange (Eindhoven)

10h30-11h coffee break

11h-12h 

-          Are quantum computers more powerful than traditional ones? Jean-François Geneste (Airbus)

-          Smart cards and cataCRYPT? : Louis Guillou (France): ! this talk will be moved to the afternoon!

12h-14h Lunch (yours)

14h-15h30

-          Panel : How to Promote Funding for Cryptanalysis? Directed by Yvo Desmedt (Dallas), with Nicolas Courtois (UCL London),
Taechan Kim (NTT Secure Platform Laboratories, Japan) and with statements by Alexander May (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Mark Stevens (CWI, The Netherlands).


15h30-16h coffee break

16h- 17h30

-          A first catagorithm Jean-François Geneste

-          Short talk by Louis Guillou

-          Open for short talks, announcements, and brain-storming.



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