Scope
A workshop
about catastrophic events related to cryptography
and security. And their prevention, detection,
recovery, solutions ...
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 recent 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.
Keynote Speaker: Yvo Desmedt
Invited talk: Pierangela Samarati
Final panel: Why so much resilience with so few positive actions?
Organization
The
workshop chair is Jean-Jacques Quisquater
(UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) with other people (TBC).
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