1st announcement for ECC 2002

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:51:45 -0500
To: Frances Hannigan <fhannigan at math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Frances Hannigan <fhannigan at math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: 1st announcement for ECC 2002

THE 6TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2002)

University of Essen, Essen, Waterloo

September 23, 24 & 25 2002

First Announcement		April 5, 2002


ECC 2002 is the sixth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the
study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes
of ECC 2002 will be:
   - The discrete logarithm and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems.
   - Efficient parameter generation and point counting.
   - Provably secure cryptographic protocols for encryption, signatures
     and key agreement.
   - Efficient software and hardware implementation of elliptic curve
     cryptosystems.
   - Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.

It is hoped that the meeting will continue to encourage and stimulate
further research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve
cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between
mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic,
industry and government sectors.

There will be approximately 15 invited lectures (and no contributed
talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions. There
will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research
developments.


SPONSORS:
      Alcatel Canada
      Certicom Corp.
      CV Cryptovision
      Metris
      MITACS
      Philips Semiconductors
      Research Alliance Data Security NRW
      University of Essen
      University of Waterloo


ORGANIZERS:
      Gerhard Frey           (University of Essen)
      Alfred Menezes         (University of Waterloo)
      Scott Vanstone         (University of Waterloo)
      Annegret Weng          (University of Essen)


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
      Dan Bleichenbacher     (Lucent Technologies, USA)
      Steven Galbraith       (Royal Holloway College, UK)
      Kiran Kedlaya          (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
      Alan Lauder            (Oxford University, UK)
      Kumar Murty            (University of Toronto, Canada)
      Phong Nguyen           (ENS, Paris, France)
      David Pointcheval      (ENS, Paris, France)
      Takakazu Satoh         (Saitama University, Japan)
      Rene Schoof            (University of Rome, Italy)
      Frederik Vercauteren   (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Essen is the largest city in the Ruhr region, and is about a 20-minute
drive from Dusseldorf International airport. The second announcement
will be made on May 10, and will include registration and local
(i.e., hotel & transportation) information. If you did not receive this
announcement by email and would like to be added to the mailing list
for the second announcement, please send email to
ecc2002 at math.uwaterloo.ca. The announcements are also available from
the web sites:
       www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~weng/ecc2002.html
and
       www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
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