[HGI-News] ECC '04 -- Second announcement

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Liebe IT-Sicherheits-Interessierte,

in diesem Jahr richtet das Horst Görtz Institut die ECC aus, die
international führende Konferenz
für die Theorie und Praxis von Kryptographie mit elliptischen Kurven. Mehr
Informationen sind u.s.

Mit besten Grüßen, Christof Paar

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  THE 8TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2004)
  www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2004/ecc2004/announcement.html

                          Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

                             September 20, 21 & 22, 2004


SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT                April 19, 2004


ECC 2004 is the eighth in a series of annual workshops dedicated
to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas.
The main themes of ECC 2004 will be:
 - The discrete logarithm problem.
 - Efficient parameter generation and point counting.
 - Provably secure cryptographic protocols.
 - Efficient software and hardware implementation.
 - Side-channel attacks.
 - 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:
  BSI - Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
  DFG-Graduate School on Cryptography
  ECRYPT - European Network of Excellence in Cryptography
  Ruhr-University Bochum
  University of Waterloo


ORGANIZERS:
  Gerhard Frey         (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  Tanja Lange          (Ruhr-University Bochum)
  Alfred Menezes     (University of Waterloo)
  Christof Paar         (Ruhr-University Bochum)
  Scott Vanstone     (University of Waterloo)


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
  Roberto Avanzi          (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  Paulo Barreto            (Scopus Tecnologia, Brazil)
  Pierrick Gaudry         (LIX Paris, France)
  Marc Joye                 (Gemplus, France)
  Norbert Luetkenhaus  (University of Erlangen, Germany)
  Kim Nguyen	          (Bundesdruckerei, Germany)
  Alexander May          (University of Paderborn, Germany)
  Matt Robshaw           (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
  Werner Schindler       (BSI, Germany)
  Jasper Scholten        (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  Hovav Shacham        (Stanford University, USA)
  Igor Shparlinski         (Macquarie University, Australia)
  Nigel Smart              (University of Bristol, UK)
  Thomas Wollinger     (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND REGISTRATION:

Bochum is situated approximately 50 km from Dusseldorf International
Airport and about 300 km from Frankfurt Airport. Participants should
plan to arrive on September 19 to be able to attend the lectures on
Monday morning.

If you did not receive this announcement by email and would like to be
added to the mailing list for the third announcement, please send a
brief email to ecc at crypto.rub.de. The announcements are also
available from the web site
www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2004/ecc2004/announcement.html


REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATIONS:

Details on registration and accomodation will follow in the next
announcement.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

For further information, please contact:

Tanja Lange
Information Security and Cryptography
Ruhr-University Bochum

e-mail:	  ecc at crypto.rub.de
Fax:	  +49 234 32 14430
Tel:	  +49 234 32 23260

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Prof. Christof Paar
Chair for Communication Security
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Information Sciences
Ruhr-University Bochum
44780 Bochum, Germany
www.crypto.rub.de

mobile phone: 0170 790 3393