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Information Protection Seminar

Seminars will typically be held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 114 CSL The web page for current seminars is current seminars. SPRING 2001 INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINARS

Wednesday, January 31, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Nigel Boston, "A mathematical foundation for watermarking."
Wednesday, February 7, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Bogdan Petrenko, "Description of the Arithmetica key exchange."
Monday, February 12, 4:00 p.m., Room 141 CSRL, Prof. Christof Paar (WPI), "Fast Arithmetic in Large Characteristic Extension Fields and its Application to Public-Key Cryptosystems."
Wednesday, February 21, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Andreas Stein, "A survey of hyperelliptic curve cryptography."
Wednesday, February 28, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Haris Domazet, "An introduction to hyperelliptic curves."
Wednesday, March 7, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Paul Kwiat, "Quantum cryptography: The key to unbreakable codes."
Wednesday, March 21, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo), "Computing discrete logarithms with rho and kangaroo methods."
Wednesday, March 28, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Ms. Diana White, "Not all elliptic curves are secure."
Wednesday, April 4, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Doug Kuhlman (Motorola Labs), "Security in the business world."
Wednesday, April 11, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Iwan Duursma,
Wednesday, April 25, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. John Jossey,

FALL 2000 INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINARS

Monday, September 11, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. James Giles, "The jamming game for packet timing channels."
Wednesday, September 13, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Ms. Diana White, "An introduction to the NTRU cryptosystem."
Wednesday, September 20, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. John Jossey, "NSS: the NTRU signature scheme."
Wednesday, September 27, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Jake Wallace, "NSS: the NTRU signature scheme." (contd.)
Wednesday, October 4, No meeting because of Allerton.
Wednesday, October 11. No meeting because of CEPS.
Wednesday, October 18, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Haris Domazet, "LLL algorithm and NTRU cryptosystem."
Wednesday, October 25, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Matt Wolak, "A Chosen Ciphertext Attack on NTRU."
Wednesday, November 1, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Nathan Whitehead,
Wednesday, November 8, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Bogdan Petrenko, "Lattice reduction: a toolbox for the cryptanalyst (after Joux and Stern)."
Wednesday, November 15, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Ms. Tanja Lange (IEM, Essen, Germany), "Speeding up the arithmetic on hyperelliptic Koblitz curves via Frobenius."
Wednesday, December 6, 4:30 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Colin Ferguson, "LLL attacks on knapsack cryptosystems."

FALL 1999 INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINARS

Wednesday, September 29, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Richard Blahut, "An overview of information protection."
Wednesday, October 6, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Nigel Boston, "An introduction to elliptic curve cryptosystems."
Wednesday, October 13, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mark Bauer, "An introduction to hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems."
Wednesday, October 20, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL,Prof. Pierre Moulin, "Information-theoretic analysis of information hiding." Abstract.
Wednesday, October 27, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Doug Kuhlman, "Picking good elliptic curves."
Wednesday, November 3, 4 p.m., No meeting this week because of MAGC meeting.
Wednesday, November 10, 4 p.m.,Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Muriel Médard, "Secure optical communication."
Wednesday, November 17, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Andreas Stein (CACR, Waterloo), "Efficient Arithmetic for Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems and Applications." Abstract.
Wednesday, December 1, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Cory Hojka, "Some implementation attacks on elliptic curve cryptographic systems."
Wednesday, December 8, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Ramarathnam Venkateresan (Microsoft Research), "Discrete log and random walks on Cayley digraphs." Abstract.

Wednesday, February 2, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Ari Trachtenberg, "Cryptography using error-correction codes."
Wednesday, February 9, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Dr. Ari Trachtenberg, "Cryptography using error-correction codes."
Wednesday, February 16, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, "Cipher Challenge" (from Simon Singh's new book "The Code Book").
Wednesday, February 23, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Nigel Boston, "Should supersingular hyperelliptic curves be avoided in cryptography?"
Wednesday, March 1, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, No meeting this week.
Wednesday, March 8, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, No meeting this week because of Alex Coleman lecture in Beckman.
Wednesday, March 22, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Nigel Boston, "Cryptography and the benefits of ignorance." Abstract.
Wednesday, March 29, 4 p.m., Room B-02 CSRL, Robert T.Chien Lecture, Prof. James Massey (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), "Prognosis for 21st century cryptography."
Wednesday, April 5, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Iwan Duursma (Limoges and UIUC), "Sudan's key equation and syndrome extension."
Thursday, April 13, 10:30 a.m., Room 114 CSRL, Mr. Doug Kuhlman, "On the orders of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves."
Wednesday, April 26, 4 p.m., Room 114 CSRL, Prof. Klara Nahrstedt, "A Secure Multicast Protocol with Copyright Protection." Abstract.

Volunteers and those with suggestions, please contact n-boston@uiuc.edu.