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Conference on The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography

June 13-17, 1999

Toronto, ON, Canada

Mathematics

Host: Fields Institute
Email: publickey@fields.utoronto.ca

Organizers: A. Odlyzko (AT&T, Florham Park), G. Walsh (Univ. of Ottawa), H. Williams (Certicom Corporation, Mississauga)

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 1999

Description:
In recent years there has been an enormous growth in the implementation of public-key cryptography, both in government and in industry. Many developers are currently providing information security Technology based on the concept of public-key cryptography. The level of security provided by this cryptography depends on the difficulty of certain mathematical problems, specifically integer factorization and the computation of discrete logarithms in finite abelian groups. Although there has been an increase in the amount of research devoted to this topic, it is the purpose of this conference to promote further research in order to increase our understanding of the level of security provided by these cryptosystems. Efficient implementation of public-key systems is another important aspect of this research area.

The content of the meeting is intended to include most areas of computational number theory, but with an underlying common thread toward furthering the knowledge of the connections to the mathematics of public-key cryptography.

Speakers: E. Bach (Univ. of Wisconsin), J. Buchmann (Technische Universitdt Darmstadt), D. Coppersmith (IBM Research), G., Frey (Universitat Gesamthochschule Essen), N. Koblitz (Univ. of Washington), A. Lenstra (Citibank, Parsippany), A., Menezes (Univ. of Waterloo), F. Morain (Ecole Polytechnique, LIX), H. Niederreiter (Austrian Academy of Sciences), C. Pomerance (Univ. of Georgia), H. te Riele (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica), O. Schirokauer (Oberlin, College), C. P. Schnorr (Universitdt Frankfurt), V. Shoup (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), A. Stein (Univ. of, Manitoba), P. Van Oorschot (Entrust Technologies), S. Vanstone (Certicom Corporation, Mississauga).

Date received: October 13, 1998