Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2013

CRYPTO 2013 the 33rd Annual International Cryptology Conference was held August 18–22 2013 on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara The event was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research IACR in cooperation with the UCSB Computer Science Department and the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Security and Privacy The program represents the recent significant advances in all areas of cryptology Sixty one papers were included in the program a record number for IACR flagship conferences This two volume proceedings contains the revised versions of all the papers One pair of papers shared a single presentation slot in the program There were also two invited talks On Monday Cindy Cohn from the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave a talk entitled “Crypto Wars Part 2 Have Begun ”On Wednesday Adam Langley from Google spoke about “Why the Web Still Runs on RC4 ” in a joint session with CHES 2013 To accommodate the increase in the number of papers sessions were held throughout Tuesday and Thursday afternoons The rump session took place as usual on Tuesday evening and was chaired by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange For the Best Paper Award the Program Committee PC unanimously selected the paper“On the Function Field Sieve and the Impact of Higher Splitting Probabilities”by Faruk Gologlu Robert Granger Gary McGuire and Jens Zumbragel This year we also awarded a Best Young Author Paper Award To be eligible for the award all authors of the paper had to either be full time students or have received their PhDs in 2011 or later The award was given to the paper “Counter Cryptanalysis: Reconstructing Flame’s New Variant Collision Attack” by Marc Stevens Faced with a large number of high quality submissions the PC decided to significantly increase the number of papers in the program from last year’s 48 papers at the price of making the program longer and keeping the paper presentations short 20 minutes per paper including questions and answers Another option that was seriously considered was to move to parallel sessions on some of the days of the conference This would have allowed for somewhat longer paper presentations and an early adjourn on Thursday In the end we opted to retain the single session format with the hope of keeping the community more unified by allowing participants to attend all talks ">CRYPTO 2013 the 33rd Annual International Cryptology Conference was held August 18–22 2013 on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara The event was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research IACR in cooperation with the UCSB Computer Science Depart [更多]