SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Conference on The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography

June 12- 17, 1999

Report

Organizing Committee:

Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T, Florham Park
Gary Walsh, Communications Security Establishment/University of Ottawa
Hugh Williams, University of Manitoba

Scope:

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, the computation of discrete logarithms in finite abelian groups, and the computation of short vectors in a lattice. 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.

Topics:

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.

Invited Speakers

Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin

Johannes Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Don Coppersmith, IBM Research

Gerhard Frey, Universitat Gesamthochschule Essen

Neal Koblitz, University of Washington

Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo

Francois Morain, Ecole Polytechnique, LIX

Brian Murphy, Australia National University

Harald Niederreiter, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia

Herman te Riele, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica

Oliver Schirokauer, Oberlin College

Claus P. Schnorr, Universität Frankfurt

Victor Shoup, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

Joseph Silverman, Brown University

Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo

Paul Van Oorschot, Entrust Technologies

Scott Vanstone, Certicom Corporation, Mississauga

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Gary Walsh, General Chair

Department of Mathematics

University of Ottawa

585 King Edward Street

Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Canada

The General Chair, Gary Walsh, can be reached by email at gwalsh@jeanne.mathstat.uottawa.ca.

Sponsored by:
Certicom Corporation
Communications Security Establishment
Entrust Technologies
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
The Number Theory Foundation
RSA Data Security