A workshop
about catastrophic events related to cryptography
and security. And their prevention, detection,
recovery, solutions ...
It is the third event: the first one was in San
Francisco (2014), the second one was in Florence,
Italy (2015) and this one is very promising
organized together with EUROCRYPT (from IACR) as
an affiliated event.
The main point is: many cryptographic protocols
are only based on the security of one
cryptographic algorithm (e.g. RSA) and we
don't know the exact RSA security (including Ron
Rivest). What if somebody finds a clever and
fast factoring algorithm? Well, it is indeed an
hypothesis but we know several instances of
possible progress. A new fast algorithm is a
possible catastroph if not handled properly.
And there are other problems with hash functions,
elliptic curves, aso. Think also about the
Heartbleed bug (April 2014, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed):
the discovery was very late and we were close to a
catastrophic situation.
So we are thinking about a regular workshop, the
name is cataCRYPT, about these possible problems
and their solutions. It includes problems with
cryptographic algorithms, protocols, PKI, DRM,
TLS-SSL, smart cards, RSA dongles, MIFARE, aso.
Quantum computing, resilience and agility are also
on the program.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers
and practitioners working in cryptography and
security, from academia and industry. A large
committee including many founders of the main
concepts of public-key cryptography is pushing
this important topic.
Format
The
workshop will consist of invited and keynote
presentations, full papers, informal
contributions, panels, research in progress and
discussions.
cataCRYPT :
programme
April 29, 2017 (tentative: final programme is
here)
8h30-9h00registration
9h00-10h30
-Introduction
to
cataCRYPT (opening remarks): Jean-Jacques
Quisquater (UCL)
-Blueprints
for a quantum computer : TBA +
Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL)
-Quantum
cryptanalysis -- the catastrophe we know and
don't know: Tanja Lange (Eindhoven)
10h30-11h
coffee break
11h-12h
-Are
quantum computers more powerful than
traditional ones? Jean-François Geneste
(Airbus)
-Smart cards and cataCRYPT?
: Louis Guillou
(France): ! this talk will be moved to the
afternoon!
12h-14h
Lunch (yours)
14h-15h30
-Panel :
How
to Promote Funding for Cryptanalysis?
Directed by Yvo Desmedt (Dallas), with Nicolas
Courtois (UCL London), Taechan Kim (NTT Secure Platform
Laboratories, Japan) and with statements by
Alexander May (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
and Mark Stevens (CWI, The Netherlands).
15h30-16h coffee break
16h- 17h30
-A first
catagorithm Jean-François Geneste
-Short talk
by Louis Guillou
-Open for short talks, announcements,
and brain-storming.
