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WPI Cryptoseminar, Thursday, April 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sat Mar 27 01:36:55 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:46:56 -0500
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:28:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Christof Paar <christof@ece.WPI.EDU>
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Subject: WPI Cryptoseminar, Thursday, April 1
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WPI Cryptography and Information Security Seminar
Bob Silverman
RSA Labs
Thursday, April 1 (no joke)
4:00 pm, AK 108
(refreshments at 3:45 pm)
Zero-Knowledge Proofs can seem like magic to the uninitiated. They
allow one to demonstrate possession of a secret yet not reveal the
secret itself.
We shall give protocols which allow the possessor of a private key to
prove to an outside that the key is securely constructed yet without
revealing the key.
These protocols will allow us to show that an RSA key is immune to a
variety of different factoring attacks and that a discrete log key
can not be found by direct search.
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DIRECTIONS:
The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on
the WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of
West and Salisbury Street. Directions to the campus can be found at
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
TALKS IN THE SPRING '99 SEMESTER:
3/4 Jian Zhao, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics
Mobile Agent Security
3/11 Jens-Peter Kaps, GTE CyberTrust
Electronic Commerce: An Overview of SET and other Technologies
3/23 Gerardo Orlando, GTE Government Systems/WPI
Galois Field Multiplier Architecture and their Application
to Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
4/1 Bob Silverman, RSA Labs
Zero Knowledge Proofs that an Integer is Hard to Factor
4/8 Thomas Blum, WPI
Modular Arithmetic FPGA Architectures for Public-Key Algorithms
(MS Thesis Defense; presentation starts at 10am)
4/15 Brendon Chetwynd, Thomas Connor, Sheng Deng, Stephen Marchant,WPI
An Algorithm-Agile Cryptographic Coprocessor Based on FPGAs
See
http://ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html
for talk abstracts.
MAILING LIST:
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announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short mail.
Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a
short mail.
Regards,
Christof Paar
>>> WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES) <<<
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Christof Paar, Assistant Professor
Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group
ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA
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