SAC '99 Preliminary Program

Note all sessions will take place in Walter Light Hall (the Electrical 
and Computer Engineering Building) on the main campus of Queen's 
University.

Sunday, August 8, 1999

19:00 - 21:00   Welcome Reception at Queen's University Club

Monday, August 9, 1999

8:00 - 9:00	Registration and Refreshments
9:00 - 9:10	Opening Remarks

Session I	Cryptosystems and Pseudorandom Number Generators

9:10 - 9:35	"A Universal Encryption Standard"
                Helena Handschuh (Gemplus-ENST) and Serge Vaudenay 
                    (Ecole Normale Supérieure-CNRS)
9:35 - 10:00	"Yarrow-160: Notes on the Design and Analysis of the 
                    Yarrow Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generator" 
                John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, and Niels Ferguson 
                    (Counterpane)
10:00 - 10:25	"Elliptic Curve Pseudorandom Sequence Generators"
                Guang Gong (U. of Waterloo), Thomas Berson (Anagram), 
                    and Douglas Stinson (U. of Waterloo)

10:25 - 11:00	Refreshment Break

Session II	Security Aspects of Block Ciphers I

11:00 - 11:25	"Adaptive-Attack Norm for Decorrelation and 
                    Super-Pseudorandomness"
                Serge Vaudenay (Ecole Normale Supérieure-CNRS)
11:25 - 11:50	"Guesswork and Variation Distance as Measures
                    of Cipher Security"
                John Pliam (U. of Minnesota)

11:50 - 13:30	Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	Invited Talk: "From DES to AES: Twenty Years of 
                    Government Initiatives in Cryptography"
		Miles Smid (NIST)

14:30 - 14:50	Refreshment Break

Session III	Efficient Implementations in Cryptosystems

14:50 - 15:15	"Efficient Implementation of Cryptosystems Based on 
                    Non-maximal Imaginary Quadratic Orders"
                Detlef Huehnlein (secunet)
15:15 - 15:40	"Improving and Extending the Lim/Lee Exponentiation 
                    Algorithm"
                Biljana Cubaleska (Fern U. Hagen), Andreas Reike (ISL),
                    and Thomas Hermann (MMK)
15:40 - 16:05	"Non-Conventional Basis of Finite Fields"
                Chang Han Kim (Semyung U.), Sang Ho Oh, Joong Chul Yoon,
                    Jong In Lim (Korea U.), and Hee Jin Kim (Telemann)
16:05 - 16:30	"Software Optimization of Decorrelation Module"
                Fabrice Noilhan (U. Paris-Sud)

19:00 - 21:00   Dinner (location to be announced)


Tuesday, August 10, 1999

Session IV	Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers

9:10 - 9:35	"Security of E2 Against Truncated Differential 
                    Cryptanalysis "
                Shiho Moriai, Makoto Sugita, Kazumaro Aoki, and 
                    Masayuki Kanda (NTT Labs)
9:35 - 10:00	"Key-Schedule Cryptanalysis of DEAL" 
                John Kelsey and Bruce Schneier (Counterpane)
10:00 - 10:25	"Efficient Evaluation of Security Against Generalized 
                    Interpolation Attack"
                Kazumaro Aoki (NTT Labs)

10:25 - 11:00	Refreshment Break

Session V	Security Aspects of Block Ciphers II

11:00 - 11:25	"Modeling Linear Characteristics of Substitution-
                    Permutation Networks"
                Liam Keliher, Henk Meijer, and Stafford Tavares 
                    (Queen's U.)
11:25 - 11:50	"Strong Linear Dependence and Unbiased Distribution of 
      		    Non-propagative Vectors"
                Yulieng Zheng (Monash U.) and Xian-Mo Zhang 
                    (U. of Wollongong)

11:50 - 13:30	Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	Invited Talk: "A Biometric Technique for Improving 
                    Security in Virtual Private Networks"
		Mike Reiter (Bell Labs)

14:30 - 14:50	Refreshment Break

Session VI	Cryptography for Network Applications

14:50 - 15:15	"Pseudonym Systems"
                Anna Lysyanskaya, Ronald Rivest, and Amit Sahai (MIT)
15:15 - 15:40	"Unconditional Secure Proactive Secret Sharing Scheme 
                    with Combinatorial Structures"
                Douglas Stinson and R. Wei (U. of Waterloo)
15:40 - 16:05	"Protecting a Mobile Agent's Route against Collusions"
                Dirk Westhoff, Markus Schneider, Claus Unger, and 
                    Firoz Kaderali (Fern U. Hagen)
16:05 - 16:30	"Photuris: Design Criteria"
                William Simpson (DayDreamer)

16:30 - 16:40   Closing Remarks