THE 8TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2004)

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

September 20, 21 & 22, 2004

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT                April 19, 2004


ECC 2004 is the eighth in a series of annual workshops dedicated
to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas.
The main themes of ECC 2004 will be:
- The discrete logarithm problem.
- Efficient parameter generation and point counting.
- Provably secure cryptographic protocols.
- Efficient software and hardware implementation.
- Side-channel attacks.
- Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.

It is hoped that the meeting will continue to encourage
and stimulate further research on the security and implementation
of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage
collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and
engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors.

There will be approximately 15 invited lectures (and no contributed
talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions.
There will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest
research developments. 


SPONSORS:
  BSI - Bundesamt fUK)
  Werner Schindler     (BSI, Germany)
  Jasper Scholten      (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  Hovav Shacham	       (Stanford University, USA)
  Igor Shparlinski     (Macquarie University, Australia)
  Nigel Smart          (University of Bristol, UK)
  Thomas Wollinger     (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND REGISTRATION:

Bochum is situated approximately 50 km from Dusseldorf International
Airport and about 300 km from Frankfurt Airport. Participants should
plan to arrive on September 19 to be able to attend the lectures on
Monday morning. 

If you did not receive this announcement by email and would like to be
added to the mailing list for the third announcement, please send a
brief email to ecc@crypto.rub.de. The announcements are also
available from the web site
www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2004/ecc2004/announcement.html
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REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATIONS:

Details on registration and accomodation will follow in the next
announcement.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

For further information, please contact:

Tanja Lange
Information Security and Cryptography
Ruhr-University Bochum

e-mail:	  ecc@crpyto.rub.de
Fax:	  +49 234 32 14430
Tel:	  +49 234 32 23260

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