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THE 10TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2006)

The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

September 18-20, 2006


FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT                February 26, 2006

ECC 2006 is the tenth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the 
study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. Over the past 
years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond 
elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas 
within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences
included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, 
pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, 
quantum key distribution, AES, hash function, implementation issues, 
and deployments.

At the same time ECC continues to be the premier conference on elliptic 
curve cryptography. It is hoped that ECC 2006 will further our mission
of encouraging and stimulating research on the security and
implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and
encouraging collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists
and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors.

As with past ECC conferences, there will be about 15 invited lectures
(and no contributed talks) delivered by internationally leading experts. 
There will be both state-of-the-art survey lectures as well as lectures 
on latest research developments.


SPONSORS:
   Certicom
   The Fields Institute
   MITACS
   University of Waterloo


ORGANIZERS:
   Mark Bauer (University of Calgary)
   Tanja Lange (Technical University of Denmark)
   Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
   Kumar Murty (University of Toronto)
   Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
   Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo)


FIELDS FALL 2006 THEMATIC PROGRAM IN CRYPTOGRAPHY:
   ECC 2006 will be one of the events being organized in conjunction 
   with the Fields Institute Fall 2006 Thematic Program in 
   Cryptography. ECC 2006 attendees who are interested in office space 
   or funding can apply to Fields for funding:
   http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto


SUMMER SCHOOL:
   Tanja Lange will be teaching a course at Fields on "Elliptic and 
   Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography". The course is intended for 
   graduate students in cryptography and mathematics, and will take 
   place from September 11-15. Further details are available on the 
   Fields web site:
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/courses/index.html


TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS:
   The Fields Institute is located in the downtown campus of the
   University of Toronto. The Fields web site
     http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/resources/travel/index.html
   has travel information information, directions to the Institute 
   including a map, and a listing of hotels that are within walking 
   distance the Institute.


REGISTRATION:
   The second announcement will be made in the beginning of May and 
   will include registration information and a list of speakers.


FURTHER INFORMATION:
   For further information, please contact:
       Alfred Menezes (email: ajmeneze [at] uwaterloo.ca)
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