The first Asian Workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography - ASK 2011

Call for Participance

To promote research on symmetric key cryptography (block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, analysis, designs, proofs and implementations of these primitives etc) in Asia, we started the first ASK workshop as a meeting for researchers from Asia. This year, the workshop will be held inside the Nanyang Technological University campus, Singapore on 29, 30 and 31 August 2011. The program contains mainly two parts, each morning for 3 invited talks, and afternoon for group discussions. This workshop targets mainly for students and young researchers to learn and work in small interest groups.

Interested Asian-based (including Australia) researchers are welcome to contact us for participance. Limited number of stipend for plane ticket may be available for PhD students who have difficulty obtaining funding.


Contacts

Jian Guo Thomas Peyrin
ntu.guo@gmail.com thomas.peyrin@ntu.edu.sg
+65 64082064 +65 65132027
Institute for Infocomm Research Nanyang Technological University

 

Program

The venue for morning invited talks is SPMS-LT5 on 29, and 30 August, and SPMS-MAS-05-36 on 31 August 2011. (updated on 24 August 2011)

Monday, August 29 @ SPMS-LT5 (SPMS-03-08) 3rd floor
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address, Jian Guo and Thomas Peyrin
09:15 - 10:00 Shoichi Hirose: Security Reductions of Cryptographic Hash Functions [slides]
10:00 - 10:30 Josef Pieprzyk: Differential Distinguishers for Block Ciphers [slides]
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
11:00 - 12:30 Jiqiang Lu: A Few Techniques for Block Cipher Cryptanalysis [slides]
12.30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
14.00 - 16:00 working groups session 1
16.00 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
16.45 - 18:00 working groups session 2
18:00 - 19:00 Wrapping up @ SPMS-MAS-05-36

 

Tuesday, August 30 @ SPMS-LT5 (SPMS-03-08) 3rd floor
09:00 - 09:45 Jian Guo: Linearization and Message Modification Techniques for Hash Function Cryptanalsysis [slides]
09:45 - 10:30 Yu Sasaki: A survey of recent cryptanalysis on hash functions [slides]
10.30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
11.00 - 12:30 Palash Sarkar: Stream Ciphers [slides]
12.30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
14.00 - 16:00 working groups session 3
16.00 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
16.45 - 18:00 working groups session 4
18:00 - 19:00 Wrapping up @ SPMS-MAS-05-36

 

Wednesday, August 31 @ SPMS-MAS-05-36 5th floor
09:00 - 10:00 Axel Poschmann: Lightweight Crypto Design Principals - Approaches and Limitations [slides]
10:00 - 11:00 Thomas Peyrin: Unaligned Rebound Attack for Keccak [slides]
11.00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
11.30 - 12:15 Kan Yasuda: Message Authentication Codes, Modes of Operation, and Indifferentiability [slides]
12.15 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
14.00 - 16:00 working groups session 5
16.00 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK @ MAS Atrium 3rd floor
16.45 - 18:00 working groups session 6
18:00 - 19:00 Wrapping up @ SPMS-MAS-05-36

 

Groups for Afternoon Sessions


Hash function (1)
Yu Sasaki, Hongbo Yu, Tao Huang, Ashish Kumar, Mohammad Ali Orumiehchiha

Hash function (2)
Jian Guo, Hongjun Wu, Goh Siong Thye, Yang Li, Kota Ideguchi

Hash function (3)
Keting Jia, Somitra Sanadhya, Shuang Wu, Chunhua Su, Sareh Emami

Block cipher (4)
Thomas Peyrin, Jiqiang Lu, Lei Wang, Lei Wei, Jingyuan Zhao, Hyung Chul Kang, Wun-She Yap, Axel Poschmann

Stream Cipher (5)
Palash Sarkar, Khoongming Khoo, Gautham Sekar, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Subhabrata Samajder, Nguyen Dinh Thuc

Security Proof and Analysis of Applications (6)
Kan Yasuda, Shoichi Hirose, Testu Iwata, Liting Zhang, Rishiraj Bhattacharyya, Sung Han Shin, Van Dang

Symmetric Key Design (7)
Kazumaro Aoki, Josef Pieprzyk, Luong Thanh Anh Duc, Shingo Yanagihara, Park Se Hyun, Wentao Zhang, Ngoc-Bao Tran, Shuqin Ren

Locations

 
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
29 August 2011
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR1
(3rd floor)
TR+9
(4th floor)
TR+9
(4th floor)
TR2
(3rd floor)
30 August 2011
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR+8
(4th floor)
TR+10
(4th floor)
TR+11
(4th floor)
TR+10
(4th floor)
TR+11
(4th floor)
31 August 2011
TR+17
(5th floor)
TR+17
(5th floor)
TR+17
(5th floor)
TR+18
(5th floor)
TR+19
(5th floor)
TR+18
(5th floor)
TR+19
(5th floor)

 

NTU Campus

 


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Workshop Venue -"A"

School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University,
21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371.

 

 

Hotel - "B"

We have negotiated price at the Nanyang Executive Center, located inside the NTU campus at 60 Nanyang View, Singapore 639673. From the Changi airport to NEC, there are two routes:

  1. taxi, with cost about 30-50 Singapore dollars depending on the time.

  2. Take MRT, and alight at pioneer station, and then take bus No. 179 and alight at Canteen 2 of NTU (exact amount shall be paid with cash on bus). NEC is in 200 meters from the bus stop. This route costs about 4 Singapore dollars.

The price is 10% discount from the original price, plus an additional 10% service charge and 7% goods and services tax. To book, follow the guide here, and quote "SPMS" in "school and department" section. Ensure your reservation is done fast, NEC is generally filled up quickly.

The hotel is located about 1.4 km from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, it takes about 20 mins walking. There are also free NTU buses (route C) between NEC and SPMS.

Hotels outside the campus are generally far from NTU but close to the city center, such as Chinatown Hotel, Hotel 1929, The Inn at Temple Street, The Keong Saik Hotel, Robertson Quay Hotel.

 

Sponsors

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