Preliminary Program for Pairing 2009

All lectures will be held in the Fisher Conference Center in the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

18:45 Reception: NOLA, 535 Ramona St, Palo Alto
(Vegetarian options available.)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

9:00   Opening Remarks

Session 1: Signature Security
[Chair: Michel Abdalla]

9:10 Boneh-Boyen signatures and the Strong Diffie-Hellman problem
David Jao and Kayo Yoshida
9:35 Security of Verifiably Encrypted Signatures and a Construction Without Random Oracles
Markus Rückert and Dominique Schröder
10:00 Multisignatures as Secure as the Diffie-Hellman Problem in the Plain Public-Key Model
Duc-Phong Le, Alexis Bonnecaze, and Alban Gabillon
 

10:25 Morning break

Invited Talk 1
[Chair: Hovav Shacham]

11:00 Victor Miller
 

12:00 Lunch

Session 2: Curves
[Chair: Tanja Lange]

13:30 On the Security of Pairing-Friendly Abelian Varieties over Non-Prime Fields
Naomi Benger, Manuel Charlemagne, and David Mandell Freeman
13:55 Generating Pairing-Friendly Curves with the CM Equation of Degree 1
Hyang-Sook Lee and Cheol-Min Park
 

14:20 Afternoon break

“Hot Topics” in Application of Pairings
[Chairs: Hovav Shacham and Brent Waters]

15:00 Speakers TBA.
 

16:15 End of Wednesday
19:00 Dinner: Mantra, 632 Emerson Street, Palo Alto
(Vegetarian options available.)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Session 3: Pairing Computation
[Chair: David Mandell Freeman]

9:00 On the Final Exponentiation for Calculating Pairings on Ordinary Elliptic Curves
Michael Scott, Naomi Benger, Manuel Charlemagne, Luis J. Dominguez Perez, and Ezekiel J. Kachisa
9:25 Faster Pairings on Special Weierstrass Curves
Craig Costello, Huseyin Hisil, Colin Boyd, Juan Gonzalez Nieto, and Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong
9:50 Fast Hashing to G2 on Pairing Friendly Curves
Michael Scott, Naomi Benger, Manuel Charlemagne, Luis J. Dominguez Perez, and Ezekiel J. Kachisa
 

10:15 Morning break

Invited Talk 2
[Chair: Brent Waters]

10:45 Amit Sahai
 

12:00 Lunch

Session 4: NIZKs and Applications
[Chair: Elaine Shi]

13:30 Compact E-Cash and Simulatable VRFs Revisited
Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss, and Anna Lysyanskaya
13:55 Proofs on Encrypted Values in Bilinear Groups and an Application to Anonymity of Signatures
Georg Fuchsbauer and David Pointcheval
 

14:20 Short break

Session 5: Group Signatures
[Chair: Jens Groth]

14:30 Identity Based Group Signatures from HIBE
Nigel P. Smart and Bogdan Warinschi
14:55 Forward-Secure Group Signatures from Pairings
Toru Nakanishi, Yuta Hira, and Nobuo Funabiki
15:20 Efficient Traceable Signatures in the Standard Model
Benoît Libert and Moti Yung
 

15:45 Free afternoon

Friday, August 14, 2009

Invited Talk 3
[Chair: Nigel Smart]

9:00 Efficient Implementation of Pairings
Tanja Lange
 

10:00 Morning break

Session 6: Protocols
[Chair: Matthew Green]

10:30 Strongly Secure Certificateless Key Agreement
Georg Lippold, Colin Boyd, and Juan Gonzalez Nieto
10:55 Universally Composable Adaptive Priced Oblivious Transfer
Alfredo Rial, Markulf Kohlweiss, and Bart Preneel
11:20 Conjunctive Broadcast and Attribute-Based Encryption
Nuttapong Attrapadung and Hideki Imai
 

11:45 Adjourn