SCHEDULE OF INDOCRYPT 2006

Date: December 11 to 13, 2006
Venue: Park Hotel
17 Park Street
Kolkata 700 016

Monday, December 11
08:30--09.30     Registration

INVITED TALK      Chair: Bimal Roy
09:30 - 10:30 James L. Massey "Whither Cryptography?"

10:30 - 11:00   Tea

SYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY: ATTACKS      Chair: Nicholas Sendrier

11:00 - 11:25
Non-Randomness in eSTREAM Candidates Salsa20 and TSC-4
Simon Fischer, Willi Meier, Côme Berbain, Jean-Francois Biasse, Matt Robshaw

11:25 - 11:50
Differential and Rectangle Attacks on Reduced-Round SHACAL-1
Jiqiang Lu, Jongsung Kim, Nathan Keller, Orr Dunkelman

11:50 - 12:15
Algebraic Attacks on Clock-Controlled Cascade Ciphers
Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong, Bernard Colbert, Lynn Batten, Sultan Al-Hinai

12:15 - 12:40
An Algorithm for Solving the LPN Problem and its Application to Security Evaluation of the HB Protocol for RFID Authentication
Marc P.C. Fossorier, Miodrag J. Mihaljevic, Hideki Imai, Yang Cui and Kanta Matsuura

12:40 - 13:40
CRSI Annual General Meeting

13:10 - 14:15 Lunch

HASH FUNCTIONS      Chair: C.E. Veni Madhavan

14:15 - 14:40
Update on Tiger
Florian Mendel, Bart Preneel, Vincent Rijmen, Hirotaka Yoshida, and Dai Watanabe

14:40 - 15:05
RC4-Hash : A New Hash Function based on RC4 (Extended Abstract)
Donghoon Chang and Kishan Chand Gupta and Mridul Nandi

15:05 - 15:30
Security of VSH in the Real World
Markku-Juhani Saarinen

15:30 - 16:00   Tea

PROTOCOLS - PROVABLE SECURITY: KEY AGREEMENT      Chair: C. Pandu Rangan

16:00 - 16:25
Cryptanalysis of Two Provably Secure Cross-Realm C2C-PAKE Protocols
Raphael C.-W. Phan and Bok-Min Goi

16:25 - 16:50
Efficient and Provably Secure Generic Construction of Three-Party Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols
Wang WeiJia, Hu Lei

16:50 - 17:15
On the importance of public-key validation in the MQV and HMQV key agreement protocols
Alfred Menezes and Berkant Ustaoglu

Tuesday, December 12
INVITED TALK      Chair: Tanja Lange
9:30 - 10:30
Alfred J. Menezes (joint work with Neal Koblitz)
Another Look at ``Provable Security''. II

10:30 - 11:00   Tea

PROTOCOLS - PROVABLE SECURITY: PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY      Chair: Jennifer Seberry
11:00 - 11:25
Efficient CCA-secure Public-key Encryption Schemes from RSA-related assumptions
Jaimee Brown, Juan Manuel Gonzalez-Nieto, Colin Boyd

11:25 - 11:50
General Conversion for Obtaining Strongly Existentially Unforgeable Signatures
Isamu Teranishi, Takuro Oyama, and Wakaha Ogata

11:50 - 12:15
Conditionally Verifiable Signatures (Extended Abstract)
Aldar C-F. Chan, Ian F. Blake

12:15 - 12:40 Constant Phase Bit Optimal Protocols for Perfectly Reliable and Secure Message Transmission
Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhary, Kannan Srinathan and C. Pandu Rangan

12:40 - 14:00 lunch

SYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY: DESIGN      Chair: P.K.Saxena
14:00 - 14:25
Using Wiedemann's algorithm to compute the immunity against algebraic and fast algebraic attacks
Frédéric Didier

14:25 - 14:50
Enciphering with Arbitrary Small Finite Domains
Valery Pryamikov

14:50 - 15:15
Enumeration of 9-variable Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions having Nonlinearity > 240
Selcuk Kavut and Subhamoy Maitra and Sumanta Sarkar and Melek Yücel

15;15 - 15:45   Tea

MODES OF OPERATION & MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES      Chair: James L Massey
15:45 - 16:10
Symmetric Nonce Respecting Security Model and the MEM Mode of Operation
Peng Wang and Dengguo Feng and Wenling Wu

16:10 - 16:35 HCH: A New Tweakable Enciphering Scheme Using the
Hash-Encrypt-Hash Approach
Debrup Chakraborty and Palash Sarkar

16:35 - 17:00
Efficient Shared-Key Authentication Scheme from any Weak Pseudorandom Function
Ryo Nojima, Kazukuni Kobara, Hideki Imai

17:00 - 17:25
A Simple and Unified Method of Proving Indistinguishability (Extended Abstract)
Mridul Nandi

19:00 onwards BANQUET

Wednesday, December 13

FAST IMPLEMENTATION PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY      Chair: D.J. Bernstein
9:30 - 9:55
Extended Double-Base Number System with applications to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Christophe Doche and Laurent Imbert

9:55 - 10:20
CMSS -- An Improved Merkle Signature Scheme
Johannes Buchmann, Luis Carlos Coronado García, Erik Dahmen, Martin Döring and Elena Klintsevich

10:20 - 10:50   Tea

ID-BASED CRYPTOGRPAPHY      Chair: to be announced...
10:50 - 11:15
Constant-Size ID-Based Linkable and Revocable-iff-Linked Ring Signature
Man Ho Au and Joseph K. Liu and Willy Suzilo and T. H. Yuen

11:15 - 11:40
Secure Cryptographic Workflow in the Standard Model
Manuel Barbosa and Pooya Farshim

11:40 - 12:05
Multi-Receiver Identity-Based Key Encapsulation with Shortened Ciphertext
Sanjit Chatterjee and Palash Sarkar

12:05 - 12:30
Identity-Based Parallel Key-Insulated Encryption without Random Oracles: Security Notions and Construction
Jian Weng, Shengli Liu, Kefei Chen, Changshe Ma

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND SIDE CHANNEL ATTACKS      Chair: Melek Yucel
14:00 - 14:25
AES Software Implementations on ARM7TDMI
Matt Darnall and Doug Kuhlman

14:25 - 14:50
Galois LFSR, Embedded Devices and Side Channel Weaknesses
Pascal Delaunay, Antoine Joux

14:50 -   Tea

16:00 - TRIP ON THE GANGES BY BOAT*

* The trip is free of cost, but subject to the availibility of enough participants.