minicourses TU/e code: 2E941 1 ECTS

5-day minicourse on Privacy and Cryptographic Mechanisms Dr. Moti Yung Colombia University, USA May 8 - 12, 2006

Dr. Moti Yung obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia University. His career included the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM, a position as VP and Chief Scientist at CertCo and work as an Industry Consultant, working on information security and cryptography. Currently, he is Director at RSA Laboratories and Visiting Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University. His interests include cryptography, security, networks and distributed systems, but also the theory of computation (computational complexity, randomization, algorithms) and applications, such as secure systems in the context of E-commerce, banking, and secure web. His list of publications includes about twenty articles in the Proceedings of the CRYPTO conferences and the same number of articles in the EUROCRYPT Proceedings.

Contents
Traditionally, cryptographic mechanisms such as Signing or Public-Key Encryption are associated with users in a strong fashion (the name of the signer or of the message receiver are known). The basic question that this minicourse deals with is: are there ways to make cryptographic mechanisms that will be dominant in a future computing infrastructure more privacy-friendly? We will discuss how to model and formalize notions of cryptographic primitives that are aimed at better balance between privacy (e.g., user anonymity) and traditional properties of cryptographic methods (e.g., non-repudiation). We will show how to construct mechanisms that hide a user's identity while having useful provable correctness and security properties (e.g., group signing). We will further discuss how to apply these methods in the context of a computing infrastructure that requires trust, security, but also privacy.

Time and Place
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
May 8 - 12, 2006

Admission fee
The admission fee for a minicourse is EUR 300 for university staff members and PhD students, and EUR 500 for people from industry. EIDMA and DIAMANT members receive a reduction of EUR 100 on these amounts. Members of DIAMANT can apply for additional support by following the instructions on the registration form. For undergraduate students special conditions apply.

Registration
You can register by sending a completed registration form to ms. Henny Houben at eidma@tue.nl.
Deadline for registration is April 28, 2006.
Please note that your registration is only official after our written confirmation of its receipt.