2008

Second International Symposium Recent Developments in Cryptography and Information Security
September 11-13, 2008 - National Institute of Education, Oriahovitza, Bulgaria

PROGRAM AND PRESENTATIONS

Session 1: Public Key Crypto & Cryptanalysis
Dr. Yacov Yacobi (Microsoft Research) -  SDH Vs. CDH
Dr. Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Microsoft Research) - A Snapshot of Cryptanalysis (presented by Dr. Dimitar Jetchev)

Session 2: Hashing Dr. Kivanc Mihcak (Bogazici University, Turkey/Microsoft Research) - Robust signal hashing
Elena Andreeva (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Hash Functions: Past, Present and Future

Session 4: Privacy
Dr. Preslav Nakov (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Privacy on the Internet?
Dr. Apostol Vassilev (NetIDSys, Austin, TX, USA) - You say to-mah-to, I say to-mae-to: why isn’t there a single solution to Information Security Assurance?
Mariana  Raykova (Columbia University, NY, USA) - PAR: Payment for Anonymous Routing  

Session 5: Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
Dr. Preslav Nakov (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Natural Language Processing: A Brief Overview
Ekaterina Mihaylova, Ekaterina Stambolieva - POS-Tagging Bulgarian Text using CRF
Ivelina Nikolova - Employing Language Technologies for Computer Aided Design of Multiple-choice Questions
Georgi Georgiev - A Study of Using Surface and Domain-specific Features, Lexicons and Part-of-speech Information in a CRF-based Named Entity Recognizer for Bulgarian

Round table: Security and privacy of mobile payments - Bridging theory with practice
Dr. Yacov Yacobi (Microsoft Research)  - Trust and Collaboration
Dr. Dimitar Jetchev (University of California at Berkeley, USA) - Japan & Mobile payments
Dimitiy Trifonov (ICW, Bulgaria) - eGovernment Health Records project

Tutorial on elliptic curves:
Dr. Mladen Dimitrov (Université Paris Diderot, France)
Dr. Dimitar Jetchev (University of California at Berkeley, USA) - Bit Security of Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman Secret Keys

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Organizing Committee Chairman: Prof. Minko Balkanski, IHE, France (minko.balkanski@gmail.com)
Organizing Committee Members:
Dr. Simeon Anguelov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Prof. Sava Grozdev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Prof. Antonii Slavinski, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Peter Statev, ICT Cluster, Bulgaria
Petar Nedjalkov, AIS, Bulgaria
Dr. Angel Angelov, FMI, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Committee Chair: Dr. George Sharkov, ESI Center Eastern Europe, Bulgaria (gesha@esicenter.bg)
Program Committee Members:
Prof. Stefan Dodunekov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at BAS, Bulgaria
Dr. Mladen Dimitrov, Université Paris Diderot, France
Dr. Dimitar Jetchev, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Raffi Aslanian, IT expert, Versailles, France
Prof. David Jao, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research, USA
Prof. Jaime Perez, City University of Seattle, USA
Dr. Preslav Nakov, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

General Secretary Mariana Assenova (mariana@e80.eu)

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS download here 

SYMPOSIUM PROFILE This second year edition of the International Symposium on Recent Developments in Cryptography and Information Security will follow the established model to “meet” Theory with Application. The program for 2008 is focussed on some theoretical foundations and their practical implementations in sensitive information protection and security areas. Special focus will be given to payments and finances.

MAIN SUBJECTS AND TOPICS  

• Cryptography for Personal Secure Devices
• E-signature and Secure Encryption - Modern Trends
• Finances, Banking and Payments - Trust & Security
• Cryptography - Bridging Theory with Practice

Personal secure devices are tamper-resistant hardware tokens with cryptographically-enabled CPUs that are designed to withstand attacks on the information contained within. Smart cards, RFIDs and SIM cards for GSM mobile phones are examples of such devices. Other types of such secure devices take different form-factors and use different technologies for ensuring tamper-resistance and security of information. However, the storage and CPU limitations as well as the possible hardware attacks (e.g., side-channel attacks) give rise to a particularly challenging set of cryptography problems, where classical cryptographic algorithms turn out to be insufficient.  The symposium will focus on both theoretical problems and applications: hardware limitations and how they make the classical cryptographic methods insufficient; known software and hardware attacks with an emphasis on side-channel attacks; practical applications in digital transactions, mobile phone security, etc. New trends in secure and trusted information exchange, based on encryption and e-signatures models and algorithms will be covered. This will include also organizational aspects of trust and security, as well as specific regulations and implementation in complex domains like financial and bourse transactions, secure payments, various aspects of challenges in micro-payments, mobile payments. General and specific international security standards will be critically reviewed. Finally, an in depth discussion on how to bridge theory with practical needs and technology developments, will open new areas for research and development activities to meet the increasing demand for trusted and consistent information.

(new) Workshop on “Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems” (keynote lecture and moderation by Dr. Preslav Nakov, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Focused on using Machine Learning models and Intelligent Systems with applications to: Information Security and Reliability; Security, Privacy and Trust; Coding and Decoding; Adaptive Systems; User and Context Modeling; Usage Analysis and Usage Mining; Personalization and User Profiling; Human-Computer Interaction; Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition; Web Mining; Semantic Web
The workshop is dedicated to young researchers, PhD students, and students in Mathematics, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, etc.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The symposium is tailored for researchers, students and professionals involved and interested in these special theoretical and practical areas. Both users and developers of applications will benefit from the program. Industry representatives will discover new opportunities for development and bridging with theory. Authorities using or supporting secure communications and information exchange are welcomed. The participants will be awarded a certificate of completion of theoretical and practical workshop on Cryptography and Information Security.

LOCATION
The Symposium will take place in the conference center of the National Institute of Education in Oriahovitza, a small village near Stara Zagora. The center is equipped with conference rooms, lecture rooms and computer facilities.  Located at the foot of the beautiful Sredna Gora mountain and famous for its wineries, the village is nowadays hosting various international cultural and scientific events organized by Minu Balkanski Foundation.

SPONSORS
Minu Balkanski Foundation