2009

CryptoBG*2009

International Symposium Recent Developments in Cryptography and Information Security

!!! Regretfully, postponed for 2010 - please follow the updates here 

September 3-5, 2009
National Institute of Education, Oriahovitza, Bulgaria

Organized by Minu Balkanski Foundation

Co-organizers:
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics)
Sofia University (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics)
European Software Institute - Center Eastern Europe

Supported by Microsoft Bulgaria

SYMPOSIUM PROFILE

To ensure the digital security for our business and e-life tomorrow, we must foresee and work for what will be after tomorrow.

The aim of this already traditional International Symposium on Recent Developments in Cryptography and Information Security is to Bridge the Theory with Practice. We gather world-leading experts with Bulgarian and international researchers, students and IT-enabled businesses. The latest trends and state-of-the-art open problems are linked to practical aspects and case studies on use or miss-use of the information, our digital identity and trust. We want to foster forming the Bulgarian research and scientific community, serving the IT industry, all IT-enabled services (like banking, e-Health, e-Administration, industries), and the Knowledge Society in Bulgaria, as part of the Global e-World.

It starts with encoding messages and providing confidential sender-receiver channel, the basis of Cryptography. Numerous mathematical methods, such as number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, complexity theory and algorithms, are applied for secure transmission of messages. Fast-growing technologies serve both the healthy and the dark side. The challenge is to construct high-complexity encodings that would still take millions of years for decoding with the most powerful supercomputer and the most efficient known attacks.  Cryptography is practically everywhere, in all software or hardware system – internet, emailing, mobile devices, access control and password authentication, digital signatures, network and systems security.

Cryptography is the basis, but not a guarantee for Information Security – the complex area which controls the risks related to the use of various computer systems and creates computer platforms, languages and applications which follow certain security rules. Here we combine technologies with methodologies, organization and awareness for higher internet security, systems and mobile security, content protection, digital rights management, etc.

MAIN SUBJECTS AND TOPICS

The names of lecturers and topics covered so far provide a sound basis for the next CryptoBG 2009 Symposium (www.cryptobg.org). The main themes will be dedicated, but not limited to:

• blind signatures and e-voting schemes;
• cryptography and security of personal secure devices;
• hash functions;
• public key cryptography (PKC);
• elliptic curve cryptography (ECC);

The program will include also a traditional session and a round table on “Bridging Theory with Practice”.

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.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Chairman
Prof. Minko Balkanski, IHE, France (minko.balkanski@gmail.com)

Members
Acad. Stefan Dodunekov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Prof. Sava Grozdev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Dr. Simeon Anguelov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Assoc. Prof. Anguel Anguelov, Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria
Raffi Aslanian, IT expert, Versailles, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman
Dr. George Sharkov, ESI Center Eastern Europe, Bulgaria (gesha@esicenter.bg)

Members
Prof. Mladen Dimitrov, Université Paris Diderot, France
Dr. Dimitar Jetchev, Hudson River Trading LLC, USA
Prof. David Jao, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Yacov Yacobi, Microsoft Research, USA
Dr. Mehmet Kivanc, Bogazici University, Turkey

General Secretary
Mariana Assenova, E 80 Ltd., Bulgaria (mariana@e80.eu)

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. The Symposium is a milestone of a longer-term program of Minu Balkanski Foundation, composed by trainings on IT and information security (form schools to universities), series of lectures and visiting speakers at the universities, IT awareness campaign for the civil society.

Download the First Announcement in pdf >>> here

REGISTRATION
Please download the registration and paper abstract proposal form and send to info@cryptobg.org

Proposals for presentations: before June 15
Registrations: final deadline 15 July

FELLOWSHIPS
Limited funding will be available for graduate students. To apply, please, send a curriculum vitae and a motivation letter (and a copy of the registration form) to:

Prof. Minko Balkanski
2, Avenue de Camoens
75116 Paris, France
e-mail: minko.balkanski@gmail.com
Recommendation letters are not required but strongly encouraged.