The 7th International Conference on

CRYPTOLOGY AND NETWORK SECURITY (CANS 2008)

 

2 - 4 December 2008

Room 204, 2nd Floor, Admiralty Centre, Admiralty, HK

 

Program

 

 

(No smoking in the whole building please)

December 2, 2008 (Tuesday)

09:00 -
09:15

Welcoming Remarks by Conference Chairs

09:15 -
10:15

Invited Talk I

Session Chair: Matt Franklin

 

Topic:     Sound and Fine-grain Specification of Cryptographic Tasks

 

Speaker: Juan Garay (AT&T Labs - Research)

10:15 - 10:45  COFFEE BREAK

10:45 -
12:00

Identification, Authentication and Key Management

Session Chair: Yvo Desmedt

 

A Killer Application for Pairings: Authenticated Key Establishment in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

David Galindo, Rodrigo Roman and Javier Lopez

University of Malaga, Spain

 

Anonymous and Transparent Gateway-based Password-Authenticated Key Exchange

Michel Abdalla, Malika Izabachene and David Pointcheval

Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS, INRIA, France

 

Cryptanalysis of EC-RAC, a RFID Identification Protocol

Julien Bringer, Herve Chabanne and Thomas Icart

Sagem Securite and University of Luxembourg

 

GROUP PHOTO TAKING

12:00 -
13:30

LUNCH :  Metropol Restaurant 名都酒樓 (Chinese style)

4th Floor, United Centre, 95 Queensway Road, Admiralty, HK

l         Meeting Point: Please remain in Room 204 and wait for our staff to escort

13:30 -
15:10

Signatures

Session Chair: Duncan Wong

 

Efficient and Short Certificateless Signature

Raylin Tso, Xun Yi and Xinyi Huang

National Chengchi University, Taiwan and Victoria University, Australia and University of Wollongong, Australia

 

Sanitizable Signatures Revisited

Tsz Hon Yuen, Willy Susilo and Joseph K. Liu and Yi Mu

University of Wollongong, Australia and Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

 

An Efficient On-Line/Off-Line Signature Scheme without Random Oracles

Marc Joye

Thomson R&D, France

 

On the Security of Online/Offline Signatures and Multisignatures from ACISP'06

Fagen Li, Masaaki Shirase and Tsuyoshi Takagi

Future University-Hakodate, Japan and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China and Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

15:10 - 15:40  COFFEE BREAK

15:40 -
17:20

Cryptosystems

Session Chair: Marc Joye

 

Chosen-Cipertext Secure Proxy Re-encryption without Pairings

Robert H. Deng, Jian Weng, Shengli Liu and Kefei Chen

Singapore Management University, Singapore and Jinan University, China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

 

Hybrid Damgård Is CCA1-Secure under the DDH Assumption

Yvo Desmedt, Helger Lipmaa and Duong Hieu Phan

University College London, UK and Cybernetica AS, Estonia and University of Paris 8, France

 

Efficient Dynamic Broadcast Encryption and Its Extension to Authenticated Dynamic Broadcast Encryption

Masafumi Kusakawa, Harunaga Hiwatari, Tomoyuki Asano, and Seiichi Matsuda

Sony Corporation, Japan

 

Cryptanalysis of Short Exponent RSA with Primes Sharing Least Significant Bits

Hung-Min Sun, Mu-En Wu, Ron Steinfeld, Jian Guo and Huaxiong Wang

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Macquarie University, Australia

18:15 -
21:30

Conference Banquet : Harbour Cruise-Bauhinia (Buffet)

Aboard at North Point Ferry Pier

http://www.cruise.com.hk/Flash_opening.html

 

l         From conference venue to banquet venue (North Point Ferry Pier)

w           Coach Pick-up 18:15 sharp

Meeting point : G/F Admiralty Centre, Lobby area near McDonald staircase

w           or, By yourself

Please arrive the Pier at 19:15 sharp.

  (Map) http://www.cruise.com.hk/Northpoint_Ferry.html

*** We strongly recommend the guests to join us and take the coach to the Banquet venue, as we will not wait if you are not on time. ***

 

l         Return trip (From the Pier to hotel/MTR station)

w           Coach will be arranged to Novotel Century (conference hotel) and Admiralty MTR Station.  If you would like to take the coach, please follow Ms Pierre Lai when you depart the cruise.

 

December 3, 2008 (Wednesday)

09:30 -
10:20

Security in Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Yi Mu

 

Authenticated Directed Diffusion

Eric K. Wang, Lucas C.K. Hui and S.M. Yiu

The University of Hong Kong, China

 

A New Message Recognition Protocol for Ad Hoc Pervasive Networks

Atefeh Mashatan and Douglas R. Stinson

University of Waterloo, Canada

10:20 - 10:50  COFFEE BREAK

10:50 -
12:05

Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols (Part I)

Session Chair: Juan Garay

 

Counting Method for Multi-party Computation over Non-abelian Groups

Youming Qiao and Christophe Tartary

Tsinghua University, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Keyword Field-Free Conjunctive Keyword Searches on Encrypted Data and Extension for Dynamic Groups

Peishun Wang, Huaxiong Wang and Josef Pieprzyk

Macquarie University, Australia and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Analysis and Design of Multiple Threshold Changeable Secret Sharing Schemes

Tiancheng Lou and Christophe Tartary

Tsinghua University, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

12:05 –

14:00

LUNCH :  Metropol Restaurant 名都酒樓 (Chinese style)

4th Floor, United Centre, 95 Queensway Road, Admiralty, HK

l         Meeting Point: Please remain in Room 204 and wait for our staff to escort

14:00 –

14:50

Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols (Part II)

Session Chair: Helger Lipmaa

 

Black-box Constructions for Fully-Simulatable Oblivious Transfer Protocols

Huafei Zhu

A-STAR, Singapore

 

Skew Frobenius Map and Efficient Scalar Multiplication for Pairing-Based Cryptography

Yumi Sakemi, Yasuyuki Nogami, Katsuyuki Okeya, Hidehiro Kato and Yoshitaka Morikawa

Okayama University and Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

14:50 – 14:55   BRIEF BREAK

14:55 –

15:45

Stream Ciphers and Block Ciphers

Session Chair: Atsuko Miyaji

 

Cryptanalysis of MV3 Stream Cipher

Mohammad Ali Orumiehchi, S. Fahimeh Mohebbipoor and Hossein Ghodosi

James Cook University, Australia

 

3D: A Three-Dimensional Block Cipher

Jorge Nakahara Jr

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

15:45– 16:15   COFFEE BREAK

16:15 –

17:30

Cryptographic Foundations

Session Chair: Huaxiong Wang

 

Construction of Resilient Functions with Multiple Cryptographic Criteria

Chao Li, Shaojing Fu and Bing Sun

National University of Defence Technology, China and Southeast University, China

 

Enumeration of Homogeneous Rotation Symmetric Functions over Fp

Shaojing Fu, Chao Li and Bing Sun

National University of Defence Technology, China and Southeast University, China

 

Unconditionally Reliable Message Transmission in Directed Hypergraphs

Kannan Srinathan, Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhary and C. Pandu Rangan

IIT Madras, India and International Institute of Information Technology, India

18:15

21:00

DINNER :  Joseph’s (Buffet)  < co-sponsored by CISC >

Level P3, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Pokfulam Road, HK

 

l         From conference venue to dinner venue (Joseph’s)

w           Coach Pick-up 18:15 sharp

Meeting point : G/F Admiralty Centre, Lobby area near McDonald staircase

Contact person: Ms Pierre Lai

w           or, By yourself

Please arrive the restaurant by 19:00.

 

*** We strongly recommend the guests to join us and take the coach to the Dinner venue. ***

 

l         Return trip (From HKU to hotel/MTR station)

w           Coach will be arranged to Novotel Century (conference hotel) and Admiralty MTR Station.  If you would like to take the coach, please follow Ms Pierre Lai after the dinner.

December 4, 2008 (Thursday)

09:00 –

10:00

Invited Talk II

Session Chair: Lucas Hui

 

Topic:     Cryptanalysis on MACs

 

Speaker: Xiaoyun Wang (Tsinghua University / Shandong University)

10:00 – 10:30    COFFEE BREAK

10:30 –

12:10

Applications and Implementations

Session Chair: Mitsuru Matsui

 

An Open Framework for Remote Electronic Elections

Yu Zhang

Macau University of Science and Technology, China

 

Conditional Payments for Computing Markets

Bogdan Carbunar and Mahesh Tripunitara

Motorola Inc., Applied Research and Technology Center, USA

 

High-Speed Search System for PGP Passphrases

Koichi Shimizu and Daisuke Suzuki and Toyohiro Tsurumaru

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

 

Workload Characterization of a Lightweight SSL Implementation Resistant to Side-Channel Attacks

Manuel Koschuch, Johann Groszschaedl, Udo Payer, Matthias Hudler and Michael Krueger

University of Applied Sciences, Austria and University of Bristol, United Kingdom and Graz University of Technology, Austria

12:10

14:00

LUNCH :  Metropol Restaurant 名都酒樓 (Chinese style)

4th Floor, United Centre, 95 Queensway Road, Admiralty, HK

l         Meeting Point: Please remain in Room 204 and wait for our staff to escort

 

** End of Program **