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Centre for Advanced Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography

Our Seminar Program

We run a regular seminar series, where both local and international speakers talk on a wide range of topics. Seminars are normally held on Fridays in Building E6A Room 357, Macquarie University (see the campus map and the E6A floor plan for directions).

If you wish to present a seminar in this series, please contact Dr Ron Steinfeld.

Recent Seminars


	Speaker:	Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK)
	Title:	Cloud computing security
	Date/Time:	Friday 17/02/12, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Damien Stehlé (CNRS, France)
	Title:	Making NTRU as Secure as Worst-Case Problems over Ideal Lattices
	Date/Time:	Friday 16/12/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Florian Luca (UNAM, Mexico)
	Title:	On Carmichael, Lehmer, Riesel and Sierpinski numbers
	Date/Time:	Friday 25/11/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Wolfgang Steiner (CNRS, France and Macquarie University)
	Title:	Minimal weight expansions in Pisot numeration systems
	Date/Time:	Friday 28/10/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Gaetan Bisson (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Endomorphism Rings in Cryptography
	Date/Time:	Friday 21/10/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	David Harvey (University of New South Wales, Australia)
	Title:	Faster arithmetic for number-theoretic transforms
	Date/Time:	Friday 07/10/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Praveen Gauravaram (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
	Title:	Application oriented analysis of cryptographic hash functions
	Date/Time:	Friday 08/07/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Camilla Hollanti (University of Turku, Finland)
	Title:	Probability Bounds for Wireless Communications Using Dedekind Zeta Functions
	Date/Time:	Monday 30/05/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Frederik Vercauteren (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
	Title:	The Buzz Lightyear Attack: To Infinity and Beyond
	Date/Time:	Friday 06/05/11, 2pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
	Title:	The discrete logarithm problem in an interval
	Date/Time:	Tuesday 22/03/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Felipe Voloch (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
	Title:	Algebraic curves in public key cryptography
	Date/Time:	Tuesday 08/03/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Gene Tsudik (University of California at Irvine, USA)
	Title:	Sharing Sensitive Information with Privacy
	Date/Time:	Tuesday 25/01/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Yvo Desmedt (University College London, UK)
	Title:	E-voting: what cryptographers overlooked for 20 years
	Date/Time:	Friday 05/01/11, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Sungwook Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
	Title:	A Generalized Attack on Discrete Logarithm Problems with Auxiliary Inputs
	Date/Time:	Friday 27/08/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Damien Stehlé (CNRS, France and University of Sydney and Macquarie University)
	Title:	Gentry's Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme
	Date/Time:	Friday 11/06/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Reza Rezaeian Farashahi (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Efficient Arithmetic on Hessian Curves
	Date/Time:	Friday 04/06/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Jerzy Jaworski (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
	Title:	Models of Random Mappings
	Date/Time:	Friday 23/04/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Chiew Kang Leng (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Binary Image Steganographic Techniques Classification Based on Multi-Class Steganalysis
	Date/Time:	Friday 16/04/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Mohammad Reza Reyhanitabar (University of Wollongong)
	Title:	Enhanced Security Notions for Dedicated-Key Hash Functions: Definitions and Relationships
	Date/Time:	Friday 09/04/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Jacques Patarin (University of Versailles, France)
	Title:	Introduction to ``Mirror Theory''
	Date/Time:	Friday 26/02/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Jacques Patarin (University of Versailles, France)
	Title:	Transfinite Cryptography
	Date/Time:	Friday 19/02/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Ivica Nikolic (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
	Title:	Automatic Search for Related-Key Differentials in Byte-Oriented Block Ciphers: Application to AES, Camellia, Khazad and Others
	Date/Time:	Friday 12/02/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Jacques Patarin (University of Versailles, France)
	Title:	Deciphering Marie Antoinette's Secret Letters
	Date/Time:	Friday 22/01/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Chiew Kang Leng (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Blind Steganalysis: A Countermeasure for Binary Image Steganography
	Date/Time:	Friday 15/01/10, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Daniel Slamanig (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and Klagenfurt University, Austria)
	Title:	Preserving Anonymity and Privacy in Electronic Healthcare – A Necessity or Paranoia?
	Date/Time:	Monday 14/12/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Ron Steinfeld (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Efficient Public Key Encryption Based on Ideal Lattices
	Date/Time:	Friday 20/11/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
	Title:	Breaking DNSSEC
	Date/Time:	Friday 30/10/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	David H. Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
	Title:	High-Precision Computation and Experimental Mathematics
	Date/Time:	Friday 04/09/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357


	Speaker:	Gaurav Gupta (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Robust and Reversible Numerical Set Watermarking
	Date/Time:	Friday 21/08/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speakers:	Adeline Langlois and Nicolas Pécheux (ENS Cachan, France)
	Titles:	Analysis of Some Properties of the FSB Hash Function (A. Langlois, First 30 mins.) Improved Double-Base Number System for Scalar Multiplication in Elliptic Curve Method (N. Pécheux, Last 30 mins.)
	Date/Time:	Thursday 13/08/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Mohammad Reza Reyhanitabar (University of Wollongong)
	Title:	Enhanced Target Collision Resistant Hash Functions Revisited
	Date/Time:	Friday 27/03/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Yeow Meng Chee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
	Title:	Coding for the Small
	Date/Time:	Wednesday 18/03/09, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Berry Schoenmakers (T.U. Eindhoven, Netherlands)
	Title:	Zero-knowledge interval proofs and other cryptographic problems involving intervals
	Date/Time:	Friday, 13/03/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Berry Schoenmakers (T.U. Eindhoven, Netherlands)
	Title:	Verifiable Rotation of Homomorphic Encryptions
	Date/Time:	Friday, 13/02/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Frederik Vercauteren (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
	Title:	Forms of Elliptic Curves and their Arithmetic
	Date/Time:	Friday, 06/02/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Jacques Patarin (University of Versailles, France)
	Title:	Five Strange Mathematical Riddles
	Date/Time:	Friday, 16/01/09, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Helger Lipmaa (Cybernetica AS, Estonia)
	Title:	Private branching programs: on communication-efficient cryptocomputing
	Date/Time:	Friday, 19/12/08, 10.30am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Chiew Kang Leng (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Blind JPEG Image Steganalysis
	Date/Time:	Thursday, 13/11/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Ivan Morel (ENS Lyon/University of Sydney)
	Title:	From an LLL-Reduced Basis to Another
	Date/Time:	Friday, 07/11/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Damien Stehlï¿½ (CNRS/University of Sydney/Macquarie University)
	Title:	Rigorous and Efficient Short Lattice Vectors Enumeration
	Date/Time:	Friday, 17/10/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Prof. Yvo Desmedt (University College London)
	Title:	Applying Recreational Mathematics to Secure Multiparty Computation
	Date/Time:	Friday, 03/10/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Peishun Wang (Macquarie University)
	Title:	An Efficient Scheme of Common Secure Indices for Conjunctive Keyword-based Retrieval on Encrypted Data
	Date/Time:	Friday, 19/09/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Reza Rezaeian Farashahi (Eindhoven University of Technology)
	Title:	Extractors for Jacobians of Binary Genus-2 Hyperelliptic Curves
	Date/Time:	Friday, 18/07/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Mark Manulis (Universitï¿½ Catholique de Louvain)
	Title:	Fully Robust Group Key Exchange in the Presence of Opening Attacks
	Date/Time:	Friday, 11/07/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Qingsong Ye (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Efficient Disjointness Tests for Private Datasets (joint work with H. Wang and J. Pieprzyk and X. Zhang)
	Date/Time:	Friday, 04/07/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Prof. Miroslaw Kutylowski (Wroclaw University of Technology)
	Title:	Hidden Subset RFID IDentifiers
	Date/Time:	Friday, 27/06/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Christophe Doche (Macquarie University)
	Title:	A New Approach to Find Short Double-Base Chains
	Date/Time:	Friday, 13/06/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Authentication Protocols in E-passport
	Date/Time:	Thursday, 24/04/08, 2pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Qingsong Ye (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Distributed Private Matching and Set Operations (joint work with H. Wang and J. Pieprzyk)
	Date/Time:	Tuesday, 15/04/08, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Sylvain Chevillard (ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure de Lyon)
	Title:	Floating-Point Numbers and Polynomial Approximation
	Date/Time:	Friday, 29/02/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Nicolas Brisebarre (C.N.R.S.)
	Title:	Hardware Implementation of the Eta Pairing in Characteristic 2 and 3
	Date/Time:	Friday, 29/02/08, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Roland Wen (University of New South Wales)
	Title:	Masked Ballot: A Receipt-Free Online Election Scheme
	Date/Time:	Friday, 22/02/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr Claus Fieker (University of Sydney)
	Title:	Quadratic Fields and Quadratic Forms
	Date/Time:	Friday, 01/02/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Professor Renate Scheidler (University of Calgary)
	Title:	Construction of Hyperelliptic Function fields of High Three-Rank
	Date/Time:	Friday, 18/01/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr Damien Stehlï¿½ (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
	Title:	Strong Lattice Reduction: New Upper and Lower Bounds
	Date/Time:	Friday, 11/01/08, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Krystian Matusiewicz (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Extending FORK-256 Attack to the Full Hash Function
	Date/Time:	Friday, 07/12/07, 2pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr Yves Aubry (Maitre de Conf'erences at the Universit'e du Sud Toulon-Var)
	Title:	Around the Gauss Conjecture for Function Fields
	Date/Time:	Tuesday, 04/12/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Peishun Wang (Macquarie University)
	Title:	A New Dynamic Accumulator for Batch Updates
	Date/Time:	Friday, 30/11/07, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Roland Wen (University of New South Wales)
	Title:	Online Elections - An Overview
	Date/Time:	Friday, 23/11/07, 3pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Professor Hugh Williams (University of Calgary)
	Title:	Pseudopowers and Primality Proving
	Date/Time:	Friday, 09/11/07, 2pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Udaya Parampalli (University of Melbourne)
	Title:	Identity Based Cryptographic Schemes without Random Oracles
	Date/Time:	Wednesday, 31/10/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Anton Mityagin (Microsoft Live Labs)
	Title:	CCA-Secure Proxy Re-Encryption
	Date/Time:	Tuesday, 30/10/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Peishun Wang (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Common Secure Index for Conjunctive Keyword-Based Retrieval over Encrypted Data
	Date/Time:	Thursday, 20/09/07, 1pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Sebastiaan de Hoogh (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
	Title:	On the Speed of VSH
	Date/Time:	Monday, 17/09/07, 10am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Stephan Overbeek (VeriSign and national chair of AISA)
	Title:	Real-life cryptography, better known as information security - Bridging the gap between academic and industrial crypto
	Date/Time:	Friday, 14/09/07, 2pm-4pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357
	Slides:	Here

	Speaker:	Professor Kris Gaj (George Mason University)
	Title:	Factoring in Hardware
	Date/Time:	Friday, 31/08/07, 2pm
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Cameron McDonald (Macquarie University)
	Title:	A SAT Attack on Bivium
	Date/Time:	Friday, 10/08/07, 10am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Christophe Tartary (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Authentication for Multicast Communication
	Date/Time:	Thursday, 09/08/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Joo Yeon Cho (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Linear Attacks on NLS and Dragon with Dependency
	Date/Time:	Friday, 03/08/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Svetla Nikova (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
	Title:	Strongly Multiplicative Hierarchical Threshold Secret Sharing
	Date/Time:	Tuesday, 17/07/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Professor Yvo G Desmedt (University College London)
	Title:	10 Years of the Efficient BD-II Group Key Exchange Protocol
	Date/Time:	Friday, 13/07/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Matt Robshaw (France Tï¿½lï¿½com)
	Title:	Low Cost Cryptography
	Date/Time:	Thursday, 28/06/07, 11am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Professor Huaxiong Wang (Macquarie University and Nanyang Technological University)
	Title:	Cumulative Arrays - Extensions and their Cryptographic Applications
	Date/Time:	Friday, 25/05/07, 11.00am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Dr. Ron Steinfeld (Macquarie University)
	Title:	How to Strengthen any Weakly Unforgeable Signature into a Strongly Unforgeable Signature (joint work with J. Pieprzyk and H. Wang)
	Date/Time:	Friday, 16/03/07, 11.00am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Krystian Matusiewicz (Macquarie University)
	Title:	Cryptanalysis of FORK-256 (joint work with T. Peyrin, O. Billet, S. Contini and J. Pieprzyk)
	Date/Time:	Friday, 09/03/07, 11.00am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

	Speaker:	Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytï¿½nen (University of Turku, Finland)
	Title:	Attacks on the RSA cryptosystems
	Date/Time:	Friday, 02/03/07, 11.30am
	Location:	Macquarie University, E6A 357

Past Seminars

Details of seminars held in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 are available in the archive.

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