INDOCRYPT 2010 Inaugurated

Hyderabad|India|December'2010:The three-day INDOCRYPT 2010 conference was inaugurated on 13th December 2010 at the Marriot Convention centre. The 11th conference of INDOCRYPT is being jointly organised by the C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) and the University of Hyderabad under the aegis of Cryptology Research Society of India.

Dr. C R Rao, noted statistician of the country, Prof. V Kannan, Pro VC, UoH and Dr. Bimal Roy, Secretary, CRSI were present at the inaugural of the conference. This conference has brought together eminent researchers from across the world to present and discuss a wide spectrum of research results and their applications in cryptology and information security.

Prof. Guang Gong and Dr. Kishan Chand Gupta from the University of Waterloo, Canada are the programme chairs for this conference. More than 72 submissions from 22 countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia were received and 22 papers were selected for presentation.

Prof. V Kannan in his inaugural address said that the latest research done in the area of cryptology is being shared at a common platform which will benefit the participants. The technical sessions in the three days conference will give an insight into the latest research in Cryptology and Information Security.

The three days conference will see technical sessions on Security of RSA and Multivariate Schemes; Security Analysis, Pseudorandom Permulations and Applications; Attacks on Block Ciphers and Stream Ciphers; Hash Functions; Fast Cryptographic Computation; Cryptanalysis of AES and Efficient Implementation.


There will also be Invited talks by Prof. Neal Kobitz, creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography and Prof. Bart Preneel, President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and co-inventor of the stream cipher MUGI and of the stream cipher Trivium.