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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: Dr. Mark Manulis (Université 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 (École Normale Supérieure 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 Stehlé (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 Télécom)
  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-Hytönen (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.