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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:27 pm
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The First Theory of Cryptography Conference

MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
February 19-21 2004


TCC Steering Committee Chair: Mihir Bellare, UCSD
General Conference Chair: Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann Institute
Program Committee Chair: Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute

Conference web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/tcc04/


Location:
MIT EECS Grier Room, Bldg 34-401B
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Deadlines:
Early Registration Fee: Registration and payment must be received by 29 January 2004
Special Hotel Rate: Must be booked by 18 January 2004
On line Registration closes: 8 February 2004

To register, go to:
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/c/conf-serv/www/tccterms.html.


A block of rooms have been reserved at the Hotel at MIT at the
price of $145 including shuttle up until JANUARY 18. Please be sure
to make your hotel reservation before that date if you need a room.
Note too the early conference registration fee is only effective
until January 29.

For info about your hotel reservation, go to:
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~joanne/tcc04-local.html.

TCC Preliminary Program
=======================

Wednesday Feb. 18 2004

6:00-8:00 PM Reception at Radcliffe

Thursday, Feb. 19 2004
======================

9:00am-10:00am Welcome and Registration

SESSION 1: 10:00am-12:00pm Session Chair: Joe Kilian

Notions of Reducibility between Cryptographic Primitives
by Omer Reingold, Luca Trevisan and Salil Vadhan

Indifferentiability, Impossibility Results on Reductions, and
Applications to the Random Oracle Methodology
by Ueli Maurer, Renato Renner and Clemens Holenstein

On the random-oracle methodology as applied to
length-restricted signature schemes
by Ran Canetti, Oded Goldreich and Shai Halevi

Universally Composable Commitments Using Random Oracles
by Dennis Hofheinz and Joern Mueller-Quade

LUNCH BREAK 12:00pm-2:00pm (catered lunch)


SESSION 2 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Yuval Ishai

Transformation of Digital Signature Schemes into
Designated Confirmer Signature Schemes
by Shafi Goldwasser and Erez Waisbard

List-Decoding of Linear Functions and Analysis of a Two-Round
Zero-Knowledge Argument
by Cynthia Dwork, Ronen Shaltiel, Adam Smith and Luca Trevisan

On the Possibility of One Message Weak Zero-Knowledge
by Boaz Barak and Rafael Pass


COFFEE BREAK 3:30pm-4:00pm

SESSION 3 4:00pm-5:30pm Session Chair: Ronald Cramer

Soundness of formal encryption in the presence of active adversaries
by Daniele Micciancio and Bogdan Warinschi

Rerandomizable and Replayable Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext
Secure Cryptosystems
by Jens Groth

Alternatives to Non-Malleability: Definitions, Constructions and Applications
by Philip MacKenzie, Michael K. Reiter and Ke Yang


Evening program: Business Meeting/Rump session 8:00pm-10:00pm
(at Hotel at MIT)

Friday Feb. 20 2004
====================


SESSION 4 9:00am-10:30am Session Chair: Birgit Pfitzmann

A note on Constant-Round Zero-Knowledge Proofs for NP
by Alon Rosen

Lower Bounds for Concurrent Self Composition
by Yehuda Lindell

Secret-Key Zero-Knowledge and Non-Interactive Verifiable Exponentiation
by Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damgard

COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-11:00am

SESSION 5 11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: Ran Canetti

A Quantitative Approach to Reductions in Secure Computation
by Amos Beimel and Tal Malkin

Tamper Proof Security: Theoretical Foundations for Security
Against Hardware Tampering
by Rosario Gennaro, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Malkin, Silvio Micali and Tal Rabin

Physically Observable Cryptography
by Silvio Micali and Leonid Reyzin

LUNCH BREAK 12:30pm-2:00pm (lunch NOT provided)

SESSION 6 14:00pm-15:30pm Session Chair: Salil Vadhan

Efficient and Universally Composable Committed Oblivious
Transfer and Applications
by Juan A. Garay, Philip MacKenzie and Ke Yang

A Universally Composable Mix-Net
by Douglas Wikstrצm

A General Composition Theorem for Secure Reactive Systems
by Michael Backes, Birgit Pfitzmann and Michael Waidner

COFFEE BREAK 3:30pm-4:00pm

PANEL 4:00pm-5:30pm Moderator: Cynthia Dwork
Subject: Cryptography and Formal Methods




Saturday Feb. 21 2004
=====================

SESSION 7 9:00am-10:30am Session Chair: Omer Reingold

Unfair Noisy Channels and Oblivious Transfer
by Ivan Damgaard, Serge Fehr, Kirill Morozov and Louis Salvail

Computational Collapse of Quantum State and Its Application to
Oblivious Transfer
by Claude Crepeau, Paul Dumais, Dominic Mayers and Louis Salvail


Implementing Oblivious Transfer using collection of dense
trapdoor permutations
by Iftach Haitner

COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-11:00am

SESSION 8 11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: Philip MacKenzie

Composition of Random Systems: Sometimes Two Weak Make One Strong
by Ueli Maurer and Krzysztof Pietrzak

Simpler session-key generation from short random passwords
by Minh-Huyen Nguyen and Salil Vadhan

Constant-Round Oblivious Transfer in the Bounded Storage Model
by Yan Zong Ding, Danny Harnik, Alon Rosen and Ronen Shaltiel

LUNCH BREAK 12:30pm-2:00pm (catered lunch)

SESSION 9 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Daniele Micciancio

Hierarchical Threshold Secret Sharing
by Tamir Tassa

On Compressing Encrypted Data Without the Encryption Key
by Mark Johnson, David Wagner and Kannan Ramchandran

On the Notion of Pseudo-Free Groups
by Ronald L. Rivest

Farewell
 
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