March 2006 - cypherpunks-legacy

[Clips] First announcement for ECC 2006
by R. A. Hettinga 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:00:20 -0400 To: "Philodox Clips List" <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] First announcement for ECC 2006 Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com --- begin forwarded text From: ECC 2006 <ecc2006(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:31:28 -0500 (EST) To: rah(a)ibuc.com Subject: First announcement for ECC 2006 ======================================================================== If you wish to be removed from the ECC 2006 mailing list, please send a brief email to ecc2006(a)uwaterloo.ca ======================================================================== THE 10TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2006) The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada September 18, 19 & 20, 2006 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT February 26, 2006 ECC 2006 is the tenth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. Over the past years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, quantum key distribution, AES, hash function, implementation issues, and deployments. At the same time ECC continues to be the premier conference on elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that ECC 2006 will further our mission of encouraging and stimulating research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encouraging collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors. As with past ECC conferences, there will be about 15 invited lectures (and no contributed talks) delivered by internationally leading experts. There will be both state-of-the-art survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research developments. SPONSORS: Certicom The Fields Institute MITACS University of Waterloo ORGANIZERS: Mark Bauer (University of Calgary) Tanja Lange (Technical University of Denmark) Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo) Kumar Murty (University of Toronto) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum) Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo) FIELDS FALL 2006 THEMATIC PROGRAM IN CRYPTOGRAPHY: ECC 2006 will be one of the events being organized in conjunction with the Fields Institute Fall 2006 Thematic Program in Cryptography. ECC 2006 attendees who are interested in office space or funding can apply to Fields for funding: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto SUMMER SCHOOL: Tanja Lange will be teaching a course at Fields on "Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography". The course is intended for graduate students in cryptography and mathematics, and will take place from September 11-15. Further details are available on the Fields web site: www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/courses/index.html TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS: The Fields Institute is located in the downtown campus of the University of Toronto. The Fields web site http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/resources/travel/index.html has travel information information, directions to the Institute including a map, and a listing of hotels that are within walking distance the Institute. REGISTRATION: The second announcement will be made in the beginning of May and will include registration information and a list of speakers. FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information, please contact: Alfred Menezes (email: ajmeneze [at] uwaterloo.ca) ======================================================================== --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say]
by Eugen Leitl 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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NYT sues Pentagon over domestic spying
by Eugen Leitl 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060227/ts_nm/security_nsa_nytimes_dc NYT sues Pentagon over domestic spying Mon Feb 27, 6:11 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times sued the U.S. Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency's domestic spying program. The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it. The Times in December broke the story that the NSA had begun intercepting domestic communications believed linked to al Qaeda following the September 11 attacks. That provoked renewed criticism of the way U.S. President George W. Bush is handling his declared war on terrorism. Bush called the disclosure of the program to the Times a "shameful act" and the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into who leaked it. The Times had requested the documents in December under the Freedom of Information Act but sued upon being unsatisfied with the Pentagon's response that the request was "being processed as quickly as possible," according to the six-page suit filed at federal court in New York. David McCraw, a lawyer for the Times, acknowledged that the list of documents sought was lengthy but that the Pentagon failed to assert there were "unusual circumstances," a provision of the law that would grant the Pentagon extra time to respond. The Defense Department, which was sued as the parent agency of the NSA, did not immediately respond to the suit. McCraw said there was "no connection" between the Justice Department probe and the Times' lawsuit. "This is an important story that our reporters are continuing to pursue and of the ways to do that is through the Freedom of Information Act," McCraw said. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requires the federal government to obtain warrants from a secret federal court for surveillance operations inside the United States. But the Bush administration says the president as commander in chief of the armed forces has the authority to carry out the intercepts and that Congress also gave him the authority upon approving the use of force in response to the September 11 attacks. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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