--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: goya.WPI.EDU: christof owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:30:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Christof Paar <christof@ece.WPI.EDU> To: DCSB <dcsb@ai.mit.edu> Subject: WPI Cryptoseminar, Wednesday, 10/7 (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Christof Paar <christof@ece.WPI.EDU> Here we go again. Our seminar series starts next week on a regular base. -Christof ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPI Cryptography and Information Security Seminar Christof Paar, WPI REPORT ON THE ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD, AES Wednesday, October 7 4:00 pm, AK 108 (refreshments at 3:45 pm) It is probably widely known that DES expires as a federal encryption standard by the end of 1998. Currently NIST is overseeing the development of a new block cipher, AES, which will become the DES successor. The development process for AES is highly interesting as it has been (as of yet) been a public process: Everyone was able to submit candidate algorithms which are currently publicly reviewed. My talk will mainly follow the excellent presentations by Miles Smid, who is with NIST, at the AES1 and CRYPTO '98 conferences in August. I will briefly review the main requirements for AES and talk about the submitted algorithms. The talk will conclude with a description of how the AES selection process will continue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of West and Salisbury Street for those coming from outside. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html TALKS IN THE FALL '98 SEMESTER: 8/12 Kris Gaj, George Mason University Quantum Computers and Classical Supercomputers as a Threat to Existing Ciphers. 10/6 Christof Paar, WPI Report on AES 10/14 David Finkel, WPI Performance and Security in Web-based Electronic Commerce 10/28 Thomas Blum, WPI Efficient FPGA Architectures for Public-Key Algorithms [other talks to be announced] See also http://ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html for abstracts of some of the talks. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short mail. Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a short mail. Regards, Christof Paar ************************************************************************* Christof Paar http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html Assistant Professor email: christof@ece.wpi.edu Cryptography Group phone: (508) 831 5061 ECE Department, WPI fax: (508) 831 5491 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609, USA ************************************************************************* For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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'