ECRYPT European Network of Excellence in Cryptology

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ECRYPT European Network of Excellence in
Cryptology

• Royal Holloway
• Project Overview

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What is ECRYPT ?

• European Network of Excellence in Cryptology
• 32 partners
• 23 Academic Partners
• 9 Industrial Partners
• 14 countries Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France,
  Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway,
  Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.

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ECRYPT Partners I

• KULeuven Belgium
• Ecole Normale Supérieure France
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum Germany
• Royal Holloway UK
• University of Aarhus Denmark
• Università di Salerno Italy
• INRIA France
• University of Bristol UK
• Gemplus France
• France Telecom France
• IBM Switzerland

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ECRYPT Partners II

• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Netherlands
• Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
• Universität Duisburg-Essen Germany
• Technical University of Denmark Denmark
• University of Bergen Norway
• Lund University Sweden
• University of Graz Austria
• Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
• Cryptolog International France
• Vodafone UK
• Ericsson Sweden

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ECRYPT Partners III

• Axalto France
• MasterCard Europe Belgium
• EDIZONE Germany
• Fraunhofer Institute Germany
• University Magdeburg (GAUSS) Germany
• CNRS France
• University of Vigo Spain
• CNIT Italy
• University of Geneva Switzerland
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

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Virtual labs of ECRYPT

• Joint research organised into 5 Virtual Labs
• STVL Symmetric Techniques.
• AZTEC Asymmetric Techniques.
• PROVILAB Protocols.
• VAMPIRE Implementation Issues.
• WAVILA Watermarking

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ECRYPT Activities

• Summer schools and workshops
• Exchanges of researchers
• Common publications
• Input to standardization bodies etc
• Jointly executed targeted research

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Forthcoming ECRYPT Events

• Workshop on Secure Multiparty Protocols
• 7-8 October, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Workshop on Stream Ciphers
• 14-15 October, Bruges, Belgium
• Workshop on Provable Security
• 3-5 November, Versailles, France.

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Planned ECRYPT Workshops

• Workshop on Watermarking
• Winter 2005.
• Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography
• Summer 2005.
• Workshop on Special-Purpose Hardware
• Summer 2005.

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Planned ECRYPT Schools

• School on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Autumn 2004.
• School on Algorithm Crptanalysis
• Spring 2005.
• School on Unconditionally Secure Protocols
• Summer 2005.

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Further ECRYPT Information

• ECRYPT Website
• www.ecrypt.eu.org
• RH ECRYPT Website
• www.isg/rhul.ac.uk/sean/ECRYPT
• Supervisor (if PhD student)
• Sean Murphy