THE 4TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2000)

University of Essen, Essen, Germany

October 4-6, 2000

First Announcement        February 23, 2000


ECC 2000 is the fourth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the
study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes
of ECC 2000 will be:
  - The discrete logarithm and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems.
  - Provably secure discrete log-based cryptographic protocols for
    encryption, signatures and key agreement.
  - Efficient software and hardware implementation of elliptic curve
    cryptosystems.
  - Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.

It is hoped that the meeting will encourage and stimulate further
research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve
cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between
mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic,
industry and government sectors.

There will be approximately 15 invited lectures (and no contributed
talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions. There
will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research
developments.

SPONSORS:
     Certicom Corp.
     Communications and Information Technology Ontario
     CV Cryptovision
     Infineon
     Innovationscluster neue Medien (Minist. SWWF, NRW)
     MasterCard International
     Metris
     Mondex International Limited
     Siemens AG
     University GH Essen
     University of Waterloo

ORGANIZERS:
     Gerhard Frey     (University of Essen)
     Steven Galbraith (University of Essen)
     Alfred Menezes   (University of Waterloo)
     Scott Vanstone   (University of Waterloo)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
     Pierrick Gaudry  (LIX, France)
     Erwin Hess       (Siemens, Germany)
     Ansgar Heuser    (BSI, Germany)
     Arjen Lenstra    (Citibank, USA)
     Peter Montgomery (Microsoft, USA)
     Christof Paar    (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
     Phil Rogaway     (University of California at Davis, USA)
     Scott Vanstone   (University of Waterloo, Canada)

SPEAKERS WHO HAVE TENTATIVELY ACCEPTED:
     Neal Koblitz     (University of Washington, USA)
     Victor Shoup     (IBM, Zurich)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Essen is the largest city in the Ruhr region, and is about a 20-minute
drive from Dusseldorf International airport. The second announcement will
be made on May 1, and will include registration and local (i.e., hotel &
transportation) information. If you did not receive this announcement by
email and would like to be added to the mailing list for the second
announcement, please send email to ecc2000@math.uwaterloo.ca. The
announcements are also available from the web sites:
      http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
and
      http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~galbra/ecc2000.html