The European Network of Excellence (ECRYPT) organizes a summer school on elliptic curve cryptography in Bochum, Germany. The summer school will take place immediately before the "8th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography -- ECC 2004", which will also being held in Bochum. The summer school is coordinated by the Horst Görtz institute (HGI) for security in information technology . It will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum. Bochum is situated in North-Western Germany.
The workshop is intended for young researchers and practitioners
interested in learning the background of elliptic curve
cryptography. The topics of the summer school range from the basic
ideas of discrete logarithm based cryptography and finite field
arithmetic to side-channel attacks and advanced topics such as point
counting. During the week of lectures the participants get a full tour
through most of the exciting background on elliptic curves presented
by first rank speakers. The summer school provides an excellent basis
for attending ECC 2004, which is held just after the summer school.
A preliminary schedule can be found here.
The lectures will be delivered by the following list of speakers:The summer school is made possible due to support by European Network of Excellence ECRYPT and is organized in the frame of the virtual lab "VAMPIRE - Virtual Application and Implementation Research Lab".
For further information please contact:
Tanja Lange lange@itsc.rub.de