[crypto] [tanja at hyperelliptic.org: Conference in Antwerp on Crypto for the internet of things]

R. Hirschfeld ray at unipay.nl
Thu Nov 8 20:24:42 CET 2012


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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 18:36:02 +0100
From: Tanja Lange <tanja at hyperelliptic.org>
Subject: Conference in Antwerp on Crypto for the internet of things

Dear all,
This is a short reminder that the next cryptography working group takes
place on December 7 and an announcement of a conference that we're
organizing in Antwerp, November 20&21.

Hope to see you there
	Tanja


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ECRYPT's virtual lab VAMPIRE organizes CIoT - Cryptography for the
Internet of Things.

CIoT will start Tuesday morning. The workshop will end with the
afternoon coffee break on Wednesday. There will be around 12 invited
talks.
	http://hyperelliptic.org/CIoT/

Topic:
Today the Internet is connected to your smartphone. The "Internet of
Things" will go much further, also connecting your refrigerator, your
car, your coffee machine, your door locks, your aquarium, your
pacemaker, your lights, your luggage, and your wallet.

Now imagine that your alarm clock wakes you up three hours early. Your
coffee machine is making decaf, American style. Your smart fridge has
deep-frozen your milk. Your stereo is playing "Never Gonna Give You Up"
while your lights are strobing "Disco Inferno". Your toaster has been
running all night and burned itself out. Your shower seems to work for
thirty seconds and then blasts you with ice-cold water. Your aquarium
thermostat has frozen your pet goldfish. A sweet smell is coming from
the basement, where your smart heat lamps have set your marijuana plants
on fire (Netherlands readers only). Your robotic vacuum cleaner has
grabbed your cat and deposited it in the microwave. Your front door
doesn't open. Your car is taking a joy ride. Your television set is
flashing "Do you want to play a game?" in a spectrum of colors. Your
bank account is empty.

You aren't just having a bad day. You've been 0wned. Pranksters driving
by have sent radio signals that seem to come from your smartphone, and
devices throughout your house have followed the instructions in those
radio signals. The Internet of Things has no protection against attack.

Cryptography is designed to scramble communication, making your private
messages incomprehensible to eavesdroppers and at the same time
protecting those messages against forgery. But fitting cryptography into
the Internet of Things poses tremendous challenges. Today's cryptography
is too big; today's cryptography is too slow; today's cryptography
consumes too much power.

This workshop will explore state-of-the-art efforts to integrate
cryptography into the Internet of Things, and directions for future
research and development.

Workshop venue:
CIoT will take place November 20 and 21 in the Radisson Blu Park Lane
Hotel, Antwerp, Belgium.
Standard rooms are available for 109 EUR/night (+2 EUR city tax per
person per night). Superior rooms are available for 139 EUR/night (+2
EUR city tax per person per night). Both rates apply for single and
double occupancy and include breakfast and access to the Health and
Leisure Center.
The rates are valid for bookings made by November 6. Contact the hotel
by Email meeting.antwerp at radissonblu.com or by phone +32 3 2858871.
Please mention booking number 1417722 and Universiteit Eindhoven when
placing your booking.

Program Committee:

    Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
    Tanja Lange (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
    Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
    Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
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