[crypto] Fwd: ECC 2025 -- Celebrating 40 years of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Subject: ECC 2025 -- Celebrating 40 years of Elliptic Curves in 
Cryptography
Date: 2025-06-17 11:15
 From: Tanja Lange <tanja at hyperelliptic.org>
To: ecc10 at hyperelliptic.org

Dear all,

On Monday 11 August we will hold a 1-day online event.

The event is to commemorate and celebrate the founding of elliptic curve
cryptography 40 years ago by Victor Miller and Neal Koblitz. Victor and 
Neal
will give some personal reflections on their work and its legacy. We 
will also
celebrate the broad impact of ECC on cryptography in many ways that 
would not
have been expected in 1985. Dan Boneh and Kristin Lauter will give brief
lectures to give an overview of some of these impacts. The history of 
ECC is a
textbook example of the how fundamental blue-skies research can lead to
practical outcomes in unexpected ways.

The talks will be streamed on YouTube on the ECC channel:
	https://www.youtube.com/@ECCworkshop

All talks will be moderated by Steven Galbraith. We have a Zulip chat 
server
for you to ask questions or comment on the discussions. If you attended 
our
online ECC 2020 you likely already have an account on
	https://eccworkshop.zulipchat.com
Please add yourself to the "2025 -- 40 years of ECC" channel. If you 
don't have
an account, yet, you can use the following invite link to make one
	https://eccworkshop.zulipchat.com/join/mshtjkbexnbo3xf2wqn2g7qj/
This link is valid for 8 weeks, starting today.

Schedule
The following times are stated in PDT (UTC-7).

12:45 Welcome and introductory remarks
13:00 Victor Miller
       Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a 40 year perspective
13:30 Neal Koblitz
       My Personal Journey with ECC
14:00 Q&A and moderated discussion
14:40 break
15:00 Dan Boneh
       Thirty Years of Pairings, and What Comes Next
15:30 Q&A
15:40 Kristin Lauter
       TBD
16:10 Q&A and further discussion


Organizers

     Steven Galbraith, University of Auckland
     Tanja Lange, Eindhoven University of Technology

For the most up-to-date information see
	https://eccworkshop.org/2025/index.html

All the best
	Tanja