crypt@b-it

A series of summer schools by b-it, RUB, GI, often In cooperation with IACR.

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26-30 August 2024, RUB Bochum, Germany.

Organized by the GI, FG Krypto, CASA (Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the b-it (Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology). In cooperation with IACR.

• Anca Nitulescu, Input Output Global, Paris, France. Proving computation and storage: SNARKs and more.
• Léo Ducas, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden University*. Lattice Algorithms for Cryptography.

12 - 16 September 2022, b-it, Bonn, Germany. Organized by the GI, FG Krypto, in cooperation with the CASA (Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, and the smashHit project at the Data Science and Intelligent Systems Research Group at the Computer Science at University of Bonn, and the b-it (Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology). In cooperation with IACR.

• Luca De Feo, IBM Research Europe, Rüschlikon, Switzerland. Isogeny based cryptography.
• Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland, USA. Secure Distributed Computation.

23 July - 27 July 2018, b-it, Bonn, Germany. Organized with Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, RUB, Bochum, Germany, and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, CYSEC. In cooperation with IACR and GI, FG Krypto.

• Stefano Tessaro, (Santa Barbara). Proof techniques for symmetric cryptography.
• Mike Rosulek (Oregon). Practical Techniques for Secure 2-party Computation.

25 July - 29 July 2016, b-it, Bonn, Germany. Organized with Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, RUB, Bochum, Germany.

• Markulf Kohlweiss (Microsoft), Internet and cloud. About TLS, outsourcing and reductions.
• Christian Rechberger (TU Graz), Analysis and design of symmetric crypto systems.

28 July - 01 August 2014, Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, RUB, Bochum, Germany.

• Gary McGuire (UCD School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin). Discrete Logs.
• Hoeteck Wee (École normale supérieure, Paris). Functional Encryption.

29 July - 02 August 2013, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Joan Daemen (STMicroelectronics), Sponge functions and Keccak.
• Chris Peikert (Georgia Institute of Technology), Lattice-based cryptography.

16 - 20 July 2012, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Valtteri Niemi, Mobile Phone Security and Privacy.
• Dennis Hofheinz (Institute of Cryptography and Security IKS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT), Formal Arguments for Cryptographic Security.

2 - 6 August 2010, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Pairing-based Cryptography.
• Alexander May (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Lattice-based Cryptanalysis.

3 - 7 August 2009, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Marc Joye (Thomson R&D, France). Cryptography in Practice: How to make it small, fast and secure.
• Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Topics in Symmetric Cryptology.

28 July - 1 August 2008, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Vincent Rijmen (COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium / IAIK Krypto Group, Graz University of Technology, Austria). Design and analysis of block ciphers and cryptographic hash functions.
• Igor Shparlinski (ACAC, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia). Cryptography: Numbers at work and play.

24-28 September 2007, b-it, Bonn, Germany.

• Pascal Paillier (Cryptography & Innovation, Security Labs, Gemalto). Security reductions for asymmetric systems.
• Gadiel Seroussi (MSRI Berkeley). Elliptic curve cryptography.

17-21 July 2006, b-it, bonn, Germany.

• Phong Nguyen (ENS Paris). Lattices in cryptology.
• Charles Rackoff (University of Toronto). Fundamentals and theoretical security notions.