ICITS 07 - PROGRAM 



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FRIDAY May 25, 2007
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OPENING: 9:30-9:45


SESSION Authentication I: 9:45-10:45 - Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini


Title: Commitment and Authentication Systems.
Alexandre Pinto, André Souto, Armando Matos, Luís Antunes
(DCC - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Title: Unconditionally Secure Blind Signatures.
Yuki Hara, Takenobu Seito, Junji Shikata, Tsutomu Matsumoto
(Yokohama National University, Japan)



----Coffee Break: 10:45-11:15


SESSION: Keynote Lecture: 11:15-12:15 - Chair: Yvo Desmedt
Ueli Maurer: Random Systems: Theory and Applications


----12:30-14:15 Lunch


SESSION: Group Cryptography: 14:15-15:45 - Chair: Ronald Cramer

Title: Optimising SD and LSD in presence of Non-uniform Probabilities of Revocation.
Paolo D'Arco and Alfredo De Santis
(Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, University of Salerno, Italy)

Title: Trade-Offs in Information-Theoretic Multi-Party One-Way Key Agreement.
Renato Renner and Stefan Wolf  and Jurg Wullschleger
(University of Cambridge, United and ETH, Switzerland)

Title: Improvement of Collusion Secure Convolutional Fingerprinting Information Codes.
Joan Tomàs and Marcel Fernandez and Miguel Soriano
(Department of Telematics Engineering. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)



----Coffee Break: 15:45-16:10


SESSION: Invited Talk: 16:10-17:00 - Chair: Gilles Brassard
Eyal Kushilevitz: Zero-Knowledge from Secure Multiparty Computation



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SATURDAY May 26, 2007 MORNING
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SESSION: Invited Talk: 9:30-10:20 - Chair: Ueli Maurer
Raymond Yeung: Network Coding and Information Security


----Coffee Break: 10:20-10:50

SESSION: Private and Reliable Message Transmission: 10:50-11:50 - Chair: Raymond Yeung

Title: On Exponential Lower Bound for Protocols for Reliable Communication in Networks.
Kannan Srinathan and C. Pandu Rangan and Ranjt Kumaresan
(IIIT Hyderabad and IIT Madras, India)

Title: Almost Secure (1-Round, n-Channel) Message Transmission Scheme.
Kaoru Kurosawa and Kazuhiro Suzuki
(Ibaraki University)



SESSION: Invited Talk: 11:50-12:40 - Chair: Yuliang Zheng
Junji Shikata: Construction Methodology of Unconditionally Secure Signature Schemes



----12:40-14:10 Lunch



SESSION: Authentication II: 14:10-15:10 - Chair: Renato Renner 
Title: New Results on Unconditionally Secure Multi-receiver Manual Authentication.
Shuhong Wang and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
(University of Wollongong)

Title: Unconditionally Secure Chaffing-and-Winnowing for Multiple Use.
Wataru Kitada, Goichiro Hanaoka, Kanta Matsuura, Hideki Imai
(Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. Research Center for Information Security,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)




----Coffee Break: 15:10-15:40


SESSION: Invited Talk: 15:40-16:30 - Chair: Junji Shikata
Renato Renner: Can we justify the i.i.d. assumption?



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MONDAY May 28, 2007 MORNING
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SESSION: Invited Talk: 9:30-10:20 - Chair: Alain Tapp
Iordanis Kerenidis: An Introduction to Quantum Information Theory

----Coffee Break: 10:20-10:50

SESSION: Secret Sharing: 10:50-11:50 - Chair: Amos Beimel
Title: Strongly Multiplicative Hierarchical Threshold Secret Sharing.
Emilia Käsper and Ventzislav Nikov and Svetla Nikova.
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-COSIC)

Title: Secret Sharing Comparison by Transformation and Rotation.
Tord Ingolf Reistad and Tomas Toft
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. University of Aarhus, Denmark)



SESSION: Invited Talk: 11:50-12:40 - Chair: Carlo Blundo
Amos Beimel: On linear, non-linear and weakly-private secret sharing schemes. 


----12:40-14:10 Lunch



SESSION: Invited Talk: 14:10-15:00 - Chair: Iordanis Kerenidis
Alain Tapp: Anonymous quantum message transmission


----Coffee Break: 15:00-15:30
SESSION: Applications of Information Theory: 15:30-16:30 - Chair: Javier Lopez
Title: Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols Achieving a Non-Zero Rate from Any Non-Trivial Noisy Correlation.
Hideki Imai, Kirill Morozov, Anderson Nascimento
(Chuo University, Japan; University of Brasilia, Brazil; AIST, Japan)

Title: Cryptographic security of individual instances.
Luis Antunes, Sophie Laplante, Alexandre Pinto
(DCC-FC & LIACC University of Porto, and LRI, University Paris-Sud)