Asiacrypt
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Asiacrypt is an important international conference
for cryptography
research. The full name of the conference is currently International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, though this has varied over time. Asiacrypt is a conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research
(IACR) since 2000, and is one of its three flagship conferences. However, Asiacrypt is considered slightly less prestigious than CRYPTO
or EUROCRYPT
, although it has been gaining reputation. Asiacrypt is now held annually in November or December at various locations throughout eastern Asia
and Australia
.
Initially, the Asiacrypt conferences were called AUSCRYPT, as the first one was held in Sydney
, Australia in 1990, and only later did the community decide that the conference should be held in locations throughout Asia. The first conference to be called "Asiacrypt" was held in 1991 in Fujiyoshida, Japan
.
Academic conference
An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
for cryptography
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
research. The full name of the conference is currently International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, though this has varied over time. Asiacrypt is a conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research
International Association for Cryptologic Research
The International Association for Cryptologic Research is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields...
(IACR) since 2000, and is one of its three flagship conferences. However, Asiacrypt is considered slightly less prestigious than CRYPTO
CRYPTO (conference)
CRYPTO, the International Cryptology Conference, is one of the largest academic conferences in cryptography and cryptanalysis. It is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research , and it is held yearly in August in Santa Barbara, California at the University of California,...
or EUROCRYPT
EuroCrypt
EuroCrypt is a conditional access system for Multiplexed Analogue Components-encoded analogue satellite television. It had several versions . It supported receivers with card slots and those with embedded keys...
, although it has been gaining reputation. Asiacrypt is now held annually in November or December at various locations throughout eastern Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Initially, the Asiacrypt conferences were called AUSCRYPT, as the first one was held in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia in 1990, and only later did the community decide that the conference should be held in locations throughout Asia. The first conference to be called "Asiacrypt" was held in 1991 in Fujiyoshida, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Conference and proceedings information by year
- 1990: January 8-11, Sydney, Australia, Jennifer SeberryJennifer SeberryJennifer Roma Seberry is an Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia...
and Josef PieprzykJosef PieprzykJosef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He collaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function....
, eds. (called AUSCRYPT 1990; ISBN 3-540-53000-2) - 1991: November 11-14, Fujiyoshida, Japan, Hideki ImaiHideki Imaiis an information theorist and cryptographer, currently the director of Research Center for Information Security , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a full professor at Chuo University...
, Ronald Rivest, Tsutomu Matsumoto, eds. (ISBN 3-540-57332-1) - 1992: December 13-16, Gold Coast, QueenslandGold Coast, QueenslandGold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
, Australia, Jennifer Seberry and Yuliang ZhengYuliang ZhengYuliang Zheng is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is best known for inventing the Signcryption cryptographic primitive that combines the digital signature and encryption operations into one single step...
, eds. (called AUSCRYPT 1992; ISBN 3-540-57220-1) - 1994: November 28-December 1, Wollongong, Australia, Josef Pieprzyk, Reihaneh Safavi-NainiReihaneh Safavi-NainiReihaneh Safavi-Naini is the Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of and at the University of Wollongong, Australia...
, eds. (called ASIACRYPT 1994, ISBN 3-540-59339-X) - 1996: November 3-7, Kyongju, KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
, Kwangjo Kim, Tsutomu Matsumoto, eds. (ISBN 3-540-61872-4) - 1998: October 18-22, BeijingBeijingBeijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Kazuo Ohta, Dingyi Pei, eds. (ISBN 3-540-65109-8) - 1999: November 14-18, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Kwok-Yan Lam, Eiji Okamoto, Chaoping Xing, eds. (ISBN 3-540-66666-4) - 2000: December 3-7, KyotoKyotois a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...
, Japan, Tatsuaki Okamoto, ed. (ISBN 3-540-41404-5) - 2001: December 9-13, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Colin Boyd, ed. (ISBN 3-540-42987-5)
- 2002: December 1-5, QueenstownQueenstown, New ZealandQueenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....
, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Yuliang Zheng, ed. (ISBN 3-540-00171-9) - 2003: November 30-December 4, TaipeiTaipeiTaipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Chi-Sung Laih, ed. (ISBN 3-540-20592-6) - 2004: December 5-9, Jeju Island, Korea, Pil Joong LeePil Joong LeePil Joong Lee is a cryptographer at Pohang University of Science and Technology , South Korea.Lee earned his B.S. and M.S. from the Seoul National University in 1974 and 1977, respectively, and then later his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1985.- External links :*...
, ed. (ISBN 3-540-23975-8) - 2005: December 4-8, ChennaiChennaiChennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Bimal Roy, ed. (ISBN 3-540-30684-6) - 2006: December 3-7, ShanghaiShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, China, Xuejia Lai, Kefei Chen, eds. (ISBN 3-540-49475-8) - 2007: December 2-6, KuchingKuchingKuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
, Malaysia, Kaoru Kurosawa, ed. (ISBN 978-3-540-76899-9) - 2008: December 7-11, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia, Josef Pieprzyk, ed. (ISBN 978-3-540-89254-0) - 2009: December 6-10, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan, Mitsuru Matsui, ed. (ISBN 978-3-642-10366-7) - 2010: December 5-9, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Masayuki Abe, ed. (ISBN 978-3-642-17373-8) - 2011: December 4-8, SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, Korea
See also
- CryptoCRYPTO (conference)CRYPTO, the International Cryptology Conference, is one of the largest academic conferences in cryptography and cryptanalysis. It is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research , and it is held yearly in August in Santa Barbara, California at the University of California,...
- EurocryptEurocryptEurocrypt is a conference for cryptography research. The full name of the conference is currently the Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, but this has not always been its name...
- List of cryptology conferences
- IACRIACRIACR may refer to:*International Association for Cryptologic Research*Institute of Arable Crops Research*Institute of Advanced Computer & Research...