CRYPTREC CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE
SUBMISSIONS BRIEFING: REPORT

The CRYPTREC Cryptographic Submissions Briefing was held on Oct. 9 (Tue.) and 10 (Wed.) under the joint sponsorship of the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) and the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO). We extend our warmest thanks to the many people who attended the briefing.

BRIEFING DETAILS

DATE AND TIME: Oct. 9 (Tue.), 2001 10:30 to 19:00 Oct. 10 (Wed.), 2001 10:30 to 18:00 PLACE: Yamaha Hall (7-9-14 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN. Phone: +81(0)3-3572-3139) ATTENDANCE: 220 Participants

PROGRAM

Oct. 9 (Tue.)

10:00 Program begins

10:30 Welcoming Address
Taku Kiyasu Director, Standardization Division, Information Communications Policy Bureau, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
Mr. Kiyasu talked about the importance of CRYPTREC in the establishment of the Japanese e-Government.

10:30 Key-note Speech " CRYPTREC Project 2001 "
Hideki Imai Professor, The University of Tokyo (Chair, CRYPTREC Evaluation Committee)
Professor Imai presented a comprehensive overview of CRYPTREC activities. (PDF FILE: 250KB)(Note)

11:00 Presentation: " Symmetric-Key Cryptography Technique Evaluation Policy"
Toshinobu Kaneko Professor, Science University of Tokyo (Chair, CRYPTREC Symmetric-Key Subcommittee)
Professor Kaneko explained the process involved in this year's evaluation of symmetric-key cryptography techniques.(PDF FILE: 24KB)(Note)

11:30 Session 1: Presentation of Symmetric-Key Cryptographic Techniques (64-bit block ciphers)

Moderator: Makoto Tatebayashi (Member, CRYPTREC Symmetric-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. CIPHERUNICORN-E Hierocrypt-L1 MISTY1

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Session 2: Presentation of Symmetric-Key Cryptographic Techniques (128-bit block ciphers)

Moderator: Kazuo Takaragi (Member, CRYPTREC Symmetric-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. Camellia CIPHERUNICORN-A RC6 Block Cipher SC2000

15:40 - 16:00 Break

16:00 Session 3: Presentation of Symmetric-Key Cryptographic Techniques (Stream ciphers)

Moderator: Masakatsu Morii (Member, CRYPTREC Symmetric-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. C4-1 FSAngo MUGI MULTI-S01

17:20 - 17:40 Break

17:40 Session 4: Presentation of Symmetric-Key Cryptographic Techniques (Pseudo-random number generators)

Moderator: Shinichi Kawamura (Member, CRYPTREC Symmetric-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. Creation of intrinsic numbers with Clutter Box FSRansu High security ultra mini random number generator TAO TIME Cognition Algorithm

19:00 Program concludes

Oct. 10 (Tue.)

10:00 Program begins

10:30 Advisory speech: " Trends in Cryptographic Techniques "
Shigeo Tsujii Professor, Chuo University (Adviser, CRYPTREC Evaluation Committee)
In addition to introducing the latest trends in cryptographic techniques, Prof. Tsujii emphasized the need to promote CRYPTREC activities.

10:50 Presentation: "The CRYPTREC Policy to Evaluate the Submitted Public Key Systems "
Tsutomu Matsumoto Professor, Yokohama National University (Chair, CRYPTREC Public-Key Subcommittee)
Professor Matsumoto explained the process involved in this year's evaluation of public-key cryptography techniques.(PDF FILE: 16KB)(Note)

11:20 Session 1: Presentation of Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques

Moderator: Atsushi Shimbo (Member, CRYPTREC Public-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. EPOC-2 High Performance Modular Squaring Based Public Key Encryption (Revised version) (HIME(R)) NTRU public key cryptosystem RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem with Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (RSA-OAEP)

12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Session 2: Presentation of Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques

Moderator: Hajime Watanabe (Member, CRYPTREC Public-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. ESIGN RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem with Probabilistic Signature Scheme (RSA-PSS) Complex Open Cipher Key System The Security System for Information Telecommunication using the unconditional secrecy technology Security-up for Kana Kanji System Applied Mathematics Using Magic Squares

15:40 - 16:00 Break

16:00 Session 3: Presentation of Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques

Moderator: Kazuo Ohta (Member, CRYPTREC Public-Key Subcommittee)

Candidates submitting the following three cryptographic techniques provided technical explanations of their proposals. ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) in SEC1 ECIES (Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme) in SEC1 ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Scheme) in SEC1 OK-ECDSA OK-ECDH PSEC-KEM Key agreement

18:00 Program concludes

Note

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