ICITS 2011

ICITS 2011 5th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 21 - 24, 2011

The tentative program is as follows.

Saturday, May 21
Location: Cafe Vertigo (directions)

18:00	Welcome reception

Sunday, May 22
Location: CWI (directions)

9:00	Registration
9:30	Opening Remarks
Session 1 (Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini)
9:45	Correlation Extractors and Their Applications (Invited Talk) [pdf] Yuval Ishai
10:35	Characterization of the Relations Between Information-Theoretic Non-Malleability, Secrecy, and Authenticity Akinori Kawachi, Christopher Portmann, and Keisuke Tanaka
11:00	Break
Session 2 (Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini)
11:30	Randomly Encoding Functions: a New Cryptographic Paradigm (Invited Talk) Benny Applebaum
12:20	Lunch (provided) / Steering Commitee meeting
Session 3 (Chair: Jürg Wullschleger)
14:00	Quantum-Resilient Randomness Extraction (Invited Talk) Renato Renner
14:50	Homogeneous Faults, Colored Edge Graphs, and Cover Free Families Yongge Wang and Yvo Desmedt
15:15	Break
Session 4 (Chair: Jürg Wullschleger)
15:45	On Information Theoretic Security: Mathematical Models and Techniques (Invited Talk) Imre Csiszár
16:35	Common Randomness and Secret Key Capacities of Two-way Channels Hadi Ahmadi and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
17:00	End of technical program
Conference Dinner
Location: Tokyo Cafe (directions)
20:30	Conference Dinner

Monday, May 23
Location: Trippenhuis (directions)

8:30	Registration
Session 5 (Chair: Christian Schaffner)
9:00	LT-Codes and Phase Transitions for Mutual Information (Invited Talk) Amin Shokrollahi
9:50	Unconditionally Secure Signature Schemes Revisited Colleen M. Swanson and Douglas R. Stinson
10:15	Break
Session 6 (Chair: Christian Schaffner)
10:45	Bell Inequalities: What do we know about them and why should cryptographers care (Invited Talk) Ronald de Wolf
11:35	Efficient Reductions for Non-Signaling Cryptographic Primitives Nico Döttling, Daniel Kraschewski, and Jörn Müller-Quade
12:00	Lunch (provided)
*Session 7 (Chair: TBA)*
14:00	Some Notions of Entropy for Cryptography (Invited Talk) Leonid Reyzin
14:50	The Round Complexity of General VSS Ashish Choudhury, Kaoru Kurosawa, and Arpita Patra
15:15	Graceful Degradation in Multi-Party Computation Martin Hirt, Christoph Lucas, Ueli Maurer, and Dominik Raub
15:40	Break
Rump Session (Chair: Niek Bouman)
16:10	Rump Session (here for details)
17:00	End of technical program

Tuesday, May 24
Location: Trippenhuis (directions)

Session 9 (Chair: Serge Fehr)
9:00	Quantum Communication Attacks on Classical Cryptographic Protocols (Invited Talk) Ivan Damgård
9:50	Using Colors to Improve Visual Cryptography for Black and White Images Roberto De Prisco and Alfredo De Santis
10:15	Break
Session 10 (Chair: Serge Fehr)
10:45	Digital Fingerprinting Under and (Somewhat) Beyond the Marking Assumption (Invited Talk) Alexander Barg
11:35	Communication Optimal Multi-Valued Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement with Optimal Resilience Arpita Patra and C. Pandu Rangan
12:00	Minimal Connectivity for Unconditionally Secure Message Transmission in Synchronous Directed Networks Manan Nayak, Shashank Agrawal, and Kannan Srinathan
12:25	End of conference