Ice Break 2013
June 6-12
Reykjavik, Iceland
Ice Break 2013

Welcome

We continue a tradition started in 1992 to gather experts and students in cryptology in the Nordic countries.

We welcome you to a six-day (PhD) course with emphasis on symmetric cryptography and with world-class lecturers.

A limited number of stipends is available to PhD and Master's students who are not able to get funding elsewhere.

The course is equivalent to 5 ECTS credit points.

Venue

Reykjavik University.

Registration

Registration is open. Due to generous sponsors, we will not charge registration fees. Coffee breaks, lunches, and the Saturday dinner as was as an excursion on Sunday are included. However we limit the number of attendees to 50, and ask for a 150EUR fee in case of a no-show.

Confirmed speakers

  • Martin Albrecht
  • Lejla Batina
  • Andrey Bogdanov
  • Christina Boura
  • Anne Canteaut
  • Joan Daemen
  • Tor Helleseth
  • Lars R. Knudsen
  • Gregor Leander
  • Svetla Nikova
  • Kaisa Nyberg
  • Christiane Peters
  • Bart Preneel
  • Christian Rechberger
  • Tom Shrimpton

Program

Thursday June 6th, 2013

  • Morning: Intro
    • 08.30 - 10.00: Lars R. Knudsen: "Introduction to (symmetric) cryptography"
    10.30 - 12.00: Christian Rechberger: "A gentle introduction to cryptanalysis: Differential attacks of block ciphers"
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
    • 13.30 - 15.00: Anne Canteaut: "Foundations of cryptanalysis: On Boolean functions"
    15.30 - 17.00: Kaisa Nyberg: "Linear cryptanalysis"

Friday June 7th, 2013

  • Morning: Design and Cryptanalysis
    • 08.30 - 10.00: Bart Preneel: "Basics in hash function design and cryptanalysis"
    10.30 - 12.00: Bart Preneel: "Basics in MAC design and cryptanalysis"
  • Afternoon: Design and Cryptanalysis
    • 13.30 - 15.00: Tor Helleseth: "Stream cipher basics"
    15.30 - 17.00: Andrey Bogdanov: "Authenticated encryption basics"

Saturday June 8th, 2013

  • Morning: Side-channel attacks and countermeasures
    • 08.30 - 10.00: Lejla Batina: "Intro to side-channel attacks"
    10.30 - 12.00: Svetla Nikova: "Side-Channel attack countermeasures"
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
    13.30 - 15.00: Christiane Peters: "Applications of generalized birthday attacks"
  • Evening: Dinner lecture on SHA-3 Joan Daemen

Sunday June 9th, 2013

  • Excursion: Golden Circle

Monday June 10th, 2013

  • Morning: Cryptanalysis
    8.30 - 10.00: Christina Boura: "Bound on the algebraic degree of iterated constructions"
    10.30 - 12.00: Martin Albrecht: "Sage, and algebraic techniques for the lazy symmetric cryptographer"
  • Afternoon: Provable security
    • 13.30 - 15.00: Thomas Shrimpton: "Provable security basics"
    15.30 - 17.00: Thomas Shrimpton: "Selected topics in provable security of symmetric schemes"

Tuesday June 11th, 2013

  • Morning:
    • 08.30 - 10.00: Student Session
    10.30 - 12.00: Christian Rechberger: "More block cipher and hash function cryptanalysis techniques"
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
    • 13.30 - 15.00: Anne Canteaut: "Stream cipher cryptanalysis"
    15.30 - 17.00: Kaisa Nyberg: "Distinguishing distributions"

Wednesday June 12th, 2013

  • Morning: Lightweight primitives
    • 08.30 - 10.00: Gregor Leander: "Introduction to lightweight cryptography"
    10.30 - 12.00: Gregor Leander: "Selected topics in lightweight cryptography"

Visa and other enquiries

If you need invitation letters to get a visa for Iceland, or have other questions, please mail to Marian Solrun Adler masad@dtu.dk

Accommodation

    You are free to choose your own accomodation, mostly in the city center a few kilometers away from the University which will host the lectures. Do not wait too long with the booking, June seems to be a busy months in Reykjavik.

  • Hotel Fron in the city centre. We have a preliminary booking for 20 rooms. Laugarvegur 22, Tel: +354 511-4666
    Located in the old city center (3,7 km distance from RU)
    Single room incl. breakfast: 14.700 ISK (ca. 90 EUR)
    Double room incl. breakfast: 17.150 ISK (ca. 105 EUR)
    http://www.hotelfron.is/
    To book a room at Hotel Fron, please send an e-mail to info@hotelfron.is with your name, arrival and departure date.  Please mention that you are attending Ice Break 2013 to secure the negotiated room price. 
  • Flokagata 1, Tel +354 552 11 55
    Located near the city center (2,5 km distance from RU)
     
    Single room from 11.815 and Double room from 15.215 ISK.  All rates include breakfast
     
    To book room at Hotel Floki.  Please send an e-mail to info@hotelfloki.is with your name, arrival and departure date.  Please mention that you are attending Ice Break 2013 to secure the negotiated room price. 
  • Porsgata 26, Tel +354 511 5570
    Located the old city center (3 km distance from RU)
     
    Single room from 12.155 and Double room from 15.470 ISK.  All rates include breakfast
     
    To book room at Sunna.
    Choose booking form and fill in your personal data. Please indicate the code "DTU" in Remarks/Questions to secure the negotiated room price.  Or send an e-mail to sunna@sunna.is
  • Sudurhlid 35d, +354 588 2100
    (1 km distance from RU/4 km from City center)
    Single room from 69 EUR and Double room from 89 EUR.  All rates include breakfast
     
    To book room at Capital Inn:  Choose room type, check in day and number of nights.  To activate the negotiated price please enter the code „HRspecial“ in promo code area. 
  • The nearest hotel, Icelandair Hotel Natura, is fully booked the first 3 days but we are on the waiting list.

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