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, Menntavegur 1, 101 Reykjavik. The registration desk is at the main entrance of the university building, the lecture room will be M104 on the ground floor.

Reaching the conference venue by public transportation:
The bus system of Reykjavik (also known as Straeto) is quite reliable and punctual. The fare is 350 ISK per person per ride, drivers don't have change. If you arrive at the BSI terminal station you need to take line number 19 and walk one minute after exiting at the university bus stop.
There are other bus terminals in the city, they are useful when you stay in Hotels like city-center Fron: Hlemmur and Laekjartorg.
The best terminal to reach the university from the center is Hlemmur, a short walk along the street "Lauaveur" from the center. From the Hlemmur terminal. you can take line 19 which will take you to the university directly in about 9 minutes (8 minutes of bus travel, plus 1 min walking). Busses depart every 30 minutes, and a suitable departure to reach the venue on time would be 08.01am. Note that on Saturday, schedule is different, and the first departure time is 08.16am.
If you are closer to Laekjartorg station then you can take line number 3, exit at the BSI bus stop and change to line number 19, walking the remaining one minute after exiting at the university bus stop.

Registration

Registration is closed. 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, DTU, Denmark
  • Lejla Batina, RU, The Netherlands
  • Andrey Bogdanov, DTU, Denmark
  • Christina Boura, DTU, Denmark
  • Anne Canteaut, INRIA, France
  • Joan Daemen, STM, Belgium
  • Tor Helleseth, UiB, Norway
  • Lars R. Knudsen, DTU, Denmark
  • Gregor Leander, RUB, Germany
  • Svetla Nikova, KUL, Belgium
  • Kaisa Nyberg, Aalto, Finnland
  • Christiane Peters, DTU, Denmark
  • Bart Preneel, KUL, Belgium
  • Christian Rechberger, DTU, Denmark
  • Tom Shrimpton, PDX, USA

Program

Thursday June 6th, 2013

  • Morning: Intro
  • 08.00 - 08.45: Registration
    08.45 - 09.00: Lars R. Knudsen and Christian Rechberger: "Welcome", [slides1] [slides2]
    09.00 - 10.00: Lars R. Knudsen: "Introduction to (symmetric) cryptography"
    10.30 - 12.00: Christian Rechberger: "A gentle introduction to cryptanalysis: Differential attacks on block ciphers"
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
  • 13.30 - 15.00: Anne Canteaut: "Foundations of cryptanalysis: On Boolean functions" [slides]
    15.30 - 17.00: Kaisa Nyberg: "Linear cryptanalysis" [slides]

Friday June 7th, 2013

  • Morning: Design and Cryptanalysis
  • 08.30 - 10.00: Tor Helleseth: "Stream cipher basics"
    10.30 - 12.00: Bart Preneel: "Basics in hash function design and cryptanalysis" [slides]
  • Afternoon: Design and Cryptanalysis
  • 13.30 - 15.00: Bart Preneel: "Basics in MAC design and cryptanalysis" [slides]
    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" [slides]
    Lunch at Restaurant "Satt" near Hotel Natura, in easy walking distance from Reykjavik University, see also the map.
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
    13.30 - 15.00: Christiane Peters: "The k-sum Problem" [slides]
  • Evening: Dinner lecture and Dinner
    18.20: Start walking from Reykjavik University
    18.45: Welcome drink
    19.00 - 20.00: Joan Daemen: "On Keccak and SHA-3" [slides]
    20.00: Dinner
    Location: Perlan, in easy walking distance from Reykjavik University, see also the map.

Sunday June 9th, 2013

  • Excursion: Golden Circle (about 8h duration), lunch included
  • Hotel pickup schedule for the Sunday excursion:
    09:00 Capital Inn
    09:10 Natura
    09:20 Floki Guesthouse
    09:25 Hotel Fron

Monday June 10th, 2013

  • Morning: Cryptanalysis
    8.30 - 10.00: Christina Boura: "Bound on the algebraic degree of iterated constructions" [slides]
    10.30 - 12.00: Martin Albrecht: "Sage, and algebraic techniques for the lazy symmetric cryptographer" [slides]
  • 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" [slides for both lectures]

Tuesday June 11th, 2013

  • Morning:
  • 08.30 - 10.00: Student Session
    Florian Caullery: "APN functions of degree 4e, e=3 mod 4"
    Oleksandr Kazymyrov: "Open problems in substitution generation field"
    Martin M. Lauridsen: "The linear rebound attack - Application to Present"
    Stefan Koelbl: "Cryptanalysis of SHA-3"
    Virginie Lallemand: "Cryptanalysis of KLEIN"
    Philipp Jovanovic: "Multi-stage Fault-Attacks - Application to PRINCE"
    Atul Luykx: "Nonce-free Authenticated Encryption with Permutations"
    Long Wen: "Improved Linear Attack with FFT for Block Ciphers Involving Key Modular Addition"

    10.30 - 12.00: Christian Rechberger: "Generalized condition propagation, Rebound, and Meet-in-the-middle attacks"
  • Afternoon: Cryptanalysis
  • 13.30 - 15.00: Anne Canteaut: "Stream cipher cryptanalysis" [slides]
    15.30 - 17.00: Kaisa Nyberg: "Distribution cryptanalysis" [slides]

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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