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CryptacusNewsletter January18 PDF
CryptacusNewsletter January18 PDF
Cryptacus Newsletter
January 2018
Cryptacus Newsletter
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the
monthly Cryptacus.eu newsletter, offering a glimpse
into recent developments in the cryptanalysis of
IoT & related areas. Send your contributions, com-
ments & feedback at cryptacus.newsletter@irisa.fr
News from the Chair tocols (co-organization by COST Ac- available for trainees (e.g. PhD stu-
by G ILDAS AVOINE tion CRYPTACUS & ERC POPSTAR). dents, ECIs, etc.).
The year 2018 will actually be *** Monday 16th: Working ses- - Training School (also in-
important for Cryptacus, with two sion on the CRYPTACUS’ book. This formation on Book session and
major events, in April and Septem- session is free, open to everyone MC Meeting): https://goo.gl/
ber, respectively. although mostly dedicated to peo- w52ThM. Contact Ricardo Chaves
ple who submitted a chapter to the (Ricardo.Chaves@inesc-id.pt)
Also, we are on the home stretch CRYPTACUS’ book (if you plan to
now, given that Cryptacus will finish submit, but not done yet, let me
Finally, I would like to remind
in December 2018. know asap). Please, check the Crypta-
you that the current grant period will
cus website if you are not aware of
finish on April 30th, 2018.
In the meanwhile, let’s meet in the call for chapters.
Sao Miguel island, Azores (Portugal)
in April, where several Cryptacus’ *** Tuesday 17th: MC Meeting You still have time to apply for
events are colocated. This is a brief (8:30–10:00 am). For MC Members an STSM but you should send your
schedule: only. request very soon.
*** Saturday 14th / Sunday 15th: *** From Monday 16th to Friday Best regards,
Workshop on Distance Bounding Pro- 20th: Training School. Grants are Gildas Avoine
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Recommended reading: above, that includes the very rele- Funding News
On the dangers of specu- vant disclosure process and some SMI2G
lation other interesting queries.
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Department of Computer Sci-
ence. Salary from £67,970 to
£91,001 per annum. Dead-
line for applications is the 5th
March.
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IOTA: Wouldn’t touch with a analysed the total unconvincing an-
barge-pole swers to the security issues publicly
reported.
Very interesting developments
around IOTA over the past weeks.
This last point regarding security
After a highly positive report on is possibly the most enlightening, so
the cryptocurrency published on the we will reproduce it in full:
14th of December by the influen-
tial MIT Technology Review, titled "A "Once the Digital Currency Ini-
Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain tiative published the break in IOTA’s
Has Been Built to Outperform Bit- Event calendar
curl hash function, its author, Sergey
coin" there were many voices accus- Ivancheglo, offered two conflicting ex- The 17th Annual Workshop on
ing the piece of being uncritical and planations for the vulnerability. The the Economics of Information Secu-
too rosy. first explanation was that the flaw rity (WEIS) will take place next year
was intentional - that it was meant in Innsbruck, Austria.
It certainly had a positive im- to serve as a form of ’copy protection.’
pact on the cryptocurrency mar- If anyone used this code in their own
kets, but less than a week later The submission deadline is
work, he said, the IOTA developers February 18, with a notification
Joichi Ito from the MIT Media Lab would be able to exploit the flaw and
published a very critical response of acceptance by March 31. Rainer
damage other systems that were using Böhme is the conference chair.
https://goo.gl/C2Ca9K. the hash function. However, later, he
offered a conflicting explanation that
he didn’t write the curl at all, but that
an AI wrote it. We do not find either
of these explanations convincing, even
in isolation. That they contradict each
other makes them even less so."
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acceptance notification on May 11th, covering from 5G Networks to Infor-
2018. mation Hiding.
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