The 13th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2009) will take place on August 24-26, 2009, at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
CISaC will be hosting a summer school during the week preceding ECC 2009, starting on Wednesday, August 19 and finishing on Saturday, August 22, 2009. The summer school will be held on the University of Calgary campus, with lectures taking place in the Math Science building, room 431. Introductory topics on elliptic curves and cryptographic applications will be covered, with an emphasis on providing a strong background in support of the research talks at ECC.
The Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is an annual conference dedicated to specific themes in the area of cryptographic system design and analysis. SAC 2009 will take place on August 13-14, 2009, at the University of Calgary inCalgary, Alberta, Canada.
The Tri-Lateral Security Conferences were developed to build upon three areas of convergence within the security community that have traditionally not taken advantage of their common strengths, similar interests and overlapping levels of expertise. The conferences are held on a “not-for-profit” basis to foster cooperation and greater understanding between the corporate world and law enforcement.
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