LSEC - Leaders in Security

13th edition of the international COSIC course! This course on computer security and cryptography is organized by COSIC, a research group from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and research team of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), in cooperation with LSEC - Leaders in Security and will be held in Leuven from Tuesday, June 14, 2011 till Friday, June 17, 2011.

Program Outline

Part I
Day 1: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
09:00 Welcome
09:10 Introduction Vincent Rijmen
09:40 Basic concepts Vincent Rijmen
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Block ciphers and stream ciphers Vincent Rijmen
12:00 Public-key cryptography Frederik Vercauteren
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Privacy technologies Claudia Diaz
15:20 Coffee break
15:40 Hash functions and MACs Bart Preneel
16:30 SHA-3 Sebastiaan Indesteege
17:00 End of day 1

Day 2: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Track 1
09:00 Secure hardware & side-channel attacks, Ingrid Verbauwhede
09:50 Privacy and Security: a Trade-Off?, Jos Dumortier
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Entity authentication & key establishment, Bart Preneel
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Enforcing security policies on untrusted software, Frank Piessens
15:00 Computer security, Stefaan Seys
15:50 Coffee break
16:10 Public-key infrastructures, Bart Preneel
17:50 End of the first track of day 2

Track 2
11:00 Public-key cryptography: advanced topics, Frederik Vercauteren
11:50 Biometrics, Koen Simoens
12:40 Lunch
14:10 RFID hands-on, Philippe Teuwen
15:50 Coffee break
16:10 RFID hands-on, Philippe Teuwen
17:30 End of the second track of day 2,

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Part II
Day 3: Thursday, June 16, 2011
09:00 Graphical passwords and knowledge-based authentication, Paul Van Oorschot
09:50 U-prove, Ronny Bjones
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 E-ID security, Walter Fumy
11:50 Security for an international card payment system, Michael Ward
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Mobile payments, Marijke De Soete
15:00 Coffee break
15:20 Extension of card payments, Cristian Radu
16:10 Secure software installation and update, Paul Van Oorschot
17:00 eID in Belgium, Danny De Cock
17:50 End of day 3
19:30 Conference Dinner @ The Faculty Club

Day 4: Friday, June 17, 2011
09:00 GSM/3G algorithms, Helena Handschuh
09:50 Verification for cryptographic protocol implementations, Cédric Fournet
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Standardization, Walter Fumy
11:50 Mifare plus and privacy preserving technologies, Marc Vauclair
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Telematics road pricing: building a secure and privacy-respecting solution, Michaël Peeters
15:00 Coffee break
15:20 PUFs, Helena Handschuh
16:10 E-voting, Danny De Cock
17:00 End of day 4

Practical Details

June 14 - 17th 2011, Heverlee, Belgium - KU Leuven
Auditorium “De Tweede Hoofdwet”, Thermotechnisch Instituut, Kasteelpark 41 - 3001 Heverlee
Registration and more information : visit https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/course

Full registration fee, part 1 + part 2 :  2000 €
Academic fee, part 1 + part 2 :  1000 €
Full-time student fee, part 1 + part 2 :  700 €
Full registration fee, part 2 :  1200 €
Academic fee, part 2 :  700 €
Full-time student fee, part 2 :  400 €

This fee included the books “Secuyrity Engineering (2nd edition), by Ross Anderson and “Modern Cryptography : Theory and Practice”, by Wenbo Mao

Registration before May 14th, early bird reduction of 10%

LSEC Members and partners receive an additional discount of 15% (on top of early bird reduction if registered before May 14th). Mention LSEC during registration.