Nov' 12, 2002

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Recent Research of Information Security in Asia
and Pacific Academic Institutes

• Nov. 12, 2002
• Kwangjo Kim
• Prof., Information and Communications Univ.(ICU)
• Director, IRIS(Information Research center for
  Information Security), Republic of Korea

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Contents

• IACR
• Academic Activities
• Korea
• Japan
• Australia
• China
• Taiwan
• Singapore
• India
• IWAP
• Summary

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IACR

• International Association for Cryptologic
  Research (http//www.iacr.org)
• To promote research in cryptology over the
  world
• Organized 16 June 1983
• Current Board of Directors
• A. Clark (Chair, USA), B. Preneel(Vice
  Chair,Belgium) J. Benaloh (Secretary, USA), S.
  Langford(Treasury, USA),
• D. Beaver, T. Berson, E. Biham, C. Cachin, C.
  Chang, Y. Desmedt, J. Feigenbaum, J. Gawinecki,
  K. Kim, L. Knudsen, T. Matsumoto, U. Maurer, K.
  McCurley, G. Rose, B. Scheonmakers, H. Wolfe, R.
  Wright.
• Us tax-exempt scientific organization

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1982 IACR had 102 members
9 Nations
Tom Berson Asiacrypt2000
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2002 IACR has 1108 members
52 Nations
Tom Berson Asiacrypt2000
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2020 Cryptographic Everywhere
Tom Berson Asiacrypt2000
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Conferences sponsored by IACR
80
90
00
CR82
EC83
AS91
(AS00)
FSE93
(FSE02)
PKC98
(PKC03)
CR Crypto EC Eurocrypt AS
Asiacrypt FSE Fast Software Encryption PKC
Public Key Cryptography ( ) Starting year of
sponsorship by IACR
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Korean IT statistics(2001)

• of population in Korea 50M
• of broadband subscribers 7.8M
• of Internet users 24.4M
• of wired subscribers 22.7M
• of wireless subscribers 29M

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KIISC

• Korea Institute of Information Security and
  Cryptology (http//www.kiisc.or.kr)
• Established Seoul, 1989
• Board of Directors
• Dongho Won (President) , other 30 directors
• Regular Members about 800 including 300 student
  members
• Issue Journal of KIISC and KIISC review bimonthly

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Korean timeline
80
90
00
89 KIISC
CISC90
NETSEC-KR94
ICISC98()
WISA00()
PKC01
IWAP01()
AS04
KIISC Korea Institute of Information Security
and Cryptology (I)CISC (International)
Conference on Information Security and
Cryptology NETSEC-KR Network Security
Workshop-Korea WISA Workshop Information
Security Application IWAP International
Workshop for Asian PKI
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ITRC on Inf. Security

• 4 ITRC
• Cryptography Korea U.
• Authentication SungKyunKwan U.
• Network Security Kyoungbook Natl U.
• OS Security Jeonnam Natl U.
• 1 International Center
• IRIS (International Research center for
  Information Security) at ICU

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Japanese timeline
80
90
00
SCIS84
AS91()
CSS98
PKC98()
PKC99
AS00
FSE01
SCIS Symposium on Cryptography and
Information Security by ISEC group of IEICE CCS
Computer Security Symposium by Computer
Security group of IPSJ
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Major Leaders

• Industry
• NTT
• Mistubishi
• Toshiba
• NEC
• etc.
• Academy
• Univ. of Tokyo
• Yokohama National Univ.
• Kyushu Univ. and others many

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Australian Timeline
80
90
00
AUSCRYPT89, 92
AS94
ACISP96()
ICICS99
PKC00
AS01
ACISP Australasian Conference in Information
Security and Privacy
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Major Leaders

• Academy
• ISRC (Inf. Security Res. Center) at QUT
  (Queensland U. of Technology)
• CCSR (Center for Computer Security Research) at
  Wollongong U
• Macquarie Univ.
• Deakins Univ.
• etc.

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Chinese timeline
80
90
00
ChinaCrypto90
ICICS97()
AS98
CCICS99
IFIP/SEC00
ICICS01
ICICS International Conference on Information
and Communications Security CCICS Chinese
Congress on Information and Communication
Security IFIP/SEC Information Security for
Global Information Infrastructures
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Major Leaders

• Academy
• Chinese Academy of Science
• Beijing Univ.
• Xidian Univ.
• Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.
• Others many

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Taiwan Timeline
80
90
00
NISC91
AS03
NISC(National Information Security Conference) by
CCISA (Chinese Cryptology and Information
Security Association)
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Major Leaders

• Academy
• National Taiwan Univ.
• National Cheng Kung Univ.
• National Chiao Tung Univ.
• Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology
• Taiwan Central Univ.
• etc.

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Singaporian Timeline
00
80
90
ICICS98
AS99
PKC03
Major Leaders LIT Laboratories for Information
Technologies (Kent Ridge Digital Lab.) NUS
National Univ. of Singapore
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Indian Timeline
80
90
00
INDOCRYPT00()-
Major leaders ISI Indian Statistics
Institute IIT Indian Institute of
Technology etc.
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IWAP(I)

• The 1st International Workshop for Asian Public
  key infrastructure 2001
• General co-chair Hideki Imai and Kwangjo Kim
• ICU, Daejeon, Oct 19 20, 2001
• Participating countries
• Korea, Japan
• China, Australia
• Taiwan , Singapore
• Chinese Hong Kong
• USA, etc

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IWAP(II)

• Goal Provide an international forum to discuss
  the technical aspects for building Public Key
  Infrastructure in Asian countries
• Topics of interest
• Application, Authentication, Bio-API
• Standards, Implementation, Interoperability
• CA, Bridge CA, Cross certification
• Certificate and its revocation, PMI, Timestamping
• Validations, etc

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Summary

• Introduce dynamic activities in Asian and Pacific
  regions on information security in 21st century
• Korea
• Japan
• Australia
• China
• Taiwan
• Singapore
• India etc.
• Recent academic networking for Asian PKI
• IWAP
• Asiacrypt Steering Committee ( 8 countries)