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Workshop on Factoring Large Integers

BSI-LogoOn September 11./12. there will be a workshop on Factoring at the Ruhr-University Bochum. It is organized by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Chair of Cryptology and IT-Security.
Everyone interested in the topic is welcome.
The workshop will take place in Veranstaltungsraum 2 (room number 01/53), which is located at level 01 in the mensa building.

Invited Speakers

  • Daniel J. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Willi Geiselmann, Karlsruhe University
  • Antoine Joux, Université de Versailles
  • Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  • Claus-Peter Schnorr, Goethe-University Frankfurt
  • Francesco Sica


Program

Friday, 11th
9:00-9:30 Reception
9:30-10:15 Antoine Joux, DGA and Université de Versailles
Factoring pq² with hints (Abstract Slides)
10:15-11:00 Colin Stahlke, Edizone and Ruhr-University Bochum
Some Remarks on Polynomial Selection in the GNFS (Abstract Slides)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Claus-Peter Schnorr, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Average-Time Fast SVP and CVP Algorithms:
Factoring Integers in Polynomial Time (Abstract Slides)
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Willi Geiselmann, University Karlsruhe
Sieving Hardware for the NFS: Architectures and their Bottlenecks (Abstract Slides)
14:45-15:30 Ralf Zimmermann, Ruhr-University Bochum
Implementing the Elliptic Curve Method (ECM) on Special-Purpose Hardware (Abstract Slides)
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Daniel Loebenberger, B-IT Bonn
Optimization strategies for hardware-based cofactorization (Abstract Slides)
16:45-17:30 Francesco Sica
Striding Towards a New Subexponential Factoring Algorithm (Abstract Slides)
Saturday, 12th
9:00-09:45 Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
ECM using Edwards curves (Abstract Slides)
09:45-10:30 Mathias Herrmann, Ruhr-University Bochum
Polynomial Selection Using Lattice Reduction (Abstract Slides)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Stefan Baumgart, Kiel University
COPACOBANA and Upcoming Architectures for Cryptanalysis (Abstract Slides)
11:45-12:30 Daniel J. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
ECM speed records on CPU and GPU (Abstract Slides)
12:30-14:00 Lunch

Registration

The workshop is free of charge, but for organisatorial reasons, we kindly ask everyone who plans on attending the workshop to register until 8 Sep.

Registration closed!

Accommodation

  • We recommend the ParkInn Hotel (90 Euro per night)
    To get the Corporate Account ID of Ruhr Univerity Bochum, please send a short note to mathias.herrmann'at'rub.de or marion.reinhardt'at'rub.de.
  • A cheaper alternative is the Ibis Zentrum (approx. 60 Euro per night)

How to get there

Getting to Ruhr-University from Bochum Central Station
The workshop will take place in the VeranstaltungszentrumLageplan1-VZ.pdf