Activities
Last Update: April 25, 2024
FY 2023 / FY 2022 / FY 2021 / Past Events / Past News
FY 2023
- Acceptance of peer-reviewed international papers: 16 (including 1 single-author paper, 5 main-author papers)
- ESORICS 2023; ITC 2023; IWSEC 2023 (2 papers); IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (4 papers); Designs, Codes and Cryptography; WISA 2023; INDOCRYPT 2023; Communications in Algebra; EUROCRYPT 2024; SAC 2024; Fifth PQC Standardization Conference (Talk only; no proceedings); APKC 2024
- Joint research with company etc.: 4
- Related events:
- Organizing open problems in card-based cryptography through industry-academia collaboration (2023/05/31, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- Toward a new method for constructing expander graphs and their applications 2(2023/09/04 - 2023/09/05, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- Mathematics of Security Analysis for Modern Cryptography (2023/09/20 - 2023/09/22, JR Hakata City + Online)
- 2023 workshop on interaction between CRyptography, Information Security and MATHematics (CRISMATH 2023) (2023/12/26 - 2023/12/27, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- IMI Crypto Seminar (2 times)
- Awards and other topics:
- Award: WISA 2023 Best Paper Award (Paper: Yasuhiko Ikematsu, Hyungrok Jo, Takanori Yasuda, "A security analysis on MQ-Sign")
- Award: IWSEC 2023 Best Student Paper Award (Paper: Hiroki Furue, Yasuhiko Ikematsu, "A New Security Analysis Against MAYO and QR-UOV Using Rectangular MinRank Attack")
- Submission to Call for Additional Candidates of NIST PQC Standardization: digital signature scheme QR-UOV (co-authored by Yasuhiko Ikematsu)
FY 2022
- Acceptance of peer-reviewed international papers: 18 (including 0 single-author paper, 1 main-author paper)
- ITC 2022; ACISP 2022; International Journal of Mathematics for Industry; IWSEC 2022 (2 papers); ISITA 2022 (2 papers); IET Information Security; IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (5 papers); TCC 2022; ProvSec 2022; ACNS 2023; IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing; Designs, Codes and Cryptography
- Joint research with company etc.: 4
- Related events:
- Mathematics of Next-Generation Cryptography for Secure Utilization of Quantum Information (2022/08/01 - 2022/08/04, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- Toward a New Method for Constructing Expander Graphs and Their Applications (2022/08/22, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- Construction of efficient algorithms for quantifier elimination and their application to solving industrial problems (2022/11/02, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- Advances in Sophisticated Cryptography and Mathematical Techniques (2022/11/07 - 2022/11/09, JR Hakata City + Online)
- 2022 workshop on interaction between CRyptography, Information Security and MATHematics (CRISMATH 2022) (2022/12/20 - 2022/12/21, Kyushu Univ. (Ito Campus) + Online)
- IMI Crypto Seminar (3 times)
- Other topics:
- Award: IWSEC 2022 Best Student Paper Award (Paper: Hirotomo Shinoki, Koji Nuida, "On Extension of Evaluation Algorithms in Keyed-Homomorphic Encryption")
FY 2021
- Acceptance of peer-reviewed international papers: 13 (including 2 single-author papers, 2 main-author papers)
- APKC 2022, ASIACRYPT 2021 (2 papers), CASC 2021, CRYPTO 2021, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (3 papers), Inscrypt 2021, International Journal of Mathematics for Industry, ISPEC 2021, IWSEC 2021, Theoretical Computer Science
- Joint research with company etc.: 2
- Related events:
- Exploring Mathematical and Practical Principles of Secure Computation and Secret Sharing (2021/11/08 - 2021/11/10, Online)
- IMI Crypto Seminar (2 times)
Past Events
- 2017.12.3-7 The 23rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, Asiacrypt 2017
- 2017.6.26-6.28 The Eighth International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto2017
- 2017.3.22-23 3rd Asian Post-Quantum Cryptography Forum
- 2017.1.21-22 The Ninth Workshop among Asian Information Security Labs (WAIS 2017)
- 2016.12.4-8 The 22nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, Asiacrypt 2016
- 2016.09.05-09.07 Secret Sharing for Dependability, Usability and Security of Network Storage and Its Mathematical Modeling
- 2016.09.05-09.06 Mathematical Basics for Advanced Cryptosystems and Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
- 2016.2.22-2.26 Seventh International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCRYPTO2016
- 2015.10.26-10.30 Forum "Math-for-Industry" - The Role and Importance of Mathematics for Industy
- 2015.9.1 Workshop "Next-generation Cryptography for Privacy Protection and Decentralized Control and Mathematical Structures to Support Techniques"
- 2015.6.11 Laboratory of Mathematical Design for Advanced Cryptography Opening ceremony and Workshop
Past News
Papers by Yasuhiko Ikematsu et al. are accepted by international conference Fifth PQC Standardization Conference and by international conference APKC 2024.
A paper (letter) by Koji Nuida et al. is accepted by IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.
A group including Yasuhiko Ikematsu has submitted a digital signature scheme QR-UOV to the additional standardization project for post-quantum cryptography by NIST.
A co-authored paper by Professor Nuida and Mr. Akira Nakashima (former second-year Master's Course student in our laboratory), etc., is accepted by international conference ESORICS 2023.
A co-authored paper by Assistant Professor Ikematsu is accepted by IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.
In FY 2022, 2 Master's Course students (supervisor: Professor Nuida) in our laboratory have graduated.
A co-authored paper by Professor Nuida received Best Student Paper Award in international conference IWSEC 2022. (Paper: Hirotomo Shinoki, Koji Nuida, "On Extension of Evaluation Algorithms in Keyed-Homomorphic Encryption")
A co-authored paper by Assistant Professor Ikematsu is accepted by international conference ProvSec 2022.
A co-authored paper by Professor Nuida is accepted by IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.
A co-authored paper by Assistant Professor Ikematsu is accepted by international conference ISITA 2022.
A paper by Professor Nuida is accepted by international conference APKC 2022 (The 9th ACM ASIA Public-Key Cryptography Workshop).
Co-authored papers by Assistant Professor Ikematsu are accepted by international conference ASIACRYPT 2021 and by Theoretical Computer Science.
Co-authored papers by Professor Nuida are accepted by international conference ASIACRYPT 2021 and by IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (3 papers).
A paper by Prof. Nuida is accepted by International Journal of Mathematics for Industry.
A paper by Assistant Professor Ikematsu et al. is accepted by international conference IWSEC 2021.
NIST’s Plan for the Future was introduced at the conference. (pdf)
http://www.imi.kyushu-u.ac.jp/files/news/file/math_568b4da9e7845.pdf(in Japanese only)
http://www.iperc.uec.ac.jp/staging/en/cyber-security-coference-and-reception-in-uec.html