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Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
About ECC
ECC is an annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. Since the first ECC workshop, held 1997 in Waterloo, the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, quantum key distribution, AES, hash functions, and implementation issues.
The ECC Workshops has invited presentations only. Presentations tend to give an overview on emerging or established areas of modern cryptography, often combined with new research findings.
Announcements
If you want to receive announcements regarding ECC by email please send email to tanja@hyperelliptic.org with subject "Subscribe ECC mailing list".
Upcoming ECC Workshops
- We will host an online event to celebrate 40 years of ECC on 11 August 2025. For details see here.
Past ECC Workshops
- ECC 1997 in Waterloo, Canada.
- ECC 1998 in Waterloo, Canada, slides.
- ECC 1999 in Waterloo, Canada, slides.
- ECC 2000 in Essen, Germany, slides.
- ECC 2001 in Waterloo, Canada, slides.
- ECC 2002 in Essen, Germany, slides.
- ECC 2003 in Waterloo, Canada, slides.
- ECC 2004 in Bochum, Germany, slides.
- ECC 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark, slides.
- ECC 2006 in Toronto, Canada, slides.
- ECC 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, slides.
- ECC 2008 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, slides.
- ECC 2009 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, slides.
- ECC 2010 in Redmond, USA. Links to slides and movies are integrated.
- ECC 2011 was held September 19-21 in Nancy, France. Slides are available from the same page.
- ECC 2012 was held October 28-31 in Queretaro, Mexico. Slides and videos (of some talks) are available on the webpage.
- ECC 2013 was held September 16-18 in Leuven, Belgium. Slides are posted with links from the program.
- ECC 2014 was held October 8–10 in Chennai, India. Slides are linked from the schedule.
- ECC 2015 was held in Bordeaux, France, September 28-30 along with a summer school before ECC September 23-25..
- ECC 2016 was held in Izmir, Turkey, September 5-7, 2016 along with a summer school before ECC, September 1-4, 2016.
- ECC 2017 was held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November 13-15, 2017, along with a school before ECC on November 9-11, 2017. For more information see here
- ECC 2018 was held in Osaka, Japan, 19 – 21 November 2018, along with a summer school before ECC on 17 – 18 November 2018.
- ECC 2019 was held in Bochum, Germany, 2 – 4 December 2019. See the local page for more information.
- ECC 2020 took place online Oct 28 – 30. Follow this link for details.
- Our first in-person event after the break for Covid-19 was ECC 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan, which ran October 30 – November 1, 2024. For details see the ECC 2024 page.
Steering Committee
- Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
- Pierrick Gaudry (CNRS, Nancy, France)
- Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands), Chair
- Kristin Lauter (Meta, USA)
- Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo, Canada)
The steering committee coordinates the ECC workshops, solicits proposals of venues for upcoming workshops, and provides guidance for forming the program committees. The local organizer of an ECC workshop is responsible for running the workshop and also assumes all financial responsibilities for the workshop.
Former members of the Steering Committee
- Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 2009 – 2014)
- Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo, Canada, till 2014)
In memoriam Scott A. Vanstone
We are saddened by the death of Scott A. Vanstone. Scott was instrumental in raising awareness for ECC and convincing the world of its benefits for applications. The ECC workshop series would not exist without Scott. In 1997, he and Alfred Menezes organized a workshop in Waterloo, the "Workshop on the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem" which was a big success and started the ECC series.
We honored Scott at ECC 2010 by presenting him an award for "Seminal contributions to research, development, standardization and commercialization of elliptic curve cryptography." The award ceremony and Scott's acceptance speech are online. Scott tells in his own words his journey since the early days of cryptography to widespread adoption of ECC in all kinds of electronic devices. He closed his speech with the words
We can do Suite B on this, by just changing the key size. So anyway, ECC is here to stay and I'm honored and proud to be part of this history. I hope it continues. It's been a wonderful ride, and I can't thank the organizing committee enough for bestowing this great honor upon me. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Scott, for getting us started on this ride. We will miss you but will continue it without you.
The IACR has published a long obituary for Scott. Scott was a fellow of the IACR "For essential work on the deployment of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, sustained educational leadership in applied cryptology, and service to the IACR."