Cryptographic Hash Workshop - Call for Participation

[Shu-jen Chang <shu-jen.chang@nist.gov>]

Cryptographic Hash
Workshop
NIST Gaithersburg, MD (Green Auditorium)
Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2005
Submission Deadline:
July
15, 2005 (Workshop without Proceedings)

Recently a team of
researchers reported that the SHA-1 function offers significantly less
collision resistance than could be expected from a cryptographic hash
function of its output size.  NIST plans to host a Cryptographic
Hash Workshop on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2005 to solicit public input in how best
to respond to the current state of research in this area.  The
workshop has the following goals:

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Assess the status of the current NIST-approved hash functions, i.e., the SHA-256 and SHA-512 families in        addition to SHA-1;

·       

Discuss short term actions to mitigate the potential problems with the various applications of the approved     hash functions;

·       

Discuss
the conditions that would warrant an early transition away from any of
the approved hash functions;

·       

Discuss
the potential replacement options for any of the approved hash
functions;

·       

Clarify the properties of unkeyed cryptographic hash functions required for different applications such as      digital signatures, key derivation, message authentication, and random number generation.

NIST solicits papers, presentations, case studies, panel proposals, and participation from any interested parties, including researchers, systems architects, vendors, and users.  NIST will post the accepted papers and presentations on the workshop web site and include these in a workshop handout. However, no formal workshop proceedings will be published. NIST encourages presentations and reports on preliminary work that participants plan to publish elsewhere. Topics for submissions are included in the attached document, and details about the workshop will be available at the following web site shortly:

http://www.nist.gov/hash-function


Shu-jen Chang
Computer Security Division
NIST

Cryptographic Hash Workshop CFP.pdf