Reports
This conference was held in university of Yamagata. During the
conference, Prof. Kobayashi of the university and his stuffs help
our
participants for all affairs, e.g. arrangements of the accommodation
or that
of banquet.
In this conference, there are many topics related to
the
cryptography. For instance, one can see the presentation such as DNA
information for personal identification, comparison between dry live
fingers
and artificial fingers in finger print authentication, historical
perspective on the cryptography technology: its primordial form in
classical
Sanskrit literature and so on. I feel that the recent research
on the
security has a great variety of studies.
One student, belonging to
university of Yamagata, proposed a digital signature scheme using NP
complete problem. This university is famous for its study of the
topic, i.e.
the signature scheme whose underlying problem is NP-hard. I hope
that, in
the future, someone will propose the practical signature scheme
based on
NP-complete problem.