Alfred Menezes

MenezesFest brings together researchers, colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate Alfred Menezes’ career and impact in cryptography.

The workshop will feature talks on:

  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Pairings and advanced protocols
  • Provable security
  • Cryptography in practice
  • Quantum cryptanalysis
  • Personal stories and tributes

📅 Date & Venue

  • Date: October 2nd, between 2h30pm and 6pm.
  • Location: The workshop will be held within Latincrypt 2025.
  • Format: In-person with 30-minute invited talks.

🔈 Confirmed Speakers

  • Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Gabriela Araujo-Pardo (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
  • Ann Hibner Koblitz (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Neal Koblitz (University of Washington, USA)
  • Daniel Panario (Carleton University, Canada)
  • Sam Jacques (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Julio López (University of Campinas, Brazil)
  • Gora Adj (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE)
  • Nicolas Thériault (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)

🗓️ Program (WIP)

Time Title Speakers
2:05 - 2:10 Foreword Diego & Francisco
2:10 - 2:50 A Tribute to the Kovalevskaia Fund Gabriela Araujo & Ann Koblitz
2:50 - 3:25 My Collaboration with Alfred Menezes Neal Koblitz
3:25 - 3:50 Experiences in ECC and Binary Fields Julio López
3:50 - 4:05 Coffee break –
4:05 - 4:30 Discrete logarithm computations and the distribution of irreducible factors of polynomials over finite fields Daniel Panario
4:30 - 4:55 Another look at quantum cryptanalysis Sam Jaques
4:55 - 5:20 The Journey of MPC-in-the-Head in Post-Quantum Cryptography Gora Adj
5:20 - 5:30 Curve-based cryptography Nicholas Thériault
5:30 - 5:40 A brief story of cryptographic pairings Diego Aranha
5:40 - 5:50 Computing discrete logarithms over a 4841-bit ternary extension field in less than two hundred core-years of solitude Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
5:50 - 6:00 Closing remarks Alfred Menezes

🎩 Organizers

  • Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE)
  • Diego F. Aranha (Aarhus University, Denmark)

📧 Contact

For questions, please email: contact@menezesfest.info