Advances in Security Research in the Asiacrypt Region

Raphaël C.W. Phan; Masayuki Abe; Lynn Batten; Jung Hee Cheon; Ed Dawson; Steven Galbraith; Jian Guo; Lucas Hui; Kwangjo Kim; Xuejia Lai; Dong Hoon Lee; Mitsuru Matsui; Tsutomu Matsumoto; Shiho Moriai; Phong Nguyen; Dingyi Pei; Duong Hieu Phan; Josef Pieprzyk; Huaxiong Wang; Hank Wolfe; Duncan Wong; Tzong Chen Wu; Bo Yin Yang; Siu Ming Yiu; Yu Yu; Jianying Zhou

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Advances in Security Research in the Asiacrypt Region

Raphaël C.W. Phan, Masayuki Abe, Lynn Batten, Jung Hee Cheon, Ed Dawson, Steven Galbraith, Jian Guo, Lucas Hui, Kwangjo Kim, Xuejia Lai, Dong Hoon Lee, Mitsuru Matsui, Tsutomu Matsumoto, Shiho Moriai, Phong Nguyen, Dingyi Pei, Duong Hieu Phan, Josef Pieprzyk, Huaxiong Wang, Hank WolfeDuncan Wong, Tzong Chen Wu, Bo Yin Yang, Siu Ming Yiu, Yu Yu, Jianying Zhou

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	78-81
Number of pages	4
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	63
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3378428
Publication status	Published - 2020 Mar 20

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Phan, R. C. W., Abe, M., Batten, L., Cheon, J. H., Dawson, E., Galbraith, S., Guo, J., Hui, L., Kim, K., Lai, X., Lee, D. H., Matsui, M., Matsumoto, T., Moriai, S., Nguyen, P., Pei, D., Phan, D. H., Pieprzyk, J., Wang, H., ... Zhou, J. (2020). Advances in Security Research in the Asiacrypt Region. Communications of the ACM, 63(4), 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1145/3378428

Phan, RCW, Abe, M, Batten, L, Cheon, JH, Dawson, E, Galbraith, S, Guo, J, Hui, L, Kim, K, Lai, X, Lee, DH, Matsui, M, Matsumoto, T, Moriai, S, Nguyen, P, Pei, D, Phan, DH, Pieprzyk, J, Wang, H, Wolfe, H, Wong, D, Wu, TC, Yang, BY, Yiu, SM, Yu, Y & Zhou, J 2020, 'Advances in Security Research in the Asiacrypt Region', Communications of the ACM, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1145/3378428

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