IACR Board of Directors election 2022
By Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
Short Statement
I've been working in
cryptographic research for the last twenty-four years. I have served as PC
member in many IACR conferences, and I have been General/Program co-chair in Latincrypt, ECC and CHES. If elected as Director, my main
goals will be representing the cryptographic community belonging to the Global
South.
About me
I am full professor in the
Computer Science Department of the Advanced Research Center (CINVESTAV-IPN) at
Mexico City, which I joined in May 2002. Since September 2021, I have been acting
as a Technical Director in the Cryptography Research Center of the Technology
Innovation Institute at Abu Dhabi, UAE.
I have advised or co-advised
nine and forty Ph.D. students and master’s students, respectively. I was a
co-author of two CHES papers that won the Best Paper Award in CHES 2009 and
CHES 2013. I was also a co-author of a paper that was runner-up in CHES 2016. I
co-authored the 2006 Springer book “Cryptographic algorithms on reconfigurable
hardware”.
As a Ph.D. student, back in
1999, I helped in the logistics organization of the first CHES conference in
Worcester, Massachusetts. I was General chair or co-chair of Latincrypt 2010, ECC 2012 and Latincrypt
2015. I was program co-chair of Waifi 2012, Latincrypt 2015, Waifi 2018 and
CHES 2024.
I’m the co-author of several
speed records of efficient scalar multiplication computation over binary
curves. I was involved in the record breaking computation of a discrete
logarithm in the finite field GF(3^(6 * 509)), a
computation that took us about 200-core years.
What I will do if I’m elected
as IACR Director?
As a Latin American person, I
consider myself a representative of the Global South. In the Latin America
region, I feel that I have contributed to the development of cryptography
through the organization of several cryptographic conferences and the
foundation (along with several fellow Latin American colleagues), of the Latincrypt conference and the ASCrypto
cryptography summer school series. If I’m elected as IACR Director, I will
strive for promoting geographic and gender inclusiveness in all IACR and
In-Cooperation-With IACR events.
As a cryptographer, I consider
myself a representative of applied cryptography, especially, of the CHES
community. Hence, I would like to encourage more publicly available
cryptographic software and hardware libraries implementing the always ingenious
cryptographic algorithm novelties that are regularly presented in IACR
conferences.