Rump sessions

Music

Live music at rump sessions

Crypto 2007, 21 August 2007, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Carl Ellison (vocals), Victor Miller (vocals), Eran Tromer (lecture, visuals), Rebecca Wright (vocals)
"On the design and cryptanalysis of a one-way hash"
[slides] [video] [paper: Journal of Craptology 5]
original lyrics: Billy Joel, "Uptown girl" (1983)
original score: Billy Joel
original performance: Billy Joel

Crypto 2008, 19 August 2008, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Timo Kasper (banjo, vocals), Axel Poschmann (vocals), Christof Paar (vocals), Anonymous Government Employee (vocals)
"Breaking ciphers with special purpose hardware"
aka "COPACOBANA"
[slides]
original lyrics: Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, "Copacabana" (1978)
original score: Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman
original performance: Barry Manilow

Eurocrypt 2009, 28 April 2009, Cologne, Germany
Michael Naehrig (guitar, vocals), Christiane Peters (lecture, vocals), Peter Schwabe (guitar, vocals); uncredited: Daniel J. Bernstein (vocals), Tanja Lange (visuals)
"A brief look at the 56 SHA-3 submissions"
aka "SHA-2 will soon retire"
[lyrics and chords] [slides] [video] [reprise video] [paper: Journal of Craptology 7]
original lyrics: Billy Joel, "We didn't start the fire" (1989)
original score: Billy Joel
original performance: Billy Joel

Crypto 2009, 18 August 2009, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Daniel J. Bernstein (vocals), Carl Ellison (vocals), Tanja Lange (vocals), Kristin Lauter (vocals), Victor Miller (vocals), Michael Naehrig (guitar, vocals), Eran Tromer
"Secure cloud computing for medical data"
aka "Fully homomorphic lattice-based secure encryption"
[slides] [paper: Journal of Craptology 8]
original lyrics: Sherman Brothers, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (1964)
original score: Sherman Brothers
original performance: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

Crypto 2011, 16 August 2011, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Faith Chaza (percussion), Ian Goldberg (percussion)
"An application of frequency shift keying to communication resynchronization"
[slides] [video]

Crypto 2011, 16 August 2011, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Tom Roeder (vocals)
"Bounds on cloud file retrievability"
[slides] [video]
original lyrics: Ben Gibbard, "I will follow you into the dark" (2006)
original score: Ben Gibbard
original performance: Death Cab for Cutie

Crypto 2012, 21 August 2012, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Daniel J. Bernstein (vocals), Joppe Bos (vocals), Faith Chaza (percussion, vocals), Tanja Lange (visuals, vocals), Kristin Lauter (vocals), Michael Naehrig (guitar, vocals), Christof Paar (vocals)
"The end of crypto"
[lyrics] [slides] [video]
partial inspiration: Jonathan Zittrain, "The End of Crypto" [video]
original lyrics: R.E.M., "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" (1987)
original score: R.E.M.
original performance: R.E.M.

Crypto 2012, 21 August 2012, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Tom Roeder (vocals), Christian Paquin
"Padding oracles revisited"
aka "Malformed bytes"
[slides]
original lyrics: The Postal Service (Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello), "Such great heights" (2003)
original score: The Postal Service
original performance: The Postal Service; Iron and Wine (cover)

Crypto 2013, 20 August 2013, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Keith Alexander, Daniel J. Bernstein, Timo Kasper, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe
Performance: Keith Alexander, Roberto Avanzi (keyboard), Daniel J. Bernstein, Joppe Bos, Jeremy Cooper (percussion), Carl Ellison, Barış Ege, Elif Bilge Kavun, Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Michael Naehrig (guitar), Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Peter Schwabe (guitar), Christine Swart, Ralf Zimmermann
"Spyin' NSA"
[slides] [video] [video]
original lyrics: Beach Boys, "Surfin' USA" (1963)
original score: Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson
original performance: Beach Boys

Crypto 2013, 20 August 2013, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Daniel J. Bernstein, Frances C. Bernstein, Tanja Lange
Performance: Roberto Avanzi (keyboard), Daniel J. Bernstein, Joppe Bos, Jeremy Cooper, Carl Ellison, Barış Ege, Elif Bilge Kavun, Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Michael Naehrig (guitar), Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Peter Schwabe (guitar), Christine Swart, Ralf Zimmermann
"Under Surveillance"
[slides] [video] [video]
original lyrics: Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young, "Under the Boardwalk" (1964)
original score: Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young
original performance: The Drifters

Crypto 2013, 20 August 2013, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Keith Alexander, Daniel J. Bernstein, Timo Kasper, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe
Performance: Keith Alexander, Roberto Avanzi (keyboard), Daniel J. Bernstein, Joppe Bos, Jeremy Cooper (keyboard), Ivan Damgård, Carl Ellison, Barış Ege, Elif Bilge Kavun, Marcel Keller, Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Michael Naehrig (guitar), Claudio Orlandi, Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Peter Schwabe (guitar), Meltem Sönmez Turan, Christine Swart, Ralf Zimmermann, many NSA people in the audience singing along
"Spyin' NSA" (reprise)
[slides] [video]
original lyrics: Beach Boys, "Surfin' USA" (1963)
original score: Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson
original performance: Beach Boys

Crypto 2014, 19 August 2014, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Victor Edward Willis, with minor additions by Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, Michael S. Rogers
Performance: Daniel J. Bernstein, Nina Bindel, Leo Ducas, Elif Bilge Kavun, Mario Lamberger (guitar), Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Peter Schwabe (guitar)
"Work for us at NSA"
[slides]
original lyrics: Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Victor Edward Willis, "YMCA" (1978)
original score: Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Victor Edward Willis
original performance: Village People

Crypto 2014, 19 August 2014, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Nigel Smart and Tanja Lange
Performance: Daniel J. Bernstein, Nina Bindel, Andy Clark, Leo Ducas, Elif Bilge Kavun, Mario Lamberger (guitar), Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Peter Schwabe (guitar)
"Always look on the bright side of ..."
[slides]
original lyrics: Eric Idle, "Always look on the bright side of life"
original score: Eric Idle
original performance: Monty Python

Crypto 2015, 18 August 2015, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lyrics: Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange
Performance: Daniel J. Bernstein, Geoffroy Couteau, Carl Ellison, Rémi Géraud (guitar), Becca Kreuter, Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Mike Rosulek (guitar)
"500 bits---Implementor's Lament"
[video]
original lyrics: Hedy West, "500 miles" (1961)
original score: Hedy West
original performance: The Journeymen

Crypto 2015, 18 August 2015, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Performance: Daniel J. Bernstein, Geoffroy Couteau, Carl Ellison, Rémi Géraud, Becca Kreuter, Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Christof Paar, Tom Roeder, Mike Rosulek, Eran Tromer
"Dream of iO obfuscation"
[video]
original lyrics: Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication" (1999)
original score: Red Hot Chili Peppers
original performance: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Crypto 2016, 16 August 2016, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Performance: Allison Bishop (vocals), Nadia Heninger, Tal Malkin, Yevgeniy Dodis, Mariana Raykova
"A Modest Proposal for a New Sport in the Crypto Theory Olympics"
[video (starting 45:45)]
original lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone, "I believe" (2011)
original score: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone
original performance: Andrew Rannells

Eurocrypt 2023, 25 April 2023, Lyon, France
Performance: "The Superspecial Isogeny Club Quartet": Michael Gregor Meyer (guitar, vocals), Maria Soares Corte-Real Santos (vocals), Jonathan Komada Eriksen (big fan), Krijn Cornelius Johannes Maria Reijnders (button)
"Summary of the best paper session" / "Kani came in like a wrecking ball"
[video]
original lyrics: Maureen McDonald, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, David Kim, Lukasz Gottwald, Cirkut, "Wrecking ball" (2013)
original score: Maureen McDonald, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, David Kim, Lukasz Gottwald, Cirkut
original performance: Miley Cyrus

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