Candidate Statement by Christof Paar for the IACR BoD Election

I have been working in applied cryptography since 1995. I find it fascinating to observe how our discipline is getting more mature and specialized. When I started there were essentially two conferences, Crypto and Eurocrypt, and today we have seven main events plus numerous smaller ones. Being a co-founder of CHES I am partially to blame for this specialization. It will be my goal as part of the BoD to keep the community together and to work on encouraging research across our different sub-disciplines.