CALL FOR PAPERS

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17th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2018)
Naples, Italy -- September 30 - October 03, 2018
http://cans2018.na.icar.cnr.it
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The International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS)
is a recognized annual conference, focusing on all aspects of
cryptology, and of data, network, and computer security, attracting
cutting-edge results from world-renowned scientists in the area. CANS
2018 will be held in Naples (Italy) in collaboration with Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and Parthenope University of
Naples. Earlier editions were held in Taipei ('01), San Francisco
('02), Miami ('03), Xiamen ('05), Suzhou ('06), Singapore ('07), Hong
Kong ('08), Kanazawa ('09), Kuala Lumpur ('10), Sanya ('11), Darmstadt
('12), Parary ('13), Crete ('14), Marrakesh ('15), Milan ('16) and
Hong Kong ('17). All accepted papers will be presented at the
conference and will appear in the conference proceedings, which will
be published by Springer in the LNCS series.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Access Control
- Anonymity & Pseudonymity
- Applied Cryptography
- Attacks & Malicious Code
- Authentication, Identification
- Biometrics
- Block & Stream Ciphers
- Blockchain Security and Privacy
- Cryptographic Algorithms and Primitives
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Cyber-physical Security
- Data and Application Security
- Data and Computation Integrity
- Data Protection
- Denial of Service Protection
- Distributed Systems Security
- Embedded System Security
- Formal Methods for Security
- Hash Functions
- Identity Management
- Key Management
- Language-Based Security
- Malware Analysis and Detection
- Network Security
- Peer-to-Peer Security & Privacy
- Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
- Public Key Cryptography
- Secure Distributed Computing
- Security Architectures
- Security Metrics
- Security Models
- Security Policies
- Security and Privacy for Big Data
- Security and Privacy in the Cloud
- Security in Content Delivery
- Security in Crowdsourcing
- Security in Grid Computing
- Security in the Internet of Things
- Security in Location Services
- Security in Pervasive Systems
- Security in Social Networks
- Sensor Network Security
- Trust Management
- Usable Security
- Virtual Private Networks
- Wireless and Mobile Security

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
High quality papers on unpublished research and implementation experiences are 
solicited for submission. All papers must be original and not substantially 
duplicate work that has been published at or is simultaneously submitted to a 
journal or another conference/workshop with proceedings.

All submissions must be written in English, at most 20 pages in
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, including
title, abstract, and bibliography.  The introduction should summarise
the contributions of the paper at the level understandable for a
non-expert reader. The introduction should also explain the relation
to related work. At most 4 pages of supplemental material may be
provided as well-marked appendices, however, the paper should be
intelligible without this material. Submissions must be anonymous (no
author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references).

The conference will also consider short papers, that is, submissions
of up to 8 pages (in the LNCS format), for results that are not yet
fully fleshed out y or that simply require few pages to describe but
still make a significant contribution.  All submissions must be
processed with LaTeX2e according to the instructions given by
Springer. Submitted manuscripts must be typeset in plain Springer LNCS
format, in particular without changing the font size, margins or line
spacing.Submissions not meeting these guidelines may be rejected
without consideration of their merits.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via easychair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cans2018

At least one author of every accepted paper must register to the
conference by the early registration deadline indicated by the
organizers. Papers without a registered author will be removed from
the proceedings. Authors have to present their own
paper(s). Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published
in LNCS and will be available at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission deadline: May 1, 2018 (23:59 UTC)
Notification to authors: July 1, 2018
Camera-Ready: July 23, 2018, (23:59 UTC)
Conference: Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2018

GENERAL CHAIR
- Vincenzo Iovino, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

LOCAL AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Elena Pagnin, Chalmers University, Sweden
- Giuseppe Persiano, University of Salerno, Italy
- Giovanni Schmid (Organising Chair), CNR-Icar and Parthenope University, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
- Jan Camenisch, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
- Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
TBA

STEERING COMMITTEE
- Yvo Desmedt (Chair), University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Juan A. Garay, Yahoo! Labs, USA
- Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
- David Pointcheval, CNRS and ENS Paris, France
- Huaxiong Wang,Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

PUBLICITY CHAIR
G. Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy