******* CALL FOR PAPERS: PQCrypto 2016 ******** Seventh International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, Fukuoka, Japan, February 24-26, 2016 https://pqcrypto2016.jp/ The aim of PQCrypto is to serve as a forum for researchers to present results and exchange ideas on the topic of cryptography in an era with large- scale quantum computers. The conference will be preceded by a winter school on February 22-23, 2016. Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptographic research related to post-quantum cryptography are solicited. The topics include (but are not restricted to): - Cryptosystems that have the potential to be safe against quantum computers such as: hash-based signature schemes, lattice-based cryptosystems, code-based cryptosystems, multivariate cryptosystems and quantum cryptographic schemes; - Classical and quantum attacks including side- channel attacks on post-quantum cryptosystems; - Security models for the post-quantum era. Instructions to authors: Accepted papers are planned to be published in Springer's LNCS series. The length of the submission must be at most 12 pages, excluding references and appendices, in a single column format, in 11pt fonts and with reasonable margins. If the submission is accepted, the length of the final version will be at most 20 pages including references and appendices, in the llncs class format. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has submitted/is planning to submit before the author notification deadline to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. The submission should begin with a title, the authors' names and affiliations, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Submissions ignoring these guidelines may be rejected without further consideration. Best paper award: The Program Committee may select one outstanding paper for the best paper award. Submission deadlines: The initial submission deadline is October 7, 2015. Papers submitted by this deadline may be in draft form but must include a title and an abstract. The final submission deadline is October 14, 2015. Authors who submitted a paper by the October 7 deadline will be permitted to revise their papers anytime before the final submission deadline. Important dates: Initial submission deadline: October 7, 2015 Final submission deadline: October 14, 2015 Notification deadline: November 20, 2015 Final version: December 2, 2015 For general inquiries, please contact (pqcrypto AT imi.kyushu-u.ac.jp) General chair: Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu U. & ISIT, Japan General co-chairs: Takanori Yasuda, ISIT, Japan Kirill Morozov, Kyushu U., Japan Program chair: Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu U., Japan Program committee: Joppe Bos, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chen-Mou Cheng, National Taiwan U., Taiwan Pierre-Louis Cayrel, Jean Monnet U., France Claude Crepeau, McGill University, Canada Jintai Ding, U. Cincinnati, USA Philippe Gaborit, U. Limoges, France Danilo Gligoroski, Norwegian U. Sci. Tech., Norway Tim Guneysu, Ruhr U. Bochum, Germany Sean Hallgren, Pennsylvania State U., USA Yasufumi Hashimoto, U. Ryukyu, Japan David Jao, U. Waterloo, Canada Tanja Lange, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Yi-Kai Liu, NIST, USA Michele Mosca, U. Waterloo & Perimeter Inst., Canada Martin Rotteler, Microsoft Research, USA Nicolas Sendrier, Inria, France Daniel Smith-Tone, U. Louisville & NIST, USA Damien Stehle, ENS Lyon, France Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic U., USA Jean-Pierre Tillich, Inria, France Keita Xagawa, NTT, Japan Bo-Yin Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhengfeng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China