CRYPTO 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.iacr.org Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to CRYPTO 2007, the Twenty-Seventh Annual International Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO 2007 is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Important dates are: Submission deadline February 19, 2007, 17:00 EST Notification of decision May 7, 2007 Proceedings version deadline June 5, 2007, 18:00 EST Conference August 19 - 23, 2007 Instructions for Authors 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 (May 7, 2007) to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Visas: It is strongly recommended that authors apply for visas at time of submission. Do not wait for the decisions. Submission Format: * The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. * The length of the submission should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices. It should be in single column format, use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins. * The submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. * Papers must be submitted electronically by February 19, 2007, 17:00 EST. * Submissions should preferably be in PDF format (i.e., a .pdf file), although PostScript (i.e., a .ps file) will be allowed. If at all possible, the submission should be in US letter paper size (rather than A4), and should use Type 1 fonts (rather than Type 3 fonts). * Please visit the following web page to actually upload your electronic submission: https://s1.iacr.org/websubrev/crypto2007/submit/ * Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Neither late submissions, submissions by email, nor hardcopy submissions will be accepted. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair by January 16, 2007. Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors on May 7, 2007. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available at the conference. Instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on June 5, 2007. Program Committee Amos Beimel, Ben-Gurion University Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg Xavier Boyen, Voltage Security Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University Orr Dunkelman, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Matt Franklin, UC Davis Steven Galbraith, Royal Holloway, University of London Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research Martin Hirt, ETH Zurich Nick Howgrave-Graham, NTRU Antoine Joux, DGA and Universite de Versailles John Kelsey, NIST Neal Koblitz, University of Washington Kaoru Kurosawa, Ibaraki University Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London David Pointcheval, Ecole Normale Superieure Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Zulfikar Ramzan, Symantec Omer Reingold, Weizmann Institute of Science Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong Amit Sahai, UCLA Palash Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute Nigel Smart, University of Bristol Adam Smith, UCLA & Penn State University Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University Serge Vaudenay, EPFL Yiqun Lisa Yin, Independent Consultant Advisory Members Cynthia Dwork, program chair CRYPTO 2006 David Wagner, program chair CRYPTO 2008 Stipends A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the general chair. ==========================================================================