Inscrypt 2012 http://inscrypt2012.im.pwr.wroc.pl/2012/inscrypt2012cfp.html The 8th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt'2012) Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2012, Beijing *Preliminary Call-For-Papers* The 8th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (*INSCRYPT 2012*) will be held in Beijing from November 28th to December 1st, 2012, which is immediately followed by *Asiacrypt 2012*, to be held in the same venue. Inscrypt 2012 seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of well developed papers. Topics of interest encompass research advances in ALL areas of information security, cryptology, and their applications. The conference post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS series. *AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS:* Technical papers describing original research contributions are solicited. Submissions must not be concurrently under review by a conference, journal or any other venue that has proceedings. All submissions must be written in English, and must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Such a submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be intelligible and self-contained within 20 pages including references and appendices, and must be submitted electronically to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inscrypt2012 *TOPICS* of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Access Control - Authentication and Authorization - Biometric security - Block cipher modes of operation - Cloud computing security - Database security - Digital asset security and protection - Electronic Commerce Security - Foundations of Cryptography - Hash functions and MACs - Information Hiding and Watermarking - Intrusion Detection - Key Management and Key Recovery - Mobile network Security - Network Security - Operating system security - Privacy protection - Risk evaluation and security modeling - Secret Key and Public Key Cryptography - Security issues in Internet of Things - Security and Cryptographic Protocols - Software security and protection - System security *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline for Submission: August 20, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2012 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: November 5, 2012 *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* More information about the conference updates will be available at http://www.inscrypt.cn *Conference general chair:* Dongdai Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Program Co-Chairs:* Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Moti Yung, Google Inc. and Columbia University, USA *This page was last updated on December 2, 2011. A printable version of this preliminary cfp is available from here http://inscrypt2012.im.pwr.wroc.pl/2012/inscrypt2012cfp.pdf *