ASIACRYPT 2009
December 6-10, 2009 --- Tokyo, Japan
Call for Papers (Version 2.1)


Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited
for submission to ASIACRYPT 2009, the annual International Conference on Theory
and Application of Cryptology and Information Security.
The conference is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic
Research (IACR) in cooperation with Technical Group on
Information Security (ISEC) of the Institute of Electronics, Information
and Communication Engineers (IEICE). The conference homepage is
http://asiacrypt2009.cipher.risk.tsukuba.ac.jp


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline:  May 29, 2009 23:59:59 UTC
Notifications to Authors: August 10, 2009
Proceedings Version Deadline: September 4, 2009
ASIACRYPT 2009 Conference: December 6-10, 2009


Instructions for Authors:

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the
authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to
a journal or any other conference/workshop that has proceedings.
IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions
with other program committees to detect parallel submissions and
the IACR policy on irregular submissions will be strictly enforced.
For further details, see http://www.iacr.org/irregular.html

The submission must be anonymous with no author names,
affiliations or obvious references.
The length of the submission must be at most 12 pages
excluding references and appendices and at most 18 pages in total.
The text should be in a single column format, in at least 11-point
fonts and have reasonable margins. The length of the final versions
for Springer's LNCS will be at most 18 pages including everything.
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 the level understandable
for a non-expert reader.
The reviewers are not required to read appendices
-- the paper should be intelligible without them.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. 

It is strongly encouraged that submission be processed in LaTeX2e
according to the instructions listed on
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
These instructions are mandatory for the final papers.
Submitted papers must be in PDF format and should
be submitted electronically. 
A detailed description of the
electronic submission procedure will be announced
at the conference homepage. Authors unable to submit electronically
should contact the program chair by May 1, 2009.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series and available at the conference.
Authors of accepted papers must complete the IACR copyright assignment
form at http://www.iacr.org/forms/copyright_agreement.html
for their work to be published in the proceedings, and
guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.


Stipend:

Students whose papers have been accepted and who present their talk at the conference
will have their registration waived. A limited number of stipends is available
to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference.
Students presenting their papers will be given preference. Requests for registration
waiver and/or stipends should be addressed to General Chair.


General Chair:

Eiji Okamoto
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Ten-nohdai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-8573 Japan
okamoto@risk.tsukuba.ac.jp


Program Chair:

Mitsuru Matsui
Information Technology R&D Labs
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
5-1-1 Ofuna, Kamakura, Kanagawa
247-8501 Japan
Matsui.Mitsuru@ab.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp