PKC  2003

                       Miami, Florida, January 6-8, 2003


                             Call for Papers

                 Submission Deadline: August 9, 2002


Background: For the last few years the International Workshop on Practice and
Theory in Public Key Cryptography PKC is the main annual workshop focusing on
research on all aspects of public key cryptography. The first workshop was
organized in 1998 in Japan.  Other PKCs have taken place in Australia, France,
Japan and South Korea.
    PKC 2003 will be for the first time an IACR workshop.  PKC has attracted
papers from famous international authors in the area.  The proceedings will be
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics of interest: The topics of interest are all aspects of public-key
cryptography including:


        o Certification and Time-stamping     o  Integer Factorization
        o Computational Complexity Aspects    o  International Standards
        o Cryptanalysis                       o  Lattice Reduction
        o Discrete Logarithm                  o  Provable Security
        o Electronic Cash/Payment             o  Public Key Infrastructure
        o Elliptic Curve Cryptography         o  Secure Electronic Commerce
        o Encryption Schemes                  o  Signature Schemes
        o Fast Implementations


Instructions for Authors: The paper must start with a title, an abstract and
keywords, but should be anonymous.  It should be followed by a succinct
statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader specifying the subject
addressed, its background, the main achievements, and their significance to
public key cryptology. Technical details directed to the specialist should
then follow. Self citations to unpublished work should be avoided to maintain
the anonymity. A limit of 11 singlespaced pages of 11pt type (not counting the
bibliography and clearly marked appendices) is placed on all submissions. The
total paper must not exceed 18 pages.  Since referees are not required to read
the appendices, the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not
meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.


Submission instructions: Abstracts that have been or will be submitted in
parallel to other conferences or workshops that have proceedings are not
eligible for submission. One of the authors is expected to present the paper.
    The submission receipt deadline is August 9, 2002 23:59 Hawaii time
(i.e. GMT: August 10 at 9:59). To submit a paper, e-mail to
pkc-submit@cs.fsu.edu an e-mail with the following two attachments:

    o in ASCII the title, authors names, address of corresponding author, and
      the abstract,

    o in PS (or PDF) file the full anonymous paper (i.e. title, abstract,
      keywords, etc.).  The paper should be submitted as a Postscript or PDF
      (e.g. using PDFLATEX) paper also readable on non-Windows platforms. For
      Unix users of LaTeX using ps2pdf one should use:

        % dvips -Ppdf -G0
          or dvips -Pcmz -G0
        % ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true
                  -dEmbedAllFonts=true


                   Submission Deadline:            August 9, 2002
Important dates:   Authors Informed:               September 27, 2002
                   Accepted papers need to arrive: October 25, 2002.


Program Committee:

  Masayuki Abe             (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
  Feng Bao                 (Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore)
  Yvo Desmedt              (Program Chair, Florida State University, US)
  Giovanni Di Crescenzo    (Telcordia, US)
  Marc Joye                (Gemplus, France)
  Kaoru Kurosawa           (Ibaraki University, Japan)
  Arjen Lenstra            (Citicorp, US)
  Tal Malkin               (AT&T Research, US)
  Ueli Maurer              (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Moni Naor                (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  Tatsuaki Okamoto         (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
  Jacques Patarin          (Universite de Versailles, France)
  Tal Rabin                (IBM Research Lab., US)
  Kazue Sako               (NEC, Japan)
  Jacques Stern            (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
  Serge Vaudenay           (ETH, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Yongge Wang              (Karthika Technologies, Canada)
  Michael Wiener           (Canada)
  Moti Yung                (Certco, US)
  Yuliang Zheng            (University of North Carolina, US)


Sponsors:  For information about sponsoring, contact general chair M. Burmester
at burmester@cs.fsu.edu


Program Chair: Dr. Yvo G. Desmedt       General Chair: Dr. Mike Burmester
desmedt@cs.fsu.edu                             burmester@cs.fsu.edu
206 Love Building                             206 Love Building
Florida State University                       Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530                    Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530