TCC 2007: CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------- The fourth Theory of Cryptography Conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organized by CWI and sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Papers presenting original research on theoretical and foundational aspects of cryptography are sought. The Theory of Cryptography Conference deals with the paradigms, approaches, and techniques used to conceptualize, define and provide solutions to natural cryptographic problems. More specifically, research in this area includes the: * Study of known paradigms, approaches, and techniques, directed towards their better understanding and utilization, * Discovery of new approaches and techniques that overcome limitations of the existing paradigms, * Formulation and treatment of new cryptographic problems, * Study of notions of security and relations among them, * Modeling and analysis of cryptographic constructions, and * Study of the complexity assumptions used in cryptography. The Theory of Cryptography Conference is dedicated to the dissemination of results in the area. The conference aims to provide a meeting place for researchers and to be instrumental in shaping the identity of the Theory of Cryptography community. IMPORTANT DATES Conference: February 21-24, 2007 Submission Deadline: August 18, 2006 (must be RECEIVED by 17:59 EDT) Notification of decision: October 18, 2006 Proceedings version deadline: November 20, 2006 Program Committee Chair: Salil Vadhan, Harvard University. Conference General Chair: Ronald Cramer, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University. Program Committee: Mihir Bellare (U.C. San Diego) Ran Canetti (IBM Research) Ivan Damgård (University of Aarhus) Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research) Serge Fehr (CWI Amsterdam) Yuval Ishai (The Technion) Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland) Rafael Pass (MIT and Cornell University) Oded Regev (Tel-Aviv University) Omer Reingold (Weizmann Institute) Ronen Shaltiel (University of Haifa) Victor Shoup (New York University) Yael Tauman Kalai (MIT) Bogdan Warinschi (INRIA-Lorraine) TCC Steering Committee Members: Mihir Bellare, Ivan Damgård, Oded Goldreich (chair), Shafi Goldwasser, Johan Håstad, Russell Impagliazzo, Ueli Maurer, Silvio Micali, Moni Naor, and Tatsuaki Okamoto. More information in the full Call for Papers on the TCC07 website: http://www.cwi.nl/crypto/tcc07/.