AsiaCrypt 2003 CALL FOR PAPER

IACR

ASIACRYPT 2003
Nov. 30 ~ Dec.4, 2003, Taiwan
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/ac03

Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Asiacrypt 2003, the ninth annual Asiacrypt conference. Asiacrypt 2003 will be held at the Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, from November 30 to December 4 2003. Asiacrypt 2003 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research(IACR) in cooperation with National Cheng Kung University(NCKU) and the Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association(CCISA) in Taiwan. Important Dates: Submission: May 22, 2003 Acceptance: August 1, 2003 Proceedings version: August 30, 2003 Instructions for authors Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Submission Format The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages total using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. The introduction should summarise 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. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Electronic Submission This is strongly encouraged. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by March 15, 2003 on the Asiacrypt 2003 web pages. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by May 22 2003, 09:00 GMT in order to be considered. This is early morning in many countries. Hardcopy Submission Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 20 hardcopies of their submission (double-sided) to the Program Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the Program Chair on or before May 22, 2003(or postmarked by May 14, 2003, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and submissions by fax will not be considered. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses. Conference Proceedings Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Advisory Member: Yuliang Zheng, Asiacrypt 2002 Program Chair
Program Chair	General Chair
Chi Sung Laih Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, TAIWAN, R.O.C. Phone: +886-6-2761204 Fax: +886-6-2743533 Email: laihcs@eembox.ncku.edu.tw	Chin Chen Chang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi 621, TAIWAN, R.O.C. Phone: +886-5-2720411 ext. 33100 Fax: +886-5-2720859 Email: ccc@cs.ccu.edu.tw
Program Committee
Masayuki Abe, NTT Laboratories, Japan Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA Colin Boyd, QUT, Australia Christian Cachin, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Ivan Damgaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark Robert H. Deng, Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw, Poland Matthias Fitzi, The UC. Davis, California Marc Joye, Gemplus, France Kwangjo Kim, ICU, Korea Chi Sung Laih, NCKU, Taiwan (Program Chair) Pil Joong Lee, POSTECH, Korea Chin Laung Lei, National Taiwan University, R.O.C. Arjen K Lenstra, Citibank, USA Tsutomu Matsumoto,Yokohama National University, Japan Phong Q Nguyen, ENS, France Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Carles Padro, University Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Sihan Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Vincent Rijmen,Ku Leuven, Belgium Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia Shiuh Pyng Shieh, National Chiao Tung University, R.O.C. Nigel P. Smart, University of Bristol, UK Stefan Wolf, University of Montreal, Canada Guozhen Xiao, Xidan University, China Moti Yung, Columbia University, USA 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 Assistant to the Chairs. For more information please contact Annie Lin Email: ac03@conf.ncku.edu.tw Tel: +886-6-2761204 Address:P.O.Box 19-19, Tainan, Taiwan, 704, R.O.C.