International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Inscrypt 2012, Nov. 28-30, 2012 in Beijing, China

The 8th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology was held at Beijing International Convention Center, Nov. 28 - Nov. 30, 2012, Beijing, China. See http://www.inscrypt.cn/2012/ for the web-site.

The program co-chairs were Miroslaw Kutylowski and Moti Yung, and the general chair was Dongdai Lin. Inscrypt 2012 received 73 submissions from 24 countries, and 23 were selected for presentation at the conference. These accepted papers, after revision, appeared in the conference post-proceeding which was published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 7763.

Two invited talks were given by Jung Hee Cheon (Seoul National University) and Goichiro Hanaoka (AIST) on the topics "Open Questions for the Discrete Logarithm" and "Toward Shorter Ciphertext in ElGamal-type CCA-secure Public Key Encryption", respectively. Additionally, the conference was featured with two tutorials given by Junfeng Fan (KU Leuven) and Miroslaw Kutylowski (Wroclaw University of Technology) on the topics "Cryptographic hardware: design for low power, low area and security against physical attacks" and "Electronic Personal Identity Documents", respectively.

The conference banquet was a traditional Chinese one, with Chinese rice wine (Baijiu) served. The registration fee was 450 USD for regular and 350 USD for full-time student. About 90 attendees enjoyed the 3-day conference sessions and Beijing in winter.