9th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key
                       Cryptography (PKC) 2006


                           CALL FOR PAPERS


Workshop Dates:        April 24-26, 2006
Workshop Location:     Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Website:               http://pkc06.cs.columbia.edu

[BACKGROUND]

The International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography 
(PKC) has been the main IACR annual workshop focusing on all aspects of 
public-key cryptography. PKC has attracted papers from world-renowned 
scientists in the area. The Proceedings of PKC'06 will be published by 
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. PKC'06 
will take place in Columbia University, in New York City, during the spring of 
2006. 

[TOPICS OF INTEREST]

The topics of interest are all aspects of public-key cryptography including 
theory, design, analysis, implementation, and applications.

[IMPORTANT DATES]

Submission Deadline:  15 November, 2005
Author Notification:  20 January, 2006
Camera-Ready Copy:    10 February, 2006
Workshop Dates:       24-26 April, 2006

[INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS]

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has 
published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has 
submitted/ is planning to submit before the author notification deadline 
(January 20th, 2006) to other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. 
Parallel submissions will be rejected from all places they have been 
submitted to, and further actions may be taken! 


A sharp limit of 15 pages, not including references and appendices, in standard
LNCS format (see LNCS author instructions [1]) is placed on all submissions. 
The paper should be intelligible and self contained without appendices, as 
committee members are not required to read appendices. The submission receipt 
deadline is November 15, 2005, 5:59pm EST. The paper must be fully anonymous, 
with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. 
The paper must start with a title, an abstract, and keywords. It should be 
followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader, 
specifying the subject addressed, its background, the main results, and their 
significance. Technical details directed to the specialist should then follow. 
If accepted, one of the authors is expected to present the paper at the 
workshop. Further submission instructions will be posted on the conference 
home page about one month before the deadline. Submissions not meeting the 
guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

[PROGRAM COMMITTEE]

Masayuki Abe, NTT Japan
Feng Bao, I2R, Singapore
Paulo Barreto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Amos Beimel, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Xavier Boyen, Voltage Technology, USA 
Serge Fehr, CWI, The Netherlands 
Pierre-Alain Fouque, ENS Paris, France
Juan Garay, Bell Labs, USA
Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research, USA 
Nick Howgrave-Graham, NTRU Cryptosystems, USA
Dong Hoon Lee, Korea University, Korea 
Wenbo Mao, HP Labs, China 
Alexander May, Paderborn University, Germany 
David Naccache, ENS, France
Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA, USA
Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK
Giuseppe Persiano, University of Salerno, Italy
Benny Pinkas, Haifa University, Israel
Leonid Reyzin, Boston University, USA
Kazue Sako, NEC Japan 
Jean-Sebastien Coron, University of Luxembourg
Alice Silverberg, U. C. Irvine, USA
Jessica Staddon, PARC, USA
Ron Steinfeld, Macquarie University, Australia
Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo, Canada
Wen-Guey Tzeng, NCTU, Taiwan
Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute, USA
Yiqun Lisa Yin, Independent Consultant, USA
Adam Young, Mitre, USA
Moti Yung, RSA Labs and Columbia U., USA



[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

Conference and Program Committee Chair: 
   Moti Yung, RSA Labs and Columbia University, USA 

General Chair and Local Arrangements Chair: 
   Tal Malkin, Columbia University, USA

General Chair and Sponsorship Chair: 
   Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University, USA

Publicity and Publication Chair: 
   Aggelos Kiayias, University of Connecticut, USA

[CONTACT INFORMATION]

For questions, comments, or further information, please contact 
pkc06@cs.columbia.edu

[REFERENCES]

[1]
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html