The 15th IACR International conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography = Darmstadt, Germany, May 21-23, 2012 = CALL FOR PAPERS = =========================================================================================== Original research papers on all technical aspects of public-key cryptography are solicited for submission to PKC 2012, the 15th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography. Papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives are especially welcome. Important Dates ================= Submission deadline: December 15th, 2011, 11:00 UTC Notification of acceptance: February 27th, 2012 Camera-ready deadline: March 12th, 2012 Conference: May 21-23, 2012 Committees =========== Program chair: Marc Fischlin, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany General Chair: Johannes Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany General Co-chair: Mark Manulis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Program committee: - Michel Abdalla ENS Paris, France - Alexandra Boldyreva Georgia Tech, USA - Colin Boyd Queensland University of Technology, Australia - Dario Catalano Universita di Catania, Italy - Jean-Sebastien Coron University of Luxembourg - Marc Fischlin Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - Georg Fuchsbauer University of Bristol, UK - Rosario Gennaro IBM Research, USA - Dov Gordon Columbia University, USA - Matthew Green Johns Hopkins University, USA - Jens Groth University College London, UK - Kaoru Kurosawa Ibaraki University, Japan - Miroslaw Kutylowski Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Vadim Lyubashevsky ENS Paris, France - Adam O'Neill Boston University, USA - Christiane Peters University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Krzysztof Pietrzak IST Austria - Alon Rosen IDC Herzliya, Israel - Dominique Schröder University of Maryland, USA - Gil Segev Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA - Nicolas Sendrier INRIA, France - Igor Shparlinski Macquarie University, Australia - Nigel Smart University of Bristol, UK - Ron Steinfeld Macquarie University, Australia - Rainer Steinwandt Florida Atlantic University, USA - Tomas Toft Aarhus University, Denmark - Wen-Guey Tzeng National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Ivan Visconti University of Salerno, Italy - Scott Yilek University of St. Thomas, USA - Yuliang Zheng University of North Carolina at Charlotte , USA Local committee: Stanislav Bulygin, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Proceedings =========== As in previous years it is planned to publish the proceedings by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Instructions for Authors ======================== The submission should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, using reasonable margins and font size. The submitted paper should be intelligible and self-contained without appendices, as committee members are not required to read them. Authors are encouraged to prepare their submission following Springer's guideline. Submissions must be fully anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. The submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Submissions ignoring these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. If accepted, one of the authors is expected to present the paper at the conference. 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 with formally published proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop with proceedings. Submissions violating these rules will be rejected and may entail further consequences. IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other Program Committees. Program committee members are allowed to submit one paper, and a second one if co-authored by a student. Any PC member submission will be held to higher standards than other submissions.