EUROCRYPT 2012 Cambridge, UK April 15-19, 2012 Call for Papers Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: September 30, 2011 14:00 UTC Notification to authors: December 7, 2011 Proceedings version deadline: January 18, 2012 Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Eurocrypt 2012, the 31st Annual Eurocrypt Conference. Eurocrypt 2012 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), http://www.iacr.org. The conference homepage is http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/eurocrypt2012/. Conference Chairs ----------------- Program Committee Chairs - David Pointcheval (ENS, Paris) - Thomas Johansson (Lund University) Conference General Chair - Nigel Smart (University of Bristol) Instructions for Authors ------------------------ The submission must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations or obvious references. The length of the submission must be at most 12 pages, excluding references and appendices, in a single column format, in 11pt fonts and with reasonable margins. If the submission is accepted, the length of the final version for Springer's LNCS will be at most 17 pages including references and appendices, in the llncs class format. It is encouraged that the submission be processed in LaTeX2e according to the instructions listed on http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers. Submitted papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically. The submission server is https://eurocrypt2012.di.ens.fr/ichair/. The submission should begin with a title and a short abstract. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at the level understandable for a non-expert reader. The reviewers 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. 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 to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other program committees to detect parallel submissions and the IACR policy on irregular submissions will be strictly enforced. For further details, see http://www.iacr.org/irregular.html. Program committee members are restricted to one submission each. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by December 7th, 2011. Conference Proceedings ---------------------- Proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers must complete the IACR copyright assignment form at http://www.iacr.org/forms/copyright_agreement.html for their work to be published in the proceedings, and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. The final versions of the accepted papers will be due on January 18th, 2012. Program Committee ----------------- Masayuki Abe (NTT) John Black (University of Colorado at Boulder and UC Santa Barbara) University of Colorado at Boulder) David Cash (UC San Diego) Dario Catalano (Università di Catania) Jean-Sébastien Coron (University of Luxembourg) Orr Dunkelman (University of Haifa and Weizmann Institute, Israel) Marc Fischlin (TU Darmstadt) Pierre-Alain Fouque (ENS) Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland) Henri Gilbert (ANSSI) Louis Goubin (University of Versailles) Jens Groth (University College London) Dennis Hofheinz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University) John Kelsey (NIST) Aggelos Kiayias (University of Athens) Arjen Lenstra (EPFL) Benoit Libert (UC Louvain) Yehuda Lindell (Bar Ilan University) Kaisa Nyberg (Aalto University and Nokia) Thomas Peyrin (Nanyang Technological University) Krzysztof Pietrzak (CWI) Vincent Rijmen (KU Leuven and TU Graz) Thomas Ristenpart (University of Wisconsin) Kazue Sako (NEC) Palash Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute) Igor Shparlinski (Macquarie University) Martijn Stam (University of Bristol) Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Microsoft Research and University of Toronto) Ivan Visconti (University of Salerno) Xiaoyun Wang (Tsinghua University) Duncan Wong (City University of Hong Kong)