Call For Papers

Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to ASIACRYPT 2006. Important dates are:

Submission site:  http://61.152.222.177/iChair/

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. IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other Program Committees to detect parallel submissions, see http://www.iacr.org/irregular.html.

• The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, or obvious references.

• The length of the submission should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices. It should be in single column format, use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins.

• The submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarize 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. 

• Papers must be submitted electronically by May 31, 2006 June 8, 2006, and should preferably be in PDF format (i.e., a .pdf file).  

Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 1, 2006August 15, 2006. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available at the conference. Instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on September 1September 7, 2006.

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 general chair.

Email-Contact:  ac2006(at)sjtu.edu.cn