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CRYPTO 2006

Call For Papers

Original research papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to CRYPTO 2006, the Twenty-Sixth Annual International Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO 2006 is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Important dates are:

Submission deadline	February 23, 2006, 17:00 PST
Notification of decision	May 2, 2006
Proceedings version deadline	June 5, 2006, 17:00 PDT
Conference	August 20 - 24, 2006

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. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.

Visas: It is strongly recommended that authors apply for visas at time of submission. Do not wait for the decisions.

Submission Format:

In a departure from previous years, submissions will NOT be anonymous.
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, author list, 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 February 23, 2006, 17:00 PST.
Submissions should preferably be in PDF format (i.e., a .pdf file), although PostScript (i.e., a .ps file) will be allowed. If at all possible, the submission should be in US letter paper size (rather than A4), and should use Type 1 fonts (rather than Type 3 fonts). Please visit the following web page for instructions and tips on preparing your submission file:

Go to: Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Submissions
Please visit the following web page to actually upload your electronic submission:

Go to: Electronic Submissions
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Neither late submissions, submisssions by email, nor hardcopy submissions will be accepted. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair by January 16, 2006.

Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by May 2, 2006. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag'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 June 5, 2006.

Program Committee
Boaz Barak, Princeton University Eli Biham, Technion Ivan Damgård, University of Aarhus Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research (Program Chair) Yuval Ishai, Technion Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland Arjen Lenstra, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Yehuda Lindell, Bar-Ilan University Tal Malkin, Columbia University Mitsuru Matsui, Mitsubishi Electric	Daniele Micciancio, University of California, San Diego Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science Phong Nguyen, CNRS/École Normale Supérieure Kobbi Nissim, Ben-Gurion University Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Hovav Shacham, Weizmann Institute of Science Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas, Austin Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo Salil Vadhan, Harvard University Yiqun Lisa Yin, Independent Consultant
Advisory Members
Victor Shoup, program chair CRYPTO 2005	Alfred Menezes, program chair CRYPTO 2007

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.