CRYPTO 2013

The call for papers is also available in PDF.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:	February 15, 2013 at 22:00 UTC (5:00 pm EST)
First round of comments:	April 1, 2013
Responses to comments due:	April 4, 2013 at 22:00 UTC (5:00 pm EST)
Notification of decision:	May 6, 2013
Proceedings version due:	June 8, 2013
Conference:	August 18-22, 2013

General Information

Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to CRYPTO 2013, the 33rd Annual International Cryptology Conference. This includes works on foundational, practical, and industry related aspects. Innovative, ``outside the box'' papers are particularly solicited. CRYPTO 2013 is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Instructions for Authors

Submissions must be at most 12 pages, excluding references and appendices. The paper must be in single-column format, use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins. Submissions should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarize the paper’s contributions at a level understandable to a non-expert in the field. Reviewers are not required to read appendices, so papers should be intelligible without them. Submissions must be presented in a way that allows the understanding and verification of the claimed results with reasonable time and effort.

Submissions must be anonymized with no author names, affiliations, or obvious references. It is recognized that, sometimes, information regarding the identities of authors may become public outside the paper submission process. The PC will ignore this external information.

Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX and submitted as PDF using type-1 fonts (see this page for help). Papers must be submitted electronically; a detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will be provided on the conference homepage.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors published, submitted, or is planning to submit before the notification-date to any conference/workshop with proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. The program committee may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs to ensure adherence to this policy. Authors uncertain whether their submission conforms to IACR policy should contact the program chair. The authors of submitted papers guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference if it is accepted.

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

Best Young Researcher Paper Award

In an effort to promote independent work by young researchers, this year we plan to have in addition to the general best paper award, also a prize for the best paper that is authored exclusively by young researchers. To be eligible, all co-authors must be either full time students or have received their PhD degree in 2011 or later. As usual, awards will be given only if deserving papers are identified.

Interim Reviews and Rebuttal

This year authors will be given the opportunity to comment on the initial reviews written on their submissions. Commenting is optional; it is not a requirement. The dates are listed above. Additional details regarding the format and exact procedure are available here.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference, either physically or electronically. Instructions for the preparation of the proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Authors will need to provide a signed IACR Copyright form along with the proceedings version of their papers.

Stipends

A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference, and to students having an accepted paper that they will present. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the general chair. Additional details are available here.

Program Committee



Masayuki Abe	NTT, Japan
Mihir Bellare	UCSD, USA
Zvika Brakerski	Stanford, USA
Jan Camenisch	IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Ran Canetti	BU, USA and TAU, Israel (co-chair)
David Cash	Rutgers, USA
Kai-Min Chung	Cornell, USA and Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jean-Sebastien Coron	U. Luxemburg
Dana Dachman-Soled	Microsoft Research, USA
Stefan Dziembowski	U. Warsaw, Poland and U. Rome I, Italy
Juan Garay	AT&T, USA (co-chair)
Iftach Haitner	TAU, Israel
Shai Halevi	IBM Research, USA
Goichiro Hanaoka	AIST, Japan
Dennis Hofheinz	KIT, Germany
Jonathan Katz	U. Maryland, USA
Lars R. Knudsen	DTU, Denmark
Eyal Kushilevitz	Technion, Israel
Kristin Lauter	Microsoft Research, USA
Huijia Rachel Lin	MIT & BU, USA
Yehuda Lindell	BIU, Israel
Vadim Lyubashevsky	ENS, France
John Mitchell	Stanford, USA
Tal Moran	IDC, Israel
Jesper Buus Nielsen	U. Aarhus, Denmark
Christof Paar	U. Bochum, Germany
Manoj Prabhakaran	UIUC, USA
Tal Rabin	IBM Research, USA
Charlie Rackoff	U. Toronto, Canada
Christian Rechberger	DTU, Denmark
Thomas Ristenpart	U. Wisconsin, USA
Guy Rothblum	Microsoft Research, USA
Christian Schaffner	U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vitaly Shmatikov	UT Austin, USA
Hovav Shacham	UCSD, USA
Nigel Smart	U. Bristol, UK
Adam Smith	Penn State, USA
Martijn Stam	U. Bristol, UK
John Steinberger	Tsinghua, China
Frederik Vercauteren	KU Leuven, Belgium
Xiaoyun Wang	Tsinghua, China
Daniel Wichs	Northeastern, USA

Advisory Member

Rei Safavi-Naini

CRYPTO 2012 Program Chair

Contact Information


General Chair:
Helena Handschuh Cryptography Research Inc. and K.U. Leuven 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Email:
Program Co-chairs:
Ran Canetti Boston University and Tel Aviv University 111 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215 USA Juan Garay AT&T Labs -- Research 180 Park Ave. Florham Park, NJ 07932 Email: