------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DRAFT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IACR Business Meeting UCSB Santa Barbara CA Aug. 21, 1996 The President Kevin Mccurley started the meeting at 4:35PM The topics Kevin intended to discuss included: * EUROCRYPT * CRYPTO * Journal of Cryptology * IACR Newsletter Kevin introduced the Board of Directors(not present: Rueppel, Vanstone) He reminded the audience that the Board members are volunteers-they receive no pay. Kevin thanked the General Chairs of Eurocrypt '96 and Crypto '96 for their hard work in organizing these conferences and presented plaques(?) to Jose Pastor and Richard Graveman. He pointed out that IACR elections are coming due and called Peter Landrock to address the audience regarding the election procedures and deadlines for nominations. Journal of Cryptology Report Gilles Brassard said that Volume 10 in 1997 will consist of four issues each containing 72 pages. Gilles has served as Editor from 1991 to 1997. The next Editor is Joan Feigenbaum. The J. of Cryptology is indexed by the Science Citation Index as of 1996. The current submission rate to the Journal is healthy. Membership Secretary Report(Andy Clark) Andy informed the gathering that 1996 membership closes effectiv 31 Aug. 1996. If you are a member in 1996, please check the details on the attendance list because they are used for IACR mailings. Andy then presented some Metrics for the IACR: 1995 1996 EUROCRYPT 364 362 CRYPTO 342 386 Membership 697 780 Treasurer's Report(Jimmy Upton) Jimmy said that the IACR is healthy financially. Its assets are currently at about $150,000. He said that every activity of the IACR is self funding. There has been increased expenses for the IACR: * The Journal has increased to 72 pages per issue * Incresed membership services(e.g. mailing out back issues of the J.) * Costs associated with the Web Page of the IACR Jimmy showed an overhead which indicated that 73% of the expenses of the IACR are for the Journal. He recommended that IACR dues be increased as follows: Dues for Regular Members $72(currently $60) Dues for Student Members $36(currently $30) It was noted that the student rate is half of the regular rate. Motion: It was moved that the IACR dues be increased as specified above. The motion carried. Some matters of interest that meeded to be discussed include: The future of the Newsletter The value of the Newsletter An electronic version of the Newsletter It was pointed out that not everyone is on the Web. One option is: an electronic or paper version. Gilles suggested an FTP site in LateX format could be setup. An electronic version will be faster and more accurate than paper. The manusripts would still be edited. Bob Blakley asked if authors would be aware of editorial changes. The reply was that the Printer would send galleys with the "Editor's" notations. It was pointed out that there were problems with differet versions of LateX. Kevin said that the issue of Electronic Publishing is a thorny one and requires careful consideration. He said that the Errata for EUROCRYPT '96 and the Rump Session papers will be mounted on the IACR Web Page. Future Conferences EUROCRYPT '97 The General Chairs are Roland Nehl and Alfred Bullesbach. Roland Mueller then presented a colour overhead of Lake Constance and spoke about its history. He also described alternative ways to travel to the site. CRYPTO '97 Bruce Schneier is the General Chair and Burt Kaliski is the Program Chair. Bruce spoke and said that if attendance keeps increasing, we may need a larger auditorium. He said that he was: Pro shrimp Pro T-Shirts Pro Strawberries. There was a vote to keep the "beach" barbeque at the beach. EUROCRYPT '98 Dates: May 31 - June 4, 1998 The General Chair is Arto Karila and the Program Chair is Kaisa Nyberg. CRYPTO '98 The General Chair is Andrew Klapper and the Program Chair is Hugo Krawczyk. Proposals to host future conferences are welcome. Report by Program Chair of CRYPTO '96: Neal Koblitz Neal said that he welcomes feedback "real soon" - by tomorrow. He said the one page statement of the oral presentation proved to be useful. There were 130 submissions of which 15 were summarily rejected. Of the remainder, 30 were accepred which gave an acceptance rate of about 23%. This was almost identical to last year. He felt that the current prcedures for submission and review were good. Neal said that it was great to work with the Generel Chair, Richard Graveman. He also thanked the speakers and the Program Committee. Other IACR Business Whit Diffie raised the matter of listing phone numbers of attendees at the IACR conferences. Most delegates were in favour of listing and Andy Clark promised to have phone numbers listed in the future. Yvo Desmedt asked if an erratum could be published in future Procedings? There was some discussion of electronic publishing and matters of copyright. The incomig Editor of the Journal, Joan Feigenbaum, asked members to contact her if they had ideas about the Journal and electronic publishing. It was suggested that more papers should be accepted. Kevin reminded the audience that at previous meetings this proposal was voted against. However, the attendees voted in favour of Tuesday and Thursday afternoon ????? papers(???) Ross Anderson asked for voluteers to do reviewing for Security Reviews. The meeting adjourned at 5:50PM. Stafford Tavares Secretary, IACR