Journal of Cryptology Call for Papers: Topical Collection on Advances in Boolean Functions with Applications in Cryptography

To encourage more submissions to JoC, we are having more Topical Collections. Topical Collections are a kind of virtual Special Issues. Papers of a topical collection are published together with ordinary papers in one or more issues, but on the webpage they are indexed twice: once in their issue and once in a separate tab with the name of the Topical Collection. Currently we have four Topical Collections in the JoC and you can see them on the website.

We are now asking for high-quality papers to be submitted for a Topical Collection on Advances in Boolean Functions with Applications in Cryptography; which is broadly conceived as including any new developments in the area of Boolean Functions theory with applications in cryptography. Example topics are listed below. However, other related topics will be considered in scope.

• Design and analysis of cryptographically significant (vectorial) Boolean functions;
• Applications of (vectorial) Boolean functions in cryptography;
• Applications of (vectorial) Boolean functions in protecting secure implementations against physical attacks.

We also encourage submission of short (but self contained) papers.

Papers which are extended versions, or merges, of conference papers, are out of scope for this Topical Collection and thus should be submitted to the Journal of Cryptology in the normal way.

Being a Topical Collection, as opposed to a Special Issue, papers are published as soon as they are accepted. They do not need to wait until all papers for a Special Issue are ready. We hope to have a speedy review process for this Topical Collection, and will be reaching out to the community before the closing date to solicit a bank of willing reviewers who will help us in this task of reviewing the submitted papers.

Submissions will be opened from April 1st, 2024 to October 1st, 2024

To be considered for this Topical Collection put in the keywords field of the submission site the phrase "Topical Collection on Advances in Boolean Functions with Applications in Cryptography".

We hope to send reviews to authors within four months of submission. So, there is no need to wait for the submission deadline. Assuming no changes are requested this means papers could be published within six months. If a second round of reviewing is required we hope to complete this within one year of initial submission.

Questions about this Topical Collection can be sent to the Special Editors: Svetla Nikova (first-name dot last-name at esat dot kuleuven dot be) and Gregor Leander (first-name dot last-name at rub dot de).