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Eurocrypt 2011, May 15-19, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia

Eurocrypt 2011 was held at Sokos Viru Hotel, Tallinn, Estonia, on 15-19 May 2011. The conference was organized in Sokos Viru Hotel, next to the old town of Tallinn, and a majority of the participants lived either in the same hotel or nearby. Participation fee was 500 USD (regular participants) and 250 USD for students.

A total of 31 research papers, categorized into 11 sessions, were presented, selected from 167 submissions. Ronald Cramer, CWI, and Phong Nguyen from IBM Research delivered the invited lectures on the topics "The Arithmetic Codex: Theory and Applications" and "Lattice Reduction Algorithms: Theory and Practice", respectively.

The Rump Session was chaired by Nigel Smart who was helped by men in shining armor.

The conference banquet was held at the Art Museum of Estonia. The best paper award was also presented during the banquet to Eike Kiltz, Krzysztof Pietrzak, David Cash, Abhishek Jain and Daniele Venturi for their paper "Efficient Authentication from Hard Learning Problems".

The conference ended successfully on 19 May, having attracted about 305 participants (more than 60 being students), from approximately 40 countries, mainly from Europe (approximately 185), Asia (70) and North America (40). We thank the sponsors for their generous support and contributions to the success of the conference.

Program Chair was Kenny Paterson and General Chair was Helger Lipmaa.

Eurocrypt 2012 had a total of 194 submissions. Notification is is scheduled for 7 December 2011. Eurocrypt will be held in Cambridge, UK.