25 August 2013
20 August 2013
05 August 2013
One of the key roles of the the IACR is the review and dissemination of scientific publications. In the past three years, there has been an intensive discussion of publication options, in which several alternatives have been reviewed thoroughly.
At the end of 2012, the IACR has signed a new publication contract with Springer for a 4-year period (2013-2017); IACR continues to publish the proceedings of our flagship conferences and workshops in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. This new contract makes substantial progress towards broader access to our publications and reduces the cost of publications. However, the IACR Board believes that the area of scientific publications will undergo further changes in the next years, in particular towards open access. In addition, the expansion of our field (more than 1200 submissions and more than 250 publications per year) has resulted in a steadily increasing reviewing load. Some other scientific communities have updated their publication models with a shift towards journal publications.
The IACR Board understands that any change to our publication model has major implications on our members and on the cryptographic community at large. We also have learned that changing this model would be complex and time consuming: in order to be ready for a new publication model in 2018, a new strategy would need to be in place by mid 2015.
In view of this, the IACR Board has decided to start an open discussion on the future of IACR publications. In order to focus this discussion, Nigel Smart has drafted a radical proposal, that would involve moving towards a journal publication model. This proposal has been outlined at the rump session of Eurocrypt'13 and has been further refined based on comments received. The reason for working with a detailed document is that this seems the best way to make sure that all issues are identified and detailed solutions are proposed and compared.
It should be fully understood that this document is a strawman proposal: it does not reflect the view of the IACR Board; the document has also not been discussed with the steering committees of the workshops. Its only intention is to start an open discussion. In particular, the Board welcomes detailed comments and alternative proposals for the future of IACR publications.
We are looking forward to hearing from the community.
Bart Preneel
IACR-International Association for Cryptologic Research
04 June 2013
Some of the latest postings:
- Assigning Papers to Talks (cbw)
- Some issues + Counter proposal (Orr)
- Change is needed, but slow change is important (lindell)
- How to handle resubmissions? (ivandamgard)
- Questions (nigel)
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17 April 2012
- Advance the science, technology, and practice of cryptology and related fields
- Promote the free exchange of ideas and information about cryptology and related fields
- Develop and maintain the professional skill and integrity of individuals in the cryptologic community
- Advance the standing of the cryptologic community in the wider scientific and technical world and promote fruitful relationships between the IACR and other scientific and technical organizations
16 April 2012
The number of publication at IACR conferences hardly changed over the
last 15 years. At the same time, the number of submissions increased by nearly 60% while the quality of submissions stayed the same - at least according to members of the programme committees. To worsen things, the IACR community has grown and there are many more researchers active in our domain than used to be 15 years ago.
Detailed statistics on submissions and acceptance rates:
http://www2.mat.dtu.dk/people/Lars.R.Knudsen/accrates.html
To better serve our community, the Board of Directors expressed its with that Conference Programme Chairs (for Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt) to accept substancially more papers then used to be the case and to work with their General Chair for the logistics to make this possible (using extra slots, shorter talks, and parallel sessions).
12 April 2012
11 April 2012
The IACR website has a new look. A team of cryptologists has recently started an effort to advance the online services of the IACR, and has formed a new online content team for this task. What you see today is the result of the first two months of steady improvements. We hope that you like it and that you find the new organization useful.
This is only a start, and we know that many things are not yet as integrated as we would wish. We are working on improving the site and you should visit http://www.iacr.org often to see further improvements.
Please send your feedback, praise, or bug reports to webbugs(at)iacr.org.
The online content core team:
Christian Cachin, Kevin McCurley, Nigel Smart, Christopher Wolf.
The online content extended team:
Shai Halevi, Hilarie Orman, Bart Preneel, abhi shelat.
13 February 2012
02 January 2012
Some videos of IACR lectures have been posted on youtube in the IACR channel at http://www.youtube.com/TheIACR Videos of talks are also being incorporated into cryptodb - see the example of Roger Dingledine's talk at Crypto 2011.
Videos are now available for Crypto 2011 and PKC 2010, Videos are also available from the Crypto 2011 rump session.