Call for Papers (closed)
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FSE 2009 is the 16th annual Fast Software Encryption workshop, for the seventh year sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). FSE 2009 will take place in Leuven, Belgium and will be followed by NIST's first hash function candidate conference. Original research papers on symmetric cryptology are invited for submission to FSE 2009. The workshop concentrates on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, including the design and analysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, analysis and evaluation tools, hash functions, and message authentication codes (MACs).
Important dates
| Submission deadline: | November 24, 2008 (23:59 CET) |
| Notification of decision: | January 20, 2009 |
| Pre-proceedings version deadline: | February 10, 2009 |
| Workshop: | February 22 - 25, 2009 |
| Proceedings version deadline: | April 1, 2009 |
Instructions for Authors
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has submitted/is planning to submit before the author notification deadline to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Double submissions will be rejected without evaluation, see IACR Policy on Irregular Submissions for further details.
The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of the submission should be at most 14 pages excluding bibliography and appendices using single column with at least 11pt size font, reasonably sized margins and in total not more than 20 pages. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. New proposals should be accompanied with test vectors and analysis. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
It is strongly preferred that submissions be processed in LaTeX according to the instructions listed on http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, since these are mandatory for the final papers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or postscript format and should be submitted electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will be available via https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/fse2009/.
The authors of submitted papers guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop if their paper is accepted.
Proceedings
Pre-proceedings will be available at the workshop. Proceedings are intended to
be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to complete the IACR copyright
assignment form at http://www.iacr.org/forms/copyright_agreement.html for
their work to be published in the workshop proceedings.
Program Committee
| Steve Babbage, | Vodafone Group R&D, UK |
| Alex Biryukov, | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Dan J. Bernstein, | University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Joan Daemen, | STMicroelectronics, Belgium |
| Christophe De Cannière, | Ecole Normale Supèrieure, France |
| and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | |
| Orr Dunkelman (chair), | Ecole Normale Supèrieure, France |
| Henri Gilbert, | Orange Labs, France |
| Louis Granboulan, | EADS Innovation Works, France |
| Helena Handschuh, | Spansion, France |
| Tetsu Iwata, | Nagoya University, Japan |
| Nathan Keller, | Hebrew University, Israel |
| Stefan Lucks, | Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany |
| Mitsuru Matsui, | Mitsubishi Electric, Japan |
| Willi Meier, | FHNW, Switzerland |
| Kaisa Nyberg, | Helsinki University of Technology and NOKIA, Finland |
| Raphael Phan, | Loughborough University, UK |
| Bart Preneel, | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
| Håvard Raddum, | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Christian Rechberger, | Graz University of Technology, Austria |
| Thomas Ristenpart, | UC San Diego, USA |
| Greg Rose, | Qualcomm, Australia |
| Serge Vaudenay, | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Yiqun Lisa Yin, | Independent Consultant, USA |
Workshop Information and Stipends
The primary source of information is https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/fse2009/. A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the workshop. Students, whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves, are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be sent to fse2009@esat.kuleuven.be.
