(CFP also available in Postscript)

CALL FOR PAPERS

SAC 2002

Ninth Annual Workshop on
SELECTED AREAS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY
August 15 & 16, 2002
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Workshop Themes:

Original papers on the following workshop themes are solicited:

Design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems

Primitives for private key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions and MACs

Efficient implementation of cryptographic systems in public and private key cryptography

Cryptographic solutions for mobile and wireless network security

Instructions for Authors:

A submission must consist of an extended abstract of at most 15 pages, clearly indicating the results achieved, their significance, and their relation to other work in the area. Authors can either send one copy of a Postscript file by email to sac2002@engr.mun.ca or send ten copies of the submission to:

   Kaisa Nyberg
   Nokia Research Center
   Itamerenkatu 11-13
   FIN-00180 Helsinki, Finland
   Phone: +358 7180 37384

The deadline for submission by email is May 3, 2002. The submissions by mail must also arrive by May 3, or must be postmarked on April 26, 2002, and sent by airmail. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The notification of the committee's decision will be sent to authors by June 19, 2002. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Conference Proceedings:

As in previous years, the workshop record of presented papers will be available to participants. Following the workshop, the formal proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Instructions about the final copy for the proceedings will be sent to the authors of the papers presented at the workshop. The final copies of the presented papers will be due on September 15, 2002. Final papers arriving too late will be removed from the proceedings.

Important Dates:

   Submission            May 3, 2002
   Acceptance            Jun. 19, 2002
   Workshop              Aug. 15&16, 2002
   Proceedings version   Sep. 15, 2002

Program Committee:

Stefan Brands, Credentica Inc., Canada
Henri Gilbert, France Telecom, France
Guang Gong, University of Waterloo, Canada
Helena Handschuh, Gemplus, France
Howard Heys (co-chair), Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Helger Lipmaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tal Malkin, AT&T Research, USA
Mitsuru Matsui, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Kaisa Nyberg (co-chair), Nokia Research Center, Finland
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia
Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo, Canada
Stafford Tavares, Queen's University, Canada
Serge Vaudenay, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael Wiener, Canada
Robert Zuccherato, Entrust, Inc., Canada