[HGI-news-int] SAC 2008 (Waterloo), Aug 14&15, Deadline: 2008-05-18

[English Newsletter of the Horst Gö rtz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                                SAC 2008

                        15th Annual Workshop on
                     Selected Areas in Cryptography
                          August 14 & 15, 2008
        Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
                      http://www.mta.ca/sac2008/
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Call for Papers

The workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is an annual
conference dedicated to specific themes in the area of cryptographic
system design and analysis. Authors are encouraged to submit original
papers related to the themes for the SAC 2008 workshop:

1. Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems,

2. Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms.

3. Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology.

The conference has also a fourth theme, that changes from year to year.
In 2008 the fourth theme will be:

4. Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography,
    including theory and applications of pairings.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the
authors has  published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any
other journal, or conference or workshop that has proceedings.  Accepted
submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has
proceedings.

Submission Format:

     * The submission must be anonymous, with no author names,
       affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references.

     * The length of the submission should be at most 12 pages excluding
       bibliography and appendices. It should be in single column format,
       use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins.
       The total length should not exceed 20 pages.

     * The submission must be written in english, should begin with a
       title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction
       should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level
       appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Committee members are not
       required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible
       without them.

     * We recommend that the paper be typeset using LaTeX and the LNCS
       style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs. Submissions
       should preferably be in PDF format (i.e., a .pdf file), although
       PostScript (i.e., a .ps file) will be allowed.  US letter paper
       size is preferred over A4.  If at all possible, the paper should
       use Type 1 fonts (rather than Type 3 fonts).

Conference Proceedings

The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) Series. As in previous years, the workshop
record will be available to participants during the workshop.
Instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will
be sent to the authors of accepted papers.  Authors of an accepted paper
must guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop
and present their paper, and that the final paper will be typeset in
LaTeX.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:        May 18, 2008, 23:59 EDT (HAE, UTC-4)
                                   (the same as May 19, 2008 03:59 UTC)
Notification of Acceptance:       June 30, 2008
Pre-Proceedings Papers Deadline:  July 28, 2008
Workshop Event:                   August 14 & 15, 2008
Proceedings Version Deadline:     September 15, 2008


Contact Information

This year's workshop is co-chaired by Roberto Avanzi of the Ruhr
Universitaet Bochum, Germany, and Liam Keliher and  Francesco Sica,
Mount Allison University, Canada. Questions regarding the workshop
should be sent directly to one of the co-chairs.


Travel Support

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 addressed to the
workshop co-chairs.


Previous SAC Workshops

Information  about previous  SAC  Workshops can be found at
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/SACworkshops.html
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