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                   CALL FOR PAPERS
      2000 International Workshop on Practice and
      Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC2000)
      18-20 January 2000, Melbourne, Australia
  
  PKC2000, the third conference in the international workshop
  series on the practice and theory in public key cryptography,
  will be held in Melbourne, 18-20 January 2000. Original research
  papers pertaining to all aspects of public key encryption and
  digital signature, as well as associated issues in privacy and 
  security, are solicited. Submissions may present theory,
  techniques, applications and practical experience on topics
  including, but not limited to:
  
      certification and time-stamping
      cryptanalysis
      comparison and assessment
      discrete logarithm
      electronic cash/payments
      elliptic curve cryptography
      encryption data formats
      encryption schemes
      fast implementation
      identification and authentication
      integer factorization
      international standards 
      lattice reduction
      message/key recovery
      provable security
      public key infrastructure
      secure electronic commerce
      signature data formats
      signature schemes
      signcryption schemes
      smart devices 
  
PROCEEDINGS:
  Following the tradition established for PKC'98 and PKC'99 whose proceedings
  have appeared as Volumes 1431 and 1560 in Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes
  in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/), the proceedings
  of PKC2000 will be published by Springer Verlag in the same Lecture Notes
  series. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, the authors
  of the paper must guarantee that at least one of the co-authors will attend
  the workshop and deliver the talk. To facilitate the production of the
  proceedings, the final version of an accepted paper must conform to the
  guidelines set out in Springer Verlag's Authors Instructions
  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
  
IMPORTANT DATES:
  Submission deadline:		27 August     1999 (Friday)
  Acceptance notification:	 8 October    1999 (Friday)
  Proceedings version:		22 October    1999 (Friday)
  Workshop:			18-20 January 2000 (Tuesday-Friday)
  
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
  The program committee invites original contributions in the broad area of
  applications and theory of public key cryptography. Correspondences,
  including submissions, will be made entirely through email. All submissions
  will be blind refereed. In lodging a submission, please send two separate
  email messages to 
  	pkc2k@pscit.monash.edu.au 
  
  The first message must be in ASCII format. It should include information on
  1. the title of the submission.
  2. the names and affiliations of authors.
  3. the email, telephone and facsimile numbers of the contact author.
  
  The second message should contain the submission itself:
  1. The submission must be prepared in a way suitable for blind
     refereeing --- the first page should contain the title of the submission,
     but must not contain the names or affiliations of the authors. 
  2. The submission should be prepared using 11-point font or larger,
     with at most 15 A4/US-letter pages including bibliographies
     and appendices.  (Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e
     in preparing submissions, which would facilitate the production of
     the final proceedings, especially the electronic version of
     the proceedings.)
  3. The preferred page format for submissions is PostScript (obtained using
     such converters as "dvips").
  4. The file may be compressed using "compress", "gzip" or "zip", and then
     encoded using "uuencode".
  
WORKSHOP VENUE
  Auditorium, Level 2, Melbourne Exhibition Centre (http://www.mecc.aust.com/)
  2 Clarendon Street, Southbank, Melbourne.
  
LOCAL HOST:
  Peninsula Campus, and Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
  
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
     Hideki Imai,   Co-Chair (Uni of Tokyo, Japan)
     Yuliang Zheng, Co-Chair (Monash Uni, Australia)
     Chin-Chen Chang         (Nat Chung Cheng Uni, Taiwan)
     Claude Crepeau          (McGill Uni, Canada)
     Ed Dawson               (QUT, Australia)
     Yvo Desmedt             (Uni of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
     Markus Jakobsson        (Bell Labs, USA)
     Kwangjo Kim             (Info and Comm Uni, Korea)
     Arjen Lenstra           (Citibank, USA)
     Tsutomu Matsumoto       (Yokohama Nat Uni, Japan)
     David Naccache          (Gemplus, France)
     Eiji Okamoto            (JAIST, Japan)
     Tatsuaki Okamoto        (NTT Labs, Japan)
     Josef Pieprzyk          (Uni of Wollongong, Australia)
     Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL, Belgium)
     Nigel Smart             (HP Labs Bristol, UK)
     Vijay Varadharajan      (UWS, Australia)
     Serge Vaudenay          (ENS, France)
     Moti Yung               (CertCo, USA)
  
WORKSHOP CONTACT ADDRESS, EMAIL AND URL:
     Yuliang Zheng, Co-Chair PKC2000
     Peninsula School of Computing and Information Technology
     Monash University
     McMahons Road, Frankston, Victoria 3199, Australia

     Telephone:	+61 3 9904 4287   
     Facsimile:	+61 3 9904 4124
     Email:     pkc2k@pscit.monash.edu.au 
     URL:       http://www.pscit.monash.edu.au/pkc2k/ 

  The WWW homepage of PKC2000 contains general information related to
  the workshop, including venue, weather, transport, accommodation,
  registration, and so on. Please direct all inquiries to the workshop
  email address.
  
DEMONSTRATION/EXHIBITION:
  There will be ample space for the demonstration/exhibition of
  products/services related to data security. For further information,
  please contact the workshop Co-Chair at the address indicated above.
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