CALL FOR PAPERS
SAC 2003
Tenth Annual Workshop on

SELECTED AREAS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY

August 14-15, 2003

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Workshop Themes:

Original papers on the following workshop themes are solicited:

        Design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems

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

        Efficient implementation of cryptographic systems in public and symmetric key cryptography

        Cryptographic solutions for Web services security

        Cryptography and security of trusted and distributed systems
Instructions for Authors:

Online submission is now available at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~sac2003/cyberchair.html. Authors unable to submit online can also send one copy of a Postscript or PDF file by email to sac2003@scs.carleton.ca . 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.

 

The deadline for submission by email is May 2, 2003. 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 18, 2003. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.
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 14, 2003. Final papers arriving too late will be removed from the proceedings.
Important Dates:

   Submission            May 2, 2003

   Acceptance            Jun. 18, 2003

   Workshop              Aug. 14 & 15, 2003

   Proceedings version   Sep. 14, 2003

Program Committee:

    * Carlisle Adams, Entrust, Canada
    * Steve Babbage, Vodafone, UK
    * Josh Benaloh, Microsoft, USA
    * Lily Chen, Motorola, USA
    * Henri Gilbert, France Telecom, France
    * Helena Handschuh, Gemplus, France
    * Lars Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
    * Mitsuru Matsui, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan  (co-chair)
    * Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo, Canada
    * Markus Michels, Secorvo, Germany
    * Kaisa Nyberg, Nokia, Finland
    * Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    * Nigel Smart, University of Bristol, UK
    * Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo, Canada
    * Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University, Canada
    * Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland
    * Robert Zuccherato, Entrust, Canada  (co-chair)  

Further Conference Information:

Web Page: http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~sac2003
E-mail: sac2003@scs.carleton.ca .