CALL FOR PAPERS
ASIACRYPT 2002
December 1-5, 2002, Queenstown, New Zealand
www.sis.uncc.edu/ac02/

Asiacrypt 2002 will be held in Queenstown (www.queenstownnz.co.nz), the most popular, picturesque holiday destination in New Zealand for international visitors. Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Asiacrypt 2002. The conference is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:May 24, 2002
Proceedings version deadline:August 30, 2002
Notification of decision:August 2, 2002
Conference:December 1-5, 2002

Instructions for Authors: 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.

Submission Format: The paper 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 paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages total using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. 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. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Electronic Submission: All papers must be submitted electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by April 1, 2002 on the Asiacrypt 2002 web pages (www.sis.uncc.edu/ac02/). Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by May 24, 2002, 05:00pm US ET.

Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear 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 conference and present their paper.

Program Chair: Yuliang Zheng
Department of Software and Information Systems
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Phone: +1 704 687 5492, Fax: +1 704 687 4893
Email: ac02@sis.uncc.edu
General Chair: Henry Wolfe
Department of Information Science
University of Otago
PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 479 8141, Fax: +64 3 479 8311
Email: hwolfe@commerce.otago.ac.nz

Advisory Member:
Colin Boyd, Asiacrypt 2001 Program Chair

Program Committee:

Feng Bao, KRDL, Singapore
Ed Dawson, QUT, Australia
Giovanni DiCrescenzo, Telcordia, US
Matthew Franklin, UC Davis, US
Dieter Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK
Helena Handschuh, Gemplus, France
Philip Hawkes, Qualcomm Australia
Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories, US
Kwangjo Kim, ICU, Korea
Seungjoo Kim, KISA, Korea
Chi Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Pil Joong Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Arjen Lenstra, Citibank, US
Phil MacKenzie, Lucent Technologies, US
Masahiro Mambo, Tohoku University, Japan
Wenbo Mao, HP Labs, UK
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo, Canada
Phong Nguyen, ENS, France
Dingyi Pei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Jessica Staddon, PARC, USA
Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland
Sung-Ming Yen, National Central University, Taiwan
Xian-Mo Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yuliang Zheng (Chair), UNC Charlotte, US
Hong Zhu, Fudan University, China