ProvSec 2012 - The Sixth International Conference on Provable Security

ProvSec 2012 (The Sixth International Conference on Provable Security),

26-28 September, Chengdu, China

http://www.ccse.uestc.edu.cn/provsec/home.html


Conference Outline

The Sixth International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2012) will be held in Chengdu, China on September 26-28, 2012. It will be organized by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The previous ProvSec conference series were successfully held in Wollongong, Australia (2007), Shanghai, China (2008), Guangzhou, China (2009), Malacca, Malaysia (2010), and Xi’an, China (2011).

Provable security is an important research area in modern cryptography. Cryptographic primitives or protocols without a rigorous proof cannot be regarded as secure even in practice. In fact, there are many schemes that were originally thought as secure but eventually broken, which clearly indicates the need of formal security assurance. With provable security, we are confident in using cryptographic schemes and protocols in various real-world applications. Meanwhile, schemes with provable security sometimes give only theoretical feasibility rather than a practical construction, and correctness of the proofs may be difficult to verify. ProvSec conference thus provides a platform for researchers, scholars and practitioners to exchange new ideas for solving these problems in the provable security area.


Conference Topics

Topics include all aspects of provable security for cryptographic primitives or protocols, and include but are not limited to the following areas:

? Cryptographic primitives

? Digital signatures

? Formal security model

? Lattice-based security reductions

? Pairing-based provably secure cryptography

? Privacy and anonymity technologies

? Provable secure block ciphers and hash functions

? Secure cryptographic protocols and applications

? Security notions, approaches, and paradigms

? Steganography and steganalysis


Instructions for authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of any other journal, conference/ workshop with proceedings. The submission should begin with a title followed by a short abstract and keywords. Submissions should have at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. All submissions should be anonymous. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present their paper.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the submission link at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provse.... Electronic submissions must conform to the procedure described in the submission server and must be received by the deadline indicated below.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference.


Journal Special Issues

Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publishing in some SCI indexed journal special issues. Currently, one special issue of Security and Communication Networks has been confirmed. Further special issues are in process.


Important Dates

Submission Due: 2 May 2012, 11:59PM, UTC Time (extended)
Acceptance Notification: 20 June 2012
Camera-ready Copy Due: 10 July 2012
Conference dates: 26-28 September 2012
Conference Organization


Organisation

General Chair

Zhiguang Qin, UESTC, China

Program Chairs

Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Committee

Michel Abdalla, ENS and CNRS, France.
Man Ho Au, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Feng Bao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Carlo Blundo, University of Salerno, Italy.
Zhenfu Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.
Liqun Chen, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK.
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China.
Raymond Choo, Uni. of South Australia, Australia.
Georg Fuchsbauer: University of Bristol, UK.
David Galindo, Uni. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Wei Gao, Ludong University, China.
Goichiro Hanaoka, AIST, Japan.
Mingxing He, Xihua University, China.
Swee-Huay Heng, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
Javier Herranz, Uni. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.
Qiong Huang, South China Agricultural Uni., China.
Tetsu Iwata, Nagoya University, Japan.
Shaoquan Jiang, UESTC, China.
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Connecticut, USA.
Kaoru Kurosawa, Ibaraki University, Japan.
Fagen Li, UESTC, China.
Benoit Libert, Uni. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Joseph K. Liu, I2R, Singapore.
Mark Manulis, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Kanta Matsuura, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Atsuko Miyaji, JAIST, Japan.
Joern Mueller-Quade, Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany.
David Naccache, École Normale Supérieure, France.
Juan Manuel González Nieto, QUT, Australia.
Claudio Orlandi, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Raphael C.-W. Phan, Loughborough University, UK.
Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia.
C. Pandu Rangan, IIT Madras, India.
Mohammad Reza Reyhanitabar, University of Wollongong, Australia
Palash Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute, India.
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Katsuyuki Takashima, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan.
Keisuke Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mehdi Tibouchi, NTT, Japan.
Wen-Guey Tzeng, National Chiao Tung Uni., Taiwan.
Huaxiong Wang, NTU, Singapore.
Duncan S. Wong, City Uni. of Hong Kong, China.
Rui Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, USA.
Yong Yu, UESTC, China.
Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Mingwu Zhang, South China Agricultural Uni., China.
Yuliang Zheng, UNC at Charlotte, USA.

Steering Committee

Feng Bao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Xavier Boyen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA.
Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia.
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Publication and Publicity Chairs

Shaoquan Jiang, UESTC, China.
Yong Yu, UESTC, China.

Organising Committee

Yongjian Liao, UESTC, China (Co-Chair).
Chunxiang Xu, UESTC, China (Co-Chair).
Sheng Cao, UESTC, China.
Xuyun Nie, UESTC, China.


Contact

Email: liaoyj-AT-uestc.edu.cn
Phone: +86-28-61830360