INDOCRYPT 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Cryptology in India December 10-12, 2005 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Organized by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore General Information : Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Indocrypt 2005. INDOCRYPT 2005 is organised by the IISc, Bangalore in collaboration with the Cryptology Research Socity of India. Important dates are: Submission August 08, 2005 (Monday) Notification September 19, 2005 (Monday) Final version October 03, 2005 (Monday) Conference December 10-12, 2005 (Saturday-Monday) Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop with 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, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages total using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The authors are encouraged to prepare their submission in Latex following Springer's guideline. 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. Submissions in the following area are solicited (but not limited to). Cryptography and Security (in general) Key management protocols Foundations and complexity theory Traitor tracing, watermarking and fingerprinting Quantum cryptography and computation Key escrow Number theory Electronic commerce and payment Elliptic curves Secret key cryptography Lattices Block ciphers Public key cryptography Hash functions Identification protocols Stream ciphers Digital signature schemes Message authentication codes (MACs) Oblivious transfer and PIR Public-key cryptanalysis Multi-party computation Symmetric-key cryptanalysis Secret sharing Cryptanalysis (other) Threshold cryptography Efficient implementations Broadcast encryption Applications of cryptography (web, etc) Boolean functions Zero knowledge Information theory Voting/anonymity Program Committee: V. Arvind, Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, India R. Balasubramanian, Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, India Feng Bao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Alex Biryukov, K.U.Leuven (ESAT, COSIC group), Belgium Xavier Boyen, Voltage Security, USA Pandu Rangan Chandrasekaran, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Mathieu Ciet, Gemplus International, SA Abhijit Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Anand Desai, NTT, MCL, USA Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Catalonia Orr Dunkelman, Technion, Israel Caroline Fontaine, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France Sugata Gangopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India Guang Gong, University of Waterloo, Canada Kishan Chand Gupta, University of Waterloo, Canada Tor Helleseth, University of Bergen, Norway David Jao, Microsoft Lab, USA Andrew Klapper, University of Kentucky, USA Kaoru Kurosawa, Ibaraki University, Japan Tanja Lange, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark John Malone-Lee, University of Bristol, UK Francoise Levy-dit-Vehel, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avancees, France Subhamoy Maitra (Program Co-Chair), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Yucel D. Melek, METU Cryptology Institute, Turkey Pradeep Kumar Mishra, University of Calgary, Canada Francois Morain, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l' Ecole polytechnique, France Harald Niederreiter, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA, USA Enes Pasalic, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia Zulfikar Ramzan, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia Pramod Saxena, SAG, India Abhi Shelat, IBM, Zurich, Switzerland Pante Stanica, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA Berk Sunar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Yuriy Tarannikov, Moscow State University, Russia C. E. Veni Madhavan (Program Co-Chair), Indian Institute of Science, India Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Program Co-Chair), Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore