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*******  CALL FOR PAPERS: PQCrypto 2016  ********

Seventh International Conference on Post-Quantum 
Cryptography, Fukuoka, Japan, February 24-26, 2016

https://pqcrypto2016.jp/

The aim of PQCrypto is to serve as a forum for 
researchers to present results and exchange ideas 
on the topic of cryptography in an era with large-
scale quantum computers. The conference will be 
preceded by a winter school on February 22-23, 2016. 

Original research papers on all technical aspects 
of cryptographic research related to post-quantum 
cryptography are solicited. The topics include 
(but are not restricted to):
- Cryptosystems that have the potential to be safe 
against quantum computers such as: hash-based
signature schemes, lattice-based cryptosystems, 
code-based cryptosystems, multivariate cryptosystems 
and quantum cryptographic schemes;
- Classical and quantum attacks including side-
channel attacks on post-quantum cryptosystems;
- Security models for the post-quantum era.

Instructions to authors: 
Accepted papers will be published in Springer's 
LNCS series. The length of the submission must 
be at most 12 pages, excluding references and 
appendices, in a single column format, in 11pt 
fonts and with reasonable margins. 
If the submission is accepted, the length of the 
final version will be at most 20 pages including 
references and appendices, in the llncs class format. 
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work 
that any of the authors has published in a journal 
or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has 
submitted/is planning to submit before the author 
notification deadline to a journal or other 
conferences/workshops that have proceedings. 
The submission should begin with a title, the 
authors' names and affiliations, a short abstract, 
and a list of key words, and its introduction 
should summarize the contributions of the paper 
at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. 
Submissions ignoring these guidelines may be rejected 
without further consideration.

Best paper award: The Program Committee may select 
one outstanding paper for the best paper award. 

Submission deadlines: 
The initial submission deadline is October 7, 2015. 
Papers submitted by this deadline may be in draft 
form but must include a title and an abstract. 
The final submission deadline is October 14, 2015. 
Authors who submitted a paper by the October 7 
deadline will be permitted to revise their papers 
anytime before the final submission deadline.

Important dates:
Initial submission deadline: October 7, 2015
Final submission deadline: October 14, 2015
Notification deadline: November 20, 2015
Final version: December 2, 2015

General chair:
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu U. & ISIT, Japan

General co-chairs:
Takanori Yasuda, ISIT, Japan 
Kirill Morozov, Kyushu U., Japan

Program chair:
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu U., Japan

Program committee:
Joppe Bos, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium
Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Chen-Mou Cheng, National Taiwan U., Taiwan
Pierre-Louis Cayrel, Jean Monnet U., France
Claude Crepeau, McGill University, Canada
Jintai Ding, U. Cincinnati, USA
Philippe Gaborit, U. Limoges, France
Danilo Gligoroski, Norwegian U. Sci. Tech., Norway
Tim Guneysu, Ruhr U. Bochum, Germany
Sean Hallgren, Pennsylvania State U., USA
Yasufumi Hashimoto, U. Ryukyu, Japan
David Jao, U. Waterloo, Canada
Tanja Lange, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Yi-Kai Liu, NIST, USA
Michele Mosca, U. Waterloo & Perimeter Inst., Canada
Martin Rotteler, Microsoft Research, USA
Nicolas Sendrier, Inria, France
Daniel Smith-Tone, U. Louisville & NIST, USA
Damien Stehle, ENS Lyon, France
Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic U., USA
Jean-Pierre Tillich, Inria, France
Keita Xagawa, NTT, Japan
Bo-Yin Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Zhengfeng Zhang,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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