ACNS 2003                         

                          First MiAn International Conference on

                               Applied Cryptography and Network Security

                                                      Kunming, China  

                                                   October 16-19, 2003

                                       http://www.onets.com.cn/dhe.htm

                                                   CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                       Extended Submission Deadline: May 18, 2003  

                                                       Extenden Industrial Solution Submission Deadline:June 20,2003

The International Communications and Information Security Association (ICISA – http://icisa.freewebtools.com/) has organized successful events of ICICS'97 in Beijing, ICICS'99 in Sydney, ICICS'01 in Xian and ICICS'02 in Singapore. To follow the progress of academic and industrial security, ICISA will continue the ICICS series and initiate a new conference series ACNS.

The first MiAn International Conference on “Applied Cryptography and Network Security” (ACNS’03) will be held in Kunming, China on October 16-19, 2003, organized by MiAn (ONETS) Pte Ltd and in cooperation with the local government.

Conference Topics

Original paper on all aspects of applied cryptography and network security are solicited for submission to the conference. Areas of interests include but not restricted to  

Biometric Security Applications                                                                     Cryptanalysis and Anti-Cryptanalysis 
Cryptographic Applications                                                                            Data Recovery and Coding 
Efficient Implementation                                                                                   Firewall and Intrusion Detection 
GPRS and CDMA Security                                                                               Identification and Entity Authentication 
Key Management Techniques                                                                        Network Protocol and Analysis 
Non-repudiation and Cryptographic Evidence                                             PKI/PMI and Bridge CA 
Secure e-commerce and e-government                                                           Security Management and Strategy 
Side Channel Cryptanalysis                                                                             Smart Card Security 
Verification and Testing of Secure Systems                                                 Viruses 
VPN and SVN                                                                                                     WLAN and Bluetooth Security

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings of the academic part will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/) and available at the conference.

Industrial solution proposals will be published by ICISA in a separate proceedings and should also be available at the conference.

General Chair

Yongfei Han (ONETS, China)

Program Chairs

Jianying Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA)

Program Committee  

Thomas Berson (Anagram, USA)                                                           Robert Deng (I2R, Singapore) 
Xiaotie Deng (City Uni., Hong Kong)                                                    Dengguo Feng (CAS, China) 
Shai Halevi (IBM Watson, USA)                                                            Amir Herzberg (Bar-Ilan Uni., Israel) 
Sushil Jajodia (GMU, USA)                                                                     Markus Jakobsson (RSA, USA) 
Kwangjo Kim (ICU, Korea)                                                                      Kwok-Yan Lam (Tsinghua Uni., China) 
Javier Lopez (Uni. Malaga, Spain)                                                          Keith Martin (RHUL, UK) 
Catherine Meadows (Naval Research, USA)                                        Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) 
Atsuko Miyaji (JAIST, Japan)                                                                 David Naccache (Gemplus, France) 
Kaisa Nyberg (Nokia, Finland)                                                                Eiji Okamato (Uni. Tsukuba, Japan) 
Rolf Oppliger (eSECURITY, Switzerland)                                              Susan Pancho (UP, Philippines) 
Guenther Pernul (Uni. Regensburg, Germany)                                     Josef Pieprzyk (Macquarie, Australia) 
Bart Preneel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)                                                     Sihan Qing (CAS, China) 
Leonid Reyzin (Boston Uni., USA)                                                        Bimal Roy (ISI, India) 
Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu Uni., Japan)                                                  Pierangela Samarati (Uni. Milan, Italy) 
Gene Tsudik (UCI, USA)                                                                        Wen-Guey Tzeng (NCTU, Taiwan) 
Vijay Varadharajan (Macquarie, Australia)                                          Adam Young (Cigital, USA) 
Yuliang Zheng (UNCC, USA)                

Organizing Committee

Chair: Chuankun Wu (CAS, China)

Secretary: Carolyn Zou <onets@onets.com.cn> (ONETS, China)

Instruction for Authors

Both papers and industrial solution proposals are welcome. All submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. A limit of 12 single-spaced pages of 11pt font is placed on all submissions. All submissions are via email as a MIME attachment in PDF or PS format.

 Send papers to acns2003@i2r.a-star.edu.sg with a subject line “ACNS’03 paper submission”.

 Send industrial solution proposals to onets@onets.com.cn with a subject line “ACNS’03 proposal submission”.

In the same email, also include (in plain ASCII text format) the title and abstract, the authors' names, email and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and identification of the contact author.

An acknowledgment email will be sent to the corresponding author upon receiving each submission.

The authors are advised to send an inquiry to the email address used in submission if they do not receive the acknowledgement by May 20, 2003.

The authors of all submissions are urged to comply with the Springer’s authors instructions which are accessible from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Important Dates [updated]

Submission May 18, 2003

Acceptance June 28, 2003

Camera-ready Copy July 18, 2003