AFRICACRYPT 2018: 1Oth International Conference on Cryptology, AFRICACRYPT 2018 Marrakesh, Morocco, May 7-9, 2018 |
Conference website | http://africacrypt2018.aui.ma/index.php |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=africacrypt2018 |
Africacrypt is an Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology. Africacrypt 2018 is organized by Alakhawain University in Ifrane, Morocco, in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The aim of Africacrypt 2018 is to provide an international forum for practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government from all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography and its applications.
The program committee is seeking original research papers pertaining to all aspects of cryptography as well as tutorials are solicited. Submissions may present theory, techniques, applications and practical experience on topics including, but not limited to:
- Secret-key cryptography (block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC, ...);
- Public-key and Secret-key cryptanalysis;
- Public-key cryptography (identification protocols, digital signatures, encryption, ...);
- Cryptographic protocols;
- Design of cryptographic schemes;
- Security proofs;
- Anonymity (electronic commerce and payment, electronic voting, ...);
- Information theory;
- Foundations and complexity theory;
- Multi-party computation;
- Quantum cryptography;
- Elliptic curves;
- Lattices;
- Code-based cryptography;
- Efficient implementations.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers (PDF format) with novel contributions electronically using the submission form available on the conference web site. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, anonymous, and not submitted to journals or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Submissions must be written in English and should be at most 20 pages in total including bibliography and appendices. Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. All submissions will be blind-refereed.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. For submission instructions and further information please point your web-browser to: http://africacrypt2018.aui.ma
Committees
Program Chairs
- Antoine Joux
- Abderrahmane Nitaj
- Tajjeeddine Rachidi
General Chair:
- Tajjeeddine Rachidi
Program Committee
- Elena Andreeva, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Hatem M. Bahig, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Magali Bardet, University of Rouen, France
- Hussain Benazza, University of Meknes, Morocco
- Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Dario Catalano, Universita di Catania, Italy
- Xing Chaoping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Sherman S.M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Nicolas Courtois, University College London, United Kingdom
- Luca De Feo, University de Versaille, France
- Milena Djukanovic, University of Monteegro, Montenegro
- Nadia EL MRABET, Université de Paris 8, France
- Pierre-Alain Fouque, University of Rennes I, France
- Gottfried Herold, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Javier Herranz , Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Sorina Ionica, Université de Picardie, France
- Tetsu Iwata, Nagoya University, Japan
- Juliane Kramer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Fabien Laguillaumie, University of Lyon I, France
- Tancrède Lepoint, SRI International, USA
- Ayoub Otmani, University of Rouen, France
- Duong Hieu Phan, University of Limoges, France
- Elizabeth A. Quaglia, RH, Univ of London, United Kingdom
- Tajje-eddine Rachidi, Alakhawain University in Ifrane, Morocco
- Adeline Roux-Langlois, CNRS/IRISA, France
- Magdy Saeb , Arab Academy for Science, Technology INSTITUTE Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
- Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
- Palash Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Alessandra Scafuro, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
- Peter Schwabe, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Djiby Sow, University of Dakar, Senegal
- Pantelimon Stanica, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA
- Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, New-York University, USA
- Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Joseph Tonien, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Damien Vergnaud, ENS Paris, Paris, France
- Vanessa Vitse, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Amr M. Youssef, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Abderrahmane Nitaj