The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2018) invites submissions of long and short papers to its annual conference on historical cryptology. The conference will be held in June 18-20, 2018 on the English Park Campus of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Please mark your calendars.

HistoCrypt addresses all aspects of historical cryptography/cryptanalysis including work in closely related disciplines (such as history, history of ideas, computer science, AI, or (computational) linguistics or image processing) that is sufficiently formalized or applied, with relevance to historical ciphertexts and codes.

We welcome everybody interested in the field of historical cryptology (classical cryptography and cryptanalysis) to participate in the event. We invite submissions to HistoCrypt, either short or long paper, for presentation at the conference, which will be evaluated by a program committee. The conference's subjects include, but are not limited to:

+ the use of cryptography in military, diplomacy, business, and other areas
+ analysis of historical ciphers with the help of modern computerized methods
+ unsolved historical cryptograms
+ the Enigma and other encryption machines
+ the history of modern (computer-based) cryptography
+ special linguistic aspects of cryptology    
+ the influence of cryptography on the course of history
+ teaching and promoting cryptology in schools, universities, and the public

Considering the location of the upcoming HistoCrypt 2018 at Uppsala University, special attention is encouraged to the heritage of Prof. Arne Beurling and his role in breaking the German teletype ciphers.

Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper. 
 

Submission Guidelines

We invite paper submissions in three distinct tracks:

+ regular papers up to 10 pages (including references) on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including evaluation results, where appropriate;
+ short papers up to 4 pages (including references) on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces; 
+ short papers up to 4 pages (including references) on system demonstrations (demo). 

Presentations of accepted papers are either oral, poster, or demo, which will be decided by the program committee. 

Committees

Program Committee

• Beáta Megyesi (program chair), Uppsala University, Sweden
• Bernhard Esslinger (cryptology), University of Siegen, Germany 
• Otokar Grošek (cryptology), Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
• Benedek Láng (history), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Mark Phythian (intelligence), University of Leicester, UK
• Anne-Simone Rous (history), Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
• Gerhard F. Straßer (history), Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Local Organizing Committee

• Eva Pettersson (local chair)
• Bengt Dahlqvist
• Beata Megyesi

Publication

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the HistoCrypt 2018 proceedings, which is published as part of the Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press (ECP), as freely available Gold Open Access. Publications in the Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings are ranked on the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers as Level 1 publications. Please consult the responsibilities of the authors concerning publication ethics and malpractice statement as described on the ECP website. Paper submissions that violate these requirements will be returned without review.

The proceedings will be also published in the Anthology of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology) in parallel. Printed proceedings will be available on request for a fee. 

Venue

The conference will be held in June 18-20, 2018 on the English Park Campus of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to histocrypt2018@stp.lingfil.uu.se.