The International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA 2017) will be a premium venue for bringing together all stakeholders of a Public Key Infrastructure Ecosystem. The objective is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas from academia and industry on traditional and emerging topics and new paradigms in the areas of PKI, with a clear connection to real-world problems, systems or applications.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original and must not substantially be a duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference/journal with formally published proceedings. IEEE and Conference Chairs reserves the right to share information about submissions with other program committees to detect parallel submissions. Each submission must begin with a title, author names and affiliations, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All submissions must follow the IEEE format with a page limit of 06 pages (incl. references and author biography) and will be peer-reviewed. The paper should be intelligible and self-contained without the supplementary material, as committee members are not required to read them. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper is registered and will be presented at the conference and must be acceptable to make a full version of their paper available online. The papers presented at the conference will be eligible for the best paper award evaluations. The above guidelines will be strictly enforced. Papers must be submitted electronically; a detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will be provided.

List of Topics

The conference seeks submissions presenting innovative research and current developments in the areas of Public Key Infrastructures, Digital Certificates, Digital Signatures, Key Management, One-Time Signatures, Certificate-less secure communication, Time Stamping, PKI based Authentication etc. Submissions may focus on Modelling, Design, Analysis (incl. security proofs and attacks), Development (e.g. implementations), Deployment (e.g. system integration), and Maintenance (e.g. performance measurements, usability studies) of algorithms/protocols/standards/implementations/technologies/devices/systems standing in relation with public key cryptography. Some topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Advanced Cryptographic methods for Digital Signing

• Light Weight Cryptography and PKI

• Security issues and Challenges in Crypto Tokens

• PKI and FIDO

• Policy and Legal support systems for PKI

• Key Management Implementation and Issues

• Critical Infrastructure Protection using PKI

• Public Key Infrastructure Protection

• Certificate Validation

• Implementation of PKI Applications

• Standard Libraries for PKI enablement

• Standard Plug-ins for PKI enablement

• PKI for IoT Security

• Usability in PKI for ease of issuance of tokens

• Human factors in PKI security

• Dynamic Digital / Electronic Signatures

• PKI for Securing Mobile APPs

• Biometric and PKI enabled applications

• PKI for Identity Management

• Advances in Public Key Cryptography

• Trust Models, Trust List etc..

• PKI in e-Governance, e-Banking

Committees

General Chair

• Prof. C E Venimadhavan, IISc

Steering Committee

• Ms. Harshprabha Aggarwal, Scientist 'G', Office of CCA
• Dr. N Sarat Chandra Babu, Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore

Technical Program Committee

• Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy, ISI Kolkata (Chair)
• Dr. P V Anandamohan, C-DAC
• Prof. K Chandrasekaran, NIT Surathkal
• Mr. Ramachandran, Office of CCA, New Delhi
• Dr. Subramanian N, C-DAC
• Dr. Venkatesh K A, Presidency University
• Dr. Pramod Pawar S, London, UK
• Dr. Prabaharan P, Amrita  University
• Dr. Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Loughborough University, London
• Dr. Sithu D Sudarsan, ABB 
• Dr. V Ch Venkaiah, University of Hyderabad
• Dr. V Neela Narayanan, VIT University
• Prof. V Ravi, IDRBT
• Prof. D K Bhattacharyya, Tezpur University
• Dr. Bharat S Rawal, Pen State University, USA
• Dr. Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Dr. ArulMurugan Ambikapathi, UTECHZONE Co. Ltd, Taiwan
• Dr. Pethuru Raj, IBM Research Labs, India
• Dr. Vijayakumar, VIT University, Chennai
• Prof. Chester Rebeiro, IIT Madras

Organizing Committee

Venue

The conference will be held in Bangalore, India.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to pki@cdac.in