The International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA 2021) 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

Applications of PKI as a technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the recent years and is on the verge of becoming synonymous with trust in electronic transactions all over the world.

The world of PKI has evolved as a robust and reliable system owing to the strong ecosystem - backed by the development in Cryptography, Protocols, Standards, Policy, Laws, Software libraries and hardware components.

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.

The conference therefore 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. 

List of Topics

• 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 Applications
• Standard Plug-ins for PKI enablement
• PKI of 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
• PKI in e-Governance, e-Banking
• Advances in Public Key Cryptography
• Trust Models, Trust List etc

Committees

Patrons

• Ms. Junu Rani Das Kailay, CCA
• Dr. Hemant Darbari, Director General, CDAC

General Chair

• Dr. S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, CDAC Bangalore

General Co-chair

• Mr. B S Bindhumadhava, Senior Director, CDAC Bangalore

International Advisory Committee

• Prof. Debabrata Das, IIIT Bangalore
• Dr. N Sarat Chandra Babu, Director, SETS
• Mr. K Srinivasa Raghavan, NIC

Technical Program Committee

• Prof. Kavi Mahesh, Director, IIIT Dharwad (Chair)

Organizing committee

• Dr. Balaji R, CDAC Bangalore
• Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin, CDAC Bangalore
• Anoop Kumar Pandey

Publication committee

• Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin, CDAC Bangalore

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to 

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

#68, Electronic City

Bangalore - 560100

Karnataka(India).

Phones: +91-8028523300

Fax: +91-8028522590

Email: pki@cdac.in