16th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory inPublic Key Cryptography (PKC 2013)
February 26 – March 1, 2013
Nara, Japan
IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative)
Submission
September 10, 2012, 8:00 UTC(17:00 JST)
Author notification
November 23, 2012
Camera-ready copy
December 14, 2012
(TCC 2013 will be held in Tokyo, March 3-6.)
GENERAL INFORMATION
Original research papers on all technical aspects of public key
cryptography are solicited for submission to PKC 2013, the16th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public
Key Cryptography.

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CONFERENCE CHAIRSProgram Chair
Kaoru Kurosawa
Ibaraki University, JapanGeneral Chair
Goichiro Hanaoka
AIST, JapanLocal Organizing co-Chairs
Takeshi Chikazawa
IPA, Japan
Ryo Nojima
NICT, Japan

Papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, ornon-traditional perspectives are especially welcome.

PROGRAM COMMITTEEINSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORSThe submission should be at most 12 pages excluding thebibliography and appendices, using reasonable margins and11pt fonts. The submitted paper should be self-contained andintelligible without appendices, as committee members are notrequired to read them. Authors are encouraged to prepare theirsubmission following Springer's guidelines.

Jean-Sébastien Coron

Submissions must be fully anonymous, with no author names,affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. The
submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a listof keywords, and the introduction should summarize thecontributions of the paper at a level appropriate for anon-specialist reader. Submissions ignoring these guidelines
risk rejection without consideration of their merits. If accepted,
one of the authors is expected to present the paper at theconference.

Pierre-Alain Fouque
Steven Galbraith
Rosario Gennaro
Dov Gordon

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of
the authors has published elsewhere, or has submitted inparallel to any journal or any other conference/workshop withproceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any
other conference or workshop with proceedings. Submissions
violating these rules will be rejected and may entail furtherconsequences. IACR reserves the right to share information
about submissions with other program committees to detectparallel submissions and the IACR policy on irregularsubmissions will be strictly enforced.

Eike Kiltz
Noboru Kunihiro
Kaoru Kurosawa (chair)
Allison Lewko

VENUE
PKC 2013 will be held at the new public prefectural hall inNara, Japan. Nara was the capital of Japan in the 8th century.
UNESCO listed the historic monuments of ancient Nara as
World Heritage in 1998, which encompasses five Buddhist
temples, one Shinto shrine, one Palace and one primeval forest.
In particular, famous tourist attractions such as Todaiji Temple,Kofukuji Temple and Kasuga Shrine are within walking
distance from the venue which is located in the center of Nara
National Park. For more information, see

Nuttapong AttrapadungDavid Cash

Jintai Ding
Stefan Dziembowski
Marc Fischlin

Shai Halevi
Carmit Hazay
Tibor Jager
Antoine JouxBenoît Libert
Alexander May
David Naccache
Tatsuaki Okamoto
Claudio Orlandi
Chris Peikert
Ludovic Perret
Nigel Smart
Tsuyoshi Takagi
Katsuyuki Takashima
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Hoeteck Wee

AIST, Japan
University of California, San Diego,
USA
University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg
University of Cincinnati, USA
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
Università di Roma "La Sapienza",Italy
Technische Universität Darmstadt,
Germany
ENS, FranceAuckland University, New ZealandCity College of New York, USA
Applied Communication Sciences,
USAIBM Research, USA
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,Germany
DGA and Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Ibaraki University, Japan
University of Texas, Austin, USA
Microsoft Research, USA
Technicolor, France
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

ENS, FranceNTT Labs, Japan
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
UPMC/INRIA, France
University of Bristol, UKKyushu University, Japan
Mitsubishi Electric, JapanMicrosoft Research, USA &University of Toronto, Canada
George Washington University, USA