With the wide-spread use of public key cryptography, good practice in applying public key and related supporting technologies, together with prudent assessment and comparison of the technologies, has become more important than ever. The main purpose of PKC'98 is to bring together both practitioners and theoreticians who are working on public key encryption, digital signature, one-way hashing and their applications to share their experience and research outcomes.

Scope:

Both original research papers and high quality surveys pertaining to all aspects of public key encryption, digital signature and one-way hashing are solicited. Submissions may present theory, techniques, applications and practical experience on topics including, but not limited to:

cryptanalysis

dedicated attacks

generic attacks

comparison and assessment of

public key encryption schemes

digital signature schemes

one-way hashing algorithms

integer factorization

discrete logarithm

elliptic curve cryptography

lattice reduction

encryption data formats

signature data formats

signcryption schemes

provable security

one-way hashing

key-ed one-way hashing

fast implementation

international standards

Workshop Venue:

Pacific Convention Plaza (Pacifico Yokohama)

1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220, Japan

Telephone: +81 45 221 2121

Facsimilie: +81 45 221 2136

Correspondences:

All correspondences, including submissions, will be made through e-mail.

The contact e-mail address for PKC'98 is

pkc98@imailab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Instructions for Authors:

The program committee invites both original technical contributions and high quality surveys. A submission should be clearly marked either as an original paper or a survey. All submissions should be prepared using 11-point font or larger, with at most 20 pages including bibliographies and appendices. We recommend LaTeX as the document preparation system, which would facilitate the inclusion of the final version of an accepted paper into the proceedings.

In lodging a submission, please send two separate e-mail messages to

pkc98@imailab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The first message must be in ASCII format and it should include information on

• whether the submission is a survey or an original contribution,
• the title of the submission,
• the names and affiliations of authors, and
• the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the contact author

And the second message should contain the submission itself:

• preferred page formats for a submission are PostScript, Portable Document Format (PDF) and Rich Text Format (RTF).
• the file may be compressed using "compress", "gzip" or "zip", and then encoded using "uuencode".

Proceedings:

Pre-proceedings will be distributed to the workshop participants. Springer Verlag has agreed in principle to publish the final proceedings after the workshop in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For an accepted paper to be included into the proceedings, the authors of the paper must guarantee that at least one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and deliver the talk.

Important Dates:

submission deadline:	28	November	1997	(Friday)
acceptance notification:	24	December	1997	(Christmas eve)
registration deadline:	9	January	1998	(Friday)
camera-ready copy for pre-proceedings:	16	January	1998	(Friday)
workshop:	5-6	February	1998	(Thursday & Friday)
camera-ready copy for final proceedings:	20	March	1998	(Friday)

Sponsors:

The workshop will be sponsored by Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. It will be held in cooperation with the Technical Group on Information Security, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

Financial Assistance:

Financial support towards travel, accommodation and workshop registration will be available to a limited number of participants who will deliver their talks at the workshop. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to contact the workshop c-chairs regarding possible financial assistance.

Program Committee (provisional):

Hideki Imai,	Co-chair	(Uni of Tokyo, Japan)
Arjen Lenstra		(Citibank, USA)
Tatsuaki Okamoto		(NTT, Japan)
Jaques Stern		(ENS, France)
Yuliang Zheng,	Co-chair	(Monash Uni, Australia, & Uni of Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop URL, e-mail and contact address:

The official WWW homepage of PKC'98 is:

http://hideki.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pkc98/

It contains general information related to the workshop, including venue, weather, transport, accommodation, registration, after-workshop-travel and so on.

Please direct all inquiries to

pkc98@imailab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Workshop co-chairs' address, telephone and facsimile numbers:

PKC'98 Co-Chairs

Imai-Lab

The Third Department

Institute of Industrial Science

The University of Tokyo

7-22-1 Roppongi

Minato-ku

Tokyo 106, JAPAN

Telephone: +81 3 3402 6231 ext. 2327

Facsimile: +81 3 3402 7365