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The second International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography (Pairing 2008) will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London in UK on September 1-3, 2008.

Pairing-based cryptography is an extremely active area of research which has allowed elegant solutions to a number of long-standing open problems in cryptography (such as efficient identity-based encryption). New developments continue to be made at a rapid pace.

To fully exploit the possibilities offered by pairings it is necessary to have an appropriate background in several theoretical and practical areas. In particular, the development of pairing based cryptography has been both driven and influenced by developments in number theory, algebraic geometry, cryptographic protocols, software and hardware implementations, new security applications, etc.

The aim of "Pairing" conference is thus to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, all concerned with problems related to pairing-based cryptography. The first conference Pairing 2007 was held in Japan and the proceedings were published in Springer LNCS 4575. We hope that this conference will enhance communication among specialists from various research areas and promote creative interdisciplinary collaborations.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing their original research on all aspects of pairing-based cryptography, including, but not limited to the following topics:

Area I: Novel cryptographic protocols

ID-based and certificateless cryptosystems Broadcast encryption, signcryption etc Short ⁄ multi ⁄ aggregate ⁄ group ⁄ ring ⁄ threshold ⁄ blind signatures

Designed confirmer or undeniable signatures Identification ⁄ authentication schemes Key agreement

Area II: Mathematical foundations

Efficient Weil and Tate variants Security consideration of pairings Other pairings and applications of pairings in mathematics Generation of pairing friendly curves

Elliptic and hyperelliptic curves Number theoretic algorithms Addition algorithms in divisor groups

Area III: SW/HW implementation

Secure operating systems Efficient software implementation FPGA or ASIC implementation Smart card implementation

RFID security Middleware security Side channel and fault attacks

Area IV: Applied security

Novel security applications Secure ubiquitous computing Security management PKI models

Application to network security Grid computing Internet and web security E-business or E-commerce security

• Applications of Pairing-Based Cryptography: Identity-Based Encryption and Beyond