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Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or that have been submitted in parallel with any other conference or workshop. Submissions should be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious references. Papers should be 15 pages at most excluding the bibliography, have well-marked appendices, and be 20 pages at most in total.

Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style. Please check the Information for LNCS Authors page at Springer at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs for style and formatting guidelines. At least one author of each accepted paper must register with the conference and present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings.

Paper submission deadline:	February 15, 2007, 17:00 GMT
Notification of acceptance:	April 5, 2007
Final version deadline:	April 19, 2007

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 cryptosystem Broadcast encryption Authenticated encryption Short signature

Multi or aggregate signature Ring, group or threshold signature Designed confirmer or undeniable signature Blind or partially blind signature

Identification scheme Password authentication system Key agreement protocol Provably secure protocol

Area II: Mathematical foundation

Weil, Tate, Eta, and Ate pairings Security consideration of pairing Pairings on Abelian variety

Generation of pairing friendly curves (Hyper-) Elliptic curve cryptosystem Point counting algorithm

Number theoretic algorithms Addition formula on the divisor group

Area III: SW/HW implementation

Secure operating system Efficient software implementation FPGA or ASIC implementation

Smart card implementation RFID security Middleware security

Side channel attack Fault attack

Area IV: Applied security

Novel security applications Secure ubiquitous computing Security management

PKI model Application to network security Grid computing

Internet and web security E-business or E-commerce security