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All submissions must be made online using this Web form. Submissions must follow "Instruction for Authors" described below.

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 at most 16 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices, with at least 11pt font and reasonable margins.

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:	March 16, 2008, 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance:	May 16, 2008
Final version deadline:	June 8, 2008
Conference:	September 1-3, 2008

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