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                           Pairing 2008

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

Please refer to http://www.pairing-conference.org/ for further details.

Motivation and Scope:
 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

General Chairs
  Steven Galbraith, Royal Holloway, UK
  Takeshi Okamoto, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan
  Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, UK

 Program Committee
  Paulo Barreto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Jan Camenisch, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
  Liqun Chen, Hewlett-Packard labs, UK
  Andreas Enge, Ecole polytechnique, France
  Steven Galbraith, Royal Holloway, UK  (co-chair)
  David Galindo, University of Malaga, Spain
  Marc Joye, Thomson R&D, France
  Eike Kiltz, CWI, Netherlands
  Soonhak Kwon, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea 
  Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  Kristin Lauter, Microsoft, USA
  Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo, Canada
  Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Tatsuaki Okamoto, NTT, Japan
  Dan Page, University of Bristol, UK
  Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, UK    (co-chair)
  Takakazu Satoh, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  Michael Scott, Dublin City University, Ireland
  Hovav Shacham, UCSD, USA
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University, Australia
  Tsuyoshi Takagi, Future University Hakodate, Japan
  Frederik Vercauteren, Leuven, Belgium

Invited Talks:
  Xavier Boyen (Voltage, USA)
  Florian Hess (TU Berlin, Germany) 
  Nigel Smart  (University of Bristol, UK)

Sponsors:
 The conference is sponsored by Voltage Security, The London
 Mathematical Society and Microsoft Research.

Proceedings:
 The conference proceedings of Pairing 2008 will be published by 
 Springer in the  Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Contact:
 If you have any questions, please contact: info@pairing-conference.org.