[Om-announce] Call for papers - 13th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2014)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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13th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2014)
Aldemar Royal Mare Resort, Heraklion
Crete, Greece -- 22-24 October 2014
www.ics.forth.gr/cans2014
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The International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) is a
recognized annual conference, focusing on all aspects of cryptology and
network security, attracting cutting-edge results from world-renowned
scientists in the area. Proceedings of CANS are published in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer. 
They are distributed at the conference and are included in all major online
databases.

The 13th edition of the conference will be held in Heraklion,
Crete (Greece), organised by the Institute of Computer Science of the
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH-ICS). 
Earlier editions of CANS were held in Taipei (2001), San Francisco (2002),
Miami (2003), Xiamen (2005), Suzhou (2006), Singapore (2007), 
Hong Kong (2008), Kanazawa (2009), Kuala Lumpur (2010), Sanya (2011),
Darmstadt (2012) and Parary (2013). CANS 2014 is held in cooperation with
the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR).


OVERVIEW
Papers offering novel research contributions are solicited for submission
to the 13rd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security 
(CANS-2014). The focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research
and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers
suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional
perspectives.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are submitted in parallel to a journal or a 
conference with formally published proceedings.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Access Control for Networks 
- Anonymity & Pseudonymity
- Attacks & Malicious Code 
- Authentication, Identification
- Block & Stream Ciphers
- Cloud Security Security Modeling
- Cryptographic Algorithms
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Denial of Service Protection
- Embedded Platform Security
- Hash Functions
- Identity & Trust Management
- (Future) Internet Security
- Key Management
- Mobile Code Security
- Multicast Security
- Network Security
- Peer-to-Peer Security
- Public Key Cryptography
- Security Architectures
- Security in Location Services
- Security in Social Networks
- Sensor Network Security
- Spam & SPIT Protection
- Spyware Analysis and Detection
- Virtual Private Networks
- Wireless and Mobile Security


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
The submission should be at most 12 pages, excluding the bibliography
and appendices, and at most 16 pages in total. Submitted papers should be
intelligible and self-contained without appendices. Papers must be
submitted only electronically. The electronic submission site is available
at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cans2014

Submissions must be anonymous (no author names, affiliations,
acknowledgments, obvious references). At least one author of every
accepted paper must register to the conference by the early registration
deadline indicated by the organizers. Authors have to present their own
paper. Papers without a registered author will be removed from the
proceedings.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) and will be available at the conference. Papers should
follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style 
(http://www.springer.com/lncs), at the time of submission.


IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission deadline: June 10, 2014 
Notification to authors: July 25, 2014 
Camera-ready version: August 10, 2014


GENERAL CHAIR
I. Askoxylakis, FORTH-ICS, GR

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
D. Gritzalis, AUEB, GR
A. Kiayias, University of Athens, GR

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
I. Agudo, Univ. of Malaga, ES
G. Ateniese, La Sapienza Univ., IT
M. Burmester, Florida State University, US
D. Catalano, Univ. of Catania, IT
G. Danezis, Microsoft Research, UK
E. Dawson, Univ. of Queensland, AU
S. De Capitani di Vimercati, Univ. degli Studi di Milano,  IT
I. Dinur, ENS, FR
R. Di Pietro, Roma Tre Univ., IT
S. Foresti, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, IT
J. Garcia-Alfaro, TELECOM SudParis, FR
D. Gollmann, TU Hamburg, DE
S. Jajodia, George Mason University, US
S. Jarecki, UC Irivine, US
V. Katos, Univ. of Thrace, GR
P. Kotzanikolaou, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
H. Lipmaa, Univ. of Tartu, EE
J. Lopez, Univ. of Malaga, ES
E. Markatos, Univ. of Crete, GR
A. O'Neil, Georgetown University, US
K. Paterson, RH - Univ. of London, UK
S. Pearson, HP Laboratories, UK
R. Peralta, NIST, US
C. Rechberger, DTU, DK
K. Ren, Univ. at Buffalo, US
P. Rizomiliotis, Univ. of the Aegean, GR
A.-R. Sadeghi, Univ. of Darmstadt, DE
R. Safavi-Naini, Univ. of Calgary, CA
P. Samarati, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, IT
N. Saxena, Univ. of Alabama, US
G. Spanoudakis, City Univ. London, UK
I. Stamatiou, Univ. of Patras, GR
F.-X. Standaert, Univ. of Louvain, BE
W. Susilo, Univ. of Wollongong, AU
K. Takashima, Mitsubishi Electric, JP
M. Theoharidou, AUEB, GR
N. Triandopoulos, EMC RSA Labs, USA
H. Wang, NTU, SG
M. Yung, Google, US
M. Yu, VCU, US
H.-Z. Zhou, VCU, US
V. Zikas, UCLA, US

STEERING COMMITTEE
Y. Desmedt, Univ. of Texas (Dallas), US
J. A. Garay, Yahoo! Labs, US
Y. Mu, Univ. of Wollongong, AU
D. Pointcheval, CNRS & ENS Paris, FR
H. Wang, Nanyang Tech. University, SG

PUBLICITY CHAIR
S. Foresti, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, IT

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OFFICERS
N. Petroulakis, Local Organizing Committee Chair
T. Bitzou, Publicity Chair


This call for papers and additional information about the conference
can be found at www.ics.forth.gr/cans2014