In cooperation with IACR

Latincrypt 2017Havana, Cuba, September 20–22, 2017http://latincrypt.matcom.uh.cu/

Announcement & Call For PapersLatincrypt 2017 is the Fifth International Conferenceon Cryptology and Information Security in Latin Amer-ica, and is organized by the Cuban Society of Mathe-matics & Computer Science and Havana University, incooperation with the IACR, the International Associa-tion for Cryptologic Research. Original papers on alltechnical aspects of Cryptology are solicited for submis-sion to Latincrypt 2017. The conference seeks originalcontributions on new cryptographic primitive propos-als, cryptanalysis, security models, hardware and soft-ware implementation aspects, cryptographic protocolsand applications, as well as submissions about crypto-graphic aspects of network security, complexity theory,information theory, coding theory, number theory, andquantum computing.

Instructions to authors: Submissions must not sub-stantially duplicate work that any of the authors haspublished elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to anyother conference or workshop with formally publishedproceedings.

Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names,affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references.Each submission must be written in English, and shouldbegin with a title, a short abstract, a list of keywords,and an introduction that summarizes the contributionsof the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialistreader. The length of the submission should be at most16 pages excluding bibliography and appendices usingSpringer’s LNCS package (see instructions at http://

www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), with nochanges to the style. Any number of clearly marked ap-pendices may be supplied following the main body ofthe paper. The committee members are not required toread appendices; the paper should be intelligible with-out them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines riskrejection without consideration of their merits.

All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF for-mat at the Latincrypt web site. Late submissions andnon-electronic submissions will not be considered. Nonew submissions will be accepted after the paper regis-tration deadline (26 June 2017). Authors of acceptedpapers must guarantee that their paper will be presentedat the conference. Program Committee member submis-sions will be held to higher standards than other sub-missions.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNCSSeries and will be available after the conference. In-structions about the preparation of a final proceedingsversion will be sent to the authors of accepted papers.

Important dates (all times in GMT)Student-paper pre- 08 May 2017, 14:00submision deadline:Student-paper response 18 May 2017deadline:Paper-registration deadline: 26 June 2017, 14:00Final-Submission deadline: 05 July 2017, 14:00Notification deadline: 10 August 2017Preproceedings deadline: 01 September 2017ASCrypto Summer school: 17–19 September 2017Latincrypt conference: 20–22 September 2017Proceedings deadline: 01 November 2017

The ASCrypto summer school is co-located withLatincrypt 2017 and will take place September 17–19,just before the conference.

Student-paper submission As part of the Latincryptcommitment to the establishment of cryptographic re-search and cryptographic communities, Latincrypt 2017will offer students at institutes with little guidance tosubmit an early version of their paper a few weeks be-fore the registration deadline.

A limited number of submissions will be accepted by theprogram chairs by email before the student-paper pre-submission deadline (08 May 2017) for this program ona first come first served basis. Such submissions shouldinclude besides the PDF of the manuscript (that shouldadhere to the instructions to authors) also a short CVof the student(s) submitting the paper, and a short let-ter that supports the notion that the student(s) have noaccess to adequate guidance in cryptographic research.

Submissions which will satisfy the criteria, will gothrough a special review process. One committee mem-ber will offer an early review of the paper (by 18 May2017), allowing the student(s) time to work on the pa-per and to submit a revised version to the conference atthe regular deadlines. Such student papers will undergothe same review process and there will be no indicationthat they underwent an initial review. These papers willbe held to the same standards as all papers.

Please note that this track is not used for “acceptingpapers”. Hence, such student papers must be registeredand submitted with the conference website before theregular submissions deadlines.

Photo by Gabriel Rodrıguez

Program Committee• Diego Aranha, U. Campinas, BR• Roberto Avanzi, ARM, DE• Shi Bai, Florida Atlantic U., US• Paulo S.L.M. Barreto, U. Washington Tacoma, US

& U. Sao Paulo, BR• Lejla Batina, Radboud U., NL• Iddo Bentov, Cornell U., US• Daniel J. Bernstein, U. Illinois at Chicago, US

& TU Eindhoven, NL• Joppe W. Bos, NXP Semiconductors, BE• Debrup Chakraborty, Indian Statistical Inst., IN• Sanjit Chatterjee, Indian Inst. Science, IN• Tung Chou, Osaka U., JP• Carlos Cid, Royal Holloway U. London, UK• Ricardo Dahab, U. Campinas, BR• Jean Paul Degabriele, TU Darmstadt, DE• Itai Dinur, Ben-Gurion U., IL• Luis J. Dominguez Perez, CIMAT Zacatecas, MX• Orr Dunkelman (co-chair), U. Haifa, IL• Marc Fischlin, TU Darmstadt, DE• Aurore Guillevic, Inria Nancy, FR• Alejandro Hevia, U. Chile, CL• Tetsu Iwata, Nagoya U., JP• Juliane Kramer, TU Darmstadt, DE

• Hugo Krawczyk, IBM Research, US• Thijs Laarhoven, IBM Research Zurich, CH• Tanja Lange (co-chair),TU Eindhoven, NL• Julio Lopez, U. Campinas, BR• Atul Luykx, KU Leuven, BE & UC Davis, US• Maike Massierer, U. New South Wales, AU• Amir Moradi, Ruhr-University Bochum, DE• Michael Naehrig, Microsoft Research, US• Daniel Panario, Carleton U, CA• Anat Paskin-Cherniavsky, Ariel U., IL• Raphael Phan, MMU, MY• Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland U. Technology, AU• Axel Poschmann, DarkMatter, AE• Bart Preneel, KU Leuven, BE• Tal Rabin, IBM Research, US• Francisco Rodrıguez-Henrıquez, CINVESTAV, MX• Peter Schwabe, Radboud U., NL• Adam Smith, Pennsylvania State U., US• Benjamin Smith, Inria & Ecole polytechnique, FR• John Steinberger, Tsinghua U., CN• Nicolas Theriault, U. Santiago de Chile, CL• Mehdi Tibouchi, NTT Corporation, JP• Alfredo Viola, U. Republica, UY• Benne de Weger, TU Eindhoven, NL• Yuval Yarom, U. Adelaide & Data61, CSIRO, AU

Steering Committee• Michel Abdalla, Ecole Normale Superieure, FR• Diego Aranha, U. Campinas, BR• Paulo S.L.M. Barreto, U. Washington Tacoma, US

& U. Sao Paulo, BR• Ricardo Dahab, U. Campinas, BR• Alejandro Hevia, U. Chile, CL• Julio Lopez, U. Campinas, BR• Daniel Panario, Carleton U., CA• Francisco Rodrıguez-Henrıquez, CINVESTAV, MX• Alfredo Viola, U. la Republica, UY

Local Organization Committee• Luis Ramiro Pineiro Dıaz (chair), U. La Habana, CU• Raul Guinovart Dıaz, U. La Habana, CU• Miriam Nicado Garcıa, U. Ciencias Informaticas, CU• Haydee Llanusa Ruız, CITI, CU• Miguel A. Borges Trenard, U. Oriente, CU• Eberto Morgado Morales, UCLV, CU• Roberto Sepulveda Lima, CUJAE, CU• Jorge Estrada Sarlabous, ICIMAF, CU• Pablo Freyre Arrozarena, U. La Habana, CU• Carlos M. Legon Perez, U. La Habana, CU• Teresa B. Pages Lopez, U. La Habana, CU• Mijail Borges Quintana, U. Oriente, CU• Humberto Dıaz Pando, CUJAE, CU