8th Workshop on Current Trends in Cryptology (CTCrypt’2019)

Organized by

– Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation
– Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS
– Technical Committee for Standardization «Cryptography and security mechanisms» (TC 26)

Supported by

Foundation for the Promotion of Secure Information Technologies

Invited speakers

• Kenny Paterson (UK)
• Luca De Feo (France)

The scope of the Workshop

The scope of the Workshop includes, but is not limited to the:

•  Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, including those which are international standards
•  Efficient implementation of cryptanalytic techniques
•  Security evaluation of Russian cryptographic algorithms and protocols
•  Efficient implementation of Russian cryptographic algorithms and protocols
•  Mathematical aspects of cryptography
•  Cryptographic techniques in IoT
•  Quantum cryptography and computing
•  Postquantum cryptography
•  Cryptographic techniques in blockchain-based systems
•  Cryptographic protection of biometric data
•  Research in other actual and perspective cryptographic areas

Affiliated events (in Russian)

– A seminar for cryptographic devices developers and manufacturers CEOs.All comers are able to suggest topics for further discussion through e-mail ctcrypt@ tc26. ru
– Popular lectures on cryptology

Important Dates

Deadline for the paper submission: February 18, 2019 March 4, 2019
Authors notification: April 8, 2019
Conference dates: June 4-7, 2019

Languages

Official languages: English and Russian
Paper and slides language: English

Submission and Publication

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research in the workshop topics, in electronic form (.pdf format) via conference submission server (iChair).

Submissions must be unpublished, not being under review for publication elsewhere, and provide sufficient information to judge their merits.

Submissions must be in English, and not exceed 15 pages (A4 format), prepared in LATEX according to the template provided at ctcrypt.ru web-page. Submissions should be anonymous with no names of authors and their affiliation given in the text of the article or in the name of the provided file (this information is submitted through the submission server). Any additional information the authors want to provide for reviewers and Program committee members should be attached to the submission as Appendix.

Accepted papers will be published in electronic preproceedings. Selected papers will be recommended for publication (in English) in the Russian journal «Matematicheskie Voprosy Kriptografii» («Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography»).

A paper included in the workshop program may be recommended for publication in the journal only if the authors report their results at the workshop. Authors also should provide guarantees that they are not going to publish
presented at the workshop results of their research in any other journal.

Important: additionally provided Appendix won’t be published neither in the preproceedings nor in the journal, this information will be provided only for the reviewers, in order to simplify the review procedure.

Funding for participation support

A limited amount of funding to pay travelling and accommodation expenses for full-time participation are available to students and postgraduate students. When deciding on the funding provision preference will be given to those whose articles will be chosen by the reviewers to be presented at the workshop. To apply for a funding a motivated application should be sent to the workshop official e-mail address ctcrypt@tc26.ru
until April 15, 2019.

You are also strongly encouraged to request your advisor or department chair to send a brief justification to support your application.

Steering Committee

Co-chairs

Aleksandr Shoitov – Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Russia
Vladimir Sachkov – Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Russia
Igor Kachalin – TC 26, Russia

Steering Committee Members

Mikhail Glukhov – Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Russia
Andrey Zubkov – Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Russia
Dmitry Matyukhin – TC 26, Russia
Andrey Pichkur – Federal Educational and Methodical Association in System of Higher Education on Information Security, RussiaProgram

Committee

Co-chairs

Alexander Lapshin – Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Russia
Dmitry Matyukhin – TC 26, Russia
Andrey Zubkov – Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Russia

Program Committee Members

Sergey Agievich – Research Institute for Applied Problems of Mathematics and Informatics, Belarus
Sergey Aleshnikov – Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia
Alexey Alexandrov – Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs, Russia
Tomer Ashur – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jean-Philippe Aumasson – Taurus Group SA, Switzerland
Sergey Checheta – Federal Educational and Methodical Association in System of Higher Education on Information Security, Russia
Ivan Chizhov – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Yury Kharin – Research Institute for Applied Problems of Mathematics and Informatics, Belarus
Igor Kruglov – Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Russia
Grigory Marshalko – TC 26, Russia
Dmitry Murin – P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Thomas Peyrin – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Eduard Primenko – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Boris Ryabko – Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS; and Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Markku-Juhani Olavi Saarinen – Independent expert on information security, Finland
Igor Semaev – The University of Bergen, Norway
Vasily Shishkin – TC 26, Russia
Stanislav Smyshlyaev – TC 26, Russia
Alexey Tarasov – Federal Educational and Methodical Association in System of Higher Education on Information Security, Russia
Natalya Tokareva – Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS, Russia
Andrey Trishin – «Certification Research Center» Ltd., Russia
Amr Youssef – Concordia University, Canada
Andrey Zyazin – Russian Technological University (MIREA), Russia