December 10-11, 2001; Prague, Czech Republic

General information

Santa's Crypto Get-Together starts in December 2001 as the first Czech and Slovak workshop aiming to facilitate closer cooperation of professionals working in the field of applied cryptography and related areas of security.

This get-together of experts is organized in order to foster exchange of information and ideas on past, ongoing, and also future projects. We recognize the need of experts meeting their colleagues without the hassle of taking care of their organization (potential) customers, bosses and other distracting forces. ;-)

This workshop will consist of (a) an informal meeting (and possibly a panel discussion) on December 10, 2001 and (b) presentation of papers and discussions on December 11, 2001.

There will also be two invited talks at the workshop:
- Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) on the NESSIE project,
- Fabien Petitcolas (Microsoft Research) on the relation of watermarking and cryptography.

Instructions for authors

Interested parties are invited to submit papers on the following areas:
- Applied cryptography.
- Security applications of cryptography.
- Standardization and legislation issues related to cryptography.
- Privacy enhancing technologies.
+ Other topics of interest to the applied crypto community.

Extended abstracts (800-1000 words), together with the author email address, phone number and postal address must reach the Program Committee (PC) on or before October 28th 2001. Electronic submissions is stronly preferred; paper submissions must consist of eight printed copies.

The abstract will be reviewed by the PC and authors will be notified of the acceptance/rejection by November 17th. The final version of the complete paper (5-15 A4 pages), together with a short biography (50-100 words) must be submitted before December 1st. Papers can be written in Czech, Slovak or English.

The extended abstracts and full papers should be submitted in RTF, HTML or ASCII.

Addresses for submission

Electronic submission of papers is strongly preferred.
E-mail: Vaclav.Matyas@ecom-monitor.com
Subject: "Kryptobesídka"
Postal address:
  V. Matyas
  ecom-monitor.com, a.s.
  PO Box 7
  664 01 Bílovice nad Svitavou
  Czech Republic

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