About the Workshop

National Workshop on Cryptology is an annual workshop of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), held prior to the INDOCRYPT International Conference. The workshop is conducted at Amritapuri Campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala. National and International experts from industry and academia are part of the technical talks and paper presentation sessions.

Programme

Topics covered: Cryptology & Advances in Cryptanalysis.

The program contains 10 technical sessions in topics such as Algebraic attacks, Stream Cipher Cryptanalysis and Integer Factorization to list a few. Eminent National and International personalities chair each technical session. The International speaker delivers a one-hour lecture on all these three days. Duration of each session is 1 hour 30 minutes including a talk by an eminent personality followed by three paper presentations of duration 20 minutes each.

International Speaker

National Speakers

Committee

Patrons

Programme Committee

Call for Papers

Papers are invited in the following areas, but are not limited to,

1. Block Ciphers and Stream Ciphers
2. Public key Systems
3. Signature Schemes
4. Cryptanalysis
5. Steganography
6. Protocols
7. Authentication
8. Secret Sharing
9. Hardware Implementations

Paper Submission

Hard copy of the paper should be submitted. The paper should be in LaTeX format.
Soft copy of the accepted papers has to be submitted at a later date.
Soft copy should be sent to convener@crypto2004.amrita.edu

Address to which hard copy should be sent:

The Convener
National Workshop on Cryptology 2004
Amritapuri Campus
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Clappana P.O., Kollam
Kerala. PIN 690525.
Phone 0476 - 2896318,2896328, Fax:0476-2896178,
convener@crypto2004.amrita.edu

Important Dates

1. Last date for submission of papers : August 30, 2004.
2. Last date for announcement of selected papers: August 30, 2004.
3. Last date for submission of softcopy in LaTeX format: August 30, 2004.
4. Last date for confirmation of your participation: September 5, 2004.

About the Organisers

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is one of the youngest and the most dynamic Deemed Universities in India today. Inspired by the Divine vision of Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known world-wide as Amma, Amrita University is spread over three campuses in South India, namely Ettimadai, Kochi and Amritapuri offering programs in varied subjects as IT, Engineering, Medicine and Management.

Amrita University is perhaps the only one of its kind in India – a fully interactive, multi disciplinary, multi media virtual campus without geographical limitations – enabled by satellite connectivity.

Amrita Research Labs (ARL) is the R&D wing of Amrita University focusing on developing indigenous technology. ARL is also a well-known contributor to the Open Source movement. ARL has successfully developed leading edge technologies in computer networks and information security such as AmritaVPN, Amrita VoIP and Amrita Safe Lock.

ARL has also developed complex commercial applications like Amrita Hospital Information System and AmritaVidya, a world-class e-learning solution. In addition, ARL has been recognized by premier national institutions like BARC, ISRO and Konkan Railway who have entrusted ARL with several research projects of strategic importance.

Amritapuri Campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, based in Kerala, has been taking active interest in carrying out research in the area of Information Security. Infocrypt 2003, a 3-day national level workshop on Information Security was successfully hosted by Amritapuri Campus that was attended by leading scientists, academicians, defense and industry personnel from across the country.

Cryptology Research Society of India

The Cryptology Research Society of India was founded in 2001 to support and promote research activities in the field of cryptology, data security and related areas in India. It arranges lectures, discussions, workshops, seminars, conferences etc., for motivating and guiding the young Indian researchers in the field of cryptology and security. A national workshop on cryptology and an international conference on cryptology (INDOCRYPT) are the annual events being organized by this Society. The present workshop is the fourth in the series of the national workshops of the CRSI. For more details on CRSI, contact Professor Bimal Roy, General Secretary, CRSI, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata 700 108. E-mail: bimal@isical.ac.in or crsi@crsind.org

Contact

Registration

The fee includes lodging and boarding. One can register for the workshop by sending the application form duly filled in along with a demand draft drawn in favour of Convener, National Workshop on Cryptology ‘04 payable at Kollam.