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Workshop on Quantum and Classical Information Security

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Motivation and Scope

The research communities of quantum information security and of classical information security tend to be composed of people that do not share the same scientific backgrounds and work in parallel, with different perspectives, on topics that are on the opposite highly similar. The variety of these topics: secret key agreement, public-key and secret-key encryption schemes, secure multi-party computation, informationtheoretic cryptographic schemes, complexity reductions and provable security, composability of cryptographic primitives, cryptanalysis, cryptographic side-channels, security evaluation and certification of cryptographic implementations, network security, deployment and management of security infrastructures, etc..., has become extremely large as quantum cryptography has progressively widened it scope. However, some exagerate claims of "unconditionnal quantum supporters", not well informed about cryptography, has lead to misunderstandings and in particular to the false belief that quantum cryptography could replace classical cryptography, while in fact the scientific results indicate that cryptography in a quantum world would still be largely classical.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds who however work on converging problems in classical or quantum information security in order to foster discussions and exchanges among these communities. We believe that promising advances both in fundamental cryptographic research and in practical network security can result from a closer cooperation of classical and quantum information security communities.

Workshop Organization

Chair: (Institut Télécom / Télécom ParisTech, France)

The workshop will be focused on addressing up-to-date topics linking quantum and classical information security. It will be divided in 4 tracks, each composed of one invited talk and of a few contributed talks:

• Track 1: Post-Quantum Computer Cryptography
• Track 2: Quantum and classical information-theoretic cryptography
• Track 3: Practical quantum and classical secret-key agreement solutions
• Track 4: Quantum and Classical security assurance

Invited Speakers

Important Dates:

Submission Instructions:

All authors are required to submit a 2-page Summary of their presentation by the May 31 deadline followed by a PDF version of the full paper in English. Full papers are limited to 12 pages (invited papers), or 8 pages (contributed papers), and must fulfill the submission details listed at: http://www.quantumcomm.org/submission.shtml and the Author's Kit for the LNICST style listed at: http://www.quantumcomm.org/submission.shtml#3. Presentation will be either oral or in poster format, as deemed appropriate by the Technical Program Committee.

Publication:

All submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the QuantumComm Conference Proceedings, under the LNICST - joint publication series of ICST and Springer: http://www.springer.com.

Workshop and Tutorial Proposals:

Proposals for Special Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials are encouraged. Potential Workshop and Tutorial organizers should submit a proposal outlining scope/motivation of the session/tutorial, list of invited papers (still subject to peer-review).

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