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WICS'16
3rd International Workshop on Information and Communication Security
http://is-candar.org/wics16

To be held in conjunction with CANDAR'16, Hiroshima, Japan, November
22-25, 2016
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The main goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for the
exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and research in
the field of information and communication security.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Authentication
Block and Stream Ciphers
Biometrics
Cryptanalysis
Cryptographic Protocols
Digital Signatures
Efficient Implementations
Hash Functions
Network Security
Privacy Enhancement
Public Key Cryptosystems
System Security

Paper format
Regular paper: 5-7 pages
Poster paper: 3-4 pages

Publication
The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by
Conference Publishing Service and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL
digital libraries. Also they are submitted for indexing through
INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Special Issue
We plan to publish extended versions of selected papers from CANDAR
main conference and workshops.

Important dates
Workshop abstract submission due: August 1, 2016
Workshop paper submission due: August 6, 2016

Workshop co-chairs
Toru Nakanishi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Yasuyuki Nogami (Okayama University, Japan)

Program Committee
Hiroaki Anada (University of Nagasaki)
Chen-Mou Cheng (National Taiwan University)
Koji Chida (NTT)
Takuya Hayashi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Shoichi Hirose (University of Fukui)
Kengo Iokibe (Okayama University)
Yoshifumi Manabe (Kogakuin University)
Sumio Morioka (NEC Europe)
Toshihiro Ohigashi (Tokai University)
Tetsushi Ohki (AIST)
Katsuyuki Okeya (Hitachi, Ltd.)
Kazumasa Omote (JAIST)
Ryuichi Sakai (Osaka Electro-Communication University)
Yoshiaki Shiraishi (Kobe University)
Masaaki Shirase (Future University Hakodate)
Kenichi Takahashi (Tottori University)
Tadanori Teruya (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Satoshi Uehara (University of Kitakyushu)
Lihua Wang (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Toshihiro Yamauchi (Oyakama University)
Naoto Yanai (Osaka University)
Kenji Yasunaga (Kanazawa University)
TBA