We are happy to announce the birth of a new conference on听
Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC). Information-theoretic听
cryptography studies security in the presence of computationally听
unbounded adversaries and covers a wide array of topics at the听
intersection of cryptography, coding theory, information-theory and听
theory of computation. Notable examples include randomness extraction听
and privacy amplification, secret sharing,听 secure multiparty听
computation and proof systems, private-information retrieval and听
locally decodable codes, authentication codes and non-malleable codes,
听privacy for statistical databases, quantum information processing, and听
information-theoretic foundations of physical-layer security. See听
听for more information.
ITC replaces the International Conference on Information Theoretic听
Security (ICITS), which was dedicated to the same topic and ran听
2005-2017. ITC can be seen as a reboot of ICITS with a new name, a new听
steering committee and a renewed excitement.
The conference will have two tracks: a conference track and a听
鈥済reatest hits鈥 track.
The conference track will operate like a traditional conference with听
the usual review process and published proceedings. The 鈥済reatest听
hits鈥 track consists of invited talks (not included in the听
proceedings) that highlight the most exciting recent advances in the听
area. We solicit nominations for 鈥済reatest hits鈥 talks from the听
community.
The first ITC conference will take place in Boston, MA on June 17-19,听
2020 (just before STOC).听 The submission deadline for ITC 2020 is Dec听
16, 2019 and the call for papers (including a nomination procedure for听
the greatest hits track) is available here:听
Please submit your best work to ITC 2020! We hope to see many of you there!
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