The focus of Pairing 2010 is on all aspects of pairing-based cryptography, including: cryptographic primitives and protocols, mathematical foundations, software and hardware implementation, and applied security.

The first International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography (Pairing 2007) was held in Tokyo, Japan, followed by Egham, UK in 2008, and Palo Alto, USA in 2009. The next edition (Pairing 2010) will be held in Yamanaka Hot Spring, Japan on December 13-15, 2010.
Paper submission

All submissions should be made using the online submission system (URL will be provided shortly). Submissions should conform to the instructions below.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: June 11, 2010, 23:59 JST
Notification of acceptance: August 19, 2010
Final version deadline: September 13, 2010
Conference: December 13-15, 2010
Instructions for authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or that have been submitted in parallel with any other conference or workshop. Submissions should be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious references. Papers should be at most 16 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them.

Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style. Please check the Information for LNCS Authors page at Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/) for style and formatting guidelines.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register with the conference and present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings.
Proceedings

Proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Detailed instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers.
Motivation & Scope

Pairing-based cryptography is an extremely active area of research which has allowed elegant solutions to a number of long-standing open problems in cryptography (such as efficient identity-based encryption). New developments continue to be made at a rapid pace. To fully exploit the possibilities offered by pairings it is necessary to have an appropriate background in several theoretical and practical areas. In particular, the development of pairing-based cryptography has been both driven and influenced by developments in number theory, algebraic geometry, cryptographic protocols, software and hardware implementations, new security applications, etc.

The aim of "Pairing" conference is thus to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, all concerned with problems related to pairing-based cryptography. The first conference Pairing 2007 was held in Japan and the proceedings were published in Springer's LNCS 4575, 5209, and 5671, respectively. We hope that this conference will enhance communication among specialists from various research areas and promote creative interdisciplinary collaboration.