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WICS'18
5th International Workshop on Information and Communication Security
http://is-candar.org/wics18

To be held in conjunction with

The Sixth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR'18),
Hida Takayama, Japan, November 27-30, 2018

http://is-candar.org/

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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. Please see
http://is-candar.org/special_issue
for the details.

Important dates
Abstract submission: August 10, 2018
Paper submission: August 15, 2018
Notification of paper acceptance: October 1, 2018
Submission of camera-ready papers: October 18, 2018

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

Program committee
Hiroaki Anada, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies
Thomas Austin, San Jose State University
Chen-Mou Cheng, Osaka University
Franco Chiaraluce, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Masayuki Fukumitsu, Hokkaido Information University
Shoichi Hirose, University of Fukui
Masaki Inamura, Tokyo Denki University
Kengo Iokibe, Okayama University
Yuichi Komano, Toshiba Corporation
Minoru Kuribayashi, Okayama University
Yoshifumi Manabe, Kogakuin University
Mamoru Mimura, National Defense Academy
Takaaki Mizuki, Tohoku University
Sumio Morioka, Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Toshihiro Ohigashi, Tokai University
Tetsushi Ohki, Shizuoka University
Katsuyuki Okeya, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
Kazumasa Omote, University of Tsukuba
Ryuichi Sakai, Osaka Electro-Communication University
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University
Hwajeong Seo, Hansung University
Yoshiaki Shiraishi, Kobe University
Masaaki Shirase, Future University Hakodate
Yuji Suga, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, The University of Tokyo
Kenichi Takahashi, Tottori University
Satoshi Uehara, The University of Kitakyushu
Lihua Wang, Kobe University
Naoto Yanai, Osaka University
TBA