The 1st International Conference on "Applied Cryptography and Network Security" (ACNS 2003) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (International Communications and Information Security Association), in cooperation with MiAn Pte. Ltd. and the Kunming government. It was held in Kunming, China in October 2003. The conference proceedings was published as Volume 2846 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag.

The conference received 191 submissions, from 24 countries and regions; 32 of these papers were accepted, representing 15 countries and regions (acceptance rate of 16.75%). In this volume you will find the revised versions of the accepted papers that were presented at the conference. In addition to the main track of presentations of accepted papers, an additional track was held in the conference where presentations of an industrial and technical nature were given. These presentations were also carefully selected from a large set of presentation proposals.

This new international conference series is the result of the vision of Dr. Yongfei Han. The conference concentrates on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works and developments in industrial and technical frontiers. We thank Dr. Han for initiating this conference and for serving as its General Chair.

Many people and organizations helped in making the conference a reality. We thank the conference sponsors: the Kunming government, MiAn Pte. Ltd., and ICISA. We greatly thank the organizing committee members for taking care of the registration, logistics, and local arrangements. It is due to their hard work that the conference was possible. We also wish to thank Springer and Mr. Alfred Hofmann and his staff for the advice regarding the publication of the proceedings as a volume of LNCS. Our deepest thanks go to the program committee members for their hard work in reviewing papers. We also wish to thank the external reviewers who assisted the program committee members.

Last, but not least, special thanks are due to all the authors who submitted papers and to the conference participants from all over the world. We are very grateful for their support, which was especially important in these difficult times when the SARS outbreak impacted many countries, especially China. It is in such challenging times for humanity that the strength and resolve of our community is tested: the fact that we were able to attract many papers and prepare and organize this conference is testament to the determination and dedication of the cryptography and security research community worldwide.

October 2003

Jianying Zhou
Moti Yung

• 2nd ACNS  –  Yellow Mountain, China, June 8-11, 2004.

The 2nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2004) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Communications and Information Security Association). It was held in Yellow Mountain, China, June 8-11, 2004. The conference proceedings, representing papers from the academic track, are published in this volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of Springer-Verlag.

The area of research that ACNS covers has been gaining importance in recent years due to the development of the Internet, which, in turn, implies global exposure of computing resources. Many fields of research were covered by the program of this track, presented in this proceedings volume. We feel that the papers herein indeed reflect the state of the art in security and cryptography research, worldwide.

The program committee of the conference received a total of 297 submissions from all over the world, of which 36 submissions were selected for presentation during the academic track. In addition to this track, the conference also hosted a technical/industrial track of presentations that were carefully selected as well. All submissions were reviewed by experts in the relevant areas.

Starting from the first ACNS conference last year, ACNS has given best paper awards. Last year the best student paper award went to a paper that turned out to be the only paper written by a single student for ACNS 2003. It was Kwong H. Yung who got the award for his paper entitled "Using Feedback to Improve Masquerade Detection". Continuing the "best paper tradition" this year, the committee decided to select two student papers among the many high-quality papers that were accepted for this conference, and to give them best student paper awards. These papers are: "Security Measurements of Steganographic Systems" by Weiming Zhang and Shiqu Li, and "Evaluating Security of Voting Schemes in the Universal Composability Framework" by Jens Groth. Both papers appear in this proceedings volume, and we would like to congratulate the recipients for their achievements.

Many people and organizations helped in making the conference a reality. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the program committee members and the external experts for their invaluable help in producing the conference’s program. We also wish to thank Thomas Herlea of KU Leuven for his extraordinary efforts in helping us to manage the submissions and for taking care of all the technical aspects of the review process. Thomas, single-handedly, served as the technical support committee of this conference! We extend our thanks also to the general chair Jianying Zhou (who also served as publication chair and helped in many other ways), the chairs of the technical/industrial track (Yongfei Han and Peter Landrock), the local organizers, who worked hard to assure that the conference took place, and the publicity chairs. We also thank the various sponsoring companies and government bodies. Finally, we would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the conference.

April 2004

Markus Jakobsson
Moti Yung

• 5th ACNS  –  Zhuhai, China, June 5-8, 2007.
  

The 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2007) was held in Zhuhai, China, June 5-8, 2007. This volume contains papers that were accepted to the academic track of the conference.

The conference received an astounding number of submissions this year, which made the review process a challenging and demanding task. We are indebted to the members of the Program Committee and the external reviewers for all their hard work. The committee accepted 31 papers from roughly 260 submissions. These proceedings contain revised versions of the accepted papers. While revisions are expected to take the referees' comments into account, this was not enforced and the authors bear full responsibility for the content of their papers.

In addition to the academic track, the conference hosted a non-archival industrial track whose papers were also carefully selected from among the submissions.

Shai Halevi deserves the community's gratitude for writing his web submission and review software, which we used for this conference. On a more personal level, we would like to extend our own deepest thanks to Shai for not only writing his software, but for installing and maintaining the submission server for this conference. Thanks go also to the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for agreeing to host the server.

It is our pleasure to thank the General Chair Yongfei Han, the Publicity Chair Jianying Zhou, and the Chair of the Organizing Committee Li Nan for their help and support in putting this conference together. Without their help, this conference would not have been possible. Finally, we are grateful to ONETS and Zhuhai College, Jilin University, for sponsoring the conference.

March 2007

Jonathan Katz
Moti Yung

• 6th ACNS  –  New York, USA, June 3-6, 2008.
  

ACNS 2008, the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, was held in New York, New York, June 3-6, 2008, at Columbia University. ACNS 2008 was organized in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. The General Chairs of the conference were Angelos Keromytis and Moti Yung.

The conference received 131 submissions, of which the Program Committee, chaired by Steven Bellovin and Rosario Gennaro, selected 30 for presentation at the conference. The Best Student Paper Award was given to Liang Xie and Hui Song for their paper “On the Effectiveness of Internal Patch Dissemination Against File-Sharing Worms” (co-authored with Sencun Zhu).

These proceedings consist of revised versions of the presented papers. The revisions were not reviewed. The authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

There were many submissions of good quality, and consequently the selection process was challenging and very competitive. Indeed, a number of good papers were not accepted due to lack of space in the program. The main considerations in selecting the program were conceptual and technical innovation and quality of presentation. As reflected in the Call for Papers, an attempt was made to solicit and publish papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the ProgramCommittee members, who dedicated so much time and effort to provide a thorough and in-depth review of the submissions, with high standards of professional integrity. We also thank the many external reviewers who assisted the Program Committee in its work. Most importantly, we thank the authors of submitted papers for their contributions; without these papers, after all, there would be no ACNS conference.

A special thanks is due to Shai Halevi for writing the software that greatly facilitated the committee work, and for his responsiveness in answering all our questions.

We are grateful to Jianying Zhou who, as Publicity Chair, relentlessy advertised the conference, to Angelika Zavou for her timely maintenance of the conference website and to Sophie Majewski for helping with the local arrangements.

Finally, we appreciate the assistance provided by the Springer LNCS editorial staff in assembling these proceedings.

June 2008

Steven Bellovin
Rosario Gennaro
Angelos Keromytis
Moti Yung

ACNS 2009, the 7th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, was held in Paris-Rocquencourt, France, June 2–5, 2009. ACNS 2009 was organized by the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The General Chairs of the conference were Pierre-Alain Fouque and Damien Vergnaud.

The conference received 150 submissions and each submission was assigned to at least three committee members. Submissions co-authored by members of the Program Committee were assigned to at least four committee members. Due to the large number of high-quality submissions, the review process was challenging and we are deeply grateful to the committee members and the external reviewers for their outstanding work. After meticulous deliberation, the Program Committee, which was chaired by Michel Abdalla and David Pointcheval, selected 32 submissions for presentation in the academic track and these are the articles that are included in this volume. Additionally, a few other submissions were selected for presentation in the non-archival industrial track. The best student paper was awarded to Ayman Jarrous for his paper “Secure Hamming Distance Based Computation and Its Applications”, co-authored with Benny Pinkas. The review process was run using the iChair software, written by Thomas Baigneres and Matthieu Finiasz from EPFL, LASEC, Switzerland and we are indebted to them for letting us use their software.

The program also included four invited talks in addition to the academic and industrial tracks. The invited talks were given by Craig Gentry from Stanford University on “Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices”, Antoine Joux from DGA and the University of Versailles on “Can We Settle Cryptography’s Hash?”, Angelos Keromytis from Columbia University on “Voice Over IP: Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities”, and Mike Reiter from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on “Better Architectures and New Applications for Coarse Network Monitoring”. We would like to genuinely thank them for accepting our invitation and for contributing to the success of ACNS 2009.

Finally, we would like to thank our sponsors Ingenico, CNRS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) for their financial support and all the people involved in the organization of this conference. In particular, we would like to thank the Office for Courses and Colloquiums (Bureau des Cours-Colloques) from INRIA and Gaelle Dorkeld for their diligent work and for making this conference possible.

June 2009

Michel Abdalla
David Pointcheval
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Damien Vergnaud

ACNS 2010, the 8th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, was held in Beijing, China, during June 22-25, 2010. ACNS 2010 brought together individuals from academia and industry involved in multiple research disciplines of cryptography and security to foster the exchange of ideas.

ACNS was initiated in 2003, and there has been a steady improvement in the quality of its program over the past 8 years: ACNS 2003 (Kunming, China), ACNS 2004 (Yellow Mountain, China), ACNS 2005 (New York, USA), ACNS 2006 (Singapore), ACNS 2007 (Zhuhai, China), ACNS 2008 (New York, USA), ACNS 2009 (Paris, France). The average acceptance rate has been kept at around 17%, and the average number of participants has been kept at around 100.

The conference received a total of 178 submissions from all over the world. Each submission was assigned to at least three committee members. Submissions co-authored by members of the Program Committee were assigned to at least four committee members. Due to the large number of high-quality submissions, the review process was challenging and we are deeply grateful to the committee members and the external reviewers for their outstanding work. After extensive discussions, the Program Committee selected 32 submissions for presentation in the academic track, and these are the articles that are included in this volume (LNCS 6123). Additionally, a few other submissions were selected for presentation in the non-archival industrial track. The prize for the best student paper was awarded to Mehdi Tibouchi for his paper “On the Broadcast and Validity-Checking Security of PKCS#1 v1.5 Encryption”, co-authored with Aurelie Bauer, Jean-Sebastien Coron, David Naccache, and Damien Vergnaud.

We would like to thank General Chair Yongfei Han and the local organizing team from Beijing University of Technology and ONETS for their efforts in putting this conference together. Our special thanks are due to Ying Qiu for managing the Easy Chair system for paper submission and review. We would also like to thank all the authors who submitted papers and the participants from all over the world who chose to honor us with their attendance.

April 2010

Jianying Zhou
Moti Yung

These proceedings contain 31 papers selected for presentation at the 9th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2011) held June 7-10, 2011 in Nerja (Malaga), Spain, and hosted by the Computer Science Department of the University of Malaga.

Since 2003, ACNS is an annual conference that focuses on cutting-edge advances and results in applied cryptography and systems/network security. ACNS is a forum for research of academic as well as industrial/technical nature.

This year, a total of 172 papers were submitted. They were evaluated on the basis of research significance, novelty, and technical quality. Each submission was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee (PC). The PC meeting was held electronically and involved intensive discussions. In the end, 31 papers were selected for presentation at the conference, corresponding to an 18% acceptance rate. A further nine papers (not included in these proceedings) were selected for the industrial track of the conference.

Many people deserve acknowledgment for having volunteered their time and energy to make ACNS 2011 a resounding success. Many thanks are due to General Co-chairs, Roberto di Pietro and Rodrigo Roman, for their valuable help with the conference organization. We are also very grateful to Cristina Alcaraz and Claudio Soriente (Publicity Co-chairs), Ersin Uzun and Pablo Najera (Web Support) and Noelia Campos (Local Organization). Clearly, we are greatly indebted to all members of the PC and external reviewers for their selfless dedication and hard work during the review and selection process. We would also like to express our appreciation to the invited/keynote speakers: Refik Molva and Ed Dawson. Last, but certainly not least, our sincere gratitude goes to all submission authors as well as to all conference attendees.

We hope that you will find the program stimulating and that it will serve as a source of inspiration for future research.

June 2011

Javier Lopez
Gene Tsudik

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2012), held during June 26–29, 2012, in Singapore. The conference was organized by iTwin, sponsored by AdNovum, and supported by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).

In response to the call for papers, 192 papers from 38 countries were submitted to the conference. These papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, technical quality, and practical impact. Reviewing was “double-blind”: the identities of reviewers were not revealed to the authors of the papers and author identities were not revealed to the reviewers. The Program Committee meeting was held electronically, yielding intensive discussion over a period of two weeks. Of the papers submitted, 33 were selected for presentation at the conference and inclusion in this Springer volume (LNCS 7341), giving an acceptance rate lower than 18%.

Besides the technical program composed of the papers collated in the proceedings, the conference included a non-archival industrial track. The conference was also featured with 3 keynote speeches, by Moti Yung (co-founder of ACNS) entitled “Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 10 years in the past and 10 years in the future”, by Peng Ning entitled “Cloud Computing Infrastructure Security”, and by Hongjun Wu entitled “JH in the NIST Hash Function Competition”, respectively.

There is a long list of people who volunteered their time and energy to put together the conference and who deserve special thanks. Thanks to the Program Committee members and the external reviewers, for all their hard work in the paper evaluation. Owing to the large number of submissions, the Program Committee members were required to work hard in a short time frame, and we are very thankful to them for the commitment they showed with their active participation in the electronic discussion.

We are also very grateful to all those people whose work ensured a smooth organization process: Xinyi Huang and Giovanni Livraga, Publicity Chairs, for their work in ensuring the wide distribution of the call for papers and participation; Shen-Tat Goh, Organizing Chair, as well as Lux Anantharaman and Kal Takru for taking care of the local organization and Ying Qiu for managing the conference website and EasyChair system.

Last but certainly not least our thanks go to all the authors who submitted papers and all the attendees. We hope you find the program is stimulating and a source of inspiration for your future research and practical development.

April 2012

Feng Bao
Pierangela Samarati
Jianying Zhou

• 11th ACNS  –  Banff, Canada, June 25-28, 2013.