SPEED-CC - Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption and Cryptographic Compilers Berlin, October 12-13, 2009 Call for contributions: ECRYPT's virtual lab VAMPIRE organizes SPEED-CC -- Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption and Cryptographic Compilers. This conference comes 2 years after the first SPEED conference in Amsterdam. The first conference addressed the speed of secret-key and public-key cryptography. For this second issue we explicitly broadened the scope to include cryptographic compilers. On the execution side speed improvements can come from better systems, better algorithms, and better software; on the implementation side, programmer's time is greatly reduced by suitable compiling tools that are architecture aware, automate extra design goals such as side-channel or timing invariance, or can take a complex cryptographic system and break it down to already implemented and well-tested components. There will be a few invited talks along with contributed talks which are selected based on submitted papers and a refereeing process. (As for all ECRYPT conferences, there will be no formal proceedings for SPEED-CC but a workshop record with all accepted papers.) * SPEED asks for submissions on the following topics - software implementation of hash functions and symmetric key systems - software implementation of public key systems - software implementation of zero-knowledge proofs - software implementation of multiparty computation - algorithmic speed-ups - CPU specific speed-ups - benchmarking of symmetric and public key systems - systems submitted to eBACS (eBATS, eBASC, eBASH) see bench.cr.yp.to - compilers to automate producing efficient code and executables - compilers to introduce cryptographic security into code - cryptographic software engineering tools * Deadlines August 30, 2009: submission of papers September 13, 2009: notification September 27, 2009: resubmission deadline October 12 - 13, 2009: SPEED-CC workshop in Berlin The submission should start with a title, a list of the authors together with their affiliations and a short abstract describing the content of the paper. This should be followed by an extended abstract of at least 5 and at most 20 pages including appendices. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at the workshop. To submit send your contribution to speed@hyperelliptic.org no later than August 30, 2009, in ps or pdf format. You should receive an acknowledgment of submission no later than one day after submission. * Program Committee (so far confirmed) Roberto Avanzi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Endre Bangerter (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands) Jesper Buus Nielsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Daniel Page (University of Bristol, UK) Benny Pinkas (University of Haifa, Israel) Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Mike Scott (Dublin City University, Ireland)