WCC'2001  

           INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CODING AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

                 January 8--12,  2001, Paris, France

                FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

                http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2001/
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The workshop is organized by INRIA and sponsored by the ``Ecoles de
Coetquidan''. It will be held, as WCC'99, at the ``Cercle Militaire''
- a high standard hotel located in the heart of Paris - from January 8
to 12, 2001.

Conference Themes:
  Our aim is to bring together researchers in all aspects of coding
  theory, cryptography and related areas, theoretical or applied.

Deadlines:
  Submission of an extended abstract by             September 15, 2000
  Notification by                                   November  10, 2000
  Final version for the book of abstracts and publication in
   the Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics by  November  24, 2000

Topics include, but are not limited to:
+ coding theory: block codes (linear or nonlinear), cyclic codes,
  spherical codes, algebraic geometry codes, quantum codes, codes over
  rings, covering radius, weight distributions, soft decision
  decoding; association schemes; convolutional codes, turbo coding,
  soft output decoding;
+ cryptology: block and stream ciphers, hash functions, public key
  cryptography, digital signature, secret sharing, authentication,
  protocols, cryptanalysis, copyright protection;
+ connections between these two main areas, including, Boolean
  functions, sequences, finite groups, finite fields, algebraic
  geometry, function fields, random structures, lattices,
  combinatorics, designs, Shannon theory.
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                             SUBMISSIONS

Those wishing to contribute a 20 minute talk are invited to submit a
6-10 page extended abstract, before September 15, 2000, by sending an
electronic copy (LaTeX or Postscript, see instructions to authors on
the web site).
If electronic submission is impossible, you may submit instead three
hard copies to
  Claude Carlet, Program committee of WCC 2001,
  INRIA, Projet CODES
  BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France

A volume including the accepted abstracts will be provided to the
participants. These abstracts will be published in the ``Electronic
Notes in Discrete Mathematics''.

                             FULL PAPERS

All authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full
paper for the proceedings to appear as a special issue of Discrete
Applied Mathematics journal; all contributions will be thoroughly
refereed.
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                             INFORMATION

Detailed information about this workshop can be found at the web-site
  http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2001/
or can be requested by e-mail to
  wcc-orga@inria.fr   (for matters concerning organization)
  wcc-prog@inria.fr   (for matters concerning the scientific program)
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Invited talks:
  to be announced

Program committee:
  A. Barg, Bell Laboratories, USA
  J. Boutros, ENST Paris, France
  A. Canteaut, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  C. Carlet, INRIA Rocquencourt and Universite Paris 8, France (Chair)
  S. Coffey, University of Michigan, USA
  G. Cohen, ENST Paris, France
  C. Ding, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
  H. Dobbertin, German Information Security Agency, Germany
  S. Dodunekov, Institute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria
  I. Duursma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  P. Fitzpatrick, University of Cork, Ireland
  E. Gabidulin, MIPT, Russia
  M. Girault, France Telecom / CNET, France
  D. Haccoun, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
  S. Harari, Universite de Toulon, France
  T. Hoholdt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  T. Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
  G. Kabatianski, IITP, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  F. Levy-dit-Vehel, ENSTA, France
  H. Niederreiter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
  K. Nyberg, NOKIA, Finland
  V. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  P. Sole, I3S CNRS, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France
  H. Tapia-Recillas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico
  J.-P. Tillich, Universite de Paris XI, France
  J. Wolfmann, Universite de Toulon, France

Organizing committee:
  D. Augot, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  C. Carlet, INRIA Rocquencourt and Universite Paris 8, France
  A. Canteaut, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  P. Charpin, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  E. Filiol, Ecoles de Coetquidan, France
  P. Loidreau, INRIA Rocquencourt and DGA, France
  N. Sendrier, INRIA Rocquencourt, France (Chair)

Local organization:
  A. Theis-Viemont, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  F. Barbara, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  H. Chanut, INRIA Rocquencourt, France