SPEED - Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption Amsterdam, June 11-12, 2007 Call for contributions: ECRYPT's virtual lab VAMPIRE organizes SPEED - Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption. SPEED addresses the speed of secret-key and public-key cryptography. Speed improvements can come from better systems, better algorithms, and better software. SPEED's origin is eBATS, the ECRYPT competition on public key cryptography http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/ebats/ and one of SPEED's purposes is to provide a forum for the BAT submitters and encourage work investigating the security of the BATs. Compilers constitute an important part of software generation and better compilers can achieve higher speed and security and ease the task for the programmer. We therefore also welcome submissions on this topic. 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 but a workshop record with all accepted papers.) * SPEED asks for submissions on the following topics - software implementation of public key systems - software implementation of hash functions and symmetric key systems - algorithmic speed-ups of symmetric and public key systems - CPU specific speed-ups - benchmarking of symmetric and public key systems - security of BATs submitted to eBATS - comparisons of BATs submitted to eBATS - compilers to automate producing efficient code and executables - compilers to introduce cryptographic security into code - cryptographic software engineering tools * Deadlines April 06, 2007: submission of papers May 11, 2007: notification May 25, 2007: resubmission deadline June 11 - 12, 2007: SPEED workshop in Amsterdam 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 April 06, 2007, in ps or pdf format. You should receive an acknowledgment of submission no later than one day after submission. * Program Committee Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) Daniel Page (University of Bristol, UK) Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK) Andre Weimerskirch (escrypt, Germany)