Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Stream Ciphers" in the journal CCDS, Springer 
http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/12095

Submission Deadline Extended to January 15, 2012.

Discrete structures, Sequences and Boolean functions constitute the basic 
building blocks of Stream Ciphers, the primary goal of which is to produce
pseudo-random sequences of keystream words for Cryptographic applications. 
Over the last decade, the cryptology community has witnessed a huge volume of
high-quality research work in the domain of stream ciphers, spearheaded by the 
eSTREAM project of the European Network of Excellence for Cryptology and the
evolution of the security portfolio in modern tele-communication standards. 
The field of stream ciphers has reached a decent level of maturity over the 
last few years through the proposal and standardization of several new designs 
as well as a considerable amount of analysis put forward by eminent 
academicians.

In light of this, a Special Issue on "Stream Ciphers" will be published in the 
journal "Cryptography and Communications". This is to harness the
research contributions devoted towards stream ciphers over the last decade 
into a single literary volume with substantial archival value.

For this special issue, we would like to solicit the following in the field of 
Stream Ciphers:
1. Novel contributions;
2. Research contributions published and/or presented at past conferences and 
workshops, with substantial revision and new contributions;
3. Expository survey articles in relevant topics.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two experts.

Instruction for authors:
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Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.

Submissions are non-anonymous. Each submission must begin with a title, an 
abstract, a list of key words, and an introduction that summarizes the 
contributions of the paper. Accepted submissions must not appear in any 
journal or in any other conference or workshop with proceedings. The final 
versions of accepted papers will have to follow the CCDS guidelines
(http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/12095) 
with an expected page limit of 20 pages including references and appendices.

Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Cryptography and
Communications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review
system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review
process of their manuscript.

Manuscripts should be submitted to: 

			http://www.edmgr.com/ccds .
 
This online system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission
procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats.

Once you log in, for "Article Type" you need to choose "Stream Ciphers".

Submissions under item 1 must not duplicate work that any of the authors has 
published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any journal or any other 
conference or workshop with formally published proceedings.

Submissions under item 2 must contain detailed revision of research 
contributions published and/or presented at past conferences with substantial 
amount of new contribution (roughly speaking it should be one third of the 
total contribution). The authors should clearly identify the sections that are 
novel.

Submissions under item 3 should summarize and explain state-of-the-art research
results in a novel way that are expected to provide better understanding in the
field of stream ciphers. Such papers should describe the existing literature, 
provide a detailed perspective in the area of stream ciphers, and try to 
explain future trends in this area of research.

Important Dates:
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Submission of Papers: 31 December, 2011 (extended to January 15, 2012)
First level of Review will be completed by: March 20, 2012
Submission of the revised version: April 10, 2012
Final notification: May 20, 2012
Final Version Due: June 10, 2012

Guest Editors:
Subhamoy Maitra and Palash Sarkar
Indian Statistical Institute