Call for papers

Website: https://histocrypt.org/
Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=histocrypt2021

Contact: histocrypt2021@deutsches-museum.de

The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021, website: https://histocrypt.org/2021/) invites submissions of papers to its annual conference on historical cryptology. The conference will be held on September 20, 2021 (Online-Event) and June 20-22, 2022 (Main Conference and workshops) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Please mark your calendars.

HistoCrypt addresses all aspects of historical cryptography and cryptanalysis. The conference's subjects include, but are not limited to:

the use of cryptography in military, diplomacy, business, and other areas
analysis of historical ciphers with the help of modern computerized methods
unsolved historical cryptograms
the Enigma and other encryption machines
the history of modern (computer-based) cryptography
special linguistic aspects of cryptology
the influence of cryptography on the course of history
teaching and promoting cryptology in schools, universities, and the public

We welcome everybody interested in the field of historical cryptology to participate in the event. We invite submissions to HistoCrypt for presentation at the conference (onsite or online), which will be evaluated by a program committee. Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper.

Conference highlights

As part of the conference, we are happy to announce the invited keynote speakers:

Prof. Tanja Lange: Professor of Mathematics and expert in modern cryptography and leader of an European post-quantum project
Maarten Oberman: Cryptologist, specialized on Cold War cryptology and the Dutch cipher machine ECOLEX
David Oranchak, Sam Blake, Jarl van Eycke: Solving the Zodiac Killer's Cipher (online)
Paul Reuvers: Engineer, Hagelin expert, crypto collector and curator of www.cryptomuseum.com
Prof. Gerhard F. Strasser: Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania University.

Background

HistoCrypt 2021 represents a continuation of the highly successful European Historical Ciphers Colloquiums (EuroHCC) held in Heusenstamm (2012), Kassel (2016), and Smolenice (2017). Considering EuroHCC's growing popularity among the crypto historians and cryptographers, we established HistoCrypt as an annual, international event. The first event in the series took place at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2018, the second event was held at the Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium in 2019. Due to the circumstances, the third event at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 2020 could not take place as physical meeting, but the proceedings were published.

Submissions

We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:

regular papers up to 10 pages (including references) on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including evaluation results, where appropriate;
short papers up to 4 pages (including references) on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces;

Presentations of accepted papers are either oral, poster, or demo, which will be decided by the program committee.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the HistoCrypt 2021 proceedings, which is published as part of the Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) Proceedings Series (http://omilia.uio.no/nealt/?task=publications) by Linköping University Electronic Press (ECP: https://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/index.en.asp), as freely available Gold Open Access. Publications in the Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings are ranked on the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers as Level 1 publications. Please consult the responsibilities of the authors concerning publication ethics and malpractice statement as described on the ECP website: https://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/index.en.asp#tab4. Paper submissions that violate these requirements will be returned without review.

Schedule

Sunday, February 28, 2021: Submission of Papers
Monday, April 26, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
Monday, May 31, 2021: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
Monday, September 20, 2021: Online-Event
June 20-22, 2022: Main Conference and workshops

Submission formats

All submissions must follow the HistoCrypt 2021 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from here.

Submissions shall be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references.

Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. The page limits for submissions are: up to ten pages for regular papers, up to four pages for short papers including bibliographic references. Paper submissions that violate the requirements will be returned without review.

Submission management

Submissions to the conference must follow the above requirements and be uploaded electronically no later than:

Sunday, February 28, 2021 23:59 CET

HistoCrypt utilizes the EasyChair conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. Submission for the conference are open since December 1, 2020 at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=histocrypt2021

Program committee

Reviewing of submissions and selection of the conference program will be managed by the HistoCrypt 2021 Program Committee. All submissions will receive at least two double-blind reviews by experts in the field.

Carola Dahlke (program chair), Deutsches Museum, Germany
Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bernhard Esslinger, University of Siegen, Germany
Benedek Láng, University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Dermot Turing, Kellogg College, Oxford, UK
George Lasry, DECRYPT and CrypTool projects, Israel
Karl de Leeuw, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or generally the scientific program of the conference, please email
histocrypt2021@deutsches-museum.de.

Local organization

Karl de Leeuw (general chair)
Jan Bergstra
Matthijs Koot
Paul Reuvers
Jaap van Tuyll

For all practical inquiries, please email to: karl13@xs4all.nl.

Covid-19 situation

Due to global uncertainties about vaccination schedules and travel and contact restrictions in 2021, we cannot guarantee that the conference will take place. We will try hard to arrange a physical meeting in combination with the possibility to present online for all participants who will not be able to travel to Amsterdam. Should circumstances beyond the control of the organizers make the physical meeting impossible, the organizers shall undertake every reasonable effort to implement the conference as a virtual meeting. Should this prove to be impossible, the organizers reserve the right to cancel this edition of the conference, publishing the accepted papers in the proceedings. News will be posted on the website.

Photo: Inge Hoogland

Last update 2021-07-22