We are happy to announce the birth of a new conference on聽Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC). Information-theoretic cryptography studies security in the presence of computationally unbounded adversaries and covers a wide array of topics at the intersection of cryptography, coding theory, information theory and theory of computation. Notable examples include randomness extraction and privacy amplification, secret sharing,聽 secure multiparty computation and proof systems, private information retrieval and locally decodable codes, authentication codes and non-malleable codes, differential privacy, quantum information processing, and information-theoretic foundations of physical-layer security. See聽 聽for more information.聽
ITC replaces the International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS), which was dedicated to the same topic and ran 2005-2017. ITC can be seen as a reboot of ICITS with a new name, a new steering committee and a renewed excitement.
The conference will have two tracks: a conference track and聽 a 鈥済reatest hits鈥 track. The conference track will operate like a traditional conference with the usual review process and published proceedings. The 鈥済reatest hits鈥 track consists of invited talks (not included in the proceedings) that highlight the most exciting recent advances in the area. We solicit nominations for 鈥済reatest hits鈥 talks from the community.聽
The first ITC conference will take place in Boston, MA on June 17-19, 2020 (just before STOC).聽 The submission deadline for ITC 2020 is Dec 16, 2019 and聽the call for papers (including a nomination procedure for the greatest hits track) is available here:聽聽
Please submit your best work to ITC 2020! We hope to see many of you there!