The third International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography (Pairing 2009) will be held at Stanford University, USA on August 12-14, 2009.

The preliminary program for Pairing 2009 has now been posted.

Registration for Pairing 2009 is now closed; we are unfortunately unable to process on-site registrations.

Pairing 2009 will include a session devoted to 10-minute talks covering recent advances in the application of pairings to cryptography. Confirmed speakers include:

• Michel Abdalla (École Normale Supérieure)
• Susan Hohenberger (Johns Hopkins)
• Vipul Goyal (UCLA)
• Jens Groth (University College London)
• Amit Sahai (UCLA)

Pairing 2009 will include invited talks from the following speakers:

• Victor Miller (IDA-CCR)
• Tanja Lange (TU Eindhoven)
• Amit Sahai (UCLA)

We have arranged special rates with several hotels near Stanford. See the venue information page for details. Travel information is also posted on the venue page.

Dates for submissions and the conference are:

Submission deadline:	March 6, 2009 (hard deadline; no extensions)
Notification of decision:	May 1, 2009
Camera-ready deadline:	May 22, 2009
Conference:	August 12-14, 2009

The online paper submission system is now online.

Pairing 2009 has been accepted for publication in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer. A printable version of the CFP is available here.

Pairing-based cryptography has been one of the most active areas of cryptography over the past decade. The 3rd International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography will bring together researchers interested in all technical aspects of pairing-based cryptography.

We solicit authors to submit papers describing their original research on all aspects of pairing-based cryptography including: cryptographic protocols; mathematical foundations; hardware and software implementations; and applied security.

• Voltage Security
• Microsoft Research

• Crypto 2009 will be held at UC Santa Barbara (a few hours’ drive from Stanford) the week after Pairing 2009.
• Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2009), Calgary, 24–26 August.

• The first Workshop on Pairings in Cryptography, held 12–15 June 2005 in Dublin, Ireland.
• Pairing 2007, the first International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography, held 2–4 July 2007 in Tokyo, Japan.
• Pairing 2008, the second International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography, held 1–3 Sep. 2008 at Royal Holloway, in Egham, the United Kingdom.
• Applications of Pairing-Based Cryptography: Identity-Based Encryption and Beyond, held at NIST 3–4 June 2008.