These are the proceedings of Eurocrypt 2007, the 26th Annual IACR Eurocrypt
Conference. The conference was sponsored by the International Association for
Cryptologic Research (IACR; see www.iacr.org), this year in cooperation with
the Research Group on Mathematics Applied to Cryptography at UPC and the
Research Group on Information Security at UMA. The Eurocrypt 2007 Program
Committee (PC) consisted of 24 members whose names are listed on the next
page.
The PC decided on several policies: zero PC papers - no Program Committee
member could submit papers; optional anonymity - authors could choose to
anonymize their papers or not. Anonymous papers were treated as usual, i.e.,
the author’s identity was not revealed to the PC. The submission software used
was “Web Submission and Review Software” written and maintained by Shai
Halevi. There were 173 papers submitted to the conference and the PC chose
33 of them. Each paper was assigned to at least three PC members, who either
handled it themselves or assigned it to an external referee. After the reviews were
submitted, the committee deliberated both online for several weeks and finally
in a face-to-face meeting held in Paris. In addition to notification of the decision
of the committee, authors received reviews. Our goal was to provide meaningful
comments to authors of all papers (both those selected for the program and
those not selected). The default for any report given to the committee was that
it should be available to the authors as well.