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to the special issue is on <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/Cryptographic_Protocols_2020" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/Cryptographic_Protocols_2020</a>.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mehmet</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 7:08 PM Mehmet Sabir Kiraz <<a href="mailto:m.kiraz@gmail.com">m.kiraz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>I would like to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue "Cryptographic Protocols 2020" at <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/" target="_blank">www.mdpi.com</a>. The security and privacy of a system are generally protected through designing cryptographic protocols such as</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">secure communication,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">authentication,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">key management,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">privacy-preserving protocols,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">secure multiparty computation,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">electronic voting,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">certificate-less public key cryptography,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">secure outsourcing computations and </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">their applications to wide areas like IoT (e.g., VANETs, MANETs), Cloud Computing and Blockchain. The goal of this Special Issue is to seek novel cryptographic protocols that advances the challenges of the state-of-the-art, and subject areas suitable for publication are not limited to the range of these topics.<br><br>The Special Issue will be published in 2020, which means that we will need your manuscript by March 15th, 2020. To submit your paper to the special issue, go to <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/" target="_blank">www.mdpi.com</a> by registering and logging in to this website. </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once you are registered, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=cryptography" style="color:rgba(53,19,30,0.75);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">click here to go to the submission form</span></b></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>Yours sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:bla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