Prof. Dr. Josef Pieprzyk Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cryptography

We are pleased to announce that, starting from January 2021, the editorial leadership of Cryptography (ISSN 2410-387X) has been passed on to Prof. Dr. Josef Pieprzyk, who is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 in Sydney, Australia.

The research interest of Professor Josef Pieprzyk focuses on cryptology and information security and includes design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms (such as encryption, hashing and digital signatures), secure multiparty computations, cryptographic protocols, copyright protection, e-commerce, web security and cybercrime prevention.

Professor Pieprzyk is a member of the editorial boards for several international journals. Additionally, he has published 5 and edited 10 books (conference proceedings published by Springer), 6 book chapters and more than 250 papers in refereed journals and refereed international conferences.

We warmly welcome Professor Josef Pieprzyk as our new Editor-in-Chief and look forward to his valuable input for the continued success of Cryptography. We would also like to take the opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to the previous Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kwangjo Kim, for his invaluable contributions to the journal.