The Ninth International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS 2010) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 12-14, 2010. It will be co-organized by Multimedia University, Malaysia and the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

The main goal of the conference is to promote research on all aspects of network security, as well as to build a bridge between research on cryptography and network security. We therefore welcome scientific and academic papers that focus on this multidisciplinary area.

The first International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security was in Taipei, Taiwan, 2001. The second one was in San Francisco, California, USA, September 26 - 28, 2002, the third in Miami, Florida, USA, September 24 - 26, 2003, the fourth in Xiamen, Fujian, China, December 14-16, 2005, the fifth in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, December 8 - 10, 2006, the sixth in Singapore, December 8 - 10, 2007, the seventh in Hong Kong, December 2 - 4, 2008 and the eighth in Japan, December 12 - 14, 2009.

The deadline of submission is on 18 June 2010 (Friday, 15:59 UTC).

The conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/lncs).