This Special Section will be included in the Journal issue of the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics,Communications and Computer Sciences (IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, for short), which will be published in March 2028.The objective of the Special Section is to stimulate research in the area of cryptography and information security. You arestrongly encouraged to submit original research papers and/or letters on all practical and theoretical aspects of informationsecurity including new research fields: FinTech, cybersecurity, hardware security, automobile security, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security, etc.


# Information for Authors

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines in the Information for Authors available at the IEICE web site: http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_ess.html. Manuscript style specifications can be found on the website (Section 3:Manuscript Style Specifications). The number of pages is recommended to be 8 for a PAPER and 2 for a LETTER. Note thatfor the initial submission of a LETTER, the number of pages excluding References is at most 4. A page has about 900 words.It is not allowed to submit survey papers. Please read carefully our policy on duplicate submissions available at: http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/page2_ess.html#1-3.

# Deadline

The deadline of electronic submissions: March 15, 2027.

# Notification

Acceptance or rejection of the submitted papers or letters will be notified to the authors before the middle of August2027. Please note that if accepted, all authors will be requested to pay for the page charges covering the partial cost ofpublication. If the page charges have not been paid until the due date, the acceptance will be canceled.