Anna's statement for elections to the IACR Board

There are, of course, a myriad issues that the IACR is facing moving forward, online publishing very prominent among them. I promise to deal with these issues with care and an open mind.  The IACR is my home research community, and I'd like to give back. My priorities are: (1) High quality research and its effective dissemination, (2) mentoring, (3) dialogue with related research communities, industry, standards and funding agencies.  Here is one additional idea that I would like to explore:

• Special issues of journals. In many other research communities, following a good conference there is a special issue of a journal for publishing full versions of (some of) its papers. Full versions of papers do a better job explaining the results, benefiting from the questions and discussions that the papers generated at the conferences. Therefore, full versions are more accessible than proceedings versions. It would be nice to have that for IACR conferences as well. Having such special issues would make sure that full versions of papers actually do get written (personally, I am much more likely to get something done when there is a set deadline), mistakes in proceedings versions are corrected, and cryptography researchers get the recognition that comes with having journal publications.