Designs, Codes and Cryptography is an archival peer-reviewed technical journal publishing survey and original papers in the designated areas. There is a great deal of activity in design theory, coding theory and cryptography and recently there has been considerable research done which brings together more than one of the subjects. Journals currently exist for each of the individual areas but none encourage the interaction of the disciplines.

Some of these journals emphasize only the theoretical aspects of each subject, some only the practical. The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for high quality papers of both a theoretical and a practical nature which bridge more than one of these areas. The scope of the journal is wider. Papers emphasizing the algebraic and geometric aspects of any of the areas will be considered with papers touching more than one of the areas being especially welcome.

The journal will be published twelve times per year with distribution to engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and other in education, industry and government. It will maintain strict refereeing procedures and no paper previously published in another journal, transactions or book will be considered. Survey papers will be by invitation only.