Designs, Codes and Cryptography is an archival peer-reviewed technical journal publishing original research papers in the designated areas. There is a great deal of activity in design theory, coding theory and cryptography, including a substantial amount of research which brings together more than one of the subjects. While many journals exist for each of the individual areas, few encourage the interaction of the disciplines. 

The journal was founded to meet the needs of mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists working in these areas, whose interests extend beyond the bounds of any one of the individual disciplines. The journal provides a forum for high quality research in its three areas, with papers touching more than one of the areas especially welcome.
The journal also considers high quality submissions in the closely related areas of finite fields and finite geometries, which provide important tools for both the construction and the actual application of designs, codes and cryptographic systems. In particular, it includes (mostly theoretical) papers on computational aspects of finite fields. It also considers topics in sequence design, which frequently admit equivalent formulations in the journal’s main areas.
Designs, Codes and Cryptography is mathematically oriented, emphasizing the algebraic and geometric aspects of the areas it covers. The journal considers high quality papers of both a theoretical and a practical nature, provided they contain a substantial amount of mathematics.
The journal is published twelve times per year with distribution to mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists and others in education, industry and government. It appeals to those mathematicians with an interest in seeing deep theoretical results in discrete mathematics applied, to those engineers who appreciate the beauty and usefulness of discrete mathematics and to those computer scientists who are interested in data security, complexity issues and reliable data transmission and storage.
The journal maintains strict refereeing procedures and no paper previously published in another journal, transactions or book will be considered. The journal also publishes some survey articles, but only by invitation. Submissions extending previously published conference papers are only considered if they provide a significant contribution beyond the conference paper and the overlap is described clearly at the beginning of the journal submission.

Editors-in-Chief:
Dieter Jungnickel
University of Augsburg, Germany
Jennifer D. Key
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, SC, USA
Chris Mitchell
School of Mathematics and Information Security, University of London, UK
Honorary Editorial Board:
R. Mullin, Florida Atlantic University, USA
P. Wild, University of London, UK
M.J. de Resmini † (1939-2012), Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy
S.A. Vanstone † (1947-2014), University of Waterloo, Canada
Editorial Board:
O. Ahmadi, IPM, Iran
M. Albrecht, Royal Holloway, UK
K.T. Arasu, Wright State University, USA
J. Bierbrauer, Michigan Technological University, USA;
C. Blundo, University of Salerno, Italy
J. Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
M. Buratti, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
C. Carlet, University of Paris 8, France
P. Charpin, INRIA, France
Jung Hee Cheon, Seoul National University, South Korea
C.J. Colbourn, Arizona State University, USA
R. Cramer, University of Leiden, Netherlands
C. Ding, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
A. Enge, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France
T. Etzion, Technion IIT, Israel
S. Galbraith, University of Auckland, New Zealand
D. Ghinelli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy 
T. Helleseth, University of Bergen, Norway
J.W.P. Hirschfeld, University of Sussex, UK
T. Iwata, Nagoya University, Japan
J. Jedwab, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
A. Joux, IMJ-PRG – Fondation SU, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, CNRS, INRIA, France
J.-L. Kim, Sogang University, South Korea
J. H. Koolen, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
G. Korchmaros, University of Basilicata, Italy
G. Kyureghyan, Universität Rostock, Germany
I. Landjev, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
T. Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
M. Lavrauw, University of Padua, Italy
G. Lunardon, Università di Napoli, Italy
K. Matsuura, University of Tokyo, Japan
G. McGuire, University College Dublin, Ireland
K. Metsch, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
G. Mullen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
C. Padro, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
D. Panario, Carleton University, Canada
M. Paterson, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
T. Penttila, Colorado State University, USA
A. Pott, University of Magdeburg, Germany
C.E. Praeger, The University of Western Australia, Australia
K.-U. Schmidt, Paderborn University, Germany
D. Stebila, University of Waterloo, Canada
R. Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia
R. Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University, USA
L. Storme, Ghent University, Belgium
L. Teirlinck, Auburn University, USA
V.D. Tonchev, Michigan Technological University, USA
A. Winterhof, RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Q. Xiang, University of Delaware, USA 
Y. Zhou, National University of Defense Technology, China
V.A. Zinoviev, Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russia