Electronic Issue (EI) #40, December 19, 2000

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Information on the 2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 13-16, 2001, Oakland, CA, USA.  (5-minute talk abstracts due 3/13/01)

  • Call for papers for the 14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, June 11-13, 2001, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada  (papers due 2/1/01).

  • Live in the tri-state area?  Check out the New Jersey Computer Security Seminar.

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    (new calls since Cipher E39: IEEE Computer, SMC-IAW, IFIP/SEC2001, ISSE2001, CCS-8, Indocrypt2001)

 
• News Briefs

  • List Watch by Mary Ellen Zurko

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 
• Commentary and Opinion

  • A note on DARPA's workshop on open source operating systems and security,  by Carl Landwehr

  • Robert Bruen's review of SSL and TLS. Designing and Building Secure Systems by Eric Rescorla

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

 
• Staying in touch....

  • Information for Subscribers and Contributors

  • Who's where: recent address changes

  • Please check the list of failed e-mail addresses and send updates to cipher@ieee-security.org

 
• Interesting links  and reports available via FTP and WWW 
 
• Reader's guide to recent security and privacy literature, by Anish Mathuria  (no new entries this month)
   
• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
   

IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy