Electronic Issue (EI) #49,  July 18, 2002

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    13  new calls added since Cipher E48: 

  • Workshop on Computer Forensics (abstracts due 7/31/02) www.csds.uidaho.edu/workshop/forensics
  • ACM Workshop on Digital-Rights Management (submissions due 8/1/02) crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/
  • First ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism (submissions due 8/1/02)  www.sait.fsu.edu/sactworkshop/sact.html
  • The Sixth International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (submissions due 8/9/02)  www.sait.fsu.edu/pkc2003
  • IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks (submissions due 8/15/02) www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cambridge/ccn.htm
  • Workshop on Socially-Informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing (submissions due 8/18/02)  guir.berkeley.edu/privacyworkshop2002
  • ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (submissions due 8/23/02)  seclab.dti.unimi.it/~wpes.
  • 10th Annual network and Distributed System Security Symposium  (submissions due 8/30/02)  www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/03/index.shtml
  • International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (submissions due 10/14/02) www.cs.clemson.edu/~srimani/itcc2003/cfp.html
  • British Computer Society Formal Aspects of Security (submissions due 10/21/02) www.bcs-facs.org/
  • First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (submissions due 10/31/02) www.dfki.de/SPC2003
  • The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Security & Privacy Track (submissions due  11/15/02)  www.www2003.org/
  • Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (submissions due 12/2/02) www.petworkshop.org/
  • Information and Program for the International Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (Aix-en-Provence, France, September 3-5, 2002)
  

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Robert Bruen's review of  Counter Hack. A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses by Ed Skoudis

  • Robert Bruen's  review of Have You Locked the Castle Gate? Home and Small Business Security by Brian Shea

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Reader's guide to recent security and privacy literature, by Anish Mathuria
  (last updated March 15, 2002)

 

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

 

• 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