Electronic Issue (EI) #50,  September 17, 2002

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Call for papers for the 2003 Symposium on Security & Privacy

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    10  new calls added since Cipher E49: 

  • ASCA Workshop on the Application of Engineering Principles to System Security Design (submissions due September 30, 2002)  www.acsac.org/waepssd/cfp.html
  • Cryptographer's Track, RSA Conference (submissions due October 1, 2002)  reg2.lke.com/rs3/rsa2003/crypto.html
  • Information resources Management Association International Conference (submissions due October 4, 2002)  www.irma-international.org
  • International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (submissions due October 4, 2002)  www.ipccc.org
  • Workshop on Security and Assurance in Ad Hoc Networks (submissions due October 15, 2002)  www.sait.fsu.edu/wsaan2003/
  • 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems  (submissions due October 15, 2002)  www.iceis.org
  • First International Workshop on Information Assurance (submissions due November 1, 2002)  www.ieee-tfia.org/iwia2003
  • 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (submissions due November 6, 2002)  www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html
  • Third World Conference on Information Security Education, and the Workshop on Education in Computer Security (submissions due January 3, 2003)  cisr.nps.navy.mil/wise3
  • 12th USENIX Security Symposium (submissions due January 27, 2003)  www.usenix.org/events/sec03/
  • Program for the 2nd Symposium on Requirements Engineering (October 16, 2002, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)   www.sreis.org
  

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Robert Bruen's review of  Hack Proofing Your Identity in the Information Age by Teri Bidwell, Michael Cross, and Ryan Russell.

  • Robert Bruen's  review of Biometrics Identity Verification in a Networked World by Samir Nanavati, Michael Thieme, and Raj Nanavati.

  • 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