Electronic Issue (EI) #51,  November 16, 2002

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Call for papers for the 16th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, June 30-July 2, 2003. (submissions due January 28, 2003) www.csl.sri.com/csfw/csfw16

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    7  new calls added since Cipher E50: 

  • 18th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (submissions due December 14, 2002)  www.acm.org/sigsac/sacmat/
  • 16th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (submissions due January 28, 2002)  www.csl.sri.com/csfw/csfw16
  • Second Annual PKI Research Workshop (submissions due January 31, 2003)   middleware.internet2.edu/pki03/
  • Security in Distributed Computing (special track of the 22nd Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Systems) (submissions due January 31, 2003)  www.podc.org/podc2003/
  • Workshop on Data Mining for Counter Terrorism and Security (submissions due February 1, 2003)   ic.arc.nasa.gov/~ashok/SIAM_2003_Conference.htm
  • 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (special session on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Information Security) (submissions due February 1, 2003)  scalab.uc3m.es/~docweb/AIIS_KES03.html
  • Communications Security Symposium (submissions due February 15, 2003)   www.globecom2003.com/CFP1.html

  

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Robert Bruen's review of  Honeypots Tracking Hackers by Lance Spitzner

  • Robert Bruen's  review of A Guide to Forensic Testimony. The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as an Expert Technical Witness by Fred Smith and Rebecca Bace

  • Robert Bruen's  review of Hackers Beware by Eric Cole

  • Review of New Security Paradigms 2002 Workshop Papers, by Christina Serban and Hilary Hosmer

  • 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

  • Changing your email address?  Please send updates to cipher@ieee-security.org

   
• Interesting links  and reports available via FTP and WWW