Electronic Issue (EI) #60,  May 18, 2004

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   
• Conference and Workshop Announcements excerpted from Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar

  •   The 15 new calls or announcements added since Cipher E59 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • Calender items

    • 5/21/04: Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, Tampa, Florida; Submissions are due; sjha@cse.unsw.edu.au
    • 5/23/04- 5/25/04: Information Hiding Workshop, IH, Toronto, Canada
    • 5/26/04- 5/28/04: Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, WPET, Toronto, Canada
    • 5/31/04: International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS, Malaga, Spain; submissions are due
    • 5/31/04: School on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design, FOSAD, Bertinoro, Italy ; applications are due; gorrieri@cs.unibo.it
    • 5/31/04: Security Issues in Coordination Models, Languages and Systems, SecCo, London, UK; Submissions are due; focardi@dsi.unive.it
    • 5/31/04: International Workshop on Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems, PDSC, San Francisco, CA; submissions are due
    • 6/ 1/04: RSA Conference, Cryptographers' Track, CT-RSA 2005, San Francisco, CA; submissions are due
    • 6/ 1/04: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 20th ACSAC, Tucson, Arizona; Submissions are due; Workshop_chair@acsac.org
    • 6/ 2/04- 6/ 4/04: ACM Symposium On Access Control Models And Technologies, SACMAT 2004, Yorktown Heights, NY
    • 6/ 7/04- 6/ 9/04: DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols, DW-SAP, Rutgers University, New Jersey
    • 6/ 8/04- 6/11/04: Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS, Yellow Mountain, China
    • 6/10/04- 6/11/04: Colleges, Code and Copyright, CCCpyrt, Adelphi, Maryland
    • 6/10/04- 6/11/04: International Information Assurance Workshop, IAW, West Point, NY
    • 6/10/04: Specification and Automated Processing of Security Requirements, SAPS, Linz, Austria; submissions are due; amg@lcc.uma.es
    • 6/11/04: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES, Washington, DC; submissions are due
    • 6/14/04: Workshop on Wireless Security, WiSe, Philadelphia, PA; submissions are due
    • 6/18/04: Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, FAST, Toulouse, France; submissions are due
    • 6/20/04- 6/23/04: Congress on Evolutionary Computation, special session on crypto and compsec, Portland, Oregon
    • 6/25/04- 6/26/04: European PKI Workshop, Euro PKI, Samos island, Greece
    • 6/25/04: Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA, Jeju Island, Korea; submissions are due;
    • 6/26/04: Security Issues with Petri Nets and other Computational Models, WISP; Bologna, Italy
    • 6/27/04- 7/ 2/04: USENIX, Boston, Massachusetts
    • 6/28/04- 6/30/04: Computer Security Foundations Workshop, 17th CSFW, Pacific Grove, CA
    • 6/28/04- 7/ 1/04: Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium, DCCS, Florence, Italy
    • 6/28/04- 6/29/04: Biometric Security, BioSec, Barcelona, Spain
    • 7/ 2/04: Security of Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, SASN, Washington, DC; submissions are due
    • 7/ 6/04- 7/ 7/04: Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA, Dortmund, Germany
    • 7/04/04: Automated Reasoning for Security Protocols Analysis, ARSPA, Cork, Ireland
    • 7/ 6/04- 7/ 9/04: Conference on Web Services, ICWS, San Diego, California;
    • 7/12/04- 7/16/04: Workshop on Education in Computer Security, WECS 6, Monterey, CA
    • 7/12/04- 7/13/04: Foundations of Computer Security, FCS, Turku, Finland
    • 7/12/04- 7/13/04: Workshop on Logical Foundations of an Adaptive Security Infrastructure, WOLFASI, Turku, Finland
    • 7/30/04- 7/31/04: Conference on Email and Anti-spam, First CEAS, Mountain View, CA

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Review of the Security and Privacy Symposium (Berkeley, California, May 10-12, 2004) by Hilarie Orman

  • Robert Bruen's review of The Shellcoder's Handbook. Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes by Koziol, Jack, David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan Eren, Neel Mehta and Riley Hassell

  • Robert Bruen's review of Network Security Assessment by McNab, Chris

  • Robert Bruen's review of Defend IT. Security by Example by Gupta, Ajay and Scott Laliberte

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • IETF Revises Extensible Authentication Protocol, by Jari Arkko and Russ Housley
    • Task force releases security recommendations, By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service April 01, 2004
    • Microsoft Shelves NGSCB Project As NX Moves To Center Stage, By Paula Rooney, CRN, May 05, 2004
    • Microsoft: 'Palladium' Is Still Alive and Kicking, By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch, May 5, 2004

  • 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
  (last updated March 15, 2002)

 

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

  • National ICT Australia, Formal Methods Program, Researcher/Senior Researcher, Formal Methods for Computer Security
    http://nicta.com.au
  • National ICT Australia, Program Leader, Security and Trust Management Program
    http://nicta.com.au
 

• Staying in touch....

  • Information for Subscribers and Contributors

  • Who's where: recent address changes

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• Interesting links  and reports available via FTP and WWW