Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committe on Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 65,  Mar 18, 2005 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Robert Bruen, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Editor, Reader's Guide

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Now available, the Conference Information and Preliminary Program of the IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, Berkeley, California
    May 8-11, 2005

  • 3/18/05: Foundations of Computer Security, Chicago, IL; submissions are due
  • 3/18/05: Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks, Athens, Greece; Submissions are due
  • 3/22/05: Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Paris, France
  • 3/23/05- 3/24/05: CERIAS Information Security Symposium
  • 3/23/05- 3/24/05: Information Assurance Workshop, Washington, DC
  • 3/25/05: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Milan, Italy; submissions are due
  • 3/30/05: Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Budapest, Hungary; submissions are due
  • 3/30/05: Usenix Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet, Cambridge, MA
  • 3/30/05: Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures, Linkoping, Sweden; submissions are due
  • 3/31/05: Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, Seattle, Washington; submissions are due

  • The complete Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Jeremy Epstein's review of the RSA Conference
    February 14-18, San Francisco, CA

  • Robert Bruen's review of The Art Of Computer Virus Research and Defense by Peter Szor

  • Robert Bruen's review of Buffer Overflow Attacks. Detect, Exploit, Prevent. by Foster, James, and Vitaly Osipov, and Nish Bhalla, and Niels Heinen

  • Robert Bruen's review of Internet Denial of Service. Attack and Defense Mechanisms by Mirkovic, Jelena, and Sven Dietrich, and David Dittrich, and Peter Reiher

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

    • Carl Landwehr announces NSF 2004 Cyber Trust Award summaries

    • Russ Housley and Sam Hartman report: IETF Revises Kerberos Specifications

    • Nancy Mead, Ted Stehney of Carnegie Mellon University report: Systems Quality Requirements Engineering Methodology
      

  • 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
  

 

• Staying in touch....

  • Information for Subscribers and Contributors

  • Who's where: recent address changes
    Cipher has received notice of the retirement of one of the luminaries in the field of computer security:
       David Elliot Bell
       2415 Andorra Place
       Reston VA 20191
       email: davidelliottbell @ mac.com

    Hilarie Orman reports that she has joined Shinkuro, Inc. as CTO and VP of Engineering; she can be reached via email as hilarie at shinkuro.com

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