Symposium's in San Francisco in August. Papers due January 28 for review. In case your mailer doesn't like the way Eudora munges headers while forwarding, it was originally sent by Kevin Fu <fubob@MIT.EDU> Bill Stewart =================================== 2002 USENIX Security Symposium - Call for papers OVERVIEW Tutorials: August 5-6, 2002 Technical Sessions: August 7-9, 2002 The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security of computer systems. If you are working on any practical aspects of security or applications of cryptography, the program committee would like to encourage you to submit a paper. Submissions are due on January 28th, 2002. This symposium will last for four and a half days. Two days of tutorials will be followed by two and a half days of technical sessions including refereed papers, invited talks, works-in-progress, and panel discussions. IMPORTANT DATES Conference registration information and program will be available in May 2002 on the symposium Web site at http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/ If you would like to receive the program booklet in print, please email your request, including your postal address, to: conference@usenix.org. Paper submission deadline: January 28th, 2002 Notification to authors: March 25th, 2002 Camera ready due: May 13th, 2002 SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS Program Chair Dan Boneh, Stanford University Program Committee Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs - Research Matt Blaze, AT&T Labs - Research Drew Dean, SRI International Kevin Fu, M.I.T. Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corporation Patrick Lincoln, SRI International Vern Paxson, ICSI Radia Perlman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Mike Reiter, Bell Labs, Lucent Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research Adam Stubblefield, Rice University Leendert van Doorn, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Wietse Venema, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Dan Wallach, Rice University Bennet Yee, University of California, San Diego Elizabeth Zwicky, Counterpane Internet Security SYMPOSIUM TOPICS Refereed paper submissions are being solicited in all areas relating to systems and network security, including but not limited to: Adaptive security and system management Analysis of malicious code Analysis of network and security protocols Applications of cryptographic techniques Attacks against networks and machines Automated tools for source code analysis Authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications Denial-of-service attacks File and filesystem security Firewall technologies Intrusion detection Privacy preserving systems Public key infrastructure Rights management and copyright protection Security in heterogeneous environments Security of agents and mobile code Security of Internet voting systems Techniques for developing secure systems World Wide Web security Since Usenix Security is primarily a systems security conference, papers focusing on cryptographic primitives or electronic commerce models, are encouraged to seek alternative conferences. REFEREED PAPERS Wednesday - Friday, August 7-9 Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be presented during the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings. The proceedings will be distributed to attendees and, following the conference, will be available online to USENIX members and for purchase. Best Paper Awards Awards will be given at the conference for the best paper and for the best paper that is primarily the work of a student. TUTORIALS, INVITED TALKS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, WIPS, AND BOFS In addition to the refereed papers and the keynote presentation, the technical program will include tutorials, invited talks, panel discussions, a Work-in-Progress session (WIPs), and Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions. You are invited to make suggestions regarding topics or speakers for any of these formats to the program chair via email to sec02chair@usenix.org. Tutorials (August 5-6) Tutorials for both technical staff and managers will provide immediately useful, practical information on topics such as local and network security precautions, what cryptography can and cannot do, security mechanisms and policies, firewalls and monitoring systems. If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, or suggesting a topic, contact the USENIX Tutorial Coordinator, Dan Klein, by email to dvk@usenix.org. Invited Talks (August 7-9) There will be several outstanding invited talks at the symposium in parallel with the refereed papers. Please submit topic suggestions and talk proposals via email to sec02it@usenix.org. Panel Discussions (August 7-9) The technical sessions will also feature some panel discussions. Please send topic suggestions and proposals to sec02chair@usenix.org. Work-in-Progress Session (WIPs) (August 9) The last session of the symposium will be a Works-in-Progress session. This session will consist of short presentations about work-in-progress, new results, or timely topics. Speakers should submit a one- or two-paragraph abstract to sec02wips@usenix.org by 6:00 pm on Wednesday, August 7, 2002. Please include your name, affiliation, and the title of your talk. The accepted abstracts will appear on the symposium Web site after the symposium. The time available will be distributed among the presenters with a minimum of 5 minutes and a maximum of 10 minutes. The time limit will be strictly enforced. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the symposium. Experience has shown that most submissions are usually accepted. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs) (August 6-8) There will be Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. BoFs often feature a presentation or a demonstration followed by discussion, announcements, and the sharing of strategies. BoFs can be scheduled on-site, but if you wish to pre-schedule a BoF, please email the conference office, conference@usenix.org. They will need to know the title of the BoF with a brief description, the name, title and company and email address of the facilitator, your preference of date, and whether an overhead projector and screen is desired. HOW AND WHERE TO SUBMIT REFEREED PAPERS Papers should represent novel scientific contributions in computer security with direct relevance to the engineering of secure systems and networks. Both the work described in the paper and the paper itself must be substantially complete at the time of the submission. Full papers are encouraged, and should be about 8 to 14 typeset pages using an 11pt font or larger. Submissions must be received by January 28th, 2002. Papers will only be accepted electronically, via the symposium Web site, and must be in PDF format (e.g. processed by Adobe's Acrobat Distiller). Note that LaTeX users can use the "dvipdf" command to convert a DVI file into PDF format. Please make sure your submission can be opened using Adobe Acrobat 4.0. For more details on the submission process, authors are encouraged to consult the detailed author guidelines available at http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/cfp/guidelines.html All submissions will be judged on originality, contribution to the field, and correctness. Each accepted submission may be assigned a member of the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the authors. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 25th, 2002. Camera-ready final paper due date is May 13th, 2002. The USENIX Security Symposium, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. When appropriate, authors should arrange for a release for publication from their employer prior to submission. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. Submissions will be read by the program committee and other selected members of the technical community for the purposes of technical review, but otherwise will be held in confidentiality. Specific questions about submissions may be sent via e-mail to sec02chair@usenix.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com