This is to inform people who are interested of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy's newsletter, CIPHER. The URL for the online version can be found at http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/ There is also a text version of the newsletter mailed out to the mailing list about every two months. You can find subscription information as well as the current and back issues at the web site. Here is the table of contents of the April issue: ==================================================================== Newsletter of the IEEE Computer Society's TC on Security and Privacy Electronic Issue 27 April 27, 1998 Avi Rubin and Paul Syverson, Editors Bob Bruen, Book Review Editor Hilarie Orman, Assoc. Editor Mary Ellen Zurko, Assoc. Editor Anish Mathuria, Reader's Guide ==================================================================== http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/ Contents: [3354 lines total] o Letter from the TC Chair o Letter from the Editor Final Program and Registration Information for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland California USA Preliminary Program of the 1998 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, Rockport Mass. USA Security and Privacy Survey by the IEEE Computer Society Security and Privacy News Briefs: o LISTWATCH: Items from security-related lists, by Mary Ellen Zurko o An Update from Asia, by Yongfei Han o Report on Canadian Crypto Policy Framework for Electronic Commerce, by Stewart Baker and Elizabeth Banker o More recent news on Canadian Crypto Policy Framework and other policy news o Denial of service attacks targeting Windows 95/NT machines o Employees buy ORA Canada Commentary and Opinion: Book Reviews o Web Security. A Step-by-step Reference Guide. by Lincoln Stein, reviewed by Bob Bruen Conference Reports: o Workshop on Education in Computer Security (WECS '98) by Cynthia Irvine o Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP `98) by Danielle Gallo o Financial Cryptography (FC`98) by Paul Syverson o NSA Network Security Framework Forum (NSFF) by Jeremy Epstein Assessment of security software New reports available via FTP and WWW: a couple New Interesting Links on the Web Who's Where: recent address changes Calls for Papers: HASE, ACSAC, IEEE Internet Computing, Software Practice & Experience, JCS, ACM RBAC Reader's guide to recent security and privacy literature o Conference Papers: Paper lists for FC, NDSS, and Info. Hiding o Journal and Newsletter articles: several Calendar List of Computer Security Academic Positions, maintained by Cynthia Irvine Publications for sale -- CSFW proceedings available TC officers Information for Subscribers and Contributors ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin rubin@research.att.com Secure Systems Research Dept. Adjunct Professor at NYU AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue http://www.research.att.com/~rubin/ Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 Voice: +1 973 360-8356 USA FAX: +1 973 360-8809 --> Check out http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/websec/ for a new book on web security (The Web Security Sourcebook). *********************************************************************