Dan Geer <geer@TheWorld.com> writes:

I founded this series in 1995 and was proud to have done so; we ran them in 1996 and 1998 as well, but the cutting edge quickly moved away from USENIX's core and forte to where every conference organizer on the planet had an e- commerce workshop of some sort up and running.

Unfortunately they've become either just another Crypto clone (FC in the last year or two) or a collection of XML/J2EE/buzzword-du-jour be-ins (all the rest). The world still needs a good, technical e-commerce security conference which isn't one of the above.

I'm open to suggestions, of course,

I'd love to see it resurrected. While I can't really organise it because of where I am, I'd be happy to referee papes or whatever. Having served on PCs for several other security conferences, I've seen enough papers of the appropriate kind submitted elsewhere to indicate that there'd be enough for an e-commerce security conference (in other words there's no shortage of material there). The Usenix one, during its short lifetime, attracted some really good papers. Peter.