FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 09:49:03 EDT From: Nick Maxemchuk <nfm@research.bell-labs.com> To: apc@ee.nthu.edu.tw, apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg, commsoft@cc.bellcore.com, enternet@bbn.com, ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US, itc@fokus.gmd.de, multicomm@cc.bellcore.com, tccc@cs.umass.edu Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications COPYRIGHT AND PRIVACY PROTECTION Significant investments are now being made worldwide to develop an infrastructure for on-line services and electronic commerce. A major impediment is the lack of effective protection of copyright for content owners and of privacy for users. Digital data can be easily copied and redistributed widely without any loss of fidelity. One promising idea is to discourage illicit distribution by watermarking digital objects with hidden copyright messages to proclaim ownership and unique identifiers to help trace pirates. The techniques of information hiding are in many ways related to mechanisms that can be used to protect the anonymity of system users by concealing address, location and routing information. The problem becomes even more interesting when privacy protection and copyright protection must be combined in the same system. We seek fundamental papers on watermarking of digital data, on techniques for anonymous communications, and design and analysis of systems that protect copyright and/or privacy. A partial list of topics is as follows: + watermarking of digital data + anonymous communications + steganography + covert and subliminal channels in networks protocols + combining copyright and privacy protection + experiments and attacks + tradeoffs between performance and security Prospective authors should email their manuscripts (PostScript format only) or send six hard copies to one of the Guest Editors listed below, according to the following schedule. Please direct all email enquiries to slow@ee.mu.oz.au. Manuscript Due: March 1, 1997 Acceptance Notification: August 1, 1997 Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 1997 Publication Date: 2nd Quarter 1998 Ross Anderson Ingemar Cox Cambridge University Computer Lab NEC Research Pembroke Street 4 Independence Way Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K. Princeton NJ 08540, USA Tel: +44 1223 33 47 33 Tel: +1 609 951 2722 Fax: +44 1223 33 46 78 Fax: +1 609 951 2482 Email: ross.anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk Email: ingemar@research.nj.nec.com Steven Low Nicholas Maxemchuk Dept. of Electrical Electronic Engr. ATT Laborataries University of Melbourne 600 Mountain Ave. Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA Tel: +6 13 9287 9205 Tel: +1 908 582 6240 Fax: +6 13 9287 9188 Fax: +1 908 582 5807 Email: slow@ee.mu.oz.au Email: nfm@research.att.com