[OGSA-AUTHZ] CFP: 6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop

[Frank Siebenlist]

Please take a look at the attached call for papers.

Over the years, this PKI R&D Workshop has proven to be one of the most
enjoyable security events with high quality papers and very interesting
presentations.

Securely yours, Frank.

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6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop

"Applications-Driven PKI (It's The Apps, Stupid!)"
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD April 17-19, 2007
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/

This workshop considers the full range of public key technology used for
security decisions and supporting functionalities, including
authentication, authorization, identity management, federation, and
trust. This year's focus is striking the proper balance to permit users
to complete tasks requiring security easily while exposing the
appropriate security details through all layers of software. This
workshop has three goals:

Explore the current state of public key technology and emerging trust
mechanisms in different domains, including web services, grid
technologies, encryption functionality, authentication systems, etc., in
academia, research, government, and industry.
Share and discuss lessons learned and scenarios encountered from vendors
and practitioners from current deployments.
Provide a forum for leading security researchers to explore the issues
relevant to PKI in relation to applications, usability, security
management, identity, trust, policy, authentication, authorization and
encryption (e.g., supporting privacy requirements).
Call for Papers

We solicit papers, case studies, panel proposals, and participation from
researchers, systems architects,
vendor engineers, and users. Suggested topics include but are not
limited to:

Reports of real-world experience with the use and deployment of
applications that leverage PKI, how best to integrate such usage into
legacy systems, and future research directions
Federated versus Non-Federated trust models
Standards related to PKI and security decision systems, such as X.509,
SPKI/SDSI, PGP, XKMS, XACML, XRML, XML signatures, and SAML
Identity management (Shibboleth, Liberty, Higgins, InfoCard, etc.)
Cryptographic and alternative methods for supporting security decisions,
including the characterization and encoding of data
Intersection of policy-based systems and PKI
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) advances that improve usability of PKI
for users and administrators
Privacy protection and implications
Use of PKI in emerging technologies (e.g., sensor networks)
Scalability and performance of PKI systems
Security of the components of PKI systems
Security infrastructures for constrained environments
Improved human factor designs for security-related interfaces, including
authorization and policy
management, naming, signatures, encryption, use of multiple private
keys, and selective disclosure
New paradigms in PKI architectures
Submissions should be provided electronically, in PDF, for standard US
letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches).
Paper submissions must not exceed 15 pages (single space, two column
format with 1" margins using a 10 pt or larger font) and have no header
or footer text (e.g., no page numbers). Proposals for panels should be
no longer than five pages and include possible panelists and an
indication of which panelists have confirmed participation.

Submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed submission
instructions can be found at the workshop website (see
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/). All submissions will be
acknowledged. Submissions of papers must not substantially duplicate
work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted
in parallel to any other conferences or journals.

Accepted papers will be published in a preproceedings at the workshop
and in a final proceedings shortly after the workshop.

Deadlines for conference paper and panel submissions are:

Papers and Proposals Due: October 22, 2006
Authors Notified: December 18, 2006
Final Materials Due: February 26, 2007
Workshop: April 17-19, 2007

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Frank Siebenlist               franks at mcs.anl.gov
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