[crypto] [clegal@dia.unisa.it: SCN '02: Call for Papers]

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:45:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Galdi Clemente <clegal@dia.unisa.it>
To: ray@unipay.nl
Subject: SCN '02: Call for Papers


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                   Call for Papers

  Third Conference on Security in Communication Networks

            September 12--13, 2002, Amalfi, Italy


                  General Information:

Security and privacy are increasing concerns in computer networks
like the Internet. The availability of fast, reliable, and cheap
electronic communication offers the opportunity to perform
electronically and in a distributed way a wide range of
transactions of the most diverse nature. The problem of security,
privacy and integrity of information is of dramatic importance in
transactions of commercial and financial nature.


The Third Workshop on Security in Communication Networks (SCN '02)
will be held in Amalfi (Italy) on September 12--13 2002. SCN '02
aims at bringing together researchers in the field of security in
communication networks to foster cooperation and exchange of
ideas.


Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of data security
including:

    Anonymity                    	Implementations
    Authentication               	Key Distribution
    Block Ciphers                	Operating Systems Security
    Complexity-based Cryptography       Privacy
    Cryptanalysis                	Protocols
    Digital Signatures          	Public Key Encryption
    Electronic Money            	Public Key Infrastructure
    Hash Functions   			Secret Sharing
    Identification               	Survey and state of the art

                 Instructions for Authors:

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers
electronically (PDF or PS file). A detailed description of the
electronic submission procedure will appear by May 1st at
http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/. Electronic submissions must conform to
this procedure in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit
electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 12 copies of
an extended abstract to the Program Chair at the address given
below. Submission must be received by the Program Chair on or
before June 15th (or postmarked by June 1st and sent via airmail
or courier).

The program committee will also consider papers that are currently
submitted to other conferences as well as reports on ongoing
research. The extended abstract should start with the title and an
abstract and should state whether the paper is currently submitted
to a conference and the name of the conference. The abstract
should be followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a
non-specialist reader specifying the subject addressed, its
background, the main achievements, and their significance to data
security. Submissions are limited to 12 single-spaced pages of
12pt type. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to
authors no later than July 5th.


                   Conference Proceedings:

A booklet of extended abstracts will be distributed 
to the participants and made available through the WWW.
We are currently negotiating with an international publishing house 
for the publication of the proceedings of the workshop.


Important Dates:

Submission: 	June 15th 2002.
Acceptance: 	July 5th 2002.



Program Chair:
Giuseppe Persiano
Dip. di Informatica ed Appl.
Universita` di Salerno
84081 Baronissi (Salerno), ITALY
e-mail: giuper@dia.unisa.it
phone (+39)-089-965.241
FAX: (+39)-089-965.272


Programme Committee:
Giuseppe Ateniese               (The Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) 
Carlo Blundo                 	(Univ. di Salerno, Italy) 
Christian Cachin             	(IBM Research, Switzerland)
Giovanni Di Crescenzo           (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
Alfredo De Santis               (Univ. di Salerno, Italy) 
Rafail Ostrovsky	      	(Telcordia Technologies, USA) 
Giuseppe Persiano (Chair)       (Univ. di Salerno, Italy)
Jacques Stern 		        (Ecole Normale Sup., France) 
Doug Stinson 		        (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) 
Gene Tsudik 		        (Univ. of California, Irvine, USA)
Moti Yung 		      	(CertCo, USA)


General Chair:
C. Blundo
Dip. di Informatica ed Appl.
Universita` di Salerno
84081 Baronissi (Salerno), ITALY
e-mail: carblu@dia.unisa.it
phone (+39)-089-965.403


Local Organizing Committee:
S. Cimato, P. D'Arco, C. Galdi, B. Masucci


Publicity Chairs:
V. Auletta, D. Parente
e-mail: {auletta,parente}@dia.unisa.it


Electronic submissions: http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/

A copy of this call for paper as well as other information about
the conference will be available at  http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/.
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