[crypto] [lindac@dimacs.rutgers.edu: DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols]

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:35:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Linda Casals <lindac@dimacs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols



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DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols
          
     June 7 - 9, 2004
     DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers: 
       
     John Mitchell, Stanford, mitchell@cs.stanford.edu 
     Ran Canetti, IBM Watson, canetti@watson.ibm.com 
     
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication
Security and Information Privacy.

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The analysis of cryptographic protocols is a fundamental and
challenging area of network security research. Traditionally, there
have been two main approaches, the logic approach aimed at developing
(automated) tools for the formal veri.cation of protocols and the
complexity theory approach that characterizes protocol security as a
set of computational tasks and proves protocol security via reduction
to the strength of the underlying cryptographic functions. Although
these two lines of work share a common goal, there has been little
commonality between them.

The goal of this workshop is to generally promote work on security
analysis of protocols and foster cooperative research combining the
logical and complexity-based approaches. The workshop will include
tutorials on the basics of each approach and will allow
representatives from both communities to talk about their current
work.

TOPICS

    * - Analysis methods involving computational complexity
    * - Game-theoretic approaches
    * - Methods based on logic and symbolic computation
    * - Probabilistic methods
    * - Model checking and symbolic search
    * - Formal proof systems
    * - Decision procedures and lower bounds
* - Anything else that sounds like a great idea 

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Participation:

Interested participants may contact the organizers.

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Registration Fees:

(Pre-registration deadline: May 28, 2004)

Regular Rate 
Preregister before deadline $120/day 
After preregistration deadline  $140/day

Reduced Rate*
Preregister before deadline $60/day
After preregistration deadline $70/day

Postdocs 
Preregister before deadline $10/day 
After preregistration deadline $15/day

DIMACS Postdocs $0 

Non-Local Graduate & Undergraduate students 
Preregister before deadline $5/day 
After preregistration deadline $10/day

Local Graduate & Undergraduate students $0
(Rutgers & Princeton) 

DIMACS partner institution employees** $0 

DIMACS long-term visitors*** $0 

Registration fee to be collected on site, cash, check, VISA/Mastercard
accepted.

Our funding agencies require that we charge a registration fee during
the course of the workshop. Registration fees include participation in
the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any
scheduled social events (if applicable).

* College/University faculty and employees of nonprofit and government
organizations will automatically receive the reduced rate. Other
participants may apply for a reduction of fees. They should email
their request for the reduced fee to the Workshop Coordinator at
workshop@dimacs.rutgers.edu. Include your name, the Institution you
work for, your job title and a brief explanation of your
situation. All requests for reduced rates must be received before the
pre-registration deadline. You will promptly be notified as to the
decision about it.

** Fees for employees of DIMACS partner institutions are
waived. DIMACS partner institutions are: Rutgers University, Princeton
University, AT&T Labs - Research, Bell Labs, NEC Laboratories America
and Telcordia Technologies. Fees for employees of DIMACS affiliate
members Avaya Labs, IBM Research and Microsoft Research are also
waived.

***DIMACS long-term visitors who are in residence at DIMACS for two or
more weeks inclusive of dates of workshop.

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Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel 
can be found at:

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Protocols/

   **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY**

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