Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.

Vendor BoFs
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Scheduling a BoF
To schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on one of the BoF Boards located in the registration area. If you have a description of our BoF you'd like posted on this Web page, please schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title, the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of the BoF to bofs@usenix.org with "Security '06 BoF" in the subject line.

BoF Schedule (as of August 3, 2006)
For the most current schedule, please see the BoF Boards in the registration area.

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.	10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Tweedsmuir	50	DRM Watermarks Real-World Use
British	100
Boardroom	60
Cortes Island	30

Wednesday, August 2, 2006
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.	10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Tweedsmuir	50	Sxip BoF Securing Web Identities Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity	Anonymization for Log Sharing Discussion Kiran Lakkaraju, NCSA
Waddington	100
Boardroom	75
Cortes Island	50

Thursday, August 3, 2006
ROOM	# of Seats	7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.	10:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m.
Tweedsmuir	50	Operational Security in a University or Academic Environment RuthAnne Bevier, Caltech
Waddington	100	Security and Programming Languages: Why Are We Still Using C? Are There No Viable Alternatives? Martin Forssen, AppGate
Boardroom	75	Multiple Submission BoF For current and past general and program chairs ONLY Abe Singer
Cortes Island	50

BoF Descriptions

Sxip BoF: Securing Web Identities
Moderator: Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity
Wednesday, August 2, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Tweedsmuir

As commercial and social interactions continue to migrate to the Web, establishing "who" we are is essential, and current identity management technologies are failing to operate at internet scale. This BoF will discuss emerging IdM solutions and user-centric protocols such as CardSpace, OpenID and SXIP that provide for identity data exchange, protect user privacy, and offer a functional gradient of security levels.