USENIX - Call for Papers - 7th USENIX Security Symposium

7th USENIX Security Symposium

January 26-29, 1998
Marriott Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

Sponsored by the USENIX Association, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association
in cooperation with The CERT Coordination Center.

Important Dates for Refereed Papers

Papers due:	September 9, 1997
Author notification:	October 8, 1997
Camera-ready final papers due:	December 9, 1997
Registration Materials Available:	End October, 1997

(Authors, see "How to Submit a Refereed Paper" below.)

Program Chair
Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research

Program Committee
Carlisle Adams, Entrust Technologies
Dave Balenson, Trusted Information Systems
Steve Bellovin, AT&T Research
Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Diane Coe, Concept Five Technologies
Ed Felten, Princeton University
Li Gong, JavaSoft
Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan
Hugo Krawczyk, Technion
Jack Lacy, AT&T Research
Hilarie Orman, DARPA/ITO
Mike Reiter, AT&T Research
David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

Readers
Katherine T. Fithen, CERT
Trent Jaeger, IBM Watson Labs

Invited Talks Coordinator
Greg Rose, Qualcomm Australia (Greg Rose's homepage)

OVERVIEW

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security and applications of cryptography.

This will be a four day symposium with two days of tutorials, followed by two days of refereed paper presentations, invited talks, works-in-progress presentations, and panel discussions.

TUTORIALS
Monday and Tuesday, January 26-27

Tutorials for both technical staff and managers will provide immediately useful, practical information on topics such as local and network security precautions, what cryptography can and cannot do, security mechanisms and policies, firewalls and monitoring systems.

If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, contact the tutorial coordinator, Dan Klein: phone (412)421-2332 email dvk@usenix.org

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday and Thursday, January 28-29

In addition to the keynote presentation, the technical program includes refereed papers, invited talks, a Works-in-Progress session, and panel sessions. There will be Birds-of-a-Feather sessions the last two evenings. You are invited to make suggestions to the program committee via email to security@usenix.org.

Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be presented during the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings, and provided free to technical session attendees. Additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX.

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

Refereed paper submissions are being solicited in areas including but not limited to:

Adaptive security and system management
Analysis of malicious code
Applications of cryptographic techniques
Attacks against networks/machines
Computer misuse and anomaly detection
Copyright protection (technical solutions)
Cryptographic & other security tools
File and file system security
Network security
New firewall technologies
Security in heterogeneous environments
Security incident investigation and response
Security of Mobile Code
User/system authentication
World Wide Web security

Note that this symposium is not about new codes, ciphers, nor cryptanalysis for its own sake.

Papers must represent novel scientific contributions in computer security with direct relevance to the engineering of secure systems for the commercial sector.

HOW TO SUBMIT A REFEREED PAPER
(Please read carefully)

The guidelines for submission are a bit different from previous years. Authors must submit a mature paper in postscript format. Any incomplete sections (there shouldn't be many) should be outlined in enough detail to make it clear that they could be finished easily. Full papers are encouraged, and should be about 8 to 15 typeset pages. Submissions must be received by September 9, 1997.

Along with your paper, please submit a separate email message containing the title, all authors, and their complete contact information (phone, fax, postal address, email), indicating which author is the contact author.

Authors will be notified of acceptance on October 8, 1997.

All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and correctness. Each accepted submission may be assigned a member of the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the authors. Camera-ready final papers are due on December 9, 1997.

If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and examples of extended abstracts, you may send email to:
securityauthors@usenix.org
or telephone the USENIX Association office at (510) 528-8649.

The Security Symposium, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

There will be one or two prizes awarded for best paper(s).

WHERE TO SUBMIT

For reliability, please send one copy of your paper to the program committee via each of the following two methods. All submissions will be acknowledged.

Email (Postscript) to:: securitypapers@usenix.org
Send a hard copy to:: Security Symposium; USENIX; 2560 Ninth St., Ste. #215; Berkeley CA 94710; U.S.A.; Phone: (510) 528-8649; Fax: (510) 548-5738

VENDOR DISPLAYS

Demonstrate your security product to our technically astute attendees responsible for security at their sites. We invite you to take part in the Vendor Display. The table-top display allows you to meet with attendees informally and demonstrate in detail your security solutions.

Contact:: CynthiaDeno; email: cynthia@usenix.org; Phone: 408.335.9445; Fax: 408.335.5327

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS SESSION (WIPs)

The last session of the symposium will be a Works-in-Progress session consisting of five minute presentations. Speakers should provide a one or two paragraph abstract to the program chair by 6:00 pm on January 28, 1998 at the conference. These should be provided in person, not via email. The chair will post the schedule of presentations by noon on the 29th. Experience at other conferences has shown that usually, all of them are accepted. The five minute time limit will be strictly enforced.

INVITED TALKS

There will be several invited talks at the conference in parallel with the refereed papers. If you have suggestions for possible speakers, please send them to security@usenix.org.