International Workshop on Security Protocols
Cambridge, England
25 - 27 April 2001
You are invited to consider submitting a position paper to the Ninth
Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols. The workshop
is jointly sponsored by the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
and Centre for Communications Systems Research, and held at Microsoft
Research Limited, Cambridge. Attendance is by invitation only, and in
order to be invited you must submit a position paper.
Theme
This year's theme is "Mobile Computing vs Immobile Security".
This theme includes (but is not limited to):
* location-dependent authorization
* portable hardware and alien infrastructure
* enforcing foreign security policy
* recognizing ambassadors and malware
* migrating user requirements.
We invite you to consider these issues. As usual, we don't insist that
position papers relate to the current theme in an obvious way. Our
experience is that the emergence of the theme as a unifying thread
takes place during the discussions at the workshop itself. The only
pre-condition is that position papers should concern some aspect of
security protocols, which may, but need not, involve cryptography.
Our intention is to select the most interesting papers for
presentation at the workshop: those which will stimulate discussion
likely to lead to conceptual advances, or to promising new lines of
investigation, rather than papers which merely describe a piece of
finished work.
Background
The Cambridge Workshops on Security Protocols originated in informal
discussions between members of the University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory and others with wide interests in security issues of
distributed computer systems.
The purpose of the Workshops is to bring together a relatively small
number of researchers and leading-edge practitioners working in the
field to discuss new ideas and developments in distributed systems
security. Each workshop concentrates on a particular theme within this
wider context, in order to stimulate and focus discussion.
Themes of past workshops have included, for example: reasoning about
cryptographic protocols, requirements of data integrity compared to
requirements for confidentiality, trust and delegation. The
traditional emphasis at the Computer Laboratory has been on real-world
systems, and there has been a consistent and deliberate leaning
towards systems engineering and implementation aspects. Theoretical
contributions presenting novel techniques that address real-world
problems have also been very welcome.
The proceedings of previous workshops in this series have been
published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The
2000 Proceedings are currently being edited for publication, but the
1999 Proceedings are available as LNCS 1796, and the 1998 Proceedings
as LNCS 1550. If you have not previously attended the Security
Protocols Workshop, you may find it helpful to refer to these to get
an idea of the flavour.
Local Steering Committee
D. Bruce Christianson, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
comqbc@herts.ac.uk
Phone: +44 17 07 28 43 35
Fax: +44 17 07 28 43 03
T. Mark A. Lomas, Goldman Sachs International, London
protocols2001@absent-minded.com
Phone: +44 20 77 74 39 28
William S. Harbison, Nortel Networks, Harlow
Phone: +44 12 79 40 35 60
Fax: +44 12 79 40 32 06
James A. Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
comqjam@herts.ac.uk
Phone: +44 17 07 28 43 10
Fax: +44 17 07 28 43 03
Michael R. Roe, Microsoft Research Limited, Cambridge
mroe@microsoft.com
Phone: +44 12 23 72 48 22
Fax: +44 12 23 74 47 77
Workshop Participation
Participants are assumed to have knowledge of cryptographic algorithms
and techniques, but the primary emphasis of the workshops is on the
environment in which such protocols operate and the nature and
interactions of the systems components which implement them.
The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion
of new ideas and approaches that are still in the process of
formulation, yet sufficiently developed to benefit participative
discussion with knowledgeable peers.
The workshop will be organised in related sessions with short (ten
minute) individual presentations of position papers being the starting
point for a wide-ranging informal discussion. As in previous years, it
is our intention to include edited transcripts of these discussions in
the Proceedings of the Workshop.
Initial submissions to the workshop should take the form of a position
paper (preferably no longer than about 2 - 3,000 words please)
exploring current limits and deficiencies in the area rather than
being completed research due for publication. Reasoned controversy is
welcomed. You will have the opportunity to revise your position paper
prior to publication of the proceedings.
All submissions should be made initially to Michael Roe and marked
"2001 Protocol Workshop". Please ensure that we have a first version
of your position paper by January 31, 2001, as we intend to issue
invitations during February.
Workshop Fees
We need to cover the costs of organising the workshop, but do not
intend to make a profit. Last year a nominal contribution of 180
pounds sterling per person was requested to cover expenses. We intend
to prepare pre-proceedings of the meeting which will be distributed to
participants at the workshop.
A workshop dinner will be arranged at one of the Cambridge Colleges.
This has in the past proved to be a productive and entertaining
adjunct to workshop, as well as giving spouses and partners an
opportunity to become involved in our general discursions. The cost of
the dinner for participants is included in the workshop fee, although
there will be an additional cost for guests (on the order of 30 pounds
sterling).
Enquiries
If you have any enquiries about the workshop then please contact one
of the organizing committee.
To be considered for invitation, you must submit a position paper by
31 January. Please make an initial response as soon as possible, even
if it is only to say that you are potentially interested, to:
Michael R Roe
2001 Security Protocols Workshop
Microsoft Research Ltd
1 Guildhall Street
Cambridge CB2 3NH
UK, Europe.