Call for Papers

                            Workshop on Information Hiding

                                         Portland, Oregon, USA

                                             15 - 17 April 1998

Many researchers are interested in hiding information or in stopping
other people doing this. Current research themes include copyright
marking of digital objects, covert channels in computer systems,
subliminal channels in cryptographic protocols,
low-probability-of-intercept communications, broadcast encryption
schemes, and various kinds of anonymity services ranging from
steganography through location security to digital elections.

These closely linked areas of study were brought together in 1996 by a
workshop on information hiding held at the Isaac Newton Institute in
Cambridge. This was felt to be very worthwhile by the research
community, and it was decided to hold a second workshop in 1998.

This second international workshop on information hiding will be held
in Portland, Oregon from the 15th to the 17th April 1998.

Instructions for authors:

Interested parties are invited to submit papers on research and
practice which are related to these areas of interest. Submissions can
be made electronically (latex or postscript; preferred format is latex
using llncs.sty) or in paper form; in the latter case, send eight
copies suitable for blind refereeing (the authors' names should be on
a separate cover sheet and there should be no obvious
references). Papers should not exceed fifteen pages in length.

Addresses for submission:

awk@ibeam.intel.com

David Aucsmith, Intel Architecture Labs, 5200 N. E. Elam Young Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97124-6497, USA

Deadlines:

Paper submission:                       31st December 1997
Notification of acceptance:             28th February 1998
Camera-ready copy for preproceedings:   31st March 1998
Camera-ready copy for proceedings:      31st May 1998

The full proceedings will be published after the workshop by Springer
Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. The
possibility that some papers may contain colour plates makes it
impractical to prepare these proceedings beforehand, so only
preproceedings will be available at the event.

Program committee:

David Aucsmith (Intel) - Chair
Ross Anderson (Cambridge University)
Steve Low (University of Melbourne)
Ira Moskowitz (US Naval Research Laboratory)
Andreas Pfitzmann (Technical University of Dresden)
Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain)
Gus Simmons (University of New Mexico)
Michael Waidner (IBM, Zuerich)