• An Invitational Workshop on Improving Internet Security, San Diego, CA, February 20-21, 1996. This workshop will bring together principal players in the Federal and overall Internet community to discuss the problems and challenges of security on the Internet. It will also form the foundation for industry and government strategies for implementing specific FISP recommendations during 1996 / 1997. Federal Internet Security Plan provides some background information.
  • Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, 22-23 February 1996. Conf Web page The symposium will bring together people who are building software and/or hardware to provide network and distributed system security services. The symposium is intended for those interested in the more practical aspects of network and distributed system security, focusing on actual system design and implementation, rather than in theory. We hope to foster the exchange of technical information that will encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy and advance the state of the available security technology. Registration queries to Ndss96reg@isoc.org (or use web page).
  • Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering, 26 Feb. - 1 March, 1996, New Orleans, Lousiana.
  • IMC'96 Information Visualization and Mobile Computing, Rostock, Germany, February 26-27, 1996. This workshop is supported by the German Computer Society (GI), Special Interest Groups "Imaging and Visualization" (GI 4.1.2) and "Information Technology and Mobility" (GI 4.0.4). Topics of interest related to Mobile Visualization include data security in mobile environments. Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or position papers (in English, at most 4 pages). Submissions should be in the form of a single uuencoded compressed PostScript file sent by email to the program chair (kirste@igd.fhg.de) by November 15. Workshop Home Page http://www.igd.fhg.de/~movi/imc96.html CfP Postscript Version http://www.igd.fhg.de/~movi/imc96-cfp.ps
  • First International Workshop on Real-Time Databases: Issues and Applications, Newport Beach, California, March 7-8, 1996; Workshop attendees will discuss the research issues and applications of real-time database systems and explore novel ideas. Papers describing new ideas, promising approaches, experiences with practical and research systems, and work in progress are considered particularly appropriate. One particular topic of interest is integration with active, dependable, and secure database features Conf Web page.
  • IEEE S&P '96: 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 6-8 May 1996, Oakland, California. Latest information available at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/SP96.
  • Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, May 6-11, 1996. The primary focus of the conference is on new original research results and on innovative technology related to the World Wide Web. The commitee solicits the submission of papers that address novel, challenging and innovative ideas, concepts or systems, reports on real uses with concrete and quantitative results, including the topics of consistency, integrity and security. See the conference web page for more information.
  • Internet Privacy and Security Workshop, Haystack Observatory, Mass., May 20-21, 1996. A principal focus of the workshop will be on the Federal portion of the Internet. All points of view on Federal policies affecting Internet privacy and security are welcome. Conf Web page.
  • IFIP/SEC '96, 21-24 May, 1996, Island of Samos, Greece. Chair, Prof. S. Katsikas, University of the Aegean, 30 Boulgaroktonou ST., Athens, GR11472, GREECE. Inquiries by e-mail to sec96@aegean.ariadne-t.gr.
  • The 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 27-30 May 1996, Hong Kong. The purpose of this conference is to bring together developers and researchers from universities, industry and government to advance the science and technology in distributed computing. The technical areas of the conference include: Fault Tolerance, Availability and Security.
  • Workshop on Information Hiding, 30 May - 1 June 1996, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK. Contributions sought on research and practice in information hiding techniques, as used in copyright marking of digital objects, covert channels in computer systems, subliminal channels in cryptographic protocols, LPI communications, and various kinds of anonymity services ranging from steganography through location security to digital elections. Deadline was extended, check with organizers.
  • Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96, Montreal, Canada, June 2, 1996, DMKD96. Mining knowledge from large databases is a promising research area, with high application potential due to the huge amounts of data accumulated in databases and other repositories, coupled with the rapid growth of data. The objective of this workshop is to bring researcherstor in database systems together to discuss and examine the issues related to mining knowledge from databases. A topic of interest is knowledge discovery applications, including ecurity and social impact of data mining.
  • ACM SIGMOD/PODS 96 Joint Conference, 3-6 June 1996, Montreal, Canada. SIGMOD call includes database authorization and security as topics of interest and asks authors to submit six copies of contributions up to 8000 words; PODS call includes integrity and security as topics of interest.
  • 18th Biennial Symposium on Communiations, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 3-5, 1996. This symposium is intended to provide a forum for engineers and researchers in the area of Communications and Signal Processing. A specific area of interest is Cryptography & Security.
  • SECURICOM '96, June 4-6, Paris, France. The congress will address advances in theory, design and application of the various techniques mandating the use of security.
  • ASIACRYPT '96, Kyongju, South Korea, November 3-7, 1996; Conf Web page. Authors are invited to submit original papers, neither published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, by sending 16 copies of an extended abstract containing at most 10 single-spaced pages of 12pt type, not counting the bibliography and clearly marked appendices to Dr. Kwangjo Kim by May 20, 1996.
  • 12th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 9-13, 1996, San Diego, CA. Those who are developing solutions to problems relating to protecting your country's information infrastructure or a commercial enterprise are invited to consider submitting a paper to the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Papers are due by May 24 and should not exceed 7500 words. Panel/forum proposal and vendor presentation proposals are also sought. Mailing instructions are provided.
  • Third Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, August 15-16, 1996, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada. Queen's University, in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research, is hosting the third in a series of annual workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography. Original papers are solicited on the following topics: Efficiency in Cryptographic Systems, Block Ciphers and Stream Ciphers, and Role of Public-Key Cryptography in Secure Wireless Communications. Authors should send 8 copies of an extended abstract of at most 15 double-spaced pages, clearly indicating the results achieved, their significance, and their relation to other work in the area, to:
    SAC '96
    c/o Stafford Tavares
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Queen's University
    Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
    CANADA
    Deadline for submission of papers is June 7, 1996. Authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of their papers by electronic mail on or before July 12, 1996. Authors should include their electronic address.