*** GOCP 2007 Call for Papers ***
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International Workshop on Group-Oriented Cryptographic Protocols
(GOCP 2007)
held in conjunction with ICALP 2007
July 9th, 2007, Wroclaw, Polen
GOCP 2007 URL: http://www.hgi.rub.de/gocp07/
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Scope
Group-oriented cryptographic protocols are foundational for the
security of various group applications, like digital conferencing,
groupware, group communication systems, computer-sup****ted
collaborative work-flow systems, multi-user information distribution
and sharing, data base and server replication systems, peer-to-peer and
ad-hoc groups, group-based admission and access management, electronic
voting and election, applications in federative or distributed
environment, etc.
A variety of cryptographic techniques and assumptions provides a solid
basis for the design of provably secure group-oriented cryptographic
protocols, which is an im****tant and challenging task. Formal security
models for group-oriented cryptographic protocols require consideration
of a large number of potential threats resulting from the attacks on
the communication channel and from the misbehavior of some protocol
participants. These challenges and the emerging development of
multi-party and group-oriented applications are just some reasons for
setting up a new cryptographic workshop, solely dedicated to the
security issues of cryptographic protocols used in these scenarios.
We encourage submissions concerning cryptographic foundations, formal
security models, and actual design of all kinds of group-oriented
cryptographic protocols, schemes, and applications. Another goal of the
workshop is to bring together researchers and industrial specialists to
exchange theoretical and practical results, experience, ideas, and
discuss future directions.
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Topics of interest
The GOCP 2007 workshop encourages submissions concerning cryptographic
foundations, formal security models, and actual design of all kinds of
group-oriented cryptographic protocols, schemes, and applications.
Topics of interest include (in alphabetical order):
- Access and admission control in groups
- Anonymity and privacy in group communications
- Broadcast and multicast communication security
- Cryptographic group-oriented protocols
- Electronic election and voting
- Formal security models (proofs) for group-oriented cryptographic
protocols
- Group key exchange/distribution
- Group-oriented signatures
- Secure multi-party computation
- Security in distributed group applications
- Security in mobile and ad hoc groups
- Security in peer-to-peer groups
- Trust management in groups
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Im****tant Dates
Submission deadline: 16.03.2007
Notification of acceptance: 04.05.2007
Final version deadline: 31.05.2007
Workshop date: 09.07.2007
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Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers should have at most 12 pages excluding bibliography
and appendices. They should be in a single column format, use at least
11-pt fonts, and have reasonable margins. The GOCP 2007 workshop does
not require anonymity of submissions.
Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF or PS format
via http://www.hgi.rub.de/websubrev/
There will be no formal proceedings. Conference records with all
accepted papers will be distributed during the workshop and remain
available online through the workshop homepage. A number of selected
papers is planned to be invited to a Special Issue on Group-Oriented
Cryptographic Protocols in IET Information Security (former IEE
Proceedings Information Security).
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Organization Committee
Emmanuel Bresson (DCSSI, Paris, France)
Christian Cachin (IBM Research Lab, Z=FCrich, Switzerland)
Mark Manulis (HGI, RUB, Bochum, Germany)
David Pointcheval (CNRS, ENS, Paris, France)
J=F6rg Schwenk (HGI, RUB, Bochum, Germany)
Program Committee
Michel Abdalla (CNRS, ENS, Paris, France)
Rana Barua (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Xavier Boyen (Stanford University, USA)
Emmanuel Bresson (DCSSI, Paris, France)
Christian Cachin (IBM Research Lab, Z=FCrich, Switzerland)
Liqun Chen (HP Bristol Labs, UK)
Kim-K. Choo (Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia)
Aggelos Kiayias (University of Connecticut, USA)
Hiroaki Kikuchi (Tokai University, Japan)
Yongdae Kim (University of Minessota, USA)
Mark Manulis (HGI, RUB, Bochum, Germany)
Olivier Pereira (UCL, Belgium)
Josef Pieprzyk (Macquarie University, Australia)
David Pointcheval (CNRS, ENS, Paris, France)
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (HGI, RUB, Bochum Germany)
J=F6rg Schwenk (HGI, RUB, Bochum, Germany)
Michael Steiner (IBM Research T.J. Watson, USA)
Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA)
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