NEWS

• Conference success - 30th of September, 2007
  The organisation would like to thank all the speakers and the participants for making the WISSec 2007 workshop a resounding success. We look forward to meeting you all in Eindhoven next year!
• David Naccache speaking - 13th of September, 2007
  We are happy to announce that David Naccache, an internationally renowned researcher and co-designer of the SHACAL block ciphers, will be giving a keynote address at WISSec. See the program for more details.
• Christian Rechberger speaking - 13th of September, 2007
  We are pleased to announce that Christian Rechberger, a noted cryptographer with a focus on hash functions, will be giving an invited lecture. See the program for more details.
• registration period extended - 9th of September, 2007
  Since finding accomodation may be difficult in the WISSec period, we have decided to extend the registration period until the 14th of September.
• important news: ARRANGE YOUR HOTEL EARLY! - 2nd of September, 2007

WORKSHOP GOAL AND TOPICS

The purpose of the workshop is to share ideas, experiences and information on the following, or related, topics:

• Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms
• Cryptographic and security protocols, formal verification
• Network security, Internet security, Wireless security
• Security for embedded systems, smart cards and RFID
• Security of software and hardware systems
• Privacy enhancing technologies
• E-voting, e-banking, e-governement
• Financial cryptography and security
• Content protection, DRM, watermarking
• Biometrics
• Standards for information security
• Legal and social aspect of information security
• Ethical hacking, protection against malware, spam

The workshop intends to give both experienced and young researchers from the Benelux and the Grand Region area an opportunity to present their work and to get feedback. We would also like to encourage other international researchers to contribute to the workshop.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

The program committee is soliciting papers describing original work. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of at most 15 pages in pdf-format. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at the workshop. We strongly recommend that the paper is typeset using LaTeX and the LNCS style which is available here.

Please use the online submission system to submit your paper.

The conference will have opt-in final proceedings.

Opt-in means that regardless of past or future exposure all well-written papers can be accepted for presentation at the conference, and for inclusion in the informal pre-proceedings distributed at the conference. Only those submissions for which the copyright is still held by the authors and whose authors indicate at the moment of the submission that they would like to be evaluated for inclusion in the formal proceedings would get thorough evaluation by the PC members. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.

It is planned that a selection of the submissions will appear in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming. More information will be made available later.

IMPORTANT DATES

• June 14 June 21, 2007 Submission deadline.
• July 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance.
• September 8, 2007 deadline conference registration.
• September 20-21, 2007 Workshop

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

Alex Biryukov, Sjouke Mauw (co-chairs)
Hugo Jonker, Deike Priemuth-Schmid (local organisation)

E-mail: wissec2007@uni.lu

PROGRAM COMITTEE

• Fred Arbogast, Computer Security Research Response Team Luxembourg
• Alex Biryukov (co-chair), University of Luxembourg
• Joan Daemen, STMicroelectronics, Belgium
• Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor
• Marc Fischlin, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Dieter Gollman, Hamburg University of Technology
• Pieter Hartel, Universiteit Twente
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman, TNO Information and Communication Technology / Radboud University Nijmegen
• Matthias Krause, Universität Mannheim
• Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Arjen Lenstra, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Sjouke Mauw (co-chair), University of Luxembourg
• Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Ahmad Sadeghi, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
• Berry Schoenmakers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Marijke de Soete, NXP Semiconductors
• Martijn Stam, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Pim Tuyls, Philips Research Eindhoven
• Thijs Veugen, TNO Information and Communication Technology

Previous / future editions

• WISSec 2008 will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• WISSec 2006 was held in Antwerp, Belgium.