***************CALL FOR PAPERS********************* ************************************************* DIMACS Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Security November 3 - 5, 2004 DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Organizers: Bill Arbaugh, University of Maryland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy. ************************************************ The rapid growth of both voice and data wireless communications has resulted in several serious security problems in both the voice and data spaces. Unfortunately, many of the early security mistakes made with wireless voice communications were repeated with data communications, i.e. the use of flawed authentication and confidentiality algorithms. For example, the standards committee for 802.11 left many of the difficult security issues such as key management and a robust authentication mechanism as open problems. This has led many organizations to use either a permanent fixed cryptographic variable or no encryption with their wireless networks. Since wireless networks provide an adversary a network access point that is beyond the physical security controls of the organization, security can be a problem. Similarly, attacks against WEP, the link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks can exploit design failures to successfully attack such networks. This workshop will focus on addressing the many outstanding issues that remain in wireless cellular and WLAN networking such as (but not limited to): Management and monitoring; ad-hoc trust establishment; secure roaming between overlay networks; availability and denial of service mitigation; and network and link layer security protocols. We will seek to extend work on ad hoc networking from a non-adversarial setting, assuming a trusted environment, to a more realistic setting in which an adversary may attempt to disrupt communication. We will investigate a variety of approaches to securing ad hoc networks, in particular ways to take advantage of their inherent redundancy (multiple routes between nodes), replication, and new cryptographic schemes such as threshold cryptography. ************************************************************** Call for Participation: Advances in wireless technology as well as several other areas are changing the way the world does business and as a result computing is becoming more mobile, and users are demanding continuous access to the Internet. At the same time, the number of devices with embedded networking technology is growing exponentially--from boxes with RFID tags to Wi-Fi capable refrigerators since they destroy the notion of a static defensive perimeter. Furthermore, these trends make the ease of use and management of wireless based networks more important since naïve consumers in the future will be establishing and using wireless networks on a scale significantly larger than today. This workshop will focus on identifying the current and future problems in wireless security and privacy and discuss possible solutions. The three day workshop will be organized around a series of talks on subjects related to mobility, wireless, and security and privacy technologies. There will be a mix between invited talks and talks selected from extended abstracts with plenty of discussion time between talks. Authors are encouraged to submit an extended abstract on any topic related to wireless and mobile security. Example topics of interest are Interworking security, mesh network security, sensor network security, the privacy of RFID networks, and the security of community networks. These topics are examples only and authors are encouraged to submit extended abstracts on other topics related to the workshop as long as the abstract is of a technical and research nature. Authors are also encouraged to submit early work, and new or outlandish ideas as the primary goal of the workshop is to allow researchers from the networking and security communities to meet in a workshop environment where ideas can be exchanged and discussed in an inter-disciplinary environment. Authors should submit a two page extended abstract in a font no less than 11pt with reasonable margins by midnight (Eastern time) September 1, 2004. Submission instructions will be posted at http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/dimacs-workshop. ************************************************************** Registration: Pre-registration deadline: October 27, 2004 Please see website for registration information. ********************************************************************* Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel can be found at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/MobileWireless/ **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY** ******************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]