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Fifth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference November 20-22, 2002 Hyatt Ste. Claire, San Jose, California, USA Sponsors IFIP Working Group 8.8 (Smart Cards) USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association Important Dates Submissions due: June 24, 2002 Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2002 Camera-ready final papers due: September 23, 2002 Overview Smart card research is of increasing importance as the need for information security increases rapidly, especially in response to new, urgent demands. Since 1994, CARDIS has been the premier international research conference dedicated to smart cards and their applications. CARDIS '02, the joint IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, constitutes the Fifth IFIP CARDIS conference and the Second USENIX conference on Smart Card Technology. Like its predecessors, CARDIS '02 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the development and deployment of smart card systems and technologies. Aims and Goals The portability, processing power, and tamper resistance of smart cards offers a platform for secure conditional access to information and applications. Smart cards significantly extend the scope of distributed systems by providing a trusted platform for cryptographically secured computation and storage. Notwithstanding their long history, relative to modern computing, the applicability of smart cards in distributed systems remains an untapped resource, limited mainly by our imagination and understanding. Here lie vast uncovered research areas that will have a huge impact on the eventual success of the technology. The research challenges span many domains, including hardware design, cryptographic applications, distributed system architecture, and formal modeling. Unlike events devoted to commercial and application aspects of smart cards, the CARDIS conferences bring together researchers who are active in all aspects of the design, validation, and application of smart cards. The breadth of smart card research stimulates a synergy among disparate research communities, making CARDIS an ideal opportunity to present the latest research advances. Call for Papers The program committee seeks papers describing the design, application, and validation of smart card technologies. Submissions across a broad range of smart card development phases are encouraged, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical application and deployment of smart card technology. Topics The following topics are of particular interest to the program committee: * Application loading * Smart card operating systems * Virtual machines * Integrated development environments * High-speed, small-footprint encryption * Cryptographic accelerators * On-card data sharing schemes * Smart cards in the Internet * Automatic mask generation * Emerging opportunities for standardization * Smart tokens and other competing technologies * Alternative form factors for smart card chips * Smart card application program interfaces * Trends in smart card hardware * Research in tamper-resistance * Hardware and software certification * Security validation and benchmarks * Biometrics involving smart cards -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]