Call for Papers Third Conference on Security in Communication Networks September 12--13, 2002, Amalfi, Italy General Information: Security and privacy are increasing concerns in computer networks like the Internet. The availability of fast, reliable, and cheap electronic communication offers the opportunity to perform electronically and in a distributed way a wide range of transactions of the most diverse nature. The problem of security, privacy and integrity of information is of dramatic importance in transactions of commercial and financial nature. The Third Conference on Security in Communication Networks (SCN '02) will be held in Amalfi (Italy) on September 12--13 2002. SCN '02 aims at bringing together researchers in the field of security in communication networks to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of data security including: Anonymity Implementations Authentication Key Distribution Block Ciphers Operating Systems Security Complexity-based Cryptography Privacy Cryptanalysis Protocols Digital Signatures Public Key Encryption Electronic Money Public Key Infrastructure Hash Functions Secret Sharing Identification Survey and state of the art Instructions for Authors: Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (PDF or PS file). A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by May 1st at http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 12 copies of an extended abstract to the Program Chair at the address given below. Submission must be received by the Program Chair on or before June 15th (or postmarked by June 1st and sent via airmail or courier). The program committee will also consider survey papers as well as reports on ongoing research. The extended abstract should start with the title and an abstract, followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader specifying the subject addressed, its background, the main achievements, and their significance to data security. Submissions are limited to 12 single-spaced pages of 12pt type. Camera-ready versions should be prepared according to the instructions available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors no later than July 15, 2002. Conference Proceedings: A booklet of extended abstracts will be distributed to the participants. Post-Proceedings of SCN02 will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Important Dates: Submission: June 22th 2002. Acceptance: July 15th 2002. Program Chair: Giuseppe Persiano Dip. di Informatica ed Appl. Universita` di Salerno 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), ITALY e-mail: giuper@dia.unisa.it phone (+39)-089-965.241 FAX: (+39)-089-965.272 Programme Committee: Giuseppe Ateniese (The Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) Carlo Blundo (Univ. di Salerno, Italy) Christian Cachin (IBM Research, Switzerland) Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia Technologies, USA) Alfredo De Santis (Univ. di Salerno, Italy) Rafail Ostrovsky (Telcordia Technologies, USA) Giuseppe Persiano (Chair) (Univ. di Salerno, Italy) Jacques Stern (Ecole Normale Sup., France) Doug Stinson (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) Gene Tsudik (Univ. of California, Irvine, USA) Moti Yung (CertCo, USA) General Chair: C. Blundo Dip. di Informatica ed Appl. Universita` di Salerno 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), ITALY e-mail: carblu@dia.unisa.it phone (+39)-089-965.403 Local Organizing Committee: S. Cimato, P. D'Arco, C. Galdi, B. Masucci e-mail: {cimato,paodar,clegal,masucci}@dia.unisa.it Publicity Chairs: V. Auletta, D. Parente e-mail: {auletta,parente}@dia.unisa.it Electronic submissions: http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/ A copy of this call for paper as well as other information about the conference will be available at http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/.