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***** Notice: SCN 99 submission deadline has been extended to June 1 *****
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                     Call for Papers

  Second Conference on Security in Communication Networks

            September 16--17, 1999, 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 Second Conference Security in Communication Networks (SCN '99) will be held 
in Amalfi (Italy) on September 16--17, 1999. SCN '99 aims at bringing together 
researchers in the field of data security to foster cooperation and exchange 
of ideas.

Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of data security including:

    Anonymity                      Identification
    Authentication                 Implementations
    Block Ciphers                  Key Distribution
    Computer Security              Privacy
    Cryptanalysis                  Protocols
    Hash Functions                 Public Key
    Digital Signatures             Secret Sharing
    Electronic Money               Standards
    Foundations and Theory         Survey and state of the art


                 Instructions for Authors:

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically 
(Postscript file). A detailed description of the electronic submission 
procedure is available at http://www.unisa.it/SCN99/.
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 14 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 1, 1999. 

The program committee will also consider papers that are currently submitted 
to other conferences as well as reports on ongoing research. The extended 
abstract should start with the title and an abstract and should state whether 
the paper is currently submitted to a conference and the name of the conference.
The abstract should be 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.  Notification 
of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors no later than July 1, 1999.


                   Conference Proceedings:

There will be no conference proceedings but a booklet of extended abstracts 
will be distributed to the participants and made available through the WWW. 
We are currently negotiating to have a special issue of an international 
journal devoted to selected papers from the conference.

Important Dates: 
 Submission: June 1, 1999. 
 Acceptance: July 1, 1999.


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:
 Carlo Blundo              (Universita` di Salerno, Italy) 
 Dan Boneh                 (Stanford University, USA) 
 Johannes Buchmann         (T. U. of Darmstadt, Germany) 
 Benny Chor                (Technion, Israel)
 Rosario Gennaro           (IBM T.J. Watson, USA)
 Rafael Hirschfeld         (Unipay Technologies, The Netherlands)
 Jim Massey                (Lund University, Sweden) 
 Ueli Maurer               (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 Rafail Ostrovsky          (Bellcore, USA)
 Giuseppe Persiano (Chair) (Universita` di Salerno, Italy) 
 Doug Stinson              (University of Waterloo, Canada)
 Gene Tsudik               (U. of Southern California, USA)
 Moti Yung                 (CertCo, USA)


General Chairs:
 C. Blundo and A. De Santis 
 Dip. di Informatica ed Appl. 
 Universita` di Salerno
 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), ITALY
 e-mail: {carblu,ads}@dia.unisa.it
 phone (+39)-089-965.403


Local Organizing Committee:
 V. Auletta (Chair)
 P. D'Arco, C. Galdi, B. Masucci 


Publicity Chairs:
 C. Galdi and V. Scarano
 e-mail: {clegal,vitsca}@dia.unisa.it
 phone (+39)-089-965.264


Electronic submissions: http://www.unisa.it/SCN99/


A copy of this call for paper as well as other information about the 
conference will be available at http://www.unisa.it/SCN99/.