The 10th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
Catamaran Resort Hotel
San Diego, California
6-7 February 2003-Symposium
5 February 2003-Pre-Conference Tutorials
Patron Sponsor: National Security Agency

Call for Papers

GOAL:
The symposium fosters information exchange among research scientists and practitioners of network and distributed system security services. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation (rather than theory). A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology. The proceedings are published by the Internet Society.

GENERAL CHAIR:
Clifford Neuman, USC Information Sciences Institute

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland - gligor@po3.glue.umd.edu
Michael Reiter, Carnegie Mellon University - reiter@cmu.edu

TUTORIAL CHAIR:
Eric Harder - National Security Agency

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Thomas Hutton - San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR:
Mahesh Tripunitara - CPLANE, Inc.

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
William Flanigan - Defense Security Service

LOGISTICS CHAIR:
Michele Estadt - Internet Society

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bill Arbaugh, University of Maryland
Lee Badger, Network Associates
Ran Canetti, IBM
Marc Dacier, EURECOM
Matt Franklin, University of California, Davis
Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland
Russ Housley, RSA Security
Charlie Kaufman, IBM
Steve Kent, BBN
Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University
Doug Maughan, DARPA
Fabian Monrose, Bell Labs, Lucent
Radha Poovendran, University of Washington
Adrian Perrig, University of California, Berkeley
Mike Roe, Microsoft
Christoph Schuba, Sun Microsystems
Clay Shields, Georgetown University
Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Trostle, Cisco
Dan Wallach, Rice University

OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD:
There will be an Outstanding Paper award. The award will be presented at the symposium to the authors of an outstanding paper, as selected by the Program Committee.

SUBMISSIONS:
Both technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. Technical papers should not be previously published or submitted simultaneously to a journal or to another conference or workshop with a published proceedings. Technical papers must include a main body of at most 12 pages, with any additional details in clearly marked appendices for a combined total of at most 20 pages. Technical papers will appear in the proceedings.Panel proposals should be one page and must describe the topic, identify the panel chair, explain the panel format, and list three to four potential panelists. A description of each panel will appear in the proceedings, and may, at the discretion of the panel chair, include written position statements from the panelists.

Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, TCP/IP, multicast, network management, and the Web.
• Intrusion avoidance, detection, and response: systems, experiences and
  architectures.
• Attack-resistant protocols and services:
  • Network perimeter controls: firewalls, packet filters, application
    gateways.
  • Virtual private networks.
  • Public key infrastructure, key management, certification, and
    revocation.
  • Secure electronic commerce: e.g., payment, barter, EDI, notarization, timestamping, endorsement, and licensing.
  • Supporting security mechanisms and APIs; audit trails; accountability.
  • Implementation, deployment and management of network security
    policies.
  • Intellectual property protection: protocols, schemas, implementations, metering, watermarking, digital rights management.
  • Fundamental services on network and distributed systems:
    authentication, data integrity, confidentiality, authorization, non-repudiation, and availability.
  • Integrating security services with system and application security
    facilities and protocols: e.g., message handling, file ransport/access,
    directories, time synchronization, data base management, boot services, mobile computing.
  • Security for emerging technologies: sensor networks, specialized
    testbeds, wireless/mobile (and ad hoc) networks, personal
    communication systems, and large heterogeneous distributed systems.
  • Special problems and case studies: e.g., interplay and tradeoffs
    between security and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost.
  • Security for collaborative applications and services: teleconferencing
    and video-conferencing, groupwork, etc.

Each submission must be accompanied by a separate Submission Overview specifying the submission type (paper or panel), the title or topic, author names with organizational affiliations, and must specify a contact author along with corresponding phone number, FAX number, postal address and email address. Authors are permitted to remove author-identifying information (author names and affiliations, obvious self-references) from their paper submission, if they choose to do so. In this case, any removed or blinded self-references must be listed in the Submission Overview.

Submissions must be received by midnight (US EDT) September 1, 2002, and must be made electronically in either printable PostScript or PDF. Each submission should be emailed as a MIME attachment to 'ndss2003submit@eng.umd.edu'. The aforementioned Submission Overview can be included in the body of the email. Please send only one submission per email message.

Each submission will be acknowledged by e-mail; if acknowledgment is not received within seven days, contact a program co-chair (see above). Authors and panelists will be notified of acceptance by October 21, 2002, and given instructions for preparing the camera-ready copy. The camera-ready copy must be received by November 15, 2002.

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