[TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position at IMDEA in Security/Privacy/Verification
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] We invite applications for a postdoctoral position at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain. The successful candidate will join the group of Boris Köpf to work on topics at the intersection of security, privacy, and formal verification. The post is available from September 2016 for the duration of up to three years. Applicants should have, or expect to obtain shortly, a PhD in Computer Science, preferably with a focus on the topics mentioned above. The IMDEA Software Institute is located in the vibrant area of Madrid, Spain. It offers an open and collaborative working environment, where researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects. Salaries at the Institute are internationally competitive. Potential candidates are encouraged to contact Boris Köpf with inquiries (boris dot koepf at imdea dot org).
[TYPES/announce] CSF 2016 Call for Papers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CSF 2016 Call for Papers 29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2016.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ June 28-July 1, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, such as formal security models, relationships between security properties and defenses, principled techniques and tools for design and analysis of security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of CSF is foundational security: submissions that lack foundational aspects risk rejection. This year, CSF will use a light form of double blind reviewing; see below. Topics -- New results in computer security are welcome. We also encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about security. Possible topics for all papers include, but are not limited to: access control, accountability, anonymity and privacy, authentication, computer-aided cryptography, data and system integrity, database security, decidability and complexity, distributed systems security, electronic voting, formal methods and verification, decision theory, hardware-based security, information flow, intrusion detection, language-based security, network security, data provenance, mobile security, security metrics, security protocols, software security, socio-technical security, trust management, usable security, web security. Special Sessions This year, we strongly encourage papers in two foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF: PRIVACY (Chair: Daniel Kifer). CSF 2016 will include a special session on privacy foundations and invites submissions on innovations in practice, as well as definitions, models, and frameworks for communication and data privacy, principled analysis of deployed or proposed privacy protection mechanisms, and foundational aspects of practical privacy technologies. We especially encourage submissions aiming at connecting the computer science point of view on privacy with that of other disciplines (law, economics, sociology, statistics...) SECURITY ECONOMICS (Chair: Jens Grossklags). There is an interplay between important system properties including privacy, security, efficiency, flexibility, and usability. Diverse systems balance these properties differently, and as such provide varied benefits (for users) for different costs (for builders and attackers). In short, securing systems is ultimately an economic question. CSF 2016 will include a special session on security economics, where we invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include, but are not limited to, risk management and cyber-insurance, investments in information security, security metrics, decision and game theory for security, and cryptocurrencies. These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the special session chairs. They will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings, without any distinction from the other papers. Proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (pending approval), will be available at the symposium, and selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security. * IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: February 12, 2016 Author response period: March 24-25, 2016 Notification: April 8, 2016 Camera ready: May 6, 2016 Symposium: June 28-July 1, 2016 * PROGRAM COMMITTEE June Andronick, NICTA and UNSW Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University Manuel Barbosa, University of Porto Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University Karthikeyan Bhargavan, INRIA Anna Lisa Ferrara, University of Surrey Matt Frederikson, Carnegie Mellon University Jens Grossklags, Penn State (Area Chair on Security Economics) Mike Hicks, University of Maryland (Program Co-Chair) Catalin Hritcu, INRIA Daniel Kifer, Penn State (Area Chair on Privacy) Jong Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute (Program Co-Chair) Steve Kremer, INRIA Peeter Laud, Cybernetica Matteo Maffei, Saarland University Stephen Magill, Galois Sebastian Moedersheim, Technical University of Denmark Greg Morrisett, Cornell University Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University Michael Carl Tschantz, ICSI Berkeley Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania * PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers
[TYPES/announce] FCS 2015: Call for Participation
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] = CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2015) 13 July 2015, Verona, Italy http://software.imdea.org/~bkoepf/FCS15/ Affiliated with IEEE CSF 2015 = INVITED SPEAKER Dominique Unruh, University of Tartu BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE Computer security is an established field of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in the formal foundations of methods used in computer security. The aim of the FCS 2015 workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area. The scope of FCS 2015 includes, but is not limited to, the formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications; the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks; the modelling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. PROGRAM Invited Talk: * Formal Verification of Quantum Cryptography Dominique Unruh Accepted Papers: * LJGS: Gradual Security Types for Object-Oriented Languages Luminous Fennell and Peter Thiemann * Multi-Module Fully Abstract Compilation Marco Patrignani, Dominique Devriese and Frank Piessens * Secure Compilation Using Micro-Policies Yannis Juglaret and Cătălin Hriţcu * Knowledge and Effect: A Logic for Reasoning about Confidentiality and Integrity Guarantees Scott Moore, Aslan Askarov and Stephen Chong * A Proof Technique for Noninterference In Open Systems (Extended Abstract) Enrico Sapin * A Theorem Proving Approach to Secure Information Flow in Concurrent Programs (Extended Abstract) Daniel Bruns * On High-Assurance Information Flow Secure Programming Languages (Extended Abstract) Toby Murray * The Meaning of Attack-Resistant Systems Vijay Ganesh, Sebastian Banescu and Martín Ochoa REGISTRATION Registration is via the CSF registration web site: http://csf2015.di.univr.it/registration.php PROGRAM COMMITTEE June Andronick (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Michele Boreale (Università de Firenze, Italy) Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis (École Polytechnique, France) Christos Dimoulas (Harvard University, USA) Marco Gaboardi (University of Dundee, UK) Deepak Garg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany, co-chair) William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Aniket Kate (Saarland University, Germany) Boris Köpf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, co-chair) Steve Kremer (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France) Stephen McCamant (University of Minnesota, USA) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University, USA) Willard Rafnsson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Benedikt Schmidt (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Christoph Sprenger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Deian Stefan (Stanford University, USA) Tomasz Truderung (University of Trier, Germany) Luca Viganò (King's College London, UK)
[TYPES/announce] FCS-FCC 2014: Deadline extended to April 25
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] = DEADLINE EXTENSION (April 25) = Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and on Formal and Computational Cryptography (FCS-FCC 2014) 18 July 2014, Vienna, Austria Affiliated with CSF 2014 and CSL-LICS 2014 Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014) http://software.imdea.org/~bkoepf/FCS-FCC14/ = INVITED SPEAKERS Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich Graham Steel, Cryptosense INRIA IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 25, 2014 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2014 Final papers due: June 25, 2014 Workshop: July 18, 2014 BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications; the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks; and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The aim of the FCS-FCC 2014 workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area. Historically, FCS has contributed to bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and given LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. FCC, traditionally affiliated with CSF, provides a dedicated venue to present recent advances in the field of computationally-sound cryptographic protocol analysis. Both these areas---logical foundations and protocol analysis---are of interest to large subsets of the CSF community. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. SUBMISSION All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. FCS-FCC 2014 welcomes two kinds of submissions: * short abstracts (1 page, including references and appendices), and * full papers (at most 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices). Short abstracts will receive as rigorous review as do full papers. Short abstracts may receive shorter talk slots at the workshop than do full papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions. Papers should be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf); please, do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Papers must be submitted at the following site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcsfcc2014 INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS The workshop has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues. The papers presented at the workshop will be made publicly available, but this will not constitute an official proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pedro Adao (SQIG-IT and IST-Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Mario Alvim (UFMG, Brazil) Aslan Askarov (Harvard University, USA) Michael Clarkson (The George Washington University, USA, co-chair) Hubert Comon-Lundh (LSV, CNRS, ENS de Cachan, France) Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, France) Catalin Hritcu (INRIA, France) Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Kifer (Penn State, USA) Masoud Koleini (The George Washington University, USA) Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, co-chair) Ralf Kuesters (University of Trier, Germany) Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany, co-chair) Carroll Morgan (University of New South Wales, Australia) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University, Sweden) Ben Smyth (INRIA, France) Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Dominique Unruh (University of Tartu, Estonia) Jeff Vaughan (LogicBlox, USA) Santiago Zanella Beguelin (Microsoft Research, UK)
[TYPES/announce] FCS-FCC 2014: Call for Papers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] === CALL FOR PAPERS Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and on Formal and Computational Cryptography (FCS-FCC 2014) 18 July 2014, Vienna, Austria Affiliated with CSF 2014 and CSL-LICS 2014 Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014) http://software.imdea.org/~bkoepf/FCS-FCC14/ === INVITED SPEAKERS Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich Graham Steel, Cryptosense INRIA IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 18, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2014 Final papers due: June 25, 2014 Workshop: July 18, 2014 BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications; the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks; and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The aim of the FCS-FCC 2014 workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area. Historically, FCS has contributed to bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and given LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. FCC, traditionally affiliated with CSF, provides a dedicated venue to present recent advances in the field of computationally-sound cryptographic protocol analysis. Both these areas---logical foundations and protocol analysis---are of interest to large subsets of the CSF community. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. SUBMISSION All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. FCS-FCC 2014 welcomes two kinds of submissions: * short abstracts (1 page, including references and appendices), and * full papers (at most 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices). Short abstracts will receive as rigorous review as do full papers. Short abstracts may receive shorter talk slots at the workshop than do full papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions. Papers should be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf); please, do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Papers must be submitted at the following site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcsfcc2014 INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS The workshop has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues. The papers presented at the workshop will be made publicly available, but this will not constitute an official proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pedro Adao (SQIG-IT and IST-Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Mario Alvim (UFMG, Brazil) Aslan Askarov (Harvard University, USA) Michael Clarkson (The George Washington University, USA, co-chair) Hubert Comon-Lundh (LSV, CNRS, ENS de Cachan, France) Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, France) Catalin Hritcu (INRIA, France) Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Kifer (Penn State, USA) Masoud Koleini (The George Washington University, USA) Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, co-chair) Ralf Kuesters (University of Trier, Germany) Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany, co-chair) Carroll Morgan (University of New South Wales, Australia) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University, Sweden) Ben Smyth (INRIA, France) Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Dominique Unruh (University of Tartu, Estonia) Jeff Vaughan (LogicBlox, USA) Santiago Zanella Beguelin (Microsoft Research, UK)
