Call for Papers 8th Information Hiding 10-12 July 2006 Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, USA (Washington, DC) For many years Information Hiding has captured the imagination of researchers. Tools such as digital watermarking and steganography are used to protect information, conceal secrets, and protecting intellectual property. From an investigators perspective, information hiding provides an interesting challenge for digital forensic investigations and steganalysis techniques allows hidden information to be discovered. These are but a small number of related topics and issues. Current research themes include: anonymous communications, covert channels in computer systems, detection of hidden information (steganalysis), digital forensics, information hiding aspects of privacy, steganography, subliminal channels in cryptographic protocols, watermarking for protection of intellectual property, other applications of watermarking. The 8th Information Hiding International Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Select in Alexandria, Virginia (minutes away from Downtown Washington, DC via metro rail) from 10 July to 12 July 2006. Proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Author Instructions Interested parties are invited to submit novel papers on research and practice which are related to the above areas of interest. We want a balanced program and seek submissions on topics such as anonymous communication, anonymous online transactions, privacy, and covert/subliminal communications, along with our usual quality steganography, watermarking and fingerprinting submissions. Claims about information hiding technology, such as robustness or steganographic security, must be backed by strong evidence in the paper (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modeling or extensive testing). Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The papers must be at most 16 pages including the bibliography but excluding well-marked appendices and must be typeset in the Springer LNCS format. Authors wishing to submit papers shall send their paper in PDF format via the web submission form at https://conference.zurich.ihost.com/start/IH06/. The submitted papers should be anonymized avoiding obvious references. Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Where possible, all further communications to authors will be via email. Questions regarding the conference should be directed to the conference chairperson, Neil F. Johnson (ih2006@jjtc.com) or co-chair, Phil Sallee (sallee_phil@bah.com). Program Committee Ross J. Anderson (University of Cambridge, England) Mauro Barni (Universita de Siena, Italy) Jack Brassil (HP Laboratories, USA) Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland) - Program co-chair Christian Collberg (University of Arizona) - Program co-chair Ee-Chien Chang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ingemar J. Cox (University College London, England) Jessica Fridrich (SUNY Binghamton, USA.) Neil F. Johnson (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA) - General Chair John McHugh (SEI/CERT, USA) Ira S. Moskowitz (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Stefan Katzenbeisser (Technical University Munich, Germany) Darko Kirovski (Microsoft Research, USA) Richard C. Owens (University of Toronto) Andreas Pfitzmann (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Phil Sallee (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA) - General co-chair Michiel van der Veen (Philips Research, Netherlands) IH2006 Important Dates - CFP Calendar Paper Submission (late submissions will not be accepted) January 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance April 1, 2006 Camera-ready copy for Pre-Proceedings May 15, 2006 Presentation material to be included in Pre-Proceedings June 1, 2006 Last day to get conference discount at the hotel June 9, 2006 Information Hiding 2006 - Welcome Reception (1900) July 9, 2006 Information Hiding 2006 July 10-12, 2006 Camera-ready copy for Proceedings August 7, 2006