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                            CALL FOR PAPERS
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        3rd International Workshop on Security ( IWSEC 2008 )
                         http://www.iwsec.org

                         November 25-27, 2008
         Kagawa International Conference Hall, Kagawa, JAPAN

                  Jointly organized by ISEC and CSEC
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                           CONFERENCE SCOPE

The aim of IWSEC2008 is to contribute to security research and 
development addressing the topics from traditional theory and tools 
on security to other up-to-date issues. 
Topics include but are not limited to:

- Cryptography
- Authorization and Access Control
- Biometrics
- Information Hiding
- Quantum Security
- Network and Distributed Systems Security
- Privacy Enhancing Technology
- Security Issues in Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
- Security Management
- Software and System Security
- Protection of Critical Infrastructure
- Digital Forensics
- Economics and Other Scientific Approaches for Security

                           PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to 
another conference or journal for consideration of publication. 
Papers must be written in English and be fully anonymous with no 
author names, affiliations, acknowledgements or obvious references.
They should be at most 16 pages long in total, in standard LNCS 
format (except for author names and affiliations). Papers should be 
enough intelligible and self contained without appendices so that PC 
members can review papers without them. Accepted papers will be 
presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings. At least 
one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the 
workshop and present the paper. The conference proceedings is 
planned to be published in a special volume of Springer LNCS.

                           IMPORTANT DATES

     Submission of papers : April 18, 2008 23:59 JST (GMT + 9hr)
     Notification to authors : June 27, 2008 JST (GMT + 9hr)
     Camera-ready due : July 28, 2008 JST (GMT + 9hr)

                              COMMITTEES

                          General co-Chairs
                  Masato Terada, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
       Kazuo Ohta, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

                     Program Committee co-Chairs
            Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
              Eiichiro Fujisaki, NTT Corporation, Japan


ISEC is a technical group on Information SECurity, in ESS, 
Engineering Sciences Society, of IEICE, the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers, Japan.

CSEC is a special interest group on Computer SECurity, of IPSJ, 
Information Processing Society of Japan.