************************************************* DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols June 7 - 9, 2004 DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Organizers: John Mitchell, Stanford, mitchell@cs.stanford.edu Ran Canetti, IBM Watson, canetti@watson.ibm.com Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy. ************************************************ The analysis of cryptographic protocols is a fundamental and challenging area of network security research. Traditionally, there have been two main approaches, the logic approach aimed at developing (automated) tools for the formal veri.cation of protocols and the complexity theory approach that characterizes protocol security as a set of computational tasks and proves protocol security via reduction to the strength of the underlying cryptographic functions. Although these two lines of work share a common goal, there has been little commonality between them. The goal of this workshop is to generally promote work on security analysis of protocols and foster cooperative research combining the logical and complexity-based approaches. The workshop will include tutorials on the basics of each approach and will allow representatives from both communities to talk about their current work. TOPICS * - Analysis methods involving computational complexity * - Game-theoretic approaches * - Methods based on logic and symbolic computation * - Probabilistic methods * - Model checking and symbolic search * - Formal proof systems * - Decision procedures and lower bounds * - Anything else that sounds like a great idea ************************************************************** Participation: The workshop will be open for the public. If you'd like to give a presentation please send a title and abstract to the organizers as soon as possible. Also, we intend this to be a participatory and interactive meeting so we hope you will be able to contribute to the meeting even without giving an announced talk. ************************************************************** Registration Fees: (Pre-registration deadline: May 28, 2004) Please see website for information on registration. ********************************************************************* Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel can be found at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Protocols/ **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY** ********************************************************************