*Submission deadline extended to May 8, 2009*

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Formal and Computational Cryptography (FCC 2009)

July 11-12, 2009, Port Jefferson, New York, USA

affiliated with CSF'09

http://infsec.uni-trier.de/fcc2009/

Background, aim and scope
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Since the 1980s, two approaches have been developed for
analyzing security protocols. One of the approaches is
based on a computational model that considers issues of
computational complexity and probability. Messages are
modeled as bitstrings and security properties are defined
in a strong form, in essence guaranteeing security with
high probability against all probabilistic polynomial-time
attacks. However, it is difficult to prove security of
large, complex protocols in this model. The other approach
relies on a symbolic model of protocol execution in which
messages are modeled using a term algebra and cryptographic
primitives are treated as perfect black-boxes, e.g. the
only way to decrypt a ciphertext is to use the
corresponding decryption key. This abstraction enables
significantly simpler and often automated analysis of
complex protocols. Since this model places strong
constraints on the attacker, a fundamental question is
whether such an analysis implies the strong security
properties defined in the computational model.

This workshop focuses on approaches that combine and relate
symbolic and computational protocol analysis. Over the last
few years, there has been a spate of research results in
this area. One set of results establish correspondence
theorems between the two models, in effect showing that for
a certain class of protocols and properties, security in
the symbolic model implies security in the computational
model. In other work, researchers use language-based
techniques such as process calculi and protocol logics to
reason directly about the computational model. Several
projects are investigating ways of mechanizing
computationally sound proofs of protocols. The workshop
seeks results in this area of computationally sound
protocol analysis: foundations and tools.

FCC'09 will be held in Port Jefferson, New York, USA on
July 11-12, 2009, after CSF'09. We invite
presentations of original results on the topics of the
workshop. We also encourage submissions that describe work
in progress or that further publicize interesting results
published elsewhere. The main goal of the workshop is to
stimulate discussions and new collaborations.

Important dates
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    * Deadline for submission: May 8, 2009 (extended)
    * Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 28, 2009
    * Final abstract due: June 12, 2009
    * Workshop: July 11-12, 2009


Program committee
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    * Michael Backes (MPI and Saarland University, Germany)
    * Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software, Spain)
    * Bruno Blanchet (CNRS, ENS, INRIA, France)
    * Ran Canetti (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
    * Hubert Comon-Lundh (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France)
    * Anupam Datta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
    * Cédric Fournet (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
    * Ralf Küsters, *chair* (University of Trier, Germany)


Submission Instructions
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The authors should submit a title and a short abstract of
their talk (about 100 to 200 words, maximum 1 page) that
will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The
workshop does not have formal proceedings, but copies of
the abstracts will be handed out to the participants of the
workshop. Workshop registration is open.

For more information of how to submit your abstract please
go to http://infsec.uni-trier.de/fcc2009/

For further information please contact the program chair
Ralf Kuesters: fcc09@infsec.uni-trier.de