CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SSNDS-07) http://www.ssnds.org/2007 May 21 - 23, 2007 at Niagara Falls, Canada Important Dates: Paper Submission deadline Dec. 1st, 2006 Notification of Acceptance Feb. 1st, 2007 Author Registration Due Feb. 19th, 2007 Final Manuscript Due Feb. 19th, 2007 The symposium will be held in conjunction with the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007) (http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/) in cooperation with the AINA track on Security, Privacy & Trust. SCOPE: Security is an important issue in network and distributed systems research, ranging from traditional computer networks to newly proliferated areas like sensor networks, P2P systems, and ubiquitous computing. Security threats exploit the weaknesses of protocols as well as operating systems, and also extend to attacks on Internet applications such as database systems and web servers. The attacks involve, for example, distributed denials of service, viruses, buffer overflows, and worms, and cause increasingly greater economic damage, attracting more and more attention. To achieve a secure distributed system, cybersecurity aspects such as data confidentiality, authentication, nonrepudiation, data integrity, privacy, access control, and availability should be fully attained. This symposium provides a forum for academic, government, and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of network and distributed systems security. It includes studies on security attacks that occur in today's networks, security mechanisms that are designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack and security services that are available to enhance system security. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Distributed digital signatures * Distributed denial of service attacks * Distributed intrusion detection and protection systems * Distributed access control and firewalls * Security in e-commerce and e-business and other applications * Security in P2P networks and grid computing * Security in mobile and pervasive computing * Security architectures in distributed and parallel systems * Security theory and tools in distributed and parallel systems * Wireless ad hoc and sensor network security * Buffer overflows * Cryptographic algorithms * Data privacy and trust * Information hiding and watermarking in distributed systems * Key management and authentication * Mobile codes security * Network security issues and protocols * Software security * World Wide Web security SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL: Authors of the 20 best papers will be invited to expand their papers for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security, a leading security journal. PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors should submit the softcopy of their paper in PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format online. The paper must be at most 15 pages, including abstract, key words, and references, and include the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Accepted papers with at most 6 pages will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. (Note that SSNDS-07 does not require anonymized submissions.) http://www.ssnds.org/2007/ General Co-Chairs: George Yee, National Research Council, Canada Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Co-Chairs: Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China Steering Chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee: Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa, Canada Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Canada Steve C. Chiu, Idaho State University, USA Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chunsheng Ding, Hong Kong Univ.of Science &Technology, China Boris Dragovic, University of Cambridge, UK Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Lei Hu, Chinese Academy of Science, China Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Johann Grobschadl, Graz University of Technology, Austria Larry Korba, National Research Council, Canada Xiang-yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Masahiro Mambo, Tsukuba University, Japan Mark Manulis, Ruhr-University of Bochum,Germany Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, University of Montr(&al, Canada Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia Dingyi Pei, Chinese Academy of Science, China Jae Cheol Ryou, Chungnam National University, South Korea Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Ronggong Song, National Research Council, Canada Yuqing Sun, Shandong University, China Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Huaxiong Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Chuan-Kun Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Naixue Xiong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Geng Yang, Nanjing Univ.of Posts & Telecommunications, China Oyvind Ytrehus, University of Bergen, Norway Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yet-sen University, China Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Huafei Zhu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Deqing Zou, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Xukai Zou, Indiana-Purdue University, USA