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AlPACa 2008

Workshop on

Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications

(in conjunction with Securecomm 2008)

September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey

icst
In cooperation with:

acmsigsac

 


 

 
 
 
Scope of the workshop:


During the last few decades we have seen a tremendous number of activities (and publications) regarding anonymous communication systems, how to make them better, various attacks, defenses etc. Even though the implicit assumption of any anonymity work is to have it applied in a real world, few of those activities focus on actual practical systems, and the questions remain if we are doing research on the right thing? how far we are from dealing with the real issues? and are the goals that we try to achieve with these systems those that we are optimizing for?

This workshop solicits papers concerned with what happens on top of and around the anonymizing layer, with a view of how this affects the anonymity system. That is in some ways the user's, operator's, ISP's, etc. view of and experience with anonymity systems and how anonymity systems need to be improved.

Topics of interest are (but not limited to):
  • use cases for anonymous communication systems
  • practical experiences with anonymous communication systems
  • case studies
  • novel applications of anonymous communication systems
  • economic incentives / business models for using or deploying anonymous communication systems
  • performance and evaluation tools of real systems
  • usability
  • feedback from real users
  • legal issues with running anonymous communication systems
Important dates:
  • Submission deadline: 8 June 2008 (23:59 PST) 6 July 2008 (23:59 PST)
  • Notification date: 24 July 2008
  • Camera ready submission deadline: 10 August 2008
Technical Program Committee:
 
Imad Aad, DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany (co-chair)
Andrew Adams, University of Reading, UK
Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France
George Danezis, Microsoft Research, UK
Claudia Diaz, K.U. Leuven. Belgium
Adolf Hohl, SAP Research, Germany
Dogan Kesdogan, University of Siegen, Germany
Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University, USA
Alf Zugenmaier, DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany (co-chair)