Financial Cryptography and Data Security Cozumel, Mexico 28-31 January 2008 http://fc08.ifca.ai Overview Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance in the context of finance and commerce. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. Submissions focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments are solicited. The goal of the conference is to bring security/cryptography researchers and practitioners together with economists, bankers, implementers, and policy-makers. Intimate and colorful by tradition, the FC program features invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations, panel discussions as well as a research poster session. Topics Original papers, posters, surveys, and presentations on all aspects of financial and commerce security are invited. Submissions must have bearing on financial and commerce security issues, but can be inter-disciplinary in nature and need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography. Topics of interest include: - Anonymity and Privacy - Auctions and Audits - Authentication and Identification - Biometrics - Certification and Authorization - Commercial Cryptographic Applications - Transactions and Contracts - Digital Cash and Payment Systems - Digital Incentive and Loyalty Systems - Digital Rights Management - Financial Regulation and Reporting - Fraud Detection - Game Theoretic Approaches to Security - Identity Theft, Spam, Phishing and Social Engineering - Infrastructure Design - Legal and Regulatory Issues - Microfinance and Micro-payments - Monitoring, Management and Operations - Reputation Systems - RFID-Based and Contact-less Payment Systems - Risk Assessment and Management - Secure Banking and Financial Web Services - Securing Emerging Computational Paradigms - Security and Risk Perceptions and Judgments - Security Economics - Smartcards and Secure Tokens - Trust Management - Underground-Market Economics - Virtual Economies - Voting systems Important Dates ■ Paper Submission: October 10, 2007 ■ Author Notification: November 28, 2007 ■ Poster Submission: November 13, 2007 ■ Panel Submission: November 13, 2007 Submission Submissions are invited in the following categories: (1) regular papers (15 pages LNCS), (2) short papers (5 pages), (3) panel proposals (2 pages), and (4) posters (1-2 pages). More details and updates on the submission process can be found online. Organizers General Chair: Radu Sion - Stony Brook University Program Chair: Gene Tsudik - UC Irvine Local Arr. Chair: Rafael Hirschfeld - Unipay Poster Chair: Bogdan Carbunar - Motorola Labs Publicity and Sponsorship Co-Chair: Roberto Gomez - Tecnológico de Monterrey Program Committee N. Asokan - Nokia Research Giuseppe Ateniese - Johns Hopkins University Nikita Borisov - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign George Danezis - Microsoft Research, Cambridge Stefan Dziembowski - University of Rome Kevin Fu - University of Massachusetts, Amherst Philippe Golle - PARC Dieter Gollmann - Technical University Hamburg-Harburg Stanislaw Jarecki - UC Irvine Aggelos Kiayias - University of Connecticut Javier Lopez - University of Malaga Arjen Lenstra – EPFL Lausanne Ninghui Li - Purdue University Patrick McDaniel - Pennsylvania State University Alessandro Mei - University of Rome Refik Molva - Eurecom Institute Pino Persiano - University of Salerno Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi - University of Bochum Diana Smetters - PARC Michael Szydlo - Akamai Technologies Suzanne Wetzel - Stevens Institute of Technology © The International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA)