Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Summary

This document is the official Call for Papers for the Financial Cryptography and Data Security conference held in Cozumel, Mexico, on January 28–31, 2008. It outlines the scope of the forum, topics of interest relating to financial and commerce security, submission deadlines, paper categories, and the list of conference organizers and program committee members.

Conference Header & Overview

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

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 & Submission

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 and Program Committee

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