NEWS

• Next WISSec will be in Louvain-la-Neuve, November 19-20, 2009, see WISSec 2009
• Registration is now closed; please contact (by email) the organization directly for late registrations.
• We announced locally that Rop Gonggrijp's talk will be open to a general audience. See TU/e Cursor, Nov. 6^th.
• Rop Gonggrijp speaking - 13th of November, 2008
  Serge Fehr speaking - 14th of November, 2008
  We are happy to announce that Rop Gonggrijp, the driving force behind wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl, will give an invited talk on his view on electronic voting, and that Serge Fehr of CWI, Amsterdam, recipient of an NWO VENI grant for his research in Quantum Cryptography, will give an invited talk on non-complexity based cryptography. See the program for more details.
• Page with some practical info now available

WORKSHOP GOAL AND TOPICS

The purpose of the workshop is to share ideas, experiences and information on the following, or related, topics:

• Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms
• Cryptographic and security protocols, formal verification
• Network security, Internet security, Wireless security
• Security for embedded systems, smart cards and RFID
• Security of software and hardware systems
• Privacy enhancing technologies
• E-voting, e-banking, e-governement
• Financial cryptography and security
• Content protection, DRM, watermarking
• Biometrics
• Standards for information security
• Legal and social aspect of information security
• Ethical hacking, protection against malware, spam

The workshop intends to give both experienced and young researchers from the Benelux and surrounding areas an opportunity to present their work and to get feedback. We would also like to encourage other international researchers to contribute to the workshop.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a paper (or abstract) of at most 15 pages in pdf-format. We recommend that the paper is typeset using LaTeX and the LNCS style which is available here. The submitted paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. If desired, the paper may be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references.

The workshop will not have formal proceedings, hence papers submitted to WISSec 2008 can be submitted to other workshops, conferences, journals as well.

IMPORTANT DATES

• August 31, September 10, 2008 Submission deadline.
• September 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance.
• November 6, 2008 Deadline conference registration.
• November 13-14, 2008 Workshop

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Sandro Etalle, Berry Schoenmakers, Pim Tuyls (co-chairs)
Anita Klooster-Derks, Jolande Matthijsse (local organisation)

E-mail: wissec2008@tue.nl

PROGRAM COMITTEE

• Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg
• Ronald Cramer, CWI Amsterdam/Leiden University
• Sandro Etalle (co-chair), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Marc Fischlin, Darmstadt University of Technology
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman, TNO Information and Communication Technology / Radboud University Nijmegen
• Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg
• Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Svetla Nikova, Universiteit Twente / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Ahmad Sadeghi, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
• Berry Schoenmakers (co-chair), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Pim Tuyls (co-chair), Philips Research Eindhoven
• Raymond Veldhuis, Universiteit Twente
• Thijs Veugen, TNO Information and Communication Technology/TU Delft

Previous editions

WISSec 2007 was held in Luxembourg city, Luxembourg.
WISSec 2006 was held in Antwerp, Belgium.

Next edition

WISSec 2009 will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.