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ifipiNetSec 2009
Open Research Problems in Network Security

23-24 April 2009
Zurich, Switzerland

Tentative program

Thursday
12:45 - 13:15 Registration
13:00 - 13:50 Lunch
13:50 - 14:00 Welcome
14:00 - 15:00 Session 1: Involving Humans
  Design of Forgiving Biometric Security Systems
Raphael C.-W. Phan, John N. Whitley and David J. Parish
  Remotely Telling Humans and Computers Apart: An Unsolved Problem
Carlos Javier Hernandez-Castro and Arturo Ribagorda
15:00 - 16:00 Session 2: Web 2.0
  Leveraging Social Links for Trust and Privacy in Networks
Leucio Antonio Cutillo, Refik Molva and Thorsten Strufe
  Open Problems in Users' Content Sharing in Web 2.0
Konstantin Beznosov
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Session 3: Protecting Resources
  Mitigating Drive-by Download Attacks: Challenges and Open Problems
Manuel Egele, Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel
  Context-Dependent Authentication and Access Control
Michael Kirkpatrick and Elisa Bertino
17:30 - 18:30 Session 4: Pervasive Devices
  New Directions in RFID Security
Refik Molva and Erik-Oliver Blass
  Tailored Security and Safety for Pervasive Computing
Erik-Oliver Blass and Martina Zitterbart
19:30 Dinner: Restaurant Mossegg
Friday
9:00 - 9:30 Wake me up coffee
9:30 - 11:00 Session 5: Protocol Security
  Rational Protocols
Christian Cachin
Security Considerations for P2P-based Voice- and Video-Streaming Applications
Jan Seedorf
  Threshold Things That Think: Authorisation for Resharing
Roel Peeters, Markulf Kohlweiss and Bart Preneel
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 6: Privacy
  Privacy policies, tools and mechanisms of the future
Vincent Naessens, Mehmet Tahir Sandikkaya, Jorn Lapon, Kristof Verslype, Pieter Verhaeghe, Girma Nigusse, Bart De Decker
  Privacy Preservation in Human-Involved Networks
Craig Asher and Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Raphael C.-W. Phan
  Discussing Anonymity Metric for Mix Based Anonymity Approaches
Vinh Pham
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

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Location & venue

The workshop will be held at the premises of the IBM Zurich Reseach Lab in Switzerland.

It is organized in conjunction with IFIP WG 11.4 Network Security.


Travel information

Program committee

Jan Camenisch, Chair, IBM Research


David Basin, ETH Zürich


George Danezis, Microsoft Research


Stefan Fischer, University Lübeck


Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University


Felix Freiling, Universität Mannheim


Virgil Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University


Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL


Dogan Kesdogan, Co-Chair, University of Siegen


Albert Levi, Sabanci University


Javier Lopez, University of Malaga


Refik Molva, Eurecom


Victor Shoup, New York University


Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine