The First ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC'06)

A workshop held in conjuction with the

13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS'06)

Friday Nov. 3, 2006, Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Preliminary Program available now!

[Please refer to CCS website for registration and hotel information]

STC'06 brings you two outstanding invited speakers (see the program page for slides):

    I.   Ken Birman (Professor at Cornell University)
       Title: Scalable Trust: Engineering Challenge or Complexity Barriers?

    II. Geoffrey Strongin (AMD Fellow, Platform Security Architect, AMD Inc.)
         Title: The Role of Trusted Computing in Internet Scale DRM

How to prepare your proceedings version?

Please refer to http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/stc.htm

Call for Papers [pdf version] [text version]

In a society increasingly dependent on networked information systems, trusted computing plays a crucial role. Despite significant progress in trusted computing components, the issue of scalability in trusted computing and its impact on security are not well-understood. Consequently, there is a dearth of practical solutions for trusted computing in large-scale systems. Approaches suitable for small- or medium-scale trusted computing systems might not be applicable to larger-scale scenarios.

This new workshop is focused on trusted computing in large-scale systems -- those involving (at the very least) many millions of users and thousands of third parties with varying degrees of trust. The workshop is intended to serve as a forum for researchers as well as practitioners to disseminate and discuss recent advances and emerging issues.

The workshop solicits regular technical papers of up to 10 pages, and work-in-progress (or position) papers of up to 4 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM Press. Topics of interest to the workshop include the following:

models for trusted computing
principles of trusted computing
modeling of computing environments, threats, attacks and countermeasures
limitations, alternatives and tradeoffs regarding trusted computing
trust in authentications, users and computing services
hardware based trusted computing
software based trusted computing
pros and cons of hardware based approach
remote attestation of trusted devices
censorship-freeness in trusted computing
cryptographic support in trusted computing
case study in trusted computing
applications of trusted computing
intrusion resilience in trusted computing
access control for trusted computing
trust of computing systems
principles for handling scales

Important dates:

Submission due:             June 20, 2006 (from anywhere in the world)
                            extended to: June 27, 2006 (from anywhere in the world)
Notification:               Aug. 10, 2006
Proceedings version due:    Aug. 21, 2006 new: Aug. 29, 2006
CCS conference:             Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2006
STC workshop:               Nov. 3, 2006

Submission information (now closed):

The paper submission webpage is at https://www.softconf.com/starts/CCS06-STC/submit.html.

Notice:

It is up to the authors to decide whether a submission should be anonymous (i.e., no author names, affiliation information appeared in the submission).
The length of the full-paper submissions is at most 12 pages excluding bibliography, appendix etc. The total number of pages should not be more than 20, whereas the reviewers are not required to read the appendix. The font should be at least 11pt.
The length of short/work-in-progress/position-paper submissions is at most 6 pages excluding bibliography. The font should be at least 11pt.

PC co-chairs:

Gene Tsudik    University of California, Irvine
Shouhuai Xu    University of Texas, San Antonio
Moti Yung      RSA and Columbia University

Program Committee:

Lorenzo Alvisi        University of Texas, Austin
Yair Amir             Johns Hopkins University
Giuseppe Ateniese     Johns Hopkins University
Rida Bazzi            Arizona State University
Bharat Bhargava       Purdue University
Ken Birman            Cornell University
Ernie Brickell        Intel
Wei Chen              Microsoft Research
Glenn Durfee          PARC
David Evans           University of Virginia
Wenke Lee             Georgia Tech
Ninghui Li            Purdue University
Peng Liu              Penn State University
Steve Myers           University of Indiana
Cristina Nita-Rotaru Purdue University
HariGovind Ramasamy   IBM Research
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi    Ruhr-University Bochum
Jean-Pierre Seifert   University of Haifa
Vitaly Shmatikov      University of Texas, Austin
Leendert van Doorn    IBM Research
Cliff Wang            Army Research Laboratory
Dongyan Xu            Purdue University
Haifeng Yu            Intel Research Pittsburgh / CMU
Ben Zhao            UCSB
Lidong Zhou           Microsoft Research