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Call for Papers
17th USENIX Security Symposium
July 28-August 1, 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/
Submissions Deadline: January 30, 2008
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Dear Colleague:

On behalf of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08)
program committee, we are inviting you to submit high-quality
papers in all areas relating to systems and network
security. Please submit all papers by January 30, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST
(firm deadline).

Please note that the USENIX Security Symposium is primarily a systems
security conference. Papers whose contributions are primarily new
cryptographic algorithms or protocols, cryptanalysis, electronic
commerce primitives, etc., may not be appropriate for this conference.

Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to
systems and network security, including:

* Adaptive security and system management
* Analysis of network and security protocols
* Applications of cryptographic techniques
* Attacks against networks and machines
* Authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
* Automated tools for source code analysis
* Botnets
* Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction
* Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
* File and filesystem security
* Firewall technologies
* Forensics and diagnostics for security
* Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
* Malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware
* Network infrastructure security
* Operating system security
* Privacy-preserving (and -compromising) systems
* Public key infrastructure
* Rights management and copyright protection
* Security architectures
* Security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments
* Security policy
* Self-protecting and healing systems
* Techniques for developing secure systems
* Technologies for trustworthy computing
* Usability and security
* Voting systems analysis and security
* Wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security
* Web security

Submissions are due January 30, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST
(firm deadline).

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete
Call for Papers at
http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University
Security '08 Program Chair
sec08chair@usenix.org

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Call for Papers
17th USENIX Security Symposium
July 28-August 1, 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/
Submissions Deadline: January 30, 2008
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