PKI R&D Workshop - Last Chance to Register

[Sara Caswell <sara@nist.gov>]

*** NO ON-SITE REGISTRATION!  Last day to register: March 17 ***

5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD
"Making Cryptography Easy to Use"
April 4-6, 2006
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki06/

Come join with experts from NIST, NIH, private industry and universities
around the world for our fifth workshop!


Scheduled topics include:

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
HAS JOHNNY LEARNT TO ENCRYPT BY NOW? Examining the troubled relationship 
between a security solution and its users
Angela Sasse, University College London

REFEREED PAPERS:
-How Trust Had a Hole Blown In It.  The Case of X.509 Name Constraints
-Navigating Revocation through Eternal Loops and Land Mines
-Simplifying Public Key Credential Management through Online Certificate 
Authorities and PAM
-Identity Federation and Attribute-based Authorization through the Globus 
Toolkit, Shibboleth, GridShib, and MyProxy
-PKI Interoperability by an Independent, Trusted Validation Authority
-Achieving Email Security Usability
-CAUDIT PKI Federation - A Higher Education Sector Wide Approach

INVITED TALKS:
-NIST Cryptographic Standards Status Report, Bill Burr, NIST
-Trust Infrastructure and DNSSEC Deployment, Allison Mankin, Consultant
-Integrating PKI and Kerberos, Jeffrey Altman, Secure Endpoints Inc.
-Enabling Revocation for Billions of Consumers, Kelvin Yiu, Microsoft

PANELS:
- Digital Signatures (Moderator: David Chadwick, University of Kent)
- Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) (Moderator:  Barry Leiba, IBM)
- Browser Security User Interfaces: Why are web security decisions hard and 
what can we do about it?
   (Moderator:  Jason Holt, Brigham Young University)
- Federal PKI Update (Moderator - Peter Alterman, National Institutes of 
Health)
- Bridge-to-Bridge Interoperations (Moderator - Peter Alterman, National 
Institutes of  Health)

WORKS IN PROGRESS (WIP)  (Contact Krishna Sankar (ksankar@cisco.com) if you 
have additional WIP topics)
Potential topics:
-  Experiences securing DNS through the Handle System
-  International Grid Trust Federation: how to build trust across the 
Global Grid

Complete agenda is available at http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki06/