PKI R&D Workshop - CFP Deadline Fast Approaching

[Sara Caswell <sara.caswell@nist.gov>]

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop:  "Applications-Driven PKI
(It's The Apps, Stupid!)"
CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadlines for conference paper and panel submissions are:

Papers and Proposals Due:  October 22, 2006
Authors Notified: December 18, 2006
Final Materials Due: February 26, 2007

This workshop considers the full range of public key technology used for
security decisions and supporting functionalities, including
authentication, authorization, identity management, federation, and
trust. This year's focus is striking the proper balance to permit users
to complete tasks requiring security easily while exposing the
appropriate security details through all layers of software. This
workshop has three goals:
 
1. Explore the current state of public key technology and emerging trust
mechanisms in different domains, including web services, grid
technologies, encryption functionality, authentication systems, etc., in
academia, research, government, and industry.
 
2. Share and discuss lessons learned and scenarios encountered from
vendors and practitioners from current deployments.
 
3. Provide a forum for leading security researchers to explore the issues
relevant to PKI in relation to applications, usability, security
management, identity, trust, policy, authentication, authorization and
encryption (e.g., supporting privacy requirements).

Additional workshop information and the full Call for Papers is available
on-line:

http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/ 

Dates of Workshop:  April 17-19, 2007 at NIST in Gaithersburg,
Maryland