Networks, Security, & Cryptography

The track focuses on a number of topics related to information security. First, the area of interest concerns cryptographic algorithms, protocols, and their implementation. Second, the track is devoted to architectures and protocols for communication networks, with special focus on security issues. In this context, an area of growing interest is formed by traffic analysis and privacy enhancing technologies. Finally, the track looks at issues in computer security and, in particular, trusted computing and application software security.

The list of topics include (but is not limited to):

• cryptographic algorithms and protocols
• network security
• privacy enhancing technologies
• software security
• traffic analysis
• trusted computing