Conference Description:
The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled “The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need Some.” The meeting became a “symposium” in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. In 2008, CiteSeer listed CSF as 38th out of more than 1200 computer science venues (top 3.11%) in impact based on citation frequency. CiteSeerX lists CSF 2007 as 7th out of 581 computer science venues (top 1.2%) in impact based on citation frequency.
The atmosphere of the symposium is informal, often in a peaceful, rural setting that encourages an exchange of thoughtful technical discussion by all attendees, both during and after scheduled presentations. It was held for seven years at the Franconia Inn, Franconia, New Hampshire, USA, and subsequently at various European and North American locations.
The program includes papers and panels. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, secure protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area. See the Call for Papers and Panels for more information.
Topics
New theoretical results in computer security are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories. Panel proposals are sought as well as papers. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Access control
Anonymity and Privacy
Authentication
Data and system integrity
Database security
Data provenance
Decidability and complexity
Distributed systems security
Electronic voting
Executable content
Formal methods for security
Information flow
Intrusion detection
Hardware-based security
Language-based security
Network security
Resource usage control
Security for mobile computing
Security models
Security protocols
Trust and trust management
Start Date: 2012-06-25
Last Day: 2012-06-27
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 2012-02-09
Contact Person: Stephen Chong
Email: chong@seas.harvard.edu
Address:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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