[Tccc] CFP: 2013 Workshop on Adversarial Cryptography, Communications and Control (WACCC)

Michael Collins, Aleae mcollinsataleae.com
Tue Dec 18 13:24:24 EST 2012



 http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~spock/waccc2013/cfp.html  

The research community's understanding of attacker methodology is poor,
and we are forced to rely on newspaper articles or hypotheticals in
order to discuss defenses. Recent botnets and advanced persistent
threats have posed serious challenges to the research community from
both the reverse engineering and applied cryptography perspectives.
Conversely, there is strong evidence that the hypotheticals we discuss
are too complex, unreliable or arcane for attacker purposes. This
workshop is focused on studying attacker behavior as it takes place now,
through examining malware, occupied systems or by logs of actual
attacks. This is a complex multidisciplinary task involving studying
executable code, network communications and deceiving tools that
actively try to thwart analysis. This workshop will focus on
understanding the methods and tools used by current adversaries to
author, distribute, and control malware. Relevant topics include
communications techniques, cryptography, defeating reverse engineering
and any other approach used by attackers here and now to evade defenders
and analysts. Submissions must address current malware and attack
experiences, hypothetical designs or future developments are not in
scope. While we focus on sharing prior experiences and experiments in
malware research, successful or not, we tap into topics in network
security, computer security, and applied cryptography. This workshop
will favor discussions among participants, in order to advance the field
for both cryptographers, network analysts, and security practitioners.
It will be co-located with the Seventeenth International Conference on
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2013.


Program Co-Chairs:

Sven Dietrich, Stevens Institute of Technology
Michael Collins, RedJack

Program Committee:
Jon Callas, Entrust
Jean Camp, Indiana University at Bloomington
Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge
Dave Dittrich, University of Washington, APL
Christian Kreibich, ICSI & Lastline
Ulrich Flegel, HFT Stuttgart
Yong Guan, Iowa State University
Shawn Hernan, Microsoft
Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota
Jose Nazario, Invincea Labs
Vern Paxson, UC Berkeley and ICSI
Angelos Stavrou, George Mason University
Rob Thomas, Team Cymru
Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago
Submissions
WACCC 2013 solicits submissions in three categories:
Three categories:

1) Position papers

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or
conference with proceedings. Position paper submission should not exceed
6 pages in length, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices.
Accepted submissions will appear both in a pre-proceedings, available at
the workshop, and in a formal proceedings. After receiving feedback from
the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to revise their papers
before submitting a camera-ready draft for the final proceedings.

2) Case studies

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or
conference with proceedings. Case studies should not exceed
12 pages in length, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices.
Accepted submissions will appear both in a pre-proceedings, available at
the workshop, and in a formal proceedings. After receiving feedback from
the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to revise their papers
before submitting a camera-ready draft for the final proceedings.

3) Panel proposals

Submitted panel proposals should list the panel topic, a moderator, and
a list of confirmed panelists, along with a short biography of the
participants. The composition should be adequately selected as to
generate copious discussion. Panelists will be given an opportunity to
submit a position statement in the final proceedings.
Submission instructions
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For
complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions. The authors are
expected to sign the IFCA Copyright Agreement, which can be found on the
IFCA website.

Papers, case studies, and panel proposals must be submitted
electronically through the conference submission website:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccc2013. All
submissions must be in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format.
Submissions will not be accepted in any other format.
Proceedings
The WACCC 2013 Proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in conjunction with the FC'13
proceedings. Authors are expected to sign the IFCA Copyright Form (not
the Springer Copyright Form), which can be found here.

Important Dates:
Paper Submission:         January 15, 2013
Author Notification:    February 15, 2013
Camera-ready for Pre-Proceedings:         March 15, 2013
WACCC 2013:         April 1, 2013
Final version for Post-Proceedings:     '    April 30, 2013
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