This was bounced but it originally came from Markus Kuhn. If any of you have recently done something interesting related to smartcards or other portable crypto devices and want to report about it to a broad expert audience, then please consider submitting a paper to USENIX Workshop on Smartcard Technology May 10-11, 1999 Chicago, Illinois, USA Deadline for the extended abstracts is December 1, 1998, final papers are due March 30, 1999. The USENIX Workshop on Smartcard Technology will be held in conjunction with the largest North American smart card conference, CardTech/ SecureTech, so this should also be an excellent opportunity to meet large parts of the industry. Of particular interest to the program committee are the following topics: Research in tamper-resistance Hardware and software certification Security testing and benchmarks Application loading Smart card operating systems Virtual machines Integrated development environments High-speed, small-footprint encryption Cryptographic accelerators On-card data sharing schemes Smart cards in the Internet Automatic mask generation Emerging opportunities for standardization Competing technologies Alternative form factors for smart card chips Application program interfaces Trends in smart card hardware More information is available on-line on http://www.usenix.org/events/smartcard99/cfp.html or in print from USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 +1-949-588-8649 FAX: +1-949-588-9706 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this announcement to interested colleagues. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- ****************************************************************** David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Work: School: 205 Industrial Blvd 2252 US Highway 52 West Apt C4 Sugar Land, TX 77478 West Lafayette, IN 47906 Suggestion: Use Linux, it is for IQ's higher than 95. Quote: If you can't make it work, at least make it look good. ~ Bill Gates ****************************************************************** *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************