Middleware Announcements

[Lisa Hogeboom <>]

5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop: Making PKI Easy to Use 
April 4-6th, 2006
Gaithersburg, MD  
    

CALL FOR PAPERS for this workshop has been extended to October 22nd,
2005
 

This workshop considers the full range of public key technology used for
security decisions and supporting functionalities, including
authentication, authorization, identity (syndication, federation, and
aggregation), and trust.  This year, the workshop has a particular
interest in novel approaches to simplifying the use and management of
X.509 digital certificates, both within and across enterprises. 
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, et
al., in academia, government and the private sector.
   2. Share & discuss lessons learned and scenarios from
vendors and practitioners on current deployments.
   3. Provide a forum for leading security researchers to
explore the issues relevant to the PKI space in areas of security
management, identity, trust, policy, authentication, authorization and
encryption (e.g., supporting privacy requirements).
 
CALL FOR PAPERS:
   We solicit papers, case studies, panel proposals, and
participation from researchers, systems architects, vendor engineers, and
users. Submitted works should address one or more critical areas of
inquiry.  For more information on submission, time lines, and
general conference information go to: 
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki06/.