Middleware Announcements

[Lisa Haanpaa <>]

CALL FOR PAPERS & PROPOSALS
For the 6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop

The CFP for the 6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop to be held on April
17-19, 2007, in Gaithersburg, MD, is currently underway.  The
deadline to submit papers and proposals is October 22, 2006.

This workshop considers the full range of public key
technology used for security decisions and supporting functionalities,
including authentication, authorization, identity management, federation,
and trust. This year's focus is striking the proper balance to permit
users to complete tasks requiring security easily while exposing the
appropriate security details through all layers of software. 
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, etc., in academia, research, government, and industry.
2. Share and discuss lessons learned and scenarios encountered from vendors and practitioners from current deployments.
3. Provide a forum for leading security researchers to explore the issues relevant to PKI in relation to applications, usability, security management, identity, trust, policy, authentication, authorization and encryption (e.g., supporting privacy requirements

For more information on the Workshop go to:
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/

For more information on the CFP go to: http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/cfp.html