Call for Papers  [pdf]

2 - 4 December 2008, HKU Town Centre, Admiralty, Hong Kong, China
(Held in conjunction with "Showcase for Tomorrow's Information and Security Technologies" Exhibition)

The main goal of this conference is to promote research on all aspects of network security, as well as to build a bridge between research on cryptography and network security. We therefore welcome scientific and academic papers that focus on this multidisciplinary area. Previous CANS have been held in Taipei (2001), San Francisco (2002), Miami (2003), Xiamen (2005), Suzhou (2006), and Singapore (2007).

Areas of interest for CANS 2008 include, but are not limited to:

• Ad Hoc Network Security
• Access Control for Networks
• Anonymity and Internet Voting
• Authentication Services
• Cryptology
• Denial of Service
• Fast Cryptographic Algorithms
• Information Hiding
• Internet Security
• Intrusion Detection
• IP Security
• Mobile and Wireless Security
• Multicast Security
• PKI
• Phishing
• Router Security
• Secure E-Mail
• Secure Protocols (SSH, SSL, ...)
• Spam
• Spyware
• Scanning
• Virtual Private Networks

Papers on cryptology are welcome. Those that make a substantial link with network security will be given priority. Authors of such paper are encouraged to explain in a subsection of the introduction the link with network security. Quality papers on pure cryptology may also be accepted.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of any other journal, conference/workshop with proceedings. Submissions should have at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. All submissions should be anonymous. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present their paper.

The proceedings is to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer Verlag(http://www.springer.com/lncs), and be available at the conference.

Please refer to related instructions to be available at CANS 2008 website for the submission details.

Papers must be formatted according to the LNCS rules. Papers should be sufficiently intelligible and self-contained without appendices so that PC members can review papers without them. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

The Program Committee is planning to give Best Paper Awards to the best conference paper. (Details to be announced.)