[HGI-news-int] SPEED-Workshop / Sep 10, 2009

[English Newsletter of the Horst Gö rtz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

International Workshop on Signal Processing in the EncryptEd Domain

Lausanne, Switzerland, September 10, 2009
Recent advances in digital signal processing enabled a number of new 
services in various application domains, ranging from enhanced 
multimedia content production and distribution to advanced healthcare 
systems for continuous health monitoring and biometric signal processing 
for access control, identity verification and authentication. At the 
heart of these services lies the ability to securely manipulate signals 
in order to satisfy security requirements such as privacy, intellectual 
property, authenticity, and access control. Classical technological 
solutions for �secure manipulation of signals� build a secure layer on 
top of existing signal processing modules, to protect them from leakage 
of private information, assuming that the involved parties trust each 
other. In an increasing number of applications, however, the classical 
security model is no longer adequate since one or multiple of the 
parties involved in the communication, distribution or processing of the 
data may not be trusted. In those scenarios, the possibility of 
processing signals in such a way that part of or all the information 
provided by the various parties is kept secret would be of invaluable 
importance. In the framework outlined before, SPEED 2009 aims to 
disseminate the latest cutting-edge results in this research field and 
to bring together interested actors from academia, industry, and 
government.
Submissions of papers exploring the application of signal processing to 
encrypted contents, both from a theoretical and practical point of view 
are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Cryptographic primitives and protocols for signal processing operations
* Secure matching and analysis of signals
* Searching on encrypted signals
* Cryptographic techniques for real-valued or fuzzy data
* Privacy preserving protocols
* Secure watermark embedding and detection
* Next-generation secure content management
* Privacy through secure signal processing
* Transcoding of encrypted content
* Design and evaluation of encryption schemes specifically tailored 
towards signals

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers:      June 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance:  July 15, 2009
Final papers due:          August 15, 2009

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:

Submissions should include a title, list of authors, abstract, and a 
list of key words and not exceed 10 pages with reasonable margins and 10 
point fonts. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LNCS format 
guidelines available from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
For the electronic submission of the papers, please send an email with 
the workshop contribution in pdf or postscript and the indication of the 
contact author name and email address, copying both conference chairs at 
jorge.guajardo(at)philips.com and at alessandro.piva(at)unifi.it .
All accepted contributions will be gathered in a CD-ROM distributed on 
site. Authors of accepted and original papers will be invited to submit 
an extended version of their paper for possible publication in the 
EURASIP Journal of Information Security (JIS).

For further details, please visit the SPEED Project website: 
http://www.speedproject.eu/Co-located with  CHES 2009, www.chesworkshop.org

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
* Jorge Guajardo          Philips Research Europe, NL, 
jorge.guajardo(at)philips.com
* Alessandro Piva    University of Florence, Italy, 
alessandro.piva(at)unifi.it
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* F. Armknecht, Ruhr-University Bochum, D
* M. Barni, University of Siena, IT
* C. Cachin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, CH
* D. Catalano, University of Catania, IT
* T. Kalker, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
* S. Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D
* I. Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology, NL
* N. Memon, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
* B. Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
* A.R. Sadeghi, Ruhr-University Bochum, D
* L.A.M. Schoenmakers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL
* T. Veugen, TNO Information and Communication Technology & Delft Univ. 
of Technology, NL
* M.Wu, University of Maryland, USA



The Workshop is organized in the framework of the
SPEED Project  - http://www.speedproject.eu/