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DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols (Rutgers, June 2004)

DIMACS Workshop on Security Analysis of Protocols
                          June 7 - 9, 2004
     DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers: 
John Mitchell, Stanford, mitchell@cs.stanford.edu 
Ran Canetti, IBM Watson, canetti@watson.ibm.com 

Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security 
and Information Privacy. 

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Protocols/

The analysis of cryptographic protocols is a fundamental and challenging area 
of network security research. Traditionally, there have been two main 
approaches. One is the logic approach aimed at developing automated tools for 
the formal verification of protocols. The other is the computational or 
complexity-theoretic approach that characterizes protocol security as a set of
computational tasks and proves protocol security via reduction to the strength
of the underlying cryptographic functions. Although these two lines of work 
share a common goal, there has been little commonality between them until the 
last year or two. 

The goal of this workshop is to promote work on security analysis of protocols
and provide a forum for cooperative research combining the logical and 
complexity-based approaches. 

The workshop will include tutorials on the basics of each approach and will 
allow researchers from both communities to talk about their current work.