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The Second Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing (WATC), at Tokyo, Japan, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan (METI) under contract, New-generation Information Security R&D Program, will be devoted to the dissemination and further development of the boundary areas between trusted computing and information security. This is the second installment of an informal workshop series that started in March 2006. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various areas working on trusted computing and to be instrumental in shaping the identity of the Trusted Computing community. The workshop is open to all interested people.

Conference Scope

Modern computer systems in large-scale, decentralized, and heterogeneous environments are now facing the diverse threats such as from viruses and other malware. Security research seeks to make computers safer and less vulnerable to those IT threats, and thus more dependable. The goal of Trusted Computing is to allow computers and servers to offer improved computer security relative to that what is currently available.

The workshop solicits technical papers offering research contributions spanning from foundations, theory and tools of trusted computing to up-to-date issues. Papers may present theory, applications, or practical experiences on topics including, but not limited to:

models and principles for trusted computing formal models and verification software- or hardware-based approaches cryptographic approaches remote attestation of trusted devices standardization in trusted computing groups issues in trusted platform modules property-based and semantic attestation theory and practice for trusted virtual domains privacy and legal issues applications and case studies

compliance and conformance trust evaluations of computing systems scalability applications and use cases system and platform architectures access control and information flow control communications virtualization and trusted computing trusted client architectures integrity-evaluating architectures integrity management infrastructures

Program Chair

Hideki Imai
Professor, Department of Electric, Electronic and Communication Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University,
Director of Research Center for Information Security (RCIS)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Program Committee

Selim Aissi (Intel, US) Ran Canetti (IBM Research, US) Chris I Dalton (HP UK Lab / OpenTC, UK) Jun Furukawa (NEC, Japan) Michael Franz (University of California, Irvine, US) Goichiro Hanaoka (RCIS/AIST, Japan) Angelos D. Keromytis (Columbia University, US) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Tokai University, Japan) Seigo Kotani (Fujitsu, Japan) Michiharu Kudo (IBM Research, Japan) Wenbo Mao (HP China Lab, China) Tsutomu Matsumoto (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Ronald Perez (IBM Research, US) Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Ruhr University Bochum / OpenTC, Germany) Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan) Matthias Schunter (IBM Research, Switzerland / OpenTC, Germany) Sean W. Smith (Dartmouth University, US) Koutarou Suzuki (NTT, Japan) Toshihiro Tabata (Okayama University, Japan) Satoru Tezuka (Hitachi, Japan) Leendert Van Doorn (CMU/IBM Research, US) Moti Yung (Columbia University, US)

Organizing Committee

Michiharu Kudo, Sachiko Yoshihama, Yuji Watanabe (IBM Research, Japan)
Goichiro Hanaoka (RCIS, AIST, Japan)

Important Dates

Submission due:	August 20, 2006  August 13, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	September 30, 2006
Camera ready version due:	October 31, 2006
WATC workshop:	November 30 to December 1, 2006

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