USENIX Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference

[Jon Simon]

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Fifth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference
November 20-22, 2002
Hyatt Ste. Claire, San Jose, California, USA

Sponsors
IFIP Working Group 8.8 (Smart Cards)
USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

Important Dates
Submissions due: June 24, 2002
Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2002
Camera-ready final papers due: September 23, 2002

Overview
Smart card research is of increasing importance as the need for 
information security increases rapidly, especially in response to 
new, urgent demands. Since 1994, CARDIS has been the premier 
international research conference dedicated to smart cards and their 
applications.

CARDIS '02, the joint IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Smart 
Card Research and Advanced Applications, constitutes the Fifth IFIP 
CARDIS conference and the Second USENIX conference on Smart Card 
Technology. Like its predecessors, CARDIS '02 will bring together 
researchers and practitioners in the development and deployment of 
smart card systems and technologies.

Aims and Goals
The portability, processing power, and tamper resistance of smart 
cards offers a platform for secure conditional access to information 
and applications. Smart cards significantly extend the scope of 
distributed systems by providing a trusted platform for 
cryptographically secured computation and storage. Notwithstanding 
their long history, relative to modern computing, the applicability 
of smart cards in distributed systems remains an untapped resource, 
limited mainly by our imagination and understanding. Here lie vast 
uncovered research areas that will have a huge impact on the eventual 
success of the technology. The research challenges span many domains, 
including hardware design, cryptographic applications, distributed 
system architecture, and formal modeling.

Unlike events devoted to commercial and application aspects of smart 
cards, the CARDIS conferences bring together researchers who are 
active in all aspects of the design, validation, and application of 
smart cards. The breadth of smart card research stimulates a synergy 
among disparate research communities, making CARDIS an ideal 
opportunity to present the latest research advances.

Call for Papers
The program committee seeks papers describing the design, 
application, and validation of smart card technologies. Submissions 
across a broad range of smart card development phases are encouraged, 
from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical 
application and deployment of smart card technology.

Topics
The following topics are of particular interest to the program committee:

*  Application loading
*  Smart card operating systems
*  Virtual machines
*  Integrated development environments
*  High-speed, small-footprint encryption
*  Cryptographic accelerators
*  On-card data sharing schemes
*  Smart cards in the Internet
*  Automatic mask generation
*  Emerging opportunities for standardization
*  Smart tokens and other competing technologies
*  Alternative form factors for smart card chips
*  Smart card application program interfaces
*  Trends in smart card hardware
*  Research in tamper-resistance
*  Hardware and software certification
*  Security validation and benchmarks
*  Biometrics involving smart cards

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