| The 6th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2008) was held in Amalfi, Italy, on September 10–12, 2008. The first four editions of the conference where held in Amalfi, while, two years ago, the fifth edition was held in the nearby Maiori. This year we moved back to the traditional location.
Security and privacy are increasing concerns in computer networks such as the Internet. The availability of fast, reliable, and cheap electronic communication offers the opportunity to perform, electronically and in a distributed way, a wide range of transactions of a most diverse nature. The conference brought together researchers in the fields of cryptography and security in communication networks with the goal of fostering cooperation and exchange of ideas. The main topics of the conference this year included anonymity, implementations, authentication, symmetric-key cryptography, complexity-based cryptography, privacy, cryptanalysis, cryptographic protocols, digital signatures, public-key cryptography, hash functions, identification.
The international Program Committee consisted of 24 members who are top experts in the conference fields. The PC received 71 submissions and selected 26 papers for presentation at the conference. These proceedings include the 26 accepted papers and the abstract of the invited talk by Shai Halevi.
The PC selected papers on the basis of originality, quality and relevance to the conference scope. Due to the high number of submissions, paper selection was a difficult task and many good papers had to be rejected. Each paper was refereed by three or four reviewers. We thank the members of the PC for the effort invested in the selection process. We also gratefully acknowledge the help of the external reviewers who evaluated submissions in their area of expertise. The names of these reviewers are listed on page VIII, and we apologize for any inadvertent omissions or mistakes.
Finally, we would like to thank the authors of all submitted papers and the conference participants, who ultimately made this conference possible. |
