7th CCS 2000

Message from the Program Chair 

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the
7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, held
November 2-4, 2000, in Athens, Greece.

In response to the call for papers, 132 papers were submitted to the
conference. These papers were evaluated on the basis of their
significance, novelty, and technical quality. As in previous years,
reviewing was "double-blind": the identities,of reviewers were not
revealed to the authors of the papers and author identities were not
revealed to the reviewers. The program committee met on June 23rd at
the George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Of the papers submitted,
28 were selected for presentation at the conference.

Last year, tutorials were introduced to this conference. The scope of
this year's conference has been further expanded to include two
workshops - Workshop on Security and Privacy in E-Commerce and
Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Prevention - to provide forums for
focused discussion on topics of timely interest. I expect that the
specialized workshops will become a regular feature of future
conferences.

A conference like this just does not happen; it depends on the
volunteer efforts of a host of individuals. Thanks are due to the
following volunteers for their help with various aspects of the
conference and these proceedings:

- The authors of the papers who submitted to the conference 

- The members of the program committee for all their hard work

- The external reviewers

- Soon Chun for her help with the Web site for paper submissions

- Heiki Mannila and Ravi Ganesan for invited talks

- Yvo Desmedt for organizing the panel

- Anup Ghosh and Deborah Frincke for serving as the program chairs of
  the workshops

- Stuart Stubblebine for serving as the tutorials chair, and John
  Ioannidis, Angelos Keromytis, and Yair Frankel for giving the
  tutorials

- Vijay Atluri for taking care of the publicity

- Sabrina De Capitani di Vimereati for her help with managing the
  reviews

- Pierangela Samarati for assisting with preparation of these
  proceedings

Last but certainly not least, my thanks go to Dirnitris Gritzalis for
providing support as the general chair of the conference.

The number of submissions this year far exceeds those in the previous
years (60 in 1997, 87 in 1998, and 85 in 1999). This reflects the
increasing vitality and importance of our field in the new
millennium. I hope you will find the program stimulating and a source
of inspiration for your future research.

Sushil Jajodia
Fairfax, VA