6th CCS 1999

Message from the General Chair 

I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of Kent Ridge Digital
Labs, to extend a warm welcome to all of you to the Sixth ACM
Conference on Computer and Communications Security. The first five
conferences were held in Fairfax, Virginia (1993 and 1994), New Delhi,
India (1996), Zurich, Switzerland (1997) and San Francisco, California
(1998).  For the sixth in the series, we are very pleased to welcome
you to Singapore, the Lion City.

In the past five years, this conference brought together the community
of industry and academia who are involved in the research,
development, use, and management of computer and communications
security technology. The conference has established itself as a forum
at which research as well as practical aspects of computer and
communications security are enthusiastically addressed. We hope to
continue this tradition by offering you another successful forum with
an interesting program.

This conference was put together with the support of several
people. To begin with we are extremely grateful to Ravi Sandhu who
proposed to have the conference in Singapore. Our conference is
sponsored by ACM SIGSAC and hosted by Kent Ridge Digital Labs. Two
conference exhibitors, DigiSafe Pte Ltd and Internet Appliance Pte Ltd
kindly sponsored tea breaks to the conference. We thank these
organizations for their financial support and encouragement. Special
thanks also to the conference organizing committee, in particular
Desai Narasimhalu (Local Arrangement Chair), Jianying Zhou (Publicity
Chair), Victorine Chen-Toh (Registration Chair), Robert Deng (Exhibits
Chair), Ngair Teow Hin (Tutorial Chair), and Matt Franklin
(Publication Chair).

The success of the conference depends on the quality of the program
selection. We are indebted to our Program Chair Gene Tsudik, the
Program Committee members, and the external referees for the wonderful
job they have done. Finally we would like to thank the authors who
submitted papers and the participants from all over the world who have
chosen to honor us with their attendance.

Hope you enjoy the conference and have a pleasant time in Singapore! 

Juzar Motiwalla
CEO 
Kent Ridge Digital Labs
Singapore