6th CCS 1999

Message From the Program Chair 

This year's crop of submissions was truly outstanding in both quality
and number. A total of 83 submissions were received testifying to the
growing popularity and importance of ACM CCS. (This is despite many
competing conferences and workshops.) Submissions came from around the
world and spanned a very broad range of subjects: from classical
cryptography and formal methods to intrusion detection and
experimental systems.

The program committee met on June 23, 1999 at USC/ISI in Marina del
Rey, CA. After a very long and arduous day, 16 papers were selected
representing the very best of the state-of-the-art. Like the pool of
submissions they were drawn from, these 16 papers provide an excellent
and broad coverage of the field. They represent timely and important
advances in their subject areas and attest to the talents and
dedication of the authors.

In addition to the technical papers the conference program includes
tutorials by Bruce Schneier and Ravi Sandhu, an opening talk by Robert
Deng, a panel session moderated by Dan Boneh, a newly introduced Rump
Session for short talks reporting on very recent research, and two
outstanding invited talks by Edward Felten and Victor Shoup.

There are many people I would like to thank, for their help and
support. First off, I am very grateful to the authors of all submitted
papers for their patronage of ACM CCS and for the hard work invested
in the submissions.  Collectively representing the research community,
they are both the backbone and the target audience of this
conference. Members of the program committee have done an exceptional
job this year and I cannot thank them enough for the time and effort
in reviewing papers, partaking in the PC meeting and otherwise helping
out in many related tasks and activities.  It has been a pleasure and
and an honor to work with them. Likewise, I would like to express my
gratitude to the delegated reviewers for their selfless community
service and insightful reviews. A special word of thanks goes to Mike
Reiter who, as previous year's Program Chair, shared his knowledge and
experience.  Same sentiments are due to Matt Franklin for a great job
as the Proceedings Chair and Jianying Zhou for promoting and
advertising CCS as the Publicity Chair. I am also thankful to Juzar
Motiwalla and Ravi Sandhu (General Chair and Steering Committee Chair,
respectively) for their help and support.

Having followed ACM CCS from its inception in 1992 - as an attendee,
author or organizer - I am very happy to note its continuing growth in
popularity, quality and maturity. I believe that it is now firmly
entrenched as the premier security conference. In closing, I am very
proud of my affiliation with this conference and appreciative of the
opportunity to serve as the Program Chair.

Gene Tsudik
Program Chair, ACM-CCS-6