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Eighth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference
CARDIS 2008
The eighth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application IFIP Conference, organized by IFIP
Working Groups WG 8.8 and WG 11.2, will be held in Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, Surrey, UK. Since 1994, CARDIS has been the foremost international conference dedicated
to smart card research and applications. Every two years the scientific community congregates
to present new ideas and to discuss recent developments. Also in 2008, forty years after Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Grötrupp filled their idea of incorporating an integrated circuit
in an identification card, CARDIS'08 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners in
the development and deployment of state-of-the-art smart card technologies. The fast
evolutionary process in the field of information security requires adequate means to represent
humans in the process of human-machine interactions. Smart cards, or by extension smart devices
with their processing power and their direct correlation to the user are considered to be the first
choice. In rather young and new realms, such as pervasive computing, smart cards and devices
face new challenges. Today, the capabilities of smart cards and devices with their highly
advanced specialized security features reach a wide variety of applications. They are the basis for
many secure systems and play a decisive role in ID management. Established computer science
areas like hardware design, operating systems, modeling systems, cryptography or distributed
systems got adapted to this fast growing technology and investigate emerging issues resulting
from it. Unlike events devoted to commercial and application aspects of smart cards, CARDIS
conferences gather researchers and technologists who focused on all aspects of the design,
development, deployment, validation and application of smart cards or smart personal devices.
Conference Scope
The program committee is seeking papers describing the design, development, 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
applications and deployment of smart card technology. As a response to the growing development
of contactless applications and RFID systems, a special interest is also devoted to low cost cryptographic
mechanisms and physical security of constrained devices.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- From smart cards to smart devices (hardware, form factor, display),
- Software environments for smart cards and devices (OS, VM, API),
- Smart cards and devices networking and high-level data models,
- Smart cards and devices applications, development and deployment,
- Person representation and biometrics using smart technologies,
- Identity, privacy and trust issues for smart technologies,
- High-speed, small-footprint implementations of cryptographic algorithms,
- Attacks and countermeasures in hardware and software,
- Cryptographic protocols for smart cards and devices,
- Biometrics and smart cards,
- Formal modeling of environments and applications,
- Interplay of TPMs and smart cards,
- Security of RFID systems.
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