The Security Protocols Workshop will return in 2023.
The is happy to announce that, after a long COVID hiatus, the Security Protocols Workshop is back! The Protocols Workshop is about engaged discussion, so we waited until we could resume an in-person meeting before restarting the Workshop. We are pleased to announce that time has now come: we will once again host an in-person gathering in March 2023.
After a long absence due to COVID-19, the Organizing Committee of the International Workshop on Security Protocols is pleased to announce that the twenty-eighth edition of this event will be held, in person, in Trinity College, Cambridge, UK on 27–28 March 2023. Please submit your position papers by 3 Jan 2023.
The long-running Security Protocols Workshop has hosted lively debates with many security luminaries (the late Robert Morris, chief scientist at the NSA and well known for his pioneering work on Unix passwords, used to be a regular) and continues to provide a formative event for young researchers. The post-proceedings, published in LNCS, contain not only the refereed papers but the curated transcripts of the ensuing discussions (see the website for pointers to past volumes).
Attendance is by invitation only. To be considered for invitation you must submit a position paper: it will not be possible to come along as just a member of the audience. Start writing now! “Writing the paper is how you develop the idea in the first place”, in the wise words of Simon Peyton-Jones.
The Security Protocols Workshop is, and has always been, highly interactive. We actively encourage participants to interrupt and challenge the speaker. The presented position papers will be revised and enhanced before publication as a consequence of such debates. This is the main reason why we cancelled the workshop during lockdown, rather than switching to videoconference as many other events did. We believe the interactive debates during the presentations, and the spontaneous technical discussions during breaks, meals and the formal dinner, are part of the DNA of our workshop. We encourage you to present stimulating and disruptive ideas that are still at an initial stage, rather than “done and dusted” completed papers of the kind that a top-tier conference would expect. We are interested in eliciting interesting discussion rather than collecting archival material.