1st CCS 1993

PREFACE 

We would like to begin by thanking all the authors who submitted
papers to our conference. Because of their work, we have the privilege
of presenting to you this fine collection of papers on computer and
communications security. We would also like to thank our invited
speakers and panelists for their contributions to the program.

When this conference was but a gleam in the eyes of the organizers, we
frankly did not anticipate that we would, in our first go around, be
able to produce a program with the depth and breadth that we succeeded
in producing. But we are getting ahead of our story. First, where did
this new conference spring up from, and why a new conference?

In the Fall of 1992, Ravi Sandhu was a guest speaker at a Bell
Atlantic Research Colloquium devoted to security, organized by Ravi
Ganesan. Ray Pyle, who was attending the conference, announced during
a break that he would like to get in touch with anyone interested in
helping him organize a one day security session as part of a Symposium
of an IEEE Communications Technical Committee - The two Ravi's
volunteered. Word of Ray's request also reached Vicky Ashby, via
several MITRE folk at the colloquium. Events moved fast: Vicky
conveyed ACM SIGSAC's interest in sponsoring an ACM conference,
Dorothy Denning graciously agreed to serve at the helm, and soon the
planned one day security session metamorphized into a whole new
conference - The Ist ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
Security.

A driving theme for all five organizers was to emphasize the
practical, especially as it related to the commercial sector. By
providing a forum with this emphasis, we felt we could catalyze
practical commercial industry oriented work in the security
community. Have we been successful in this goal? Only time will
tell. In future years we hope to see more application and case study
papers to balance the more theoretical, though very high quality,
papers in the program. Through chance, more than deliberation, this
conference also succeeds in bringing together the Computer Security
and Cryptography worlds, which, in our opinion, have tended be less
closely connected than desirable. We are encouraged by our results,
and anticipate that in future years the conference can further
accentuate its focus on practical applications.

How did we choose the papers you see in these proceedings? We received
60 papers. Program Committee members, except the Program Chairs, were
allowed to submit and we received 7 such papers. Based on the areas of
expertise, these papers were sent to appropriate committee members (to
whom we did not disclose the author names). The committee members
either reviewed the paper themselves, or had them reviewed by external
referees with expertise in the area. All papers had at least two
reviews, most had three and a few had four. The final decisions were
made at a Program Committee meeting attended by fifteen of the
twenty-five committee members. Committee members who submitted papers
left the room when their paper was being discussed. Twenty-two of the
sixty papers made it through this process, and a further five were
selected for the Short Talks session.

A conference such as this can be put together only with the assistance
of many individuals "behind the scenes."  Several people helped us in
various ways. We value the help of each one, and look for continued
cooperation in the future. They are listed here alphabetically by
organization: Dan Faigin (Chairman of ACM SIGSAC), Paul Haven, Mark
Wegleitner (both of Bell Atlantic), Peter Denning, Kitty Hoover, Ganta
Srinivas, Roshan Thomas, Diane Waters (all of GMU), Peter Landrock
(President of IACR), Doug Zuckerman (Chairman of IEEE CNOM), Tom
Plevyak (Editor- in-Chief of IEEE Communications). We also thank Deana
Walsh and Sharon Cassel of Ben Atlantic for invaluable administrative
assistance.  Finally, we express our deepest gratitude to members of
the Program Committee and external referees who willingly helped us
with the difficult task of selecting the papers.

Victoria Ashby
Dorothy Denning
Ravi Ganesan
Raymond Pyle
Ravi Sandhu

Conference Organizers