International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007)
May 7-11, 2007
Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel, Gazimagusa (TRNC), North Cyprus.

May 7th, 2007 (Monday): Tutorials Day 1

08:00 Registration

08:30-12:00 Tutorial 7. Making of a Multiprecision Cryptographic Software Library: Experiences with CRYMPIX: By Hüseyin HIŞIL, Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and, Serap ATAY, Information Systems Strategy and Security Lab., Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. @Akkule.

08:30-16:30 Tutorial 5. Elliptic Curve Cryptography: By Ersan AKYILDIZ, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. @St. Barnabas.

08:30-16:30 Tutorial 8. Creating/Using a Management System to Manage Information Security and ISO 27001 Certification By Murat LOSTAR, Lostar Information Security, Turkey. @Kantara.

12:00-16:30 Tutorial 3. Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis By Ahmet KOLTUKSUZ & Selma TEKİR, Information Systems Strategy and Security Lab., Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. @Akkule.

May 8th, 2007 (Tuesday): Tutorials Day 2

08:00 Registration

08:30-12:00 Tutorial 2. Privacy in Digital Age By Justin ZHAN, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA.  @Akkule.

08:30-16:30 Tutorial 6. AKiS, Smart Card Operating System By Mustafa BAŞAK, TÜBİTAK-UEKAE, Turkey. @St. Barnabas.

08:30-16:30 Tutorial 4. How to Establish & Run a Cryptographic Key Management Center By Ahmet KOLTUKSUZ, Information Systems Strategy and Security Lab., Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.  @Kantara.

12:00-16:30 Tutorial 1. Using Free Linux Live CD for Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis
By Christopher D. Chavez, Digitel Telecom, Phillipines. @Akkule.

18:30-19:30 @Amphi, Gazimagusa Technology Development Region Technopark:

• Keynote Speach: Power Analysis Attacks—A Very Brief Introduction by Prof. Elisabeth Oswald, Cryptography and Information Security Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• 19:30 Prof. Dr. Suha Bayindir: Introducing GMTGB Technopark.
• Onwards: Coctail compliments of GMTGB Technopark.

 

May 9th, 2007 (Wednesday): Conference Day 1

08:00 Registration

08:30-09:30 Conference Opening Ceremony @Ballroom (NB: this session is open to public):

• Welcoming Speaches:
  • Atilla Elçi, EMU & Berna Örs, ITU
  • Izzet Kale, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, EMU
  • Mehmet Altınay, Vice President (Rresearch), EMU
• Keynote Speach: White-Box Cryptography by Prof. Marc Joye, Thomson R&D, France.

09:45-12:00 Paper Session 9.2 @Ballroom: Ciphers (Chair: Ersan Akyıldız):

• S155: Secure Hill Cipher Modification SHC-M: Alexander Chefranov
• R136: ECSC-128: New Stream Cipher Based on Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem: Khaled Suwais, Azman Samsudin.
• R173: Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem over GF(p^m): Ilker Yavuz, Berna Ors
• R172: Hardware Implementation of RSA: Keklik Alptekin Bayam, Berna Örs, Bülent Örencik
• R112: Keyed Blind Multiresolution Watermarking Algorithm For Digital Images: Mahmoud Hassan.
• S143: Covert Channel Communication in RFID: Md. Sadek Ferdous, Farida Chowdhury
• S179: Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Classification in Horizontal Collaboration: Justin Zhan
• S177: Generalization of Open Key Knapsack Cryptosystems: Valeriy O. Osipyan

12:00-12:45 Lunch Break

12:45-14:30 Paper Session 9.3 @Ballroom: Mobile Agents & Networks (Chair: Attila Özgit):

• R138: Practical Public Key Solution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: W. Hsin, Lein Harn
• R158: A Recursive Method for Validating and Improving Network Security Solutions: Suleyman Kondakci
• R159: Secure Multiparty Overall Mean Computation via Oblivious Polynomial Evaluation: Mert Özarar, Attila Özgit
• R160: Linear Approximations for 2-round Trivium: Meltem Sönmez Turan, Orhun Kara
• R109: A New Data Integrity Protection Model for Free Roaming Mobile Agents: Marwa Essam, Mohamed A. EL-Sharkawy, Mohamed S. Abdelwahab
• R113: Secure Global Connectivity for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Ramanarayana Kandikattu, Lillykutty Jacob
• R142: Security Considerations for Residential Mode on ZigBee Network: Lee-Chun Ko.

14:45-17:00 Paper Session 9.4 @Ballroom: Attacks, Intrusion Detection, and Security Recommendations (Chair: Çetin Kaya Koç):

• R131: Success Rate of Reflection Attack on Some DES Variants: Esen Akkemik, Orhun Kara, Cevat Manap
• S126: Concurrency Issues in Rule-Based Network Intrusion Detection Ssystems: Mustafa Atakan, Cevat Şener
• R154: The Use of the Google Search Engine for Accessing Private Information on the World Wide Web: Ş. Ahmet Gürel, Erhan Basri, Yıltan Bitirim
• S152: DARIS: A Probabilistic Model for Dependency Analysis of Risks in Information Security: Süleyman Kondakçı
• S180: Improved Threat Modeling Process for Grids: Mohammad Othman Nassar
• S170: Achieving Private SVD-based Recommendations on Inconsistently Masked Data: Yakut Ibrahim, Huseyin Polat.

17:15-18:15 Keynote Session 9.5: @Ballroom:

• Side-Channel Attacks to Commodity Processors by Prof. Çetin Kaya Koç, Istanbul Commerce U., Turkey, & Oregon State U., USA.

18:30-19:00 PC Meeting @Ballroom:

• SIN Conference Next Organization Meeting
  (All interested are invited)

19:30 onwards: Gala Dinner @ Salamis Bay (Compliments of Ministry of Education and Culture, TRNC).

 

May 10th, 2007 (Thursday): Conference Day 2

08:00 Registration

08:30-09:30 Keynote Session 10.1: @Ballroom: Web Services Security: Protocols, Implementations, and Proofs by Dr. Karthik Bhargawan, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.

10:00-12:00 Paper Session 10.2 (two parallel sessions):

  + Security Software, Performance, and Experience (Chair: Karthik Bhargawan) @Ballroom:

• R162: The Performance Results of ECDSA Implementation on Different Coordinate Systems: Serap ATAY
• R165: Remote Security Evaluation Agent for the RSEP Protocol: Suleyman Kondakci
• R168: Test Case Generation for Firewall Implementation Testing using Software Testing Techniques: Tugkan TUGLULAR
• S120: Performance Study of Secure IEEE 802.11g Networks: G.Zeynep GURKAS AYDIN, A.Halim ZAIM, M.Ali AYDIN
• S140: Configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 and Linux Squid Server and Evaluation of Some Security Tools: Hedaya Alasooly
• R161: Türkiye’de Kisisel Veri Güvenligi, Teknik ve Yönetsel Önlemler: Yalcin Cebi, Osman Okyar Tahaoglu

  + Access Control and Security Assurance (Chair: Alexander Chefranov) @St. Barnabas:

• R117: Integrating Security Assurance within the (Rational) Unified Process: Mohammad Reza Razzazi, Yashar Heydari
• R128: Secure Communication and Access Control for Mobile Web Service Provisioning: Satish Srirama, Anton Naumenko
• R132: Creating Application Security Layer Based on Resource Access Decision Service: Mehmet Özer Metin, Cevat Şener, Yenal Göğebakan
• R144: More Secure Authentication using Multiple Servers (MSAMS): Belgin Bilgin, Ibrahim Soğukpınar.

12:15-13:15 Keynote Session 10.3: @Ballroom:

• Research Challenges in Cryptology by Prof. Bart Preneel, Head of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

13:15-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 Paper Session 10.4 (two parallel sessions):

  + Security Software, Performance, and Experience (Chair: Bart Preneel) @Ballroom:

• S151: On NTRU and Its Performance: Ali Mersin, Mutlu Beyazıt
• R135: Establishing the ISMS at TAI: Experiences and Recommendations: Bilge Yigit
• R150: A Memory Management Model For Cryptographic Software Libraries: Ali Mersin, Mutlu Beyazıt
• S156: Information Security Policy: positioning the technological components of information security services under the perspective of electronic business: Kaan Kurtel

  + Access Control and Security Assurance (Chair: M. Ufuk Çağlayan) @St. Barnabas:

• R176: A New Multi-Way Client and Server Authentication Approach for Impersonation Avoidance: Behnam Rahnama, Atilla Elci
• S167: Centralized Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Framework for Critical Web Applications: Alireza Goudarzi
• S169: Mental Network: Pooyan Balouchian, Marjaneh Safaei, Alireza Goudarzi
• S164: Data Sharing Security Model Based On MLS: Muhammad Reza Fatemi Abhari, Shima Izadpanahi, Kiavash Bahreini
• S123: Examining the Resistance of the Developed Program Using LSB Methods Called Stego_LSB against RS Steganalysis: Andac Sahin, Ercan BULUS, M.Tolga Sakallı, H.Nusret Bulus

17:00-18:00 Keynote Session 10.5: @Ballroom:

• Secure Routing in Ad Hoc Networks and Model Checking by Prof. Mehmet Ufuk Çağlayan, Bogaziçi U., Turkey.

 

May 11th, 2007 (Friday): Site Seeing Tour

08:00 onwards: A tour is being organized by the SIN 2007 Official Travel Agent Kre-Com Tourism. The tour may include Gazimagusa and other sites in TRNC as desired by the participants. Tickets are available at Kre-Com.

 

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