---------------------------------------------------------------------- ih 2002 5th international workshop on information hiding Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands 7-9 October 2002 http://research.microsoft.com/ih2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many researchers are interested in hiding information or, conversely, in preventing others from doing so. Although the protection of digital intellectual property has recently motivated most of the research in this area, there are many other applications of increasing interest to both the academic and business communities. Current research themes include: - anonymous communications, - covert channels in computer systems, - detection of hidden information, - digital elections, - information hiding aspects of privacy, - low-probability-of-intercept communications, - steganography, - subliminal channels in cryptographic protocols, - watermarking for protection of intellectual property, - other applications of watermarking. The last four workshops brought together these closely linked areas of study and proved to be a success. This fifth international workshop on information hiding will be held in the Conference Hotel Leeuwenhorst in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands from Monday 7th October to Wednesday 9th October 2002. ------------------------ instructions for authors ------------------------ Interested parties are invited to submit novel papers on research and practice which are related to the above areas of interest. We want a balanced program and seek submissions on topics such as anonymous communication, anonymous online transactions, privacy, and covert/subliminal communications, along with our usual quality steganography, watermarking and fingerprinting submissions. Claims about information hiding technology (and in particular ‘robustness’) must be backed by strong evidence in the paper (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modelling or extensive testing) and the authors must be prepared to publicly discuss such claims at the workshop. Submissions of no more than 15 pages must be made electronically, in the Springer LNCS series format with the addition of page numbers. Detailed instructions for paper submissions will be provided in due course on http://research.microsoft.com/ih2002. Questions regarding the program should be directed to the program chair, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas (ih2002@microsoft.com). All other questions should be directed to the general chair Job Oostveen (job.oostveen@philips.com). Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Where possible all further communications to authors will be via email. - paper submissions start 15th April 2002 - paper submissions finish 5th May 2002 - notification of acceptance 29th July 2002 - camera-ready copy for pre-proceedings 1st September 2002 - workshop 7th–9th October 2002 - camera-ready copy for proceedings due 3rd November 2002 ----------------- program committee ----------------- Ross J. Anderson (University of Cambridge, England) Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland) Ingemar J. Cox (NEC Research Institute, U.S.A.) John McHugh (SEI/CERT, U.S.A.) Ira S. Moskowitz (Naval Research Laboratory, U.S.A.) Job Oostveen (Philips Research, Netherlands) – general chair Fabien A. P. Petitcolas (Microsoft Research, England) – program chair Andreas Pfitzmann (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Mike Reiter (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)