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Sponsors:	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Institutes of Health; Internet 2; in cooperation with USENIX and OASIS.
Audience:	Security researchers from academia and industry.
Format:	Workshop.
Purpose:	This workshop considers the full range of public key technology used for security decisions and supporting functionalities, including authentication, authorization, identity management, federation, and trust. This year's focus is striking the proper balance to permit users to complete tasks requiring security easily while exposing the appropriate security details through all layers of software.
Topics:	We solicit papers, case studies, panel proposals, and participation from researchers, systems architects, vendor engineers, and users. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Reports of real-world experience with the use and deployment of applications that leverage PKI, how best to integrate such usage into legacy systems, and future research directions; Federated versus Non-Federated trust models; Standards related to PKI and security decision systems, such as X.509, SPKI/SDSI, PGP, XKMS, XACML, XRML, XML signatures, and SAML; Identity management (Shibboleth, Liberty, Higgins, InfoCard, etc.); Cryptographic and alternative methods for supporting security decisions, including the characterization and encoding of data; Intersection of policy-based systems and PKI; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) advances that improve usability of PKI for users and administrators; Privacy protection and implications; Use of PKI in emerging technologies (e.g., sensor networks); Scalability and performance of PKI systems; Security of the components of PKI systems; Security infrastructu! res for constrained environments; Improved human factor designs for security-related interfaces, including authorization and policy; management, naming, signatures, encryption, use of multiple private keys, and selective disclosure; New paradigms in PKI architectures. A complete call for papers is available at the workshop website.
Registration Contact:	Teresa Vicente, NIST, Gaitherburg, MD, phone: 301-975-3883, e-mail: Teresa Vicente
Technical Contact:	General Chair: Ken Klingenstein, University of Colorado, email: ken.klingenstein@colorado.edu Program Chair: Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, email: seamons@cs.byu.edu
Website:	http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/
Registration:	On-Line Registration Registration Fee Cut-Off Date: January 26, 2007. Regular Fee $110 (Fee Paid Before Cutoff Date). Registration Fee After January 26, 2007 ($160.00 )
Accommodations:	A block of rooms has been reserved at the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn in Gaithersburg Maryland. The special rate is $104.00 per night plus 12% tax. Please contact the hotel directly at 301/948-8900 or www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/HI/hd/wasrv.