Contents:

• Letter from the Editor
  

• Commentary and Opinion

  • NewsBits: Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • One Call Is All It Takes
    • Your Cousins' Cousins, Revealed
    • Too Many Rules, Not Enough Experts?
    • Even Chinese Banks Get Hacked
    • Industrial Control Devices, Politics, and War
    • Cybersecurity, a Work in Progress at UK Nuclear Site

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

• Listing of academic positions available by Cynthia Irvine
  

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
    new calls or announcements added since Cipher E176 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update):

  • IEEE Communications Magazine - Cybersecurity (In Incubation) IEEE Communications Magazine is starting a new Cybersecurity Series.
    Submission date: Anytime during the year
  • ACSAC 2023 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, December 4-8, 2023.
  • SP 2024 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 20-23, 2024.
    Submission date: 13 April 2023, 3 August 2023, and 6 December 2023.
  • ASIACCS 2024 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Singapore, July 1-5, 2024.
    Submission date: 21 August 2023 and 7 December 2023.
  • FPS 2023 16th Foundations & Practice of Security Symposium, Bordeaux, France, December 11-13, 2023.
  • VehicleSec 2024 2nd ISOC Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy, Co-located with NDSS 2024, San Diego, CA, USA, February 26, 2024.
    Submission date: 15 December 2023.
  • ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security, NIT Raipur, India, December 16-20, 2023.
  • IEEE Blockchain 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China, December 17-21, 2023.
  • CODASPY 2024 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Porto, Portugal, June 19-21, 2024.
    Submission date: 18 December 2023.
  • eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM), Special Issue on Digital Sovereignty - Interdisciplinary insights into digital technology and infrastructure, information privacy and digital security.
    Submission date: 31 December 2023.
  • IFIP 11.9 DF 2023 20th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, India, January 4-5, 2024.
  • SPW 2024 29th International Workshop on Security Protocols, Brno, Czechia, April 10-12, 2024.
    Submission date: 8 January 2024.
  • DFRWS 2024 24th Annual Digital Forensic Research Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, July 9-12, 2024.
    Submission date: 20 January 2024.
  • EURASIP Journal on Information Security, Special Issue on Trends in Digital Identity: Security, Privacy, and Trust.
    Submission date: 31 January 2024.
  • CSF 2024 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Enschede, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2024.
    Submission date: 15 May 2023, 30 September 2023 and 3 February 2024.
  • USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.
    Submission date: 6 June 2023, 17 October 2023, and 8 February 2024.
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Special Issue on Open Hardware for Embedded System Security and Cryptography.
    Submission date: 15 February 2024.
  • VehicleSec 2024 2nd ISOC Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy, Co-located with NDSS 2024, San Diego, CA, USA, February 26, 2024.
  • NDSS 2024 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, uSA, February 26 - March 1, 2024.
  • PETS 2024 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Bristol, UK and Online, July 15-20, 2024.
    Submission date: 31 May 2023, 31 August 2023, 30 November 2023, and 28 February 2024.
  • FC 2024 28th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Willemstad, Curacao, March 4-8, 2024.
  • FHE 2024 3rd Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Held in conjunction with the Real World Crypto 2024, Toronto, Canada, March 24, 2024.
  • SPW 2024 29th International Workshop on Security Protocols, Brno, Czechia, April 10-12, 2024.
  • SP 2024 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 20-23, 2024.
  • CODASPY 2024 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Porto, Portugal, June 19-21, 2024.
  • ASIACCS 2024 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Singapore, July 1-5, 2024.
  • CSF 2024 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Enschede, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2024.
  • DFRWS 2024 24th Annual Digital Forensic Research Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, July 9-12, 2024.
  • PETS 2024 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Bristol, UK and Online, July 15-20, 2024.
  • USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.

• The Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

• Staying in touch....

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