IH 2010 announcement

IH 2010 will be located in Calgary. Here is the website:

http://ih2010.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

Note that the submission deadline is in 3 months.

Miss cucumber, a green dress for Xmas.

IEEE WIFS'09

Open drum roll. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first edition of IEEE Workshop on Information and Security (a.k.a. WIFS). This is the first day of the first edition. This is the first session of the first day of the first edition. This is the first..." Well, this first session will not go down in history, but, this conference was indeed very good:

- a conference theater looking like the "Who wants to be a millionaire" stage (thanks BT!),

- low acceptance ratio,

- high attendee per speaker ratio,

- a good mix of all that matters in information security (watermarking, forensics, traitor tracing, biometrics, steganography, fingerprinting, cryptography...)

- refreshing invited speakers: a judge with subliminal erotic pics (is that what is called the 'french touch'?), a megalo but introspective security expert, and a frightening virus hunter ("Stay away from computers!")

- nasty questions and hot sessions (especially the "We will rock you" traitor tracing speeches), may be too hot since it trigged the fire alarm (thanks BT!).

- the nice playlist in the control booth (thanks BT!).

Miss cucumber back from ye olde London