Co-organized by IEICE & IPSJ
November 18-20, 2013
Okinawa, Japan

IWSEC2013

The 8th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC2013, were held at Okinawa, Japan, between 18-20 November, 2013. The proceedings were published as the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) volume entitled "Advances in Information and Computer Security".


Best Paper Award

Shotaro Sano, Takuma Otsuka, and Hiroshi G. Okuno, "Solving Google's Continuous Audio CAPTCHA with HMM-based Automatic Speech Recognition"

Best Student Paper Award

Yun-Ju Huang, Christophe Petit, Naoyuki Shinohara, and Tsuyoshi Takagi, "Improvement of Faugere et al.'s method to solve ECDLP"

Conference topics

Original papers on the research and development of various security topics, as well as case studies and implementation experiences, are solicited for submission to IWSEC 2013. Topics of interest for IWSEC 2013 include but are not limited to:


  • Anonymity
  • Application Security
  • Authentication, Authorization and Access Control
  • Biometrics
  • Block/Stream Ciphers
  • Cloud Computing Security
  • Cryptographic Implementations and their Analysis
  • Cryptographic Protocols
  • Cryptanalysis
  • Data and System Integrity
  • Database Security
  • Digital Forensics
  • Digital Signatures
  • E-business/e-commerce/e-government Security
  • Hash Functions
  • Information Hiding
  • Information Law and Ethics
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Intrusion Prevention and Detection
  • Malware Prevention and Detection
  • Mobile System Security
  • Network Security
  • Privacy Preserving Systems
  • Public Key Cryptosystems
  • Quantum Security
  • Risk Analysis and Risk Management
  • Security Architectures
  • Security for Consumer Electronics
  • Security for Critical Infrastructures
  • Security Management
  • Secure Multiparty Computation
  • Security for Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
  • Smart Card and RFID Security
  • Software Security
  • System Security
  • Web Security