The 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008) will be held in October 2008, in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008), which will meet October 27–31 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Submissions due: May 23
Notification: July 3
Camera-ready due: August 3

The 4th ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008) will bring together researchers in storage systems, computer and network security, and cryptography. We encourage paper submissions from both research and industry presenting novel ideas on all theoretical and practical aspects of protecting data in storage and file systems. Topics of interest include, but aren't limited to:
storage protection tradeoffs
storage protection deployment (including case studies)
smart storage for security and/or survivability
analysis of covert storage channels and leaks
mobile storage protection
novel backup protection techniques
protection using versioning
storage encryption techniques (modes of operation, fast software/hardware encryption)
key management techniques
encrypted keyword search and database query
security analysis of deployed file/volume encryptor, encrypted disc
tamper-evident storage protection techniques
immutable storage protection techniques, provenance
storage threat models
storage intrusion detection systems
security for long-term / archival storage
privacy and trust issues in (untrusted) remote/hosted storage
TPM and storage security
In addition to traditional research paper presentations, the workshop is planning to host program managers from funding agencies and industrial representatives to have a panel discussion or invited talks on their need. (We have already had some verbal discussion with David Du at NSF.)
The StorageSS workshop solicits full papers of up to 12 pages long as well as short papers / work-in-progress, which may be up to 6 pages long. Wild and controversial ideas are especially encouraged. The workshop will be structured to focus on face-to-face discussion and integration of people from storage, security, industry, and the open source community. To foster this interaction, we will include invited talks and/or panels.
Paper submission and review will be done online. Papers should be formatted as two column in a font no smaller than 10 points. Submissions should be labeled as either a full paper (up to 12 pages) or short paper (up to 6 pages). Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=storagess2008
Please contact the program chair at chair08[at]storagess.org if you have any questions about the relevance of a paper or topic.