From: rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security,comp.security.misc
Subject: New Journal
Message-ID: <1992Sep2.104115.5003@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:41:15 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

Here is a pre-launch announcement of a new journal, which may be of interest
to members of this newsgroup. Please feel free to propagate it.

Ross

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{\Large \bf Computer and Communications Security Abstracts\\}
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{\Large \noindent Pre-launch Announcement}
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Keeping up with research in computer and communications security is
becoming a very time-consuming activity. A conscientious researcher in 
the field would have had to read well over 600 papers last year; and 
as the amount of research activity grows, the problem can only get worse.

We are currently developing, with Cambridge University Press, an abstracting
service designed to solve this problem.

{\bf `Computer and Communications Security Abstracts'} will summarise 
research in computer security topics such as access control, database 
security, formal methods, distributed systems, biometrics, security 
management, risk management, contingency planning, legal issues, audit, and
applications; and in communications security topics including stream and
block cipher techniques, public key cryptography and computational number
theory, complexity and theoretical cryptography, cryptanalysis, 
authentication, protocols, and applications.

Our mission is to provide abstracts of as much published research and
development work as possible. This includes not just conference and journal
papers, but also research reports and theses. We will make a particular
effort to report work which is published in languages other than English,
or which for other reasons might escape the notice of the research
community.

We expect that the first issue will be published in March 1993. It will be
quarterly to begin with, and become bi-monthly once a sufficient flow of
abstracts has been established. These should be a dummy issue out at the 
end of 1992, which will be circulated with subscription information.

If you could be able to help us with abstracting work (particularly in
foreign languages), then we would be very keen to hear from you.

Material published in the main periodicals (IEE and IEEE journals, Journal
of Cryptology, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Computer Security,
Computers and Security, Cryptologia) and the main conference proceedings, 
will be reviewed automatically. However, if you are publishing material 
elsewhere - such as in the form of a departmental research report, or in a 
provincial journal - we would suggest that you sent us an offprint to 
ensure coverage. This should be mailed to:

\noindent Ross J. Anderson (rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk)\\
University Computer Laboratory\\
Pembroke Street\\
Cambridge CB2 3QG\\
England\\
 
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