Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on New security paradigms
Venue: New Security Paradigms Workshop (2001)

For ten years the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) has provided a productive and highly interactive forum where innovative new approaches (and some radical older approaches) to information systems security have been offered, explored, refined, and published. Our workshop offers a constructive environment where experienced researchers and practitioners work alongside newer participants in the field, giving a unique opportunity to exchange ideas for the mutual benefit of all.NSPW is distinguished by the fact that every selected paper is discussed in a collegial setting at the, time of its presentation and often afterwards. The number of papers selected is small enough to allow a comfortable time period for the intensive examination of new concepts. Authors are instructed to prepare for a 20 to 25 minute presentation and then usually given about an hour of actual presentation- cure-discussion time which shows the high degree of interaction with the other workshop participants. One of the most noteworthy features of NSPW is the "psychological contract" by which all workshop participants abide. Because authors are asked to present ideas that might be considered risky in some other venues, all participants are charged with providing feedback in a constructive and gracious manner. And it works! The resulting brainstorming environment has proven to be excellent for furthering the development of these ideas. Authors typically receive a considerable amount of feedback about their presentations and are encouraged to incorporate it into the final version of their paper. The results are reflected in these proceedings, published after the workshop. If you find the work presented here interesting and provocative and would like to share your own ideas at a future NSPW, please watch for the Call For Papers for our next NSPW on our web site at http://www.nspw.org.Despite the tragic events of September 11, 2001 (which was also the opening day of this year's workshop), we believe the workshop was still a great success. All agreed that we would not knuckle under to the purpose of terrorism which is to change our behavior, and we proceeded with the workshop as planned (albeit with more relaxed rules and a somber format necessitated by the terrible-events). We will not pretend that this was a usual NSPW; the stress level was understandably quite high. Even so, we had an excellent program of innovative security work. The authors all benefited from the extensive, informed discussion of their work.NSPW must remain small to provide the high quality interaction between authors and attendees. In fact, we are probably the only conference that does not want to grow at all and that actively discourages growth. Based on past experience, when our numbers get too large the quality of the workshop suffers. This one was the optimum size with 30 attendees. However, this does not mean that we want to keep the dissemination of the results of NSPW small! Far from it, and we hope that these proceedings are one way in which we can disseminate some of the truly great ideas to result from this year's workshop. As in the past, papers were submitted to NSPW 2001 from around the world and we had a good representation from academia, industry, government, and organizations. The numbers on the authors arc as follows (keeping in mind that most papers had more than one author and the authors sometimes came from different countries and different backgrounds, such as a combination of academia and industry): North America 76, Europe 26, Middle East I, and none from Asia this year. There were 58 authors from academia, 30 from industry and 15 from government or organizations.Though papers of all kinds were submitted, from far out theory to very practical solutions, a theme of the papers that were chosen seemed to develop; new paradigms for solutions to the new problems that out rapidly developing technology is presenting to us. New paradigms for solutions are just what we need in these troubling times.