Greetings

• Greetings From The General Co-Chairs

It is our great honor to invite you to the 10th annual Workshop on Information Security Applications 2009 (abbreviated as WISA 2009). We, the general co-chairs of WISA2009, would like to express our warmful gratitude and great appreciation of the financial support we could get for WISA2009 from MOPAS (Ministry of Public Administration and Security) and KCC (Korea Communications Commission) of Korea.

The goal of WISA is to provide an open forum for presentation of novel and high-quality researches representing the latest R&D results and its applications in information security. In our coming years characterized by the ubiquitous or pervasive computing, the role of the information security and its applications will be of utmost importance in preventing ourselves from side effects such as cyber crimes, abuse, privacy violations, etc. and in building our trustworthy society over the cyber space.

The success of the WISA2009 solely depends on your strong interests and active participations in this workshop. The future of the coming WISA's also highly depends on the everlasting support by you and your colleagues.

Busan, where WISA2009 takes place, is the 2nd largest city in Korea and is very proud of many beautiful beaches and comfortable resorts along its coastline. Haeundae beach, the venue of WISA2009, is one of the most popular and crowded beaches in Korea where you can enjoy delicious seafood and experience very unique culture in the southern part of Korea.

Finally, we hope that you can have enjoyable and memorable staying here in Busan, Korea and find lots of valuable informations for your next research on information security and its applications.

Thanks you very much and good luck to all of you.

Prof. Kwangjo Kim KAIST
Korea President of KIISC(Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology)

Dr. Myung-Joon Kim
Vice President of ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)

Dr. Koung-goo Lee
Vice President of KISA(Korea Internet and Security Agency)

General Co-chairs of WISA2009

• Greetings From The Program Co-Chairs

  It has been our great pleasure and honor to serve as the Program Committee Co-chairs of WISA2009. The aim of the workshop is to serve as a forum for presenting new research and experimental results in the area of information security applications from the academic communities as well as from industry. The workshop program covers a wide range of security aspects, from cryptography to systems and network security and experimental work as well. This year as well the post-proceeding of the workshop will be published in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag.

  WISA 2009 program committee received 79 papers form 16 countries. This year the submissions were exceptionally strong, and the committee accepted 28 paper for the regular full paper presentation track and 9 papers for the short paper presentation track. All the papers were carefully evaluated through blind peer-review by at least three members of the program committee. Papers in the full presentation track will be published in LNCS series as formal proceedings after the conference, while papers in the short presentation track appear only in pre-proceedings as preliminary versions (CD-ROM) and can be published elsewhere in other forums as extended versions. We would like to say that acceptance to either track is a great achievement since the selection process was highly competitive, and many good papers were not accepted to either track.

  Many people have helped and worked hard to make WISA2009 successful. We would like to thank all the people involved in the technical program and in organizing the workshop. We are very grateful to the program committee members and external referees for their time and efforts in reviewing the submissions and selecting the accepted papers. We should also express our special thanks to the organizing committee members for their hard work in managing the workshop. Finally, we would like to thank the authors of all the submitted papers for sending and contributing their interesting research results to the workshop.

August 25, 2009
Professor Heung Youl YOUM
Soonchunhyang University, Korea

Professor Moti YUNG
Columbia University and Google Inc., USA

Program co-chairs of WISA2009