SSR: Security Standardisation Research

Scope

The SSR conference series, on Research in Security Standardisation, was launched in 2014.

Over the last two decades a very wide range of standards have been developed covering many aspects of cyber security. These documents have been published by national and international formal standardisation bodies, as well as by industry consortia. Many of these standards have become very widely used - to take just one example, the ISO/IEC 27000 series of standards has become the internationally adopted basis for managing corporate information security.

Despite their wide use, there will always be a need to revise existing security standards and to add new standards to cover new domains. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the many research problems deriving from studies of existing standards, the development of revisions to existing standards, and the exploration of completely new areas of standardisation. Indeed, many security standards bodies are only beginning to address the issue of transparency, so that the process of selecting security techniques for standardisation can be seen to be as scientific and unbiased as possible.

The SSR conferences are intended to cover the full spectrum of research on security standardisation, including, but not restricted to, work on cryptographic techniques (including ANSI, IEEE, IETF, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ITU-T and NIST), security management, security evaluation criteria, network security, privacy and identity management, smart cards and RFID tags, biometrics, security modules, and industry-specific security standards (e.g. those produced by the payments, telecommunications and computing industries for such things as payment protocols, mobile telephony and trusted computing).

History

SSR 2014 was held in the UK in December 2014. The proceedings of SSR 2014 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 8893. Further information is available here, and the online version can be retrieved here.

SSR 2015 was held in Japan in December 2015. The proceedings of SSR 2015 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 9497. The online version can be retrieved here.

SSR 2016 was held in the USA in December 2016. The proceedings of SSR 2016 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 10074. The online version can be retrieved here.

There was no SSR conference in 2017.

SSR 2018 was held in Darmstadt, Germany in November 2018. The proceedings of SSR 2018 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 11322. The online version can be retrieved here.

SSR 2019 was held in London, UK in November 2019, as a satellite workshop of ACM CCS 2019. The proceedings of SSR 2019 were published by the ACM - the online version is available here.

SSR 2020 was held as a virtual e-conference on Monday/Tuesday 30th November/1st December 2020. The proceedings of SSR 2020 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 12529. The online version can be retrieved here.

There was no SSR conference in 2021.

SSR 2022 was held as a hybrid conference on 6th June 2022, co-located with Euro S&P 2022. Copies of the talks are available. The presented papers will be published by IEEE in a volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2022 proceedings.

SSR 2023 will be co-located with Eurocrypt 2023 in Lyon, France, and will take place on April 22nd and 23rd 2023. The presented papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

Volunteers are sought to host and organise SSR 2024.

Steering committee

The steering committee for the SSR series of conferences has the following members.