Preface

The IEEE 26th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) was held at Tulane University, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. We are fortunate to be co-located with two conferences: Mathematical Foundations of Programming (MFPS) and Logic in Computer Science (LICS). In addition, there are several co-located workshops. We encourage attendees to take advantage of the opportunities for interaction and collaboration that co-location provides: attend sessions from other conferences and workshops, and engage with researchers from other areas. The Computer Security Foundations Workshop was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Science Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. In 2007, the workshop became an IEEE Symposium, with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the years, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more information about CSF, please see http://www.ieee-security.org/CSFWweb/. A total of 99 abstracts were submitted this year to CSF, 73 of which subsequently had full papers submitted. (Abstracts were due one week before the full papers.) Of the 73 full papers, the program committee accepted 19 papers, which are scheduled to appear in this volume. This is an acceptance rate of approximately 26%.