Unlike earlier incarnations, this years congress will not only address the German speaking population. It is our goal to have at least the main track of the conference held in English and translated to German or held in German and translated to English.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• wrecked use of mainstream technology
• obfuscating code, technology and user minds
• IPv6 technology and security, practical experience, 6bone statistics etc.
• Technical developments and protocols in the Internet (e.g. Differentiated Services, constraint-based-routing, MPLS, traffic engineering, policing, COPS, TCPng, streaming protocols, Peer2Peer-Networks, ENUM etc.)
• telephone networks (wired & wireless, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS)
• access technology (cable modems, satellite, WLL etc.)
• surveillance technology, LI, state of the art and how to trick it
• security policy and privacy Issues
• security infrastructure, architecture and standards (PKCS, CMA, CDSA etc.)
• watching them watching us and how to sharpen the picture
• eavesdropping on (streaming) protocols (e.g. internet telephony)
• operating system/platform security (any OS you can think of)
• internet, communications & networking security, including wireless technologies (WaveLAN, HiperLAN, etc.)
• AAA
• intrusion detection and monitoring
• cryptographic algorithms, technology, toolkits, applications, etc. (e.g. AES, elliptic curves, PGP, GnuPG etc.)
• smartcards & embedded anything
• biometrics
• copyright, copyleft, copywrong, "interlec-duh-al capital", digital rights management and the street performer protocol, DMCA vs Freedom of Speech
• privacy, private data and public data and the difference, if any
• misuse of (multi)media technology, "secure" devices ...
• art & beauty in the global village
• reverse engineering technology how-to's
• circumvention devices & security countermeasures
• political and legislative trends, open and hidden, concerning the net and communication technology
• crypto-politics in national security
• German issues as TKÜV and equivalents in other countries
• European issues as Cybercrime-Convention and equivalents
• hacker ethics and history
• Developments in Mobile Networking (e.g. Wireless LAN, Ad-Hoc Networking, Tracking of Persons, etc.)
• activism, hacktivism and other forms of political work
• Organisational structures of NGOs
• Underground Banking
• conspiracy theories
• discordianism

Lectures are expected to be highly relevant in practice or better be darn funny. Sales droids have been known to disappear without traces on past events. Interactive Workshops welcome. Hands-On anything even more welcome.

Intelligent beings wishing to present a paper should submit title and an one- or two-paragraph abstract (in German or English), references and URLs, a short biography, and contact information to RSN, no later than December 1st.

The preliminary agenda will be published on the web in the near future. Registration information will be posted, too.