The seventh international conference on communications and
multimedia security (CMS for short) was jointly organized by
IFIP TC-6 and TC-11 (BTW `TC' is an abbreviation of `technical
committee', and TC-6 and TC-11 concern `communication systems'
and `security and Protection in Information Processing
Systems', respectively), and was held in Turin, Italy, Oct 1
- Oct 3, 2003. Fifty or so researchers, students,
etc. participated in the conference. Most of them seemed to
be from Italy and I was the only one from Japan. During the
conference it had been cloudy and a bit chilly, although, the
participants enjoyed hot discussions with one another on the
topics including communication security, copyright protection
schemes, cryptographic protocols, and more.