The Department of Information and Communication Technology (DIT) at the University of Trento in Italy is currently undergoing a major expansion with the active support of the Province of Trentino. The province has far reaching goals for making the province a centre for high-tech companies that will attract world-class professionals. In order to achieve this, the province has been allocating significant amounts of capital. DIT and the university are actively attracting talents from around the globe. Prime example is the unique International Doctorate School with students from around the world that is organized by DIT in collaboration with other research partners. The International Doctorate School combines research with industrial collaboration and technology transfer. The incorporation of industry guarantees the practical value of the research, while the university guarantees the innovative aspects as well as the necessary scientific background.

Prof. Ofek has been awarded the Marie Curie Chair Professor in Trento (Italy) by the European Commission. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He expanded his research while at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and for his invention of the MetaRing and his contributions to the SSA storage products, he was awarded the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He has written 42 US patents and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Dr. Ofek has initiated and invented six novel network architectures: (1) Ring networks with spatial bandwidth reuse with a family of fairness algorithms. (2) Optical hypergraph for combining multiple passive optical stars with burst mode bit synchronization and clock synchronization. (3) Embedding of virtual rings in arbitrary topology networks - for bursty data traffic with no packet loss. (4) Global packet networks for real-time and multimedia, which utilize UTC and pipeline forwarding to guarantee deterministic operation. (5) Optical fractional lambda switching for WDM networks. (6) Method for remote authentication of software during execution that can be used for (i) protection on networks and servers, (ii) distributed and trusted (GRID) computing, and (iii) protecting (audio/video) content. Dr. Ofek is a fellow of the IEEE.

Paolo Tonella is a senior researcher at ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. He received his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1992, and his PhD degree in Software Engineering from the same University, in 1999, with the thesis "Code Analysis in Support to Software Maintenance". Since 1994 he has been a full time researcher of the Software Engineering group at ITC-irst. He participated in several industrial and European Community projects on software analysis and testing. He is the author of "Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code", Springer, 2005. His current research interests include reverse engineering, aspect oriented programming, empirical studies, Web applications and testing.

Prof. Bruno Crispo is an associate professor at University of Trento since January 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, UK in 1999, having awarded a Diploma di Laurea (1993) in Computer Science from Universita di Torino, Italy, Cum Laude. He joined Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in September 2002 as Assistant Professor after have being Managing Director of Cryptomathic Italia SpA. Prior to that he worked at Information Assurance Lab of SRI Cambridge, at CSELT - Telecom Italia SpA as a Senior security consultant and at Cryptomathic A/S, Denmark as a Security consultant. He published several papers in international journals and in the proceedings of International conferences in the area of security. He is Co-Editor of the Security Protocol International Workshop proceedings and member of the organization committee since 1997. He has participated to EU projects in the past such as E-Court, Secure-Justice, Examine, CTS3-NM (Conformance Testing Service 3 Network Management) and TrustWEB within Infosec. He has published a book and several papers in technical journals and international conferences on computer and communication security issues.

Politecnico di Torino is one of the leading technical universities, in Italy and in Europe. It offers bachelor, master, and Ph.D. courses to about 50,000 students, nearly equally divided between the schools of Engineering and Architecture. Politecnico di Torino is a strongly research-oriented university and conducts applied research projects with several partners. As a result, nearly half its budget is coming from external research contracts. Thanks to the important contacts with the enterprise system, Politecnico di Torino is highly integrated in the economy and in the culture of its own region and country. The tendering department is the Department of Computer and Control Engineering (DAUIN - Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica), which carries out research in several fields of Information and Communication Technology, such as computer security, software engineering, computer architecture, microelectronics, and others. Within this department, the project activity will be performed by 3 research groups: Software Engineering Group (SoftEng), Software Reliability Group (TestGroup), and Computer Networks Group (NetGroup).

Associate Professor of Computer Networks and head of the Computer Networks Group (NetGroup) at the Department of Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino and Vice President for Protocol Architecture at Synchrodyne Networks, Inc., New York. He received his M.S. Degree Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Computer and System Engineering in 1998 both from Politecnico di Torino. He was Assistant Professor on tenure track at Politecnico di Torino from 1997 to 2002. He joined Synchrodyne Networks, Inc. in November 1999. Mario Baldi has been Honorary Visiting Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Adjunct Professor at Univerity of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Professor at Institut de Technologie du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and visiting researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, at Columbia University, New York, NY, and at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, CA. He co-authored over 50 papers on various networking related topics and two books, one on internetworking and one on switched local area networks. Mario Baldi is co-inventor in two patents issued by the United States Patent Office in the field of optical networking, in fourteen applications to the United States Patent Office in the fields of high performance networking and security, and two applications to International Patent Offices in the field of high performance networking.

Paolo Prinetto, group leader of the TestGroup of the Computer Engineering Department (Dipartimento di Automatica ed Informatica) of the Politecnico di Torino, is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the ICT Faculty of the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) and Adjoin Professor of the University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (USA). He has got a laurea (M.S. equivalent) in Electronic Engineering in 1976 from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) maxima cum laude. His principal research activities are related to design, test and dependability of digital systems. He is coordinator of many research contracts with industries and domestic and international institutions like: Unione Europea, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, CNR, MIUR, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, EDF Electricité De France (France), ASSET (USA), Siemens ICN, Italtel SpA, Ansaldo Trasporti, Magneti Marelli, Aurelia Microelettronica, Yogitech. Editorial activities: member of the Editorial Boards of several journals and magazines, including: IEEE Design & Test of Computers (edited by IEEE); JETTA: Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (edited by Kluwer, Academic Publishers, Boston, MA (USA)).

Axalto was formerly the world's leading provider of microprocessor cards and a major supplier of point-of-sale terminals. Its 4500 employees served customers in more than 100 countries, with worldwide sales exceeding 2.8 billion smart cards to date. Company revenues reached a 992 M$ level in 2005. On December 7th, 2005, the company announced its intention to proceed to a merger of equals with its main competitor Gemplus, a world leading provider of secure card solutions. With over 6000 employees world-wide and operations in also more than 100 countries, Gemplus' revenue in 2005 was 939 million euros.

The merger between Axalro and Gemplus was approved by all regulative authorities (US, UE) by May 19th, 2006. With about 11,000 employees and 7% revenues spent in R&D, the new company named Gemalto, has more than 20 years' experience in smart card innovation and leads its industry in security technology and open systems (among the recent innovations from the Company one may mention JavaCard, .net cards, as well as the USB card). Gemalto will use its enhanced R&D strengths (over 1000 engineers) to continuously create new generations of products for use in a variety of applications such as telecommunications, finance, retail, transport, entertainment, healthcare, personal identification, information technology and public sector markets. Gemalto smart card solutions provide convenience, security and privacy to public and private services operators and their customers. Gemalto R&D teams, which are located in France, US , Singapore, China, are involved in a lot of collaborative projects. In Europe, they participate to various research programs as IST, PIDEA, CELTIC, MEDEA+ and ITEA. On the legal side, the company is operating under a holding umbrella, named Gemalto NV and located in the Netherlands. Still for some months, the two major subsidiaries in France will be Axalto SA and Gemplus SA, until a single legal entity will be created.

With more than 17 years experience in the IT Industry, Laurent Manteau started to work in the 3M European Labs as a Product Engineer, then joined the European R&D center of the Océ group as Development Manager for digital printing technologies. Then, he moved to IER as expert for travel documents for the Air Transport industry. He was then an active member of IATA and AIM working groups for auto-ID applications, barcode and RFID technologies. He joined Gemplus in 1998 as Marketing & Product Manager for RFID applications, moved to R&D Corporate Innovation and finally took over the responsibility of Cooperative R&D Programs for Gemplus in year 2002. He holds an Engineering degree in Polymer Chemistry & Electronics Materials from ENSCT (Toulouse) in 1987.

The research group SCD-COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) belongs to the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. COSIC has contributed to the design and the evaluation the security of many practical systems (i.e. electronic identity card, electronic banking, electronic voting, UMTS). With 45 members (including 3 professors and 8 postdocs), the COSIC team is one of the major European research groups in this area. At the moment COSIC is active in six FP6 projects: FIDIS (Network of Excellence on Identity Management), PRIME (IP on Privacy and Identity Management), GST (IP on Car Telematics), TEAHA (STREP on Home Automation) and SCARD (STREP on security of chip cards). Since the mid eighties, the group provides consultancy services to a large number of companies and institutions. COSIC is also active in international standardisation (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27, IEEE, IETF, OASIS), and was member of the academic advisory board of the TCPA (the predecessor of the Trusted Computing Group).

Prof. Bart Preneel received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctorate degree in applied sciences in 1987 and 1993, respectively, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. He is currently a Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria. He has been a Visiting Professor (Professor II) at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (1997-2001), the Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany (2001-2002), and at the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium (1994-2002). During the academic year 1993-1994, he was a Research Fellow of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are cryptography, network security, and wireless communications. Together with Prof. J. Vandewalle and Prof. I. Verbauwhede, he is responsible for the research group COSIC, which has 45 members. He has authored and coauthored more than 150 scientific publications, is the editor of eight books, and the inventor of one patent. Prof. Preneel is Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the ACM Transactions on Information Security. He has participated to several research projects sponsored by the European Commission, for three of these as Project Manager. He was Program Chairman of five international conferences (including Eurocrypt 2000 and SAC 2005) and he has been an invited speaker at 15 international conferences. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research, and he received an honorary Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) designation by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). He is President of L-SEC vzw. (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), an association of 30 companies and research institutions in the area of e-security.

It will participate in the Project through its Intelligent Systems Laboratory, that in the last five years has been awarded research contracts from the US Air Force research department, via its EOARD (European Office of Aerospace Research and Development) branch, and EU FP6 Project "POSITIF" (contract IST-2002-002314). The research performed under these contracts is concerned with innovative mathematical methods for network intrusion detection, simulation of network attacks, Internet security protocols, vulnerability assessment, security protocols, verification and validation of security policy. As such, in the RE-TRUST Project SPIIRAS will analyze possible approaches for integration of remote entrusting mechanisms to existing Internet security protocols and interrelationship between remote entrusting and Internet security protocols.

The activities of SPIIRAS into RE-TRUST will be lead by Igor Kotenko, who is Professor of computer science and Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems of SPIIRAS. He graduated with honours from St. Petersburg Military Academy of Space Engineering (Department of Telecommunication and Computer-Aided Systems) and St. Petersburg Military Signal Academy (Department of Computer-Aided systems). He obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1990 and the National degree of Doctor of Engineering Science in 1999. He is now leading a research group in the field of multi-agent modelling and simulation for computer network security.