Preface - CSF 2012

Welcome to the IEEE 25th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF). This year is a milestone: the 25th consecutive year of CSF. The Computer Security Foundations Workshop was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's 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. This year CSF is at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A total of 101 papers were submitted to CSF 2012. Of these, the program committee accepted 25 papers, which were collected in this volume.