ACNS-SCI 2020: ACNS Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementation Online September 19-22, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sci.ittc.ku.edu/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acnssci2020 |
Submission deadline | July 10, 2020 |
In recent years, we have witnessed severe security incidences caused by buggy implementations of cryptographic algorithms: POODLE, DROWN, OpenSSL Heartbleed, etc. It is critical for practitioners and researchers to ensure the security of cryptographic hardware and software, which are essential for a wide range of systems, services and applications.
The aim of the workshop is to provide an international forum of scientific research and development to explore the security issues in the implementation and deployment of cryptographic algorithms.
List of Topics
We are interested in these main aspects: (1) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic algorithms; (2) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic protocols; (3) defective cryptographic algorithms and protocols deployed in the wild; (4) weak cryptographic keys and random numbers in the cryptographic implementation; (5) runtime cryptographic key attacks and protections; (6) fraudulent certificates and key management; and (7) other topics on secure cryptographic implementations. We solicitate submissions of original research papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Secure implementations of crypto algorithms & protocols
- Vulnerable implementations in the wild
- Weak cryptographic keys
- Cryptographic key attacks and defenses
- Side channel attacks and defenses
- Secure implementations of cryptographic hardware
- Physical attacks and defenses
- Cryptography and cryptogrpahic implementations for Blockchain
- Cryptography and cryptogrpahic implementations for IoT/CPS
- Cryptography and cryptogrpahic implementations for the Cloud
- Verification and evaluation tools
Submission Guidelines
We are especially interested in papers with novel ideas, position papers, pilot studies and initial findings. ACNS will also award best papers from all accepted workshop papers. Meanwhile, the workshop will include an interesting keynote talk, which will be announced on the workshop web site as arrangements are finalized.
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscript describing original work. The manuscript has to be written in English and in PDF format. All submissions must follow the original LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page limit of 18 pages.
The proceedings of the SCI workshop will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Committees
Program Committee
- Jingqiang Lin (co-chair), Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
- Bo Luo (co-chair), the University of Kansas, USA
- Bo Chen, Michigan Technological University, USA
- Fu Chen, Central University of Finance and Economics, CHINA
- Junfeng Fan, Open Security Research, Inc., Shenzhen, CHINA
- Le Guan, University of Georgia, USA
- Debiao He, Wuhan University, CHINA
- Xiao Liu, Facebook Inc., USA
- Zhe Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CHINA
- Yuan Ma, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
- Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, CHINA
- Ruisheng Shi, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CHINA
- Juan Wang, Wuhan University, CHINA
- Jun Xu, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Li Yang, Xidian University, CHINA
- Fan Zhang, Zhejiang University, CHINA
- Fangyu Zheng, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
Organizing committee
- Jun Shao (publication chair)
- Le Guan and Debiao He (publicity co-chairs)
- Yuan Ma (web chair)
Venue
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy, in conjunction with ACNS 2020.