THCon 2023: Toulouse Hacking Convention Toulouse, France, April 20-21, 2023 |
Conference website | https://thcon.party |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thcon2023 |
Call For Paper
Toulouse Hacking Convention
20/21th April, 2023
Université Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)
Amphi Marthe Condat
https://thcon.party
Created in 2017, the Toulouse Hacking Convention is an annual Frenchcybersecurity conference. It usually takes place in Toulouse, France with anaudience of about 300 attendees (engineers, academics and students). The THConis organized by an association composed of current and former students ofTLS-SEC, a training program dedicated to information security.
The Call for Papers of this new event gives everyone an opportunity to submittheir work and be a speaker during the 2023 edition in April. If you havecarried out original research related to IT security and want to showcase it tothe community, please submit your research paper and/or presentation to this CFP.
Topics
We accept any submission that may be relevant to a conference on IT Security and the talk needs to be in English.
With this in mind, here is a non-exhaustive list of potential topics :
Exploitation and mitigation techniques
Reverse engineering (hardware, software, protocols...)
Vulnerability research (operating systems, smartphones, hypervisors...)
Malware analysis (sandboxes, reverse engineering...)
Cryptographic attacks and/or analysis (including protocols)
Attacks on distributed networks and/or protocols (including proof-of-work algorithms)
Techniques seen "in the field" (blue teams, operationals...)
Technical feedback on well-known incidents and/or notable stories of "#FAIL"
Your last hack and/or system tampering involving any of the techniques listed above
Your favorite buzzword and/or upcoming threat (machine learning / big data, cloud, IoT, APT...)
Any research that brings something to the world of IT security
Both academic and non-academic speakers are welcome
Important Dates
This is the timeline for the 2023 edition of the Toulouse Hacking Convention:
November 2022 — The CFP opens
February 5th 2023 AOE — Submission deadline
March 13 2023 — Notification to authors
April 20/21 2023 — Conference
Submissions
We propose a single track event over two days with two main formats:
Short paper: ~15min (20 overall including 5 mins Q/A).
Long paper: ~30min (40 overall including 10 mins Q/A).
Authors are invited to submit either original or already presented papers. The submission format for new papers must be either:
- a PDF overview of 2 pages min for a short submission or a 3 pages min for a long submission (of course, full papers are welcome)
- a presentation of at least 10 hearty slides for a short presentation or 15 hearty slides for a long presentation.
The submission format for already presented taks or papers is simply the slides of the talk or the the full paper that was presented.
Submissions that will not comply with the minimum requirements will not be considered.
Papers will be submitted on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thcon2023
The submissions will go through a review process. The programm commitee will be published very soon on the Web site of the conference. Submissions accepted by the organizers will be presented at THCon2023. For accepted works, at least one of the authors must present the paper during the conference.
Content-related information
Talks must be submitted as yourself and/or on your work (not as a PR firm and/or for marketing purposes).
We do favor F/LOSS (Free/Libre and Open-Source Software) releases and reproducible works.
We do favor submissions and/or presentations and/or talks in English.
Both academic and non-academic speakers are welcome.
We do not accept product and/or vendor pitches.
Logistics-related information
We may need to change the schedule at the last minute (but we will try to avoid any inconvenience of this kind);
Streaming-related information
We will broadcast your presentation online, therefore, by speaking at the event, you grant us the permission to do it.
You also grant us the permission to upload the recording of your presentation online;
A few extra points
We will do our upmost to accommodate your needs, please feel free to ask any questions or give us your feedback: we will be happy to help!
We ask our participants to be respectful to each other, thus we will expect the same from you.
If any of these points seem unclear or inappropriate to you, please mention itin your submission or contact us.