About FDTC 2021

FDTC 2021 – Eighteenth Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography

Sept. 17-th, 2021, Virtual Workshop (co-located with CHES 2021)

FDTC 2021 is held in cooperation with IACR.

Fault injection is one of the most exploited means for extracting confidential informationfrom embedded devices
and for compromising their intended operation. Therefore, research on established as well as upcoming methodologies,
and techniques for fault injection, architectures and design tools for the design of robust and protected cryptographic
systems and embedded devices (both hardware and software), are essential. Fault injection case studies on popular categories
of embedded devices like mobile phones, industrial control devices, hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies, security tokens,
etc., are of high interest to improve the understanding of the implications on realistic applications. FDTC is the reference
event in the field of fault injection appliances, fault attacks and countermeasures.

Website: fdtc-workshop.eu

Submission Guidelines

All the papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers  of max 12 pages
• Short papers of max  6 pages

Please submit a manuscript, preferably in PDF format. The paper title for short papers must include the text "Short Paper:". Preferably format the sumbitted manuscript using the author kit indicated in proceedings page (in the due time). If the submission is accepted, this format will also be the one for the final paper (max 12 pages - no extra pages). The manuscript must be anonymous; do not include any information that may identify the authors. Author, affiliation and contact information must be specified separately by filling the submission form provided by the EasyChair system. Please take particular care that author, affiliation and contact information is correct, especially the contact name and address as these are used for subsequent communication. It is permitted to modify or withdraw the submission by the paper submission deadline. Please keep trace of the submission ID that EasyChair assigns to your manuscript, as you will need it if you want to modify or withdraw your submission later. The papers accepted at FDTC will be published by CPS and will be available at the workshop (online).  At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings. Additional submission instructions and further information on the FDTC workshop series can be found at: fdtc-workshop.eu.

List of Topics

  - Fault injection setups and praxis:
    - novel and improved mechanisms for fault injection, e.g., using
      lasers, electromagnetic induction, or clock / power supply manipulation
    - practical issues in fault injection setups and validation results
    - practical limitations of attacks and implications for security

  - Case studies:
    - attacks on cryptographic implementations
    - attacks on embedded devices like mobile phones, industrial control devices,
      hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies, security tokens, smartcards, etc.

  - Attacks on Machine Learning architectures
    - validation of earlier results

  - Related highly-invasive attacks on device security:
    - setups and practical results from invasive attacks, such as photonic
      emission analysis, laser thermal imaging, laser-voltage imaging, etc.
    - practical issues, limitations and potential

  - Countermeasures (detection, resistance and tolerance):
    - countermeasures for cryptographic implementations
    - countermeasures for firmware of embedded devices, e.g., for bootloaders
    - detection countermeasures, e.g., control flow integrity
    - HW/SW co-design countermeasures for CPU architectures

  - Design tools for analysis of fault attacks and countermeasures:
    - early estimation of fault attack robustness
    - automatic applications of fault countermeasures

Committees

Program Committee

  Michel         Agoyan               STMicroelectronics
  Lejla          Batina               Radboud University
  Shivam         Bhasin               Temasek Labs
  Luca           Breveglieri          Politecnico di Milano
  Ileana         Buhan                Riscure
  Jessy          Clédière             CEA LETI
  Jean-Max       Dutertre             Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
  Wieland        Fischer              Infineon Technologies
  Christophe     Giraud               IDEMIA
  Jorge          Guajardo             Bosch US
  Sylvain        Guilley              Telecom ParisTech
  Olivier        Hériveaux            Ledger
  Johann         Heyszl               Fraunhofer
  Osnat          Keren                Bar Ilan University
  Israel         Koren                University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Victor         Lomné                Ninjalab
  Philippe       Loubet Moundi        Gemalto
  Philippe       Maurine              University of Montpellier
  Joan           Mazenc               Thales
  Mehran         Mozaffari Kermani    University of South Florida
  Cristofaro     Mune                 Realize
  Colin          O'Flynn              NewAE Technology Inc.
  David          Oswald               University of Birmingham
  Sikhar         Patranabis           VISA Research
  Gerardo        Pelosi               Politecnico di Milano
  Ilia           Polian               University of Stuttgart
  Robert         Primas               TUGraz
  Chester        Rebeiro              IIT Madras
  Lionel         Rivière              eShard
  Falk           Schellenberg         MPI Bochum
  Sergei         Skorobogatov         University of Cambridge
  Takeshi        Sugawara             Univ. of Electro. Communications
  Shahin         Tajik                Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Junko          Takahashi            NTT
  Christian      Toulemont            SERMA
  Michael        Tunstall             Cryptography Research
  Vincent        Verneuil             NXP Semiconductors
  Fan            Zhang                Zhejiang University

Organizing committee

    Chairs (general, publication, finance, sponsorship):

      Michael Tunstall                    Cryptography Research
      Luca Breveglieri                    Politecnico di Milano
      Israel Koren                        University of Massachusetts
      Guido Marco Bertoni                 Security Pattern

    Steering committee:

      Luca Breveglieri                    Politecnico di Milano
      Israel Koren                        University of Massachusetts
      David Naccache (chair)              ENS de Paris
      Jean-Pierre Seifert                 TU Berlin & T-Labs

Publication

FDTC 2021 proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services.

Venue

FDTC 2021 takes place as a Virtual Workshop on Fri. Sept. 17th, 2021.

Contact

Michael Tunstall - Rambus Cryptography Research – USA425 Market Str., Floor 11, San Francisco, CA 94105, mtunstall@rambus.com