[HGI-news-int] Journal of Cryptology, Special Issue on Hardware and Security

[English Newsletter of the Horst Gö rtz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

The Journal of Cryptology has a Special Issue on Hardware and Security.
The Call for Papers is available. Submission date is September 1, 2009.

See
http://www.iacr.org/jofc/cfp_Crypto_and_Physics.pdf

which is also in the list of CPFs at
http://www.chesworkshop.org/ches2009/start.html


Journal of Cryptology
Special Issue on Hardware and Security 2009
Call for Papers

The goal of this special issue is to advance research in all areas where
cryptography interacts with the physical world. With the advent of
pervasive computing, a host of new devices with security needs such as
smart cell-phones, RFID tags, medical implants, tiny multimedia players
such as the iPod, etc. have arrived. The standard blackbox model in
which the attacker is assumed to have only access to the data channels
no longer applies, as the opponent will potentially own the platform.
The physical implementation provides an attacker with a wealth of
information related to the cryptographic implementation, as he/she may
listen to and tamper with the physical aspects of the platform. Even the
strongest cryptographic scheme with a rigorous security proof in the
classical blackbox model may succumb to physical attacks. Specifically,
there are information leakages which allows a passive attacker who
captures side-channel profiles a means to deduce details of the
algorithms and cryptographic keys.
At the same time, the interaction between physical realization and
crypto algorithms offers new opportunities for security designers. For
instance, subtle variations of the device characteristics can be
exploited for key generation or identification. Physical unclonable
functions (PUFs) based on manufacturing variations of delays, capacitive
load, and on initial memory content are one example for a constructive
use of the interaction between the physical platform and the security
function. The large, and not particularly well understood, field of
tamper resistance is also closely related to the physics of the platform.
Authors with other innovative ideas about relating physics and
cryptography are welcome to submit their contribution. Please note that
quantum cryptography is not in the scope of this special issue. The
topics of the special issue include but are not limited to:
* Physical Security Models
* Passive and active side-channel attacks
* Trusted Hardware
* Manufacturing related problems
* Secure Physical Identification

Guest Editors
All correspondence and/or questions should be directed to either of the
Guest Editors:
  Christof Paar (Horst Görtz Institute, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

  Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL,Belgium)
  Berk Sunar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Important Dates
Submission deadline:           September 1st, 2009.
Decisions & notifications:     February 1st, 2010.
Camera-ready version:          April 1st, 2010.


Instructions for Authors
Authors are invited to submit original papers. Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. A detailed description of the electronic submission
procedure appears on the IACR webpages (see
http://www.iacr.org/jofc/guidelines.html).