[HGI-news-int] SHARCS 2012: Call for Papers

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

SHARCS 2012: 5th Workshop on Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems
                                Washington, D.C., USA
                                  March 17-18, 2012

              [we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this letter]

                               http://2012.sharcs.org/
                                 http://sharcs.org/
                               

KEY DATES:

Submission deadline:     Monday, January 23, 2012, 23:59 PST
Acceptance notification: Friday, February 17, 2012
Final version due:       Monday, March 5, 2012, 23:59 PST
Workshop presentations:  Saturday-Sunday, March 17-18, 2012

AREAS OF INTEREST:

SHARCS 2012 is the 5th workshop (and the first in the United States) dedicated to the challenging 
subject of special-purpose cryptanalytical devices.

There are three main objectives for SHARCS:
 - to determine whether special-purpose hardware poses a real threat for today's 
   cryptographic algorithms;
 - to determine reliable security estimates and explicit strength comparisons for today's 
   "best-practice" algorithms (e.g., how long are RSA-1024 or ECC-160 "secure"? 
    how many bits of security does one really get when using RSA-2048?); and
 - to advance knowledge in cryptanalysis in general.
 
SHARCS covers special-purpose hardware for a wide range of cryptanalytic algorithms, including
 * index-calculus algorithms and other attacks against RSA
 * Pollard's rho method and other attacks against elliptic-curve cryptography
 * attacks against code-based and lattice-based cryptography
 * attacks against multivariate-quadratic cryptography
 * attacks against specific block and stream ciphers, especially "lightweight" ciphers
 * attacks against specific hash functions, including SHA-1, SHA-2, and SHA-3 candidates, and
 * algebraic cryptanalysis, SAT solvers, etc.

Examples of papers presented at SHARCS in previous years
can be found at
   http://sharcs.org/
 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:

The submission should start with a title, a list of the authors together with their affiliations 
and a short abstract describing the content of the paper. This should be followed by 
an extended abstract of at least 3 and at most 20 pages including appendices. 
The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at the workshop.

For more details see:
 http://2012.sharcs.org/submission.html

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS:

There will be no formal proceedings, but a handout with papers will be provided to all participants. 
This approach avoids submissions to SHARCS from conflicting with submissions to forthcoming 
conferences with proceedings.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE:

General Chair:

Jens-Peter Kaps, George Mason University, USA

Program Chairs:

Daniel J. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Kris Gaj, George Mason University, USA

Program Committee:

Daniel J. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (co-chair)
Duncan A. Buell, University of South Carolina, USA
Kris Gaj, George Mason University, USA (co-chair)
Tim Güneysu, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Christof Paar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Christian Rechberger, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Eran Tromer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ingrid Verbauwhede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Michael Wiener, Irdeto, Canada
Bo-Yin Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

For more details, please visit the workshop websites at 
  http://2012.sharcs.org/  (current edition)
  http://sharcs.org/  (previous editions).

We look forward to your submissions!

Program Chairs of SHARCS 2012



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Prof. Christof Paar  
Chair for Embedded Security 
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Information Technology
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

URL:    www.emsec.rub.de
Mobile: +49 (0)170 790 3393
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