[HGI-news-int] ReConFig 2014 - Special Track on Security and Cryptography

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

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ReConFig 2014: Special Track on Reconfigurable Computing for Security
and Cryptography (SC)

2014 International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs
December 8-10, 2014, Cancun, Mexico

www.reconfig.org

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2014

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Topics of Interest

This special track seeks the latest innovations in reconfigurable
computing for security and cryptography.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Hardware Implementation of Novel Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols
* Reconfigurable Cryptographic Primitives
* Special-Purpose Hardware for Cryptanalysis
* Hardware Support for Trustworthy Software Execution
* True and Pseudo Random Generators
* Circuit Identification and Physical Unclonable Functions
* Efficient Methods for Protection of Hardware IPs
* FPGA Design Security
* Fault Attacks and Side-channel Attacks
* Hardware Tamper Resistance and Tamper Evidence
* Hardware Trojan Detection and Resistance
* Design Flows for Hardware-based Secure Systems
* Performance Evaluation of Secure Reconfigurable Hardware

Submission Information

Regular submissions should be no more than 6 pages long including
tables, figures and references.
All papers should be submitted for evaluation as a PDF file using IEEE
formatting.

Potential for a Journal Publication

Authors of the best papers presented at ReConFig will be invited to
submit an extended version
of their ReConFig paper to be included in a special issue of a selected
international peer-review journal.
Special issues of previous ReConFig conferences have been published in
the following journals:
* International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing (IJRC)
* Microprocessors & Microsystems (MICPRO)
* Computers & Electrical Engineering (CAEE)

Keynote Speakers

Edward A. Lee, U.C. Berkeley
Thomas Flatley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan Gray, Gray Research LLC

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission:		August 1, 2014
Acceptance Notification:	September 18, 2014
Final paper submission:  	October 18, 2014
Conference:			December 8-10, 2014

Special Track co-Chairs:

Kris Gaj, George Mason University, USA
Tim Güneysu, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Members of the Track Committee:

Octavian Cret, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Milos Drutarovsky, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Thomas Eisenbarth, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Reouven Elbaz, Intel, USA
Viktor Fischer, Université de Saint Etienne, France
Benedikt Gierlichs, KU Leuven, Belgium
Guy Gogniat, Bretagne-Sud University, France
Jorge Guajardo, Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA
Sylvain Guilley, CNRS/LTCI, France
Miaoqing Huang, University of Arkansas, USA
Nele Mentens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Amir Moradi, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Berna Ors, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Erkay Savas, Sabanci University, Turkey
Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech, USA
Steve Trimberger, Xilinx, USA
Tolga Yalcin, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

With best regards,

Kris & Tim

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Kris Gaj
Cryptographic Engineering Research Group
ECE Department
George Mason University
U.S.A.
http://ece.gmu.edu/~kgaj

Tim Güneysu
Hardware Security Group
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Ruhr University Bochum
Germany
https://www.ei.rub.de/fakultaet/professuren/0/
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