Side-channel analysis (SCA) and implementation attacks have become an important field of research at universities and in the industry. In order to enhance the resistance of cryptographic and security critical implementations within the design phase, constructive attacks and analyzing techniques may serve as a quality metric to optimize the design and development process. Since 2010, COSADE provides an international platform for researchers, academics, and industry participants to present their work and their current research topics. It is an excellent opportunity to exchange on new results with international experts and to initiate new collaborations and information exchange at a professional level. The workshop will feature both invited presentations and contributed talks.
The eleventh International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design will be organized and held by the Università della Svizzera italiana.
The topics of COSADE 2020 include, but are not limited to:
- Implementation attacks and exploitations:
Side-channel analysis, fault-injection attacks, probing and read-out, hardware Trojans, cloning and counterfeiting, side-channel or fault-injection based reverse engineering - Secure implementation:
Cryptographic blocks (including post-quantum and lightweight ciphers), random number generators, physical unclonable functions, leakage-resilient cryptography, fault-injection tolerant design, and tamper-detection - Implementation attack-resilient architectures and schemes:
Trusted environment (Secure boot, execution, storage, isolation, virtualization, firmware update), protections against micro-architectural side-channels and covert channels, cache attacks, software-enabled implementation attacks, white-box cryptography - Secure design and evaluation:
Security and leakage models, formal analysis of secure implementations, design automation and tools, evaluation tooling, domain-specific security analysis of e.g., IoT, medical, automotive, industrial-control systems, mobile, security analysis based on artificial intelligence - Practical attacks, test platforms and open benchmarks:
Practical implementation of physical attacks, practical demonstrators of Trojan insertion, test platforms for evaluation of physical attacks, open benchmarks for hardware Trojans, physical attacks and countermeasures.
Important dates
Paper Submission deadline (EXTENDED): |
7th December 201917th December 2019 |
Authors notification: |
30th January 2020 |
Proceedings version due: |
15th April 2020 |
COSADE workshop: |
April 1-3 October 5-7, 2020 |
| Due to the covid-19 pandemic and to guarantee safety of all participants, the COSADE 2020 workshop will be held in a virtual format. | |
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers (PDF format) electronically by the submission link.Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, anonymous and not submitted to journals or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Submissions must be written in English, strictly follow Springer LNCS format (with default margins, font size, etc.) and should be at most 20 pages, excluding references. Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. All submissions will be blind-refereed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Accepted papers must follow the LNCS author instructions at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Proceedings
The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
