[crypto] [seccc at tue.nl: SHARCS submission deadline approaching]

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Subject: SHARCS submission deadline approaching
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:18:19 +0200
From: "Secretariaat CC" <seccc at tue.nl>

SHARCS'07 - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems

September 9-10, 2007
Vienna, Austria
www.sharcs.org

SHARCS'07 is the third workshop dedicated to the challenging subject of
special-purpose cryptanalytical devices. This field is still a very
young one (at least outside government agencies). In addition to key
search machines   la Deep Crack and COPACOBANA, we are in particular
interested in exploring the interaction between cryptanalytical
algorithms and computer hardware. Much work in this area remains to be
done including, for instance, special purpose hardware crackers for:

  * index calculus algorithms
  * elliptic curve based schemes
  * lattice based schemes
  * hidden field equation schemes
  * specific block and stream ciphers
  * hash functions, particularly SHA-1

In addition to algorithmic issues, it is also the workshop's goal to
make advances in computer hardware issues such as:

  * analog and optical computing for cryptanalysis
  * novel VLSI technologies for cryptanalysis
  * reconfigurable computing for cryptanalysis
  * clusters of standard computers for cryptanalysis
  * routing protocols and other low-level tools
  * models and evaluation techniques for special-purpose computing
  * lower bounds for physical implementations of cryptanalytic
  * algorithms

There are three main objectives for SHARCS:

(1) to determine whether special purpose hardware poses a real threat
for today's cryptographic algorithms,

(2) to determine reliable security estimations for today's algorithms
(i.e., how long are RSA1024 or ECC160 "secure"), and

(3) to advance the knowledge in cryptanalysis in general.

Since this is an intrinsically interdisciplinary subject, it is hoped
that the workshop can bring together researchers with different
backgrounds for discussing and advancing this exciting field.

At SHARCS, submitted contributions are presented together with invited
talks from world leading experts.


Submissions

The workshop will consist of invited presentations and contributed
talks. We welcome submissions of extended abstracts. We would like to
stress that we do not aim at receiving contributions on side channel
attacks. Papers analyzing algorithms, hardware architectures, new
technologies and costs of attacks using specialized hardware are very
much welcomed.

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.)


Important dates:

June 15, 2007:   submission of papers

July 29, 2007:   notification of acceptance

August 19, 2007: revised version of accepted papers due

September 9-10, 2007:    SHARCS workshop in Vienna

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 5
and at most 20 pages including appendices.
The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at
the workshop.

To submit send your contribution to

     submit at sharcs.org

no later than June 15, 2007, in ps or pdf format. You should receive an
acknowledgment of submission no later than one day after submission.


Program Committee:

  * Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  * James Hughes (Sun Microsystems, USA)
  * Tanja Lange (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  * Arjen Lenstra (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
  * Rainer Steinwandt (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
  * Christof Paar (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
  * Eran Tromer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)


Organization:

The workshop is organized by the European Network of Excellence
(ECRYPT). SHARCS  is an activity of ECRYPT's VAMPIRE - Virtual
Application and Implementation Research Lab.


Past SHARCS workshops:

The first workshop took place 2005 in Paris, and SHARCS`06 took place in
Cologne. Both workshops attracted participants from industry, academia
and government organizations.
Slides and papers from the previous workshops can be found online at
      www.sharcs.org
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