FDTC 2012: Call for Papers
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The 9th Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC 2012)
will be held in Leuven, Belgium, on September 9, 2012. FDTC 2012 is one day
before CHES 2012 (September 10–12, 2012). The Call for Papers is available for
download as a PDF file (http://fdtc.deib.polimi.it/FDTC12/cfp.pdf).


Motivation & Scope
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Fault injection is one of the most exploited means for extracting confidential
information from embedded devices or for compromising their intended behavior.
Research is therefore needed to develop methodologies and techniques for
designing robust cryptographic systems (both hardware and software), and to
protect them against both accidental faults and intentional intrusions and
attacks. Of particular interest is protection against malicious injection of
faults into the device for the purpose of extracting confidential information.
FDTC is the reference event in the field of fault analysis, attacks and
countermeasures.


Important dates
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Paper submission deadline:    May 10, 2012, 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance:  June 18, 2012
Final version deadline:       July 2, 2012
Workshop:                September 9, 2012


Paper submission
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Contributions to the workshop describing theoretical studies and practical case
studies of fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptographic systems (HW and SW)
and protocols are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- modeling the reliability of cryptographic systems and protocols
- inherently reliable cryptographic systems and algorithms
- faults and fault models for cryptographic devices (HW and SW)
- novel fault diagnosis and tolerance techniques for cryptographic systems
- attacks exploiting micro-architecture components
- physical protection against attacks
- fault attacks using lasers, electromagnetic induction, and clock / power
  supply manipulation
- case studies of attacks, reliability, and fault diagnosis and tolerance
  techniques in cryptographic systems
- combined attacks
- fault injection: mechanisms, models and countermeasures
- fault exploitation: analysis, attacks and countermeasures
- fault resistant hardware, fault resistant implementations of cryptographic
  algorithms and fault resistant protocols

All submissions should be made using the online submission system:

  http://fdtc.ws.dei.polimi.it

Submissions should conform to the instructions below.


Instructions for authors
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Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have
published elsewhere or that have been submitted in parallel in any other
conference or workshop. Submissions should be anonymous, with no author names,
affiliations, acknowledgements or obvious references. Papers should be at most
10 pages (including the bibliography and appendices), with at least 11pt font
and reasonable margins.

Submission of final papers will be managed directly by Conference Publishing
Services (CPS). Final papers must be formatted following the instructions in
the related author kit (to be communicated). Conference Publishing Services
(CPS) will contact directly the authors for instructions and will send links to
the publishing services.

Accepted papers will be published in an archival proceedings volume by
Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be distributed at the time of the
workshop.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register with the workshop and
present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings.


Program committee
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  Alessandro Barenghi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Guido Bertoni, STMicroelectornics, Italy (co-chair)
  Christophe Clavier, University of Limoges, France
  Wieland Fischer, Infineon Technologies, Germany
  Benedikt Gierlichs, KU Leuven, Belgium (co-chair)
  Christophe Giraud, Oberthur Technologies, France
  Jorge Guarjardo, Bosch, USA
  Sylvain Guilley, Telecom ParisTech, France
  Helena Handschuh, Cryptography Research Inc., USA
  Dusko	Karaklajic, KU Leuven, Belgium
  Kerstin Lemke-Rust, HBRS, Germany
  Marcel Medwed, UCL Crypto Group, Belgium
  Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
  Matthieu Rivain, CryptoExperts, France
  Jörn-Marc Schmidt, TU Graz, Austria
  Sergei Skorobogatov, University of Cambridge, UK
  Junko Takahashi, NTT Corporation, Japan
  Michael Tunstall, University of Bristol, UK
  Marc Witteman, Riscure, The Netherlands


Steering committee
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  Luca Breveglieri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts, USA
  David Naccache (chair), Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
  Jean-Pierre Seifert, TU Berlin & T-Labs, Germany


FDTC 2012 is in cooperation with IACR - http://www.iacr.org