FDTC 2016 - Thirteenth Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography

August 16, 2016, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (co-located with CHES 2016)

FDTC 2016 is held in cooperation with IACR

Fault injection is one of the most exploited means for extracting confidential information
from embedded devices and for compromising their intended operation. Therefore, research
on developing methodologies and techniques for the design of robust cryptographic systems
(both hardware and software), and on protecting them against both accidental faults and
intentional attacks is essential. Of particular interest is the 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.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - fault injection:
    - mechanisms (e.g., using lasers, electromagnetic induction, or clock / power
      supply manipulation)
    - models of fault injection
    - measures to prevent fault injection (e.g., physical protection, fault diagnosis)

  - fault exploitation:
    - attacks on cryptographic devices (HW and SW) or protocols
    - combined implementation attacks
    - models and analysis (e.g., modeling the reliability of systems or protocols)

  - countermeasures:
    - fault resistant hardware / implementations of cryptographic algorithms
    - countermeasures to detect fault injections and techniques providing fault
      tolerance (inherent reliability)
    - fault resistant protocols

  - case studies of attacks, fault diagnosis, and tolerance techniques


Important dates:

  Submission deadline:          April 19, 2016
  Notification of acceptance:   May 26, 2016
  Camera-ready version:         July 10, 2016
  Workshop:                     August 16, 2016


Program chairs:

Philippe Maurine           University of Montpellier
Michael Tunstall           Cryptography Research


Program committee:

Josep Balasch		   KU Leuven
Olivier Benoit		   Qualcomm
Wieland Fischer		   Infineon Technologies
Christophe Giraud	   Oberthur Technologies
Jorge Guajardo Merchan	   Bosch LLC
Sylvain Guilley		   Telecom ParisTech
Jaecheol Ha		   Hoseo University
Naofumi Homma		   Tohoku University
Michael Hutter		   Cryptography Research
Pierre-Yvan Liardet	   STMicroelectronics
Victor Lomne'		   ANSSI
Philippe Loubet Moundi	   Gemalto
Mehran M. Kermani	   Roch. Inst. of Tech.
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay	   IIT Kharagpur
David Oswald		   Univ. of Birmingham
Gerardo Pelosi		   Politecnico di Milano
Arash Reyhani		   Univ. of Western Ontario
Joern-Marc Schmidt	   Secunet
Jean-Pierre Seifert	   TU Berlin & T-Labs
Sergei Skorobogatov	   Univ. of Cambridge
Junko Takahashi		   NTT Laboratories
Vincent Verneuil	   NXP Semiconductors


General chairs:

Luca Breveglieri           Politecnico di Milano
Israel Koren               University of Massachusetts


Steering committee:

Luca Breveglieri           Politecnico di Milano
Israel Koren               University of Massachusetts
David Naccache (chair)     ENS
Jean-Pierre Seifert        TU Berlin & T-Labs


Instructions for authors:

  Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors
  have published elsewhere or that has been submitted in parallel to any other
  conference or workshop. Submissions should be anonymous, with no author
  names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Papers should
  be from 10 to at most 15 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, to be provided, author kit. Conference Publishing Services(CPS) will 
  contact directly the authors with instructions and will send links for uploading
  the manuscripts.

  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 for the workshop
  and present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings.
  Additional submission instructions and further information can be found at:

    www.fdtc-workshop.eu