第5届ACNS Workshop on Secure Crypto Implementation (SCI)将于2024年3月在阿布扎比召开（与ACNS同期）。Workshop征稿将于2023年11月中旬截止；论文集由LNCS系列出版。

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In recent years, we have witnessed severe security incidences caused by buggy protocols or implementations of cryptographic algorithms: POODLE, DROWN, OpenSSL Heartbleed, Windows certificate validation vulnerabilities, PDF shadow attacks, Google Titan Token Bluetooth bugs, etc. It is critical for practitioners and researchers to ensure the security of cryptographic software and hardware, which are essential for a wide range of systems, services, and applications.

The aim of the SCI workshop is to provide an international forum of scientific research and development to explore the security issues in the implementation and deployment of cryptographic solutions. We are interested in these main aspects: (1) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic algorithms; (2) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic protocols; (3) defective cryptographic algorithms and protocols deployed in the wild; (4) weak cryptographic keys and random numbers in the cryptographic implementation; (5) runtime cryptographic key attacks and protections; (6) certificates and key management; (7) misuse or abuse of cryptographic services; and (8) other topics on secure cryptographic implementations.

Topics

We try to promote secure cryptographic solutions in the Internet, by exploring and discussing the (in)security issues. We solicit submissions of original research papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Secure implementations of crypto algorithms & protocols
• Fuzzing and vulnerabilities of crypto algorithms & protocols
• Measurement of cryptographic solutions in the wild, defective or updated
• Designs of random bit generators
• Weak cryptographic keys and defective random bit generators
• Side channel attacks and defenses
• Cryptographic key protections and memory attacks
• PKI certificate services and key management
• HTTPS/TLS vulnerabilities and attacks
• Measurement and bugs of certificate-based solutions
• Audit and monitoring of cryptographic services
• Physical attacks and defenses of cryptographic implementation
• Verification and evaluation of cryptographic implementation
• High-performance cryptographic engines
• Cryptographic hardware
• Cryptography for Blockchain
• Cryptography for IoT/CPS
• Cryptography for the Cloud
• Cryptography for Mobile systems
• Cryptography for VANET

We are especially interested in papers with novel ideas, position papers, pilot studies, and initial findings. ACNS will also award a best papers from the 2024 ACNS workshops (ADSC, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S&P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA and S&P-FL), with 500 EUR prize sponsored by Springer. Meanwhile, the workshop will include an interesting keynote talk, which will be announced on the workshop web site as arrangements are finalized.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: November 11, 2023. 23:59, AoE
• Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2023
• Camera ready: January 9, 2024

Submit

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts describing original work. The manuscript has to be written in English and in PDF format. All submissions must follow the original LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page limit of 20 pages including all references and appendices.

The proceedings of the SCI workshop will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

Submit your papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acnssci2024

Workshop Chairs

• Dr. Jingqiang Lin, University of Science and Technology of China
• Dr. Bo Luo, University of Kansas

详见 https://acns-sci.github.io/

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