Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2012 (CHES 2012)
Leuven, Belgium
Sunday September 9th - Wednesday September 12th.
CHES covers new results on all aspects of the design and analysis of cryptographic hardware and software
implementations. The workshop builds a bridge between the cryptographic research community and the crypto-
graphic engineering community. With participants from industry, academia, and government organizations, the
number of participants has grown to over 300 in recent years.
In addition to a track of high-quality presentations, CHES 2012 will o er invited talks, tutorials, a poster
session, and a rump session. CHES 2012 especially encourages submissions on the following two subjects: design
methods to build secure and ecient hardware or software and leakage resilient cryptography including new model
de nitions and analysis and the design of new cryptosystems. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least
four Program Committee members. This year, authors will be invited to submit brief rebuttals of the
reviews before the nal acceptances are made.
The topics of CHES 2012 include but are not limited to:
Cryptographic implementations
Hardware architectures for public-key, secret-key
and hash algorithms
Cryptographic processors and co-processors
Hardware accelerators for security protocols (se-
curity processors, network processors, etc.)
True and pseudorandom number generators
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs)
Ecient software implementations of cryptogra-
phy
Attacks against implementations and counter-
measures against these attacks
Side channel attacks and countermeasures
Fault attacks and countermeasures
Hardware tampering and tamper-resistance
Tools and methodologies
Computer aided cryptographic engineering
Veri cation methods and tools for secure design
Metrics for the security of embedded systems
Secure programming techniques
FPGA design security
Formal methods for secure hardware
Interactions between cryptographic theory and
implementation issues
New and emerging cryptographic algorithms and
protocols targeting embedded devices
Special-purpose hardware for cryptanalysis
Leakage resilient cryptography
Applications
Cryptography in wireless applications (mobile
phone, WLANs, etc.)
Cryptography for pervasive computing (RFID,
sensor networks, smart devices, etc.)
Hardware IP protection and anti-counterfeiting
Recon gurable hardware for cryptography
Smart card processors, systems and applications
Security in commercial consumer applications
(pay-TV, automotive, domotics, etc.)
Secure storage devices (memories, disks, etc.)
Technologies and hardware for content protection
Trusted computing platforms
Instructions for CHES Authors
Authors are invited to submit original papers via electronic submission. Details of the electronic submission
procedure will be posted on the CHES webpage when the system is activated. The submission must be anonymous,
with no author names, aliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short
abstract, and a list of keywords. The paper should be at most 12 pages (excluding the bibliography and clearly
marked appendices), and at most 18 pages in total, using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. Submissions
not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. All submissions will be blind-
refereed. Only original research contributions will be considered. Submissions which substantially duplicate work
that any of the authors have published elsewhere, or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences or
workshops that have proceedings, will be instantly rejected. The IACR Policy on Irregular Submissions (http:
//www.iacr.org/irregular.html) will be strictly enforced.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 5, 2012, 23:59 PST Acceptance noti cation: May 14, 2012
Final version due: June 18, 2012 Workshop presentations: September 9 { 12, 2012
Poster Session
The CHES technical sessions will include a slot for a poster session, open to any submitter.
Arrangements for submitting posters will be announced later.
Tutorial Sessions
The program chairs welcome suggestions for half-day tutorials at ches2012programchairs@iacr.org.
Program Committee
{ D. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
{ P. Barreto, University of S~ao Paulo, Brazil
{ G. Bertoni, STMicroelectronics, Italy
{ S. Bhunia, Case Western University, USA
{ Z. Chen, Certicom - A Subsidiary of RIM, USA
{ D. Roy Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India
{ J.-S. Coron, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
{ R. Dahab, University of Campinas, Brazil
{ H. Drexler, Giesecke & Devrient, Germany
{ T. Eisenbarth, Florida Atlantic University, USA
{ K. Gaj, George Mason University, USA
{ C. Gebotys, University of Waterloo, Canada
{ B. Gierlichs, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
{ C. Giraud, Oberthur Technologies, France
{ L. Goubin, University of Versailles, France
{ S. Guilley, TELECOM ParisTech, France
{ T. Gueneysu, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
{ N. Homma, Tohoku University, Japan
{ M. Joye, Technicolor, France
{ K. Lemke-Rust, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-
Rhein-Sieg, Germany
{ Y. Makris,University of Texas at Dallas, USA
{ S. Mangard, In neon Technologies, Germany
{ M. Matsui, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
{ B. Ors, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
{ E. Oswald, University of Bristol, UK
{ O. Pereira, UCL, Belgium
{ K. Pietrzak, IST Austria, Austria
{ A. Poschmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
{ N. Potlapally, Intel Corporation, USA
{ L. Reyzin, Boston University, USA
{ M. Rivain, CryptoExperts, France
{ M. Robshaw, Orange Labs, France
{ T. Roche, ANSSI, France
{ P. Rohatgi, Cryptography Research, USA
{ A. Satoh, AIST, Japan
{ E. Savas, Sabanci University, Turkey
{ J.-M. Schmidt, IAIK TU Graz, Austria
{ S. Skorobogatov, Cambridge University, UK
{ N. Smart, University of Bristol, UK
{ A. Tria, CEA-LETI/ENSM-SE SAS, France
{ N. Veyrat-Charvillon, UCL, Belgium
{ C. Walter, Royal Holloway, UK
{ D. Watanabe, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
{ D. Yamamoto, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan and K.U.
Leuven, Belgium
Organizational Committee
All correspondence and/or questions should be directed to either of the Organizational Committee members:
Emmanuel Prou (Program co-Chair) Patrick Schaumont (Program co-Chair)
Oberthur Technologies (France) Virginia Tech (USA)
Email: ches2012programchairs@iacr.org Email: ches2012programchairs@iacr.org
Lejla Batina (General co-Chair) Ingrid Verbauwhede (General co-Chair)
Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
and K.U. Leuven (Belgium) K.U. Leuven (Belgium)
Email: lejla@cs.ru.nl Email: Ingrid.Verbauwhede@esat.kuleuven.be
Workshop Proceedings
The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in time
for distribution at the workshop. Accepted papers should follow the LNCS default author instructions at URL
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (see le \typeinst.pdf"). In order to be included in the
proceedings, the authors of an accepted paper must guarantee to present their contribution at the workshop.
