HOT TOPIC SESSION: HARDWARE TROJANS and TRUSTED ICs CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CHES 2009 Lausanne, Switzerland September 6 - 9, 2009 http://www.chesworkshop.org KEY DATES: Submission deadline: MONDAY, APRIL 20th, 2009, 23:59 PDT Acceptance notification: Monday, May 18th, 2009 Final version due: Monday, June 15th, 2009 Workshop presentations: Monday - Wednesday, September 7th - 9th, 2009 AREAS OF INTEREST: CHES 2009 will include a Hot Topic Session focused on the emerging research area of "Hardware Trojans and Trusted ICs" A confluence of several trends makes this a timely and important topic. The economic challenges and cost structure of today's semiconductor industry are driving towards increased consolidation of fabrication capabilities and disaggregation of IC and system design houses from foundries. Globalization of both design and fabrication implies that the overall design and manufacturing chain for most ICs often spans across several legislative domains. From the security perspective, this gives rise to new challenges. Most systems rely on correctly designed and fabricated chips (i.e., hardware is not malicious), and consequently most security mechanisms break down when the threat comes from "within the IC". For example, Hardware Trojans could be inserted into ICs prior to manufacturing in order to leak sensitive information or interfere with correct operation (e.g., a "kill switch") once the IC is deployed in an end system. Therefore, it is increasingly becoming necessary to ensure the trustworthiness of ICs even when parts of the design and fabrication process are inherently untrusted. The CHES 2009 committee invites submissions for the Hot Topic session that address any relevant topic, including but not limited to the following: * Trust / security models for IC design & fabrication * New challenges & attacks * Hardware Trojan detection techniques * Trusted re-use models for IP components INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, 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 15 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. For more details see: http://www.chesworkshop.org/ches2009/start.html#instructions WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in time for distribution at the workshop. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE: CHES 2009 Hot Topic Chair: Prof. Anand Raghunathan School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, USA E-mail: raghunathan@purdue.edu CHES 2009 Program co-Chairs: Christophe Clavier, Institut d'Ingenierie Informatique de Limoges Universite de Limoges, France E-mail: christophe.clavier@xlim.fr Kris Gaj, George Mason University, USA E-mail: kgaj@gmu.edu CHES 2009 Hot Topic Committee (to include): Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University, USA Jim Plusquellic, University of New Mexico, USA Pankaj Rohatgi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech, USA Berk Sunar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA