Call for Papers
Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
"Embedded Platforms for Cryptography in the Coming Decade".

Submission Deadline: 1 July 2014
Publication: First Quarter 2015

Link: http://acmtecs.acm.org/special-issues/14/embcrypt2014.html

Editors: Patrick Schaumont (Virginia Tech, USA), Máire O'Neill (Queen's
University Belfast, UK), Tim Güneysu (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Summary:
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Cryptography has made great strides in capability and variety over the
past few years, enabling a broad range of new applications and extending
the reach of security deep into the embedded world. A few examples
include lightweight primitives that provide  information security for a
fraction of the energy and cost of traditional primitives; lattice-based
crypto-engines that provide an  alternative to public-key operations in
a post-quantum-computing world; cryptographic sponges that can be
configured as  universal crypto-kernels; anonymous signatures that
support electronic cash in portable, compact form factors; and 
homomorphic primitives and zero-knowledge proofs that allow
privacy-friendly interaction of devices with the all-knowing  cloud.
These novel forms of cryptography will drive the embedded information
infrastructure, and they will become a necessity  to mix and merge our
virtual life with our real life in a trustworthy and scalable manner. 

However, this is not your father's cryptography, and its efficient
implementation needs new research efforts. It is based on  different
mathematical structures, novel transformations and data organizations,
and in many cases its computational complexity  is significantly higher
than that of traditional cryptographic operations. For several
primitives, such as for post-quantum  cryptography and homomorphic
computing, the optimal implementation strategies are still an open area
of research. Furthermore,  threats against these novel forms of
cryptography, such as side-channel analysis or fault injection, are
unexplored. 

This special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
solicits state-of-the-art research results and surveys  in embedded
system engineering for these novel cryptographic primitives. The issue
will cover both hardware and software  implementations for
performance-optimized, resource-constrained, energy-efficient platforms.
Of special interest are  implementations that demonstrate novel
applications for cryptographic primitives.

A few examples of topics of interest for the special issue include:

  * Post-quantum Primitives for Constrained Platforms (RFID,
    microcontroller) 

  * Lattice-based Cryptography in Embedded Platforms 

  * Embedded Implementations that interact with the Homomorphic Cloud 

  * Custom-instruction Extensions and Hardware Primitives for
    Post-quantum Cryptography 

  * Performance Comparisons and Benchmarks for Multi-party Computation 

  * Privacy-friendly Cryptography in Embedded Platforms 

  * Privacy-friendly Car Electronics and Public-transport Infrastructure 

  * Implementations of Electronic Cash 

  * Implementations of Electronic Passports 

  * Hardware Acceleration of Privacy-friendly Cryptographic Primitives 

  * Implementations of Unified Cryptographic Primitives (eg
    Authenticated Encryption) 

  * Implementations of Leakage-resilient Cryptography 

The special issue specifically seeks novel, non-traditional
implementations of cryptography, and novel, non-traditional threat 
analysis. Submissions that discuss standard encryption schemes such as
based on AES, RSA or ECC, are considered out of  scope. Likewise,
implementation attacks on traditional targets (standard block ciphers)
are considered out of scope. 

For more information, please see
http://acmtecs.acm.org/special-issues/14/embcrypt2014.html

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