Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security
November 11, 2022
Los Angeles, CA, USA
http://ashesworkshop.org/home
Co-Located With
ACM CCS 2022 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Nov 7th — Nov 11th, Los Angeles, USA
Scope of ASHES
Call for Papers
As in previous years, ASHES 2022 welcomes submissions on any aspect of
hardware security, concerning both theory and practice.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Fault injection and countermeasures
Side channels and countermeasures
Hardware Trojans and countermeasures
Tamper sensing and tamper protection
New physical attack vectors or methods
Biometrics
Secure sensors and sensor networks
Device fingerprinting and hardware forensics
Emerging computing technologies in security
Lightweight hardware solutions
Secure implementation and secure design of cryptographic and
security primitives
Security analyses and security proofs for implementations and primitives
Security of reconfigurable and adaptive hardware
Post-quantum security
New designs and materials in hardware security
Nanophysics and nanotechnology in hardware security (“nano-security”)
Physical unclonable functions and new/emerging variants thereof
Unforgeable item tagging, secure supply chains, and hardware-based
countermeasures against product piracy
Efficient hardware implementation of cryptographic primitives
Scalable hardware solutions for large numbers of players/endpoints
Hardware security and machine learning: Secure hardware
implementations of machine learning algorithms, machine
learning in side channel attacks, etc.
Hardware security in emerging application scenarios: Internet of
Things, smart home, automotive and autonomous systems, wearable
computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, etc.
(Physical) information leakage in the cloud
Electronic voting machines
Physical layer and wireless network security
Anti-forensic attacks and protection (e.g., hardware
virtualization and anti-forensic resilient memory acquisition)
Architectural factors in hardware security, isolation versus encryption
Secure hardware for multiparty computation
Secure hardware in intellectual property and content protection
Integration of hardware root of trust, such as random number
generators and PUFs
Quality metrics for secure hardware
Conformance and evaluation of secure hardware
Formal treatments, proofs, standardization, or categorization of
hardware-related techniques (incl. surveys and systematization
of knowledge papers)
Paper Categories
To account for the special nature of hardware security as a rapidly
developing discipline, the workshop offers four different categories
of papers:
Full papers, with up to 10 pages in ACM double column format
(including references, but excluding appendices; length of
appendices see below).
Short papers, with up to 6 pages in ACM double column format
(including references, but excluding appendices; length of
appendices see below)
Wild and crazy (WaC) papers, with 3 to 8 pages in ACM double
column format (including references, but excluding appendices;
length of appendices see below).
WaC papers are meant to target groundbreaking new methods and
paradigms for hardware security. Their focus lies on novelty and
potential impact, and on the plausibility of their argumentation, but
not on a full demonstration or complete implementation of their
ideas. They are reviewed and assessed as such. Wild and crazy papers
must bear the prefix “WaC:” in their title from the submission
onwards.
Systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers, with up to 12 pages in ACM
double column format (including references, but excluding appendices;
length of appendices see below). SoK papers shall evaluate,
systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. They should serve
the community by fostering and structuring the development of a
particular subarea within hardware security. Ideally, but not
necessarily, they might provide a new view on an established,
important subarea, support or challenge long-standing beliefs with
compelling evidence, or present a convincing new taxonomy. They will
be reviewed and assessed accordingly. Systematization of knowledge
papers must bear the prefix “SoK:” in the title from the submission
onwards.
Appendices in all paper categories: For the second time after 2020, we
will allow arbitrarily long appendices in all paper categories this
year, if authors consider this necessary to provide additional
information or supplementary material for their works. In case of
excessive length, reviewers may skip parts of the appendices, or study
them less intensely. In the camera-ready versions, the length of the
appendices must be condensed to at most three pages (working with
weblinks to code/data repositories where necessary).
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: June 24, 2022 23:59:59 EDT
Acceptance notification: August 05, 2022
Camera-ready deadline: September 05, 2022
Conflicts of Interest
(Following the ACM SIGMOD 2022CfP)
During submission of a research paper, the submission site will
request information about conflicts of interest of the paper’s authors
with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of
all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential
conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following
definition. A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member
if and only if one or more of the following conditions holds:
The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or
university within the past two years.
The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
The PC member is or was the author’s primary thesis advisor, no
matter how long ago.
The author is or was the PC member’s primary thesis advisor, no
matter how long ago.
The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.
Papers with incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information
as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.