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