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TAC 2024: Topics in Applied Cryptography
Rome, Italy, September 27, 2024
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tac2024
Abstract registration deadlineAugust 1, 2024
Submission deadlineAugust 2, 2024
Topics: applied cryptography

This workshop is dedicated to cryptography with a specific application, scenario and/or technology in mind, including but not limited to performance evaluation, implementation issues, and requirements for unusual application scenarios. Purely theoretical results are out of scope.

Applications, protocols, protocols, and scenarios, and technologies in scope include but are not limited to:

  • Privacy Enhancing Cryptography, e.g., selective disclosure signatures, accumulator based revocation, anonymous credentials, zero-knowledge proofs, e.g. as applied to digital identity or blockchain-supported applications

  • Partially or fully homomorphic encryption, e.g., as applied to electronic voting, or  the cloud computing, or AI

  • Secret sharing and multi-party threshold schemes for decentralisation of trust, within internet, web3 or other scenarios with applications to e.g., federated learning or key recovery

  • Cryptographic protocols such as TLS, SSH, Double Ratchet, 3DH

  • Cryptographic libraries: design, development, analysis

  • Hardware and related issues: IoT; smartNICs; security controllers; crypto processors; PUF; re-used, related, or weak keys and certificates; poor RNG

  • Attacks and vulnerabilities: side-channel, fault injection, oracles, key recovery

  • Quantum Key Distribution

  • Contributions, security assessments, or implementations of cryptographic standards including authentication protocols (e.g., OpenID Connect) and cryptographic primitives (e.g., Post Quantum algorithms for encryption and signing)

  • Financial Cryptography

TAC will be held as one of the workshops of the CIFRIS24 conference.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: abstract registration until July 25th, 11:59 pm AOE, with updates possible until July 29th, 11:59 pm AOE

    Deadline extended! abstract registration until August 1st, 11:59 pm AOE, with updates possible until August 2nd, 11:59 pm AOE

  • Notification to authors: August 20th

  • Workshop: September 27th

Submission Guidelines

Language: English.

Anonymization / double blind: not required.

Portal: EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tac2024)

Length: submissions should consist of at most 2 pages, including bibliography, but short abstracts of half a page are most welcome. Additional material such as presentation slides, links to source code repositories, previously published papers, or reports on work in progress with a significant cryptographic component can also be included. Authors should indicate which parts of a submission are for evaluation purposes only, and which are intended for publication.

Note: successful submissions will be required to provide a 2-page abstract for inclusion in the CIFRIS24 conference proceedings.

Submission formats:

  1. lightning talk: intended to put forward requirements for novel, unusual, or under-considered application scenarios; share quirks, improvements, bugs, or other findings that may be summarised in a brief presentation but are of interest to the whole community; to showcase recent published results;

  2. work in progress:intended for authors to obtain early, constructive feedback on their work, junior authors, including Ph.D. and Master's students, are particularly welcome to submit;

  3. demo: dedicated to presentations of technologies, vulnerability exploits and other practical demonstrations that require more time than a lightning talk, proposal should clearly describe also one or more demonstration scenarios that describe how the audience will gain an understanding of the underlying technology, submissions will be evaluated based on motivation and novelty;

  4. topics and discussion points for the round table, such as point of views, call for action, open questions.

At the end of the contributed talks, at least 30' will be dedicated to a round table discussion and community feedback on hot topics, involving as much as possible the whole audience. Exploiting the reviews of the program committee, an agenda draft with the most interesting topics will be published prior to the conference, and attendees will be encouraged to propose questions and interventions on these topics, and to give feedback to other proposals (e.g. through some live-voting system with up/down-votes). During the round table the points will be tackled in order (according to the feedback received) until time runs out.

Presentation duration:

  • Lightning talks (5-7' each)
  • Work in progress (12' each)
  • Demos (12' each)

Times are inclusive of audience Q&A.

Committees

Chair

  • Riccardo Longo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

Organizing Committee

  • Stefano Berlato (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
  • Silvio Ranise (Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento)
  • Chiara Spadafora (University of Trento)
  • Alessandro Tomasi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

Program Committee

  • Marco Baldi (Polytechnic University of Marche)
  • Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan)
  • Andrea Basso (University of Bristol)
  • Cecilia Boschini (ETH Zurich)
  • Andrea Bracciali (University of Turin)
  • Davide Carboni (Uncommon Digital)
  • Veronica Cristiano (Telsy)
  • Alexandre Debant (LORIA)
  • Maria Eichlseder (Technische Universität Graz)
  • Pierrick Gaudry (LORIA)
  • Svetla Petkova-Nikova (KU Leuven)
  • Andrea Visconti (University of Milan)
  • Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technical University of Munich)
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