ADSC2024: 2nd ACNS Workshop on Automated Methods and Data-driven Techniques in Symmetric-key Cryptanalysis Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 5-8, 2024 |
Conference website | https://adsc2024.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsc2024 |
Submission deadline | December 10, 2023 |
Over the years, many automated methods have been proposed to help designers and cryptanalysts prove the security bounds of symmetric-key primitives against various attacks such as differential or integral cryptanalysis. These include the use of mixed integer linear programming (MILP), Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) solvers and their extension, satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solvers, as well as constraint programming (CP) solvers. More recently, data-driven techniques that rely on machine and deep learning have also been proposed, leading to attacks that rival that of their classical counterparts.
The aim of the ADSC workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers to explore and further push the boundaries of these automated and data-driven methods. We welcome submissions on the application, improvement, and efficient implementation of these methods.
ADSC is one of the satellite workshops of the International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS).
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Each submission must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.
All submissions must be submitted in PDF format, following the unmodified LNCS format, and typeset using the corresponding LaTeX class file. They must fit within a page limit of 20 pages, including title and abstract, figures, etc., but excluding references. Optionally, any amount of clearly marked supplementary material may be supplied, following the main body of the paper; however, reviewers are not required to read or review any supplementary material, and submissions are expected to be intelligible without it. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. In order to accommodate for changes requested in reviews, the page limit for the camera-ready proceedings versions is 30 pages, including references and appendices.
Workshop papers will be published by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, in parallel with the main ACNS workshop proceedings.
Students can apply for a Student Travel Grant to attend the ACNS conference and its workshops, which will include flight tickets and accommodation of up to $1500. The grant also includes free registration.
Click here for past workshop proceedings.
List of Topics
We solicit submissions of original research papers related to automated and data-driven (e.g. machine learning, deep learning) cryptanalysis methods, including (but not limited to):
- New cryptanalysis results of symmetric-key primitives and cryptosystems based on these methods.
- Comments on the mathematical, algorithmic, and practical aspects of these automated/data-driven methods.
- Performance, efficient implementations, or other related improvements.
- Comparison and benchmarks of concrete tools (SAT/SMT/CP solvers, MILP optimizers, learning frameworks) with regard to their suitability and efficiency for symmetric-key cryptanalysis.
Note that the scope of this workshop does not cover attacks against cryptographic implementations or hardware. These papers are better suited for other ACNS workshops.
Committee Members
Program Co-chairs
- Je Sen TEH, Deakin University, Australia
- Qingju WANG, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Technical Program Committee
- Kai Hu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Aleksei Udovenko, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Muhammad Reza Z'aba, MIMOS, Malaysia
- Wun-She Yap, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
- Jiageng Chen, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- David Gerault, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
- Aron Gohr, Independent Researcher
- Yonglin Hao, State Key Laboratory of Cryptology, Beijing
- Ling Sun, Shandong University, China
- Zejun Xiang, Hubei University, China
- Ryoma Ito, NICT, Japan
Invited Speakers
- Yu Sasaki, NTT, Japan
Publication
Workshop papers will be published by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, in parallel with the main ACNS workshop proceedings.
Venue
The workshop will be held in Kyoto, Japan, together with the main ACNS conference. Click here to visit the ACNS 2024 website.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to both Je Sen and Qingju.