【CASCADE 2026】Dec 5@Regensburg, Germany

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

Attacks and Countermeasures

• Physical and remote side-channel attacks & countermeasures

• Fault injection attacks and countermeasures

• Combined implementation attacks and countermeasures

• Micro-architectural attacks and countermeasures

• Hardware tampering and tamper-resistance

• Reverse engineering, (anti-) cloning, and (anti-) counterfeiting

• Hardware trojans and detection mechanisms

• Machine learning attacks and countermeasures

Efficient and Secure Cryptographic Implementations

• Hardware & software cryptographic implementations

• Algorithmic aspects of cryptographic implementations

• Hardware security mechanisms, physically unclonable functions, true random number generator

• Cryptographic implementations for RISC-V architectures

• Post-quantum cryptographic implementations

• Lightweight cryptography

• White-box cryptography

Tools and Methodologies

• Formal methods, techniques, and security models (for embedded security)

• Secure design and verification tools for hardware/software

• Security proofs in relevant models

• Computer-aided cryptographic engineering

• Domain-specific languages for cryptographic systems

• Automated and machine learning analysis frameworks

• Security evaluation platforms and tooling

• Open benchmarks for efficient and secure designs

Applications

• Applications of secure embedded systems

• Trusted execution environments and trusted computing platforms

• Security of the internet of things

• Security of RISC-V architectures