SHARCS 2006

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SHARCS -- Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems

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April 03-04, 2006 Cologne, Germany

The registration for SHARCS'06 is now open at:

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Please note that the deadline for submitting an extended abstract ends on February 17, 2006.

SHARCS '06 is the second workshop dedicated to the challenging subject of special-purpose cryptanalytical machines. The first SHARCS workshop took place 2005 in Paris and attracted 120 participants from industry, academia and government organization. In the upcoming workshop we intend to include more contributed talks and therefore encourage submissions to the areas listed below.

Much of the earlier work on special-purpose hardware was done on key searches for symmetric-key algorithms, with a particular emphasis on attacks against DES. More recently there has been interest in hardware architectures for sieving methods for attacking the RSA scheme. However, it seems that much work remains to be done including, for instance, special purpose hardware crackers for:

  • index calculus algorithms * elliptic curve based schemes * lattice based schemes * specific block and stream ciphers

In addition to algorithmic issues, it is also the workshop's goal to make advances on implementational issues such as:

  • optical devices for cryptanalysis * analog computers for cryptanalysis * FPGAs for cryptanalysis * clusters of standard computers for cryptanalysis * routing protocols and other low-level tools

The ultimate objective of SHARCS is to determine whether special purpose hardware poses a real threat for today's cryptographic algorithms, and whether there are advantages over software-based attacks. Since this is an intrinsically interdisciplinary subject, it is hoped that the workshop can bring together researchers with different backgrounds for discussing and advancing this exciting field.

The workshop will consist of invited keynote presentations and some contributed presentations. We welcome submissions of extended abstracts (at least 3 pages.) We would like to stress that we do *not* aim at receiving contributions on side channel attacks. Furthermore, at this point we exclude quantum cryptologic devices. Theoretical papers analyzing the feasibility and costs of attacks using specialized hardware are, however, very much welcomed.

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The workshop is organized by ECRYPT, the European Network of Excellence in Cryptography

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The workshop is an activity of ECRYPT's VAMPIRE - Virtual Application and Implementation Research Lab,
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There will be no formal proceedings, but a handout with abstracts will be provided to all participants. (This avoids submissions to SHARCS from conflicting with submissions to forthcoming conferences with proceedings).

Important dates: February 17, 2006: submission of abstracts March 06, 2006: notification of acceptance or rejection March 20, 2006: revised version of accepted papers April 03 & 04, 2006: SHARCS workshop

The submission should start with a title, a list of the authors together with their affiliations and a short abstract describing the content of the paper. This should be followed by an extended abstract of at least 3 and at most 20 pages including appendices. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at the workshop.

To submit send your contribution to

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no later than February 17, 2006, in ps or pdf format. You should receive an acknowledgment of submission no later than one day after submission.

Program Committee:

  • Daniel J. Bernstein (Chicago) * Tanja Lange (Copenhagen) * Arjen Lenstra (Lausanne) * Christof Paar (Bochum) * Eran Tromer (Haifa)
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