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SPACE 2020 Announcement and call for papers 

December 17 -- 20, 2020, Virtual Conference

https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/conf/SPACE2020/

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=== COVID 19 advisory ===

Given the current uncertainty with travel and event organization restrictions caused by COVID-19, SPACE 2020 will be a virtual conference. SPACE 2020 will allow the online presentation of accepted papers, and the conference registration fee for the accepted paper is adjusted accordingly.



=== Overview ====

International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering 2020 (SPACE 2020) is tenth in the series of conferences which started in 2011. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. SPACE 2020 will be held as a fully virtual conference, from 17th to 20th December, 2020. 


=== Important Dates ===

Abstract registration deadline: Aug. 16, 2020, 23:59:59 EDT
Paper submission deadline:      Aug. 26, 2020, 23:59:59 EDT
Notification of Acceptance:    	Oct. 05, 2020
Camera-ready Version:        	Oct. 25, 2020
Conference:            		Dec. 17-20, 2020

=== Keynotes and Tutorial Speakers ===

	* Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
	* Ingrid Verbauwhede, KU Leuven, Belgium
	* Joan Daemen, Radboud University, The Netherlands 
	* Patrick Longa, MSR Redmond, USA
	* Peter Schwabe, Radboud University, The Netherlands 
	* Yuval Yarom, University of Adelaide, Australia
	
=== PC Chairs ===

	* Lejla Batina, Radboud University, The Netherlands
	* Stjepan Picek, TU Delft, The Netherlands
	* Mainack Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

=== General Chairs ===

	* Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
	* Indranil Sengupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

=== Topics ===

We invite authors to submit previously unpublished original research. Topic include but are not limited to:

Cryptographic Engineering

	* Design of Cryptographic Primitives
	* Random Number Generators and PUF
	* Cryptographic Protocols and Implementations
	* Security Architectures
	* Formal Methods in Cryptographic Engineering
	* Attacks and Countermeasures
	* Post-quantum Cryptography Implementations
	* Cryptographic Software/Hardware Design
	* IP Protection

Physical attacks and Countermeasures

	* Fault Analysis and Countermeasures
	* Reverse Engineering and Tampering
	* Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection
	* Side-channel Analysis and Countermeasures
	* Micro-Architectural Attacks
	* AI-assisted side-channel and fault attacks
	* Cryptanalysis	Security and Privacy

Security and Privacy
	* Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
	* AI in security and privacy 
	* Secure Networking Protocols
	* Securing Human-in-the-loop Systems
	* Data privacy and Authentication
	* Botnets and Malware
	* Anonymization Techniques and Attacks
	* Intrusion Detection
	* Operating Systems Security
	* Trustworthy Computing
	* Verification and Testing for Security


=== Paper Submission ===

All SPACE 2020 submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to or published in another journal or conference. SPACE 2020 follows a strict double-blind policy -- all submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Submissions must be written in English, should strictly follow the LNCS format, and should be at most 20 pages (including the bibliography but excluding clearly marked appendices). The proceedings will be published by Springer. The best contributions will be selected for submission to regular issues of the Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HASS). 

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf) and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip) or for Word (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs (https://goo.gl/hbsa4D) in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

We recognize the difficulties stemming from the COVID-19 situation, and we welcome work in progress submissions. Furthermore, this year we will award one best paper and one best student paper out of all contributions.

The submission link is for SPACE 2020 is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=space2020