[TYPES/announce] CSF 2018 Call for Papers

[Maffei Matteo]

CSF 2018 Call for Papers
31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium

http://csf2018.org/
July 9-12, 2018
Oxford, UK
Part of FLOC 2018: http://www.floc2018.org/

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. This year CSF is organized as part of the the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC). CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, such as formal security models, relationships between security properties and defenses, principled techniques and tools for design and analysis of security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of CSF is foundational security: submissions that lack foundational aspects risk rejection.

This year, CSF will use a light form of double-blind reviewing; see below.

Topics 
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New results in computer security are welcome. We also encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about security. Possible topics for all papers include, but are not limited to:

        access control,
        accountability,
        anonymity and privacy,
        authentication,
        computer-aided cryptography,
        data and system integrity,
        database security,
        decidability and complexity,
        distributed systems security,
        electronic voting,
        formal methods and verification,
        decision theory,
        hardware-based security,
        information flow control,
        intrusion detection,
        language-based security,
        network security,
        data provenance,
        mobile security,
        security metrics,
        security protocols,
        software security,
        socio-technical security,
        trust management,
        usable security,
        web security.


Special Sessions 
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This year, we strongly encourage papers in two foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF:

  BLOCKCHAIN (Chair: Elaine Shi).  Many challenges arise with the rapid development of the blockchain technology, including the need for formal foundations for the security and privacy of blockchains. CSF 2018 will include a special session devoted to this topic and we invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include security and privacy issues, analysis and verification of existing solutions, design of new systems, but also broader foundational issues such as how blockchain mechanisms fit into larger distributed ecosystems and foundational security aspects of applications built on top of blockchain mechanisms.
  
  COMPUTER-AIDED CRYPTOGRAPHY (Chair: Bogdan Warinschi).  Modern cryptography is built on firm theoretical foundations. However, cryptography proofs are often intricate and the gap from model to code is usually large, which opens the door to bugs and vulnerabilities. Computer-aided formal methods can provide assurance of the security of cryptographic protocols, primitives and their implementations in software and hardware. We invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include, but are not limited to, verification of cryptographic protocols and primitives, verification of cryptographic software and hardware, tools to automate formal verification, and formal proofs of side-channel countermeasures. 

These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the special session chairs. They will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings, without any distinction from the other papers.

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the symposium. Some small number of papers will be selected by the PC as "Distinguished Papers".

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IMPORTANT DATES 

Abstract due: January 29, 2018
Papers due: January 31, 2018
Author response period: March 14-16, 2018
Notification: March 31, 2018
Final papers due: April 30, 2018
Symposium: July 9-12, 2018

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Mário Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Myrto Arapinis, University of Edinburgh
Owen Arden, UC Santa Cruz
Alessandro Armando, University of Genova
Liqun Chen, University of Surrey
Stephen Chong, Harvard University (Program Co-Chair)
Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Deian, University of California, San Diego  
Stéphanie Delaune, CNRS, IRISA (Program Co-Chair)
Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo
Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Benjamin Gregoire, Inria
Flaminia Luccio, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg
Olivier Pereira, Université Catholique de Louvain
Tamara Rezk, Inria
Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University of Technology
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham
Benedikt Schmidt, Google
Elaine Shi, Cornell University (Session chair, Blockchain)
Christoph Sprenger, ETH Zurich
Alwen Tiu, Australian National University
Michael Carl Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute
Mayank Varia, Boston University
Bogdan Warinschi, Bristol University (Session chair, Computer-Aided Cryptography)

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PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings. 

Papers must be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). All papers should be at most 12 pages long, not counting bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read appendices, and so the paper must be intelligible without them.

CSF'18 will employ a light form of double-blind reviewing. To facilitate this, submitted papers must (a) omit any reference to the authors' names or the names of their institutions, and (b) reference the authors' own related work in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). Please see the conference site for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) that address many common concerns. When in doubt, contact the program chairs.

Papers failing to adhere to any of the instructions above will be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers intended for one of the special sessions should select the "Blockchain", or "Computer-Aided Cryptography" option, as appropriate.

Authors of accepted papers will receive extra pages for their final version, which will be at most 15 pages long including bibliography and appendices. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper.

Please see http://csf2018.org/ for a link to the submission website.

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PC Chairs 
Stephen Chong, Harvard University
Stephanie Delaune, CNRS, IRISA

General Chair 
Cas Cremers, Oxford University

Publications Chair 
Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Publicity Chair 
Matteo Maffei, TU Vienna