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8th Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec)<br>
Affiliated with 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(Oakland)<br>
May 26th, 2022<br>
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The Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) workshop solicits<br>
contributions of research papers, work-in-progress reports, and
panels<br>
related to the growing area of language-theoretic security.<br>
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Submission Guidelines: see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://langsec.org/spw21/__;!!IBzWLUs!EIRRfItFUkEDEGLhS0iQLK4A7MFrcgi_ctbdqI5wDZpC2438l6pEeeCYKCJ-6LeExKEE-9TeoT-gwg$">http://langsec.org/spw22/</a><br>
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Submission link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2021__;!!IBzWLUs!EIRRfItFUkEDEGLhS0iQLK4A7MFrcgi_ctbdqI5wDZpC2438l6pEeeCYKCJ-6LeExKEE-9SWwNR6hg$">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2022</a><br>
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Important Dates:<br>
Research paper submissions due: January 15 2022, AOE<br>
Work-in-progress reports and panels submissions due:<br>
February 1 2022, AOE<br>
Notification to authors: February 15 2022<br>
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Topics: LangSec posits that the only path to trustworthy computer<br>
software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or
expected<br>
inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling
routine<br>
as a parser for that language. The parsing must be feasible, and
the<br>
parser must match the language in required computation power and<br>
convert the input for the consumption of subsequent computation.
The<br>
8th installation of the workshop will continue the tradition and<br>
further focus on research that apply the language-theoretic<br>
perspective to policy mechanisms, such as treating policy
formulation<br>
and enforcement as language definition and language recognition<br>
problems. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics that
are of<br>
relevance to LangSec:</div>
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* formalization of vulnerabilities and exploits in terms of language<br>
theory<br>
* inference of formal language specifications of data from samples<br>
* generation of secure parsers from formal language specifications<br>
* complexity hierarchy of verifying parser implementations<br>
* science of protocol design: layering, fragmentation and
re-assembly,<br>
extensibility, etc.<br>
* architectural constructs for enforcing limits on computational<br>
complexity<br>
* empirical data on programming language features/programming styles<br>
that affect bug introduction rates (e.g., syntactic redundancy)<br>
* systems architectures and designs based on LangSec principles<br>
* computer languages, file formats, and network protocols built on<br>
LangSec principles<br>
* re-engineering efforts of existing languages, formats, and
protocols<br>
to reduce computational power<br>
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Chairs<br>
PC co-chair: Gang Tan (Pennsylvania State University)<br>
PC co-chair: Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College)<br>
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Contact:<br>
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs:<br>
Gang Tan (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:gtan@psu.edu">gtan@psu.edu</a>) and Sergey Bratus (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:sergey@cs.dartmouth.edu">sergey@cs.dartmouth.edu</a>)
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Gang (Gary) Tan
Professor, Penn State CSE and ICDS
W358 Westgate Building
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.cse.psu.edu/*gxt29__;fg!!IBzWLUs!EIRRfItFUkEDEGLhS0iQLK4A7MFrcgi_ctbdqI5wDZpC2438l6pEeeCYKCJ-6LeExKEE-9TviV_S5Q$">http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="Tel:814-8657364">Tel:814-8657364</a></pre>
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