Call for papers

CASCADE is a new conference issued from the merge of COSADE and CARDIS that focuses on cryptographic implementations, physical attacks and embedded security. Its main goal is to encourage research and exchanges on cryptographic implementations and embedded security challenges. It welcomes contributions from the academia and industry and encourages in particular submissions by European PhD students willing to present their work while benefiting from:

Papers can be submitted for review on two dates (one in the summer, one in the winter) for a single event in April.

Since 1994, CARDIS has been the venue for security experts from industry and academia to exchange on security of smart cards and related applications. Since 2010, COSADE has been an additional venue with dedicated focus on side-channel analysis, implementation attacks and secure designs. Starting in 2025, CARDIS and COSADE will merge into CASCADE, creating a unique annual international event to gather the community. For its first edition, CASCADE will take place in Saint-Étienne (France), from April 2 to 4, 2025.

Topics

The program committee is seeking original papers on all aspects of design, development, deployment, evaluation, and application of cryptographic implementations and secure embedded systems. You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to CASCADE'25. Submissions across a broad range of the development phase are encouraged, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical applications and deployment. The program committee also invites survey and Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers that assess, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as these papers offer significant value to our community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Timeline

All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Summer Submission

Winter Submission

Instruction for authors

Submissions must be original, unpublished, anonymous and not submitted to journals or other conferences or workshops with proceedings. Submissions must be written in English and should be at most 20 pages in total (excluding references and appendices) strictly following Springer's LNCS format (with default margins, font size, etc.). There is no limit on the length of the bibliography and appendices when submitting. However, the reviewers are not required to read any appendices and the camera-ready version should be self-contained without appendices and strictly adhere to the page limit. Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. All submissions will be blind-refereed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Both submissions and accepted papers must follow the  LNCS default author instructions accessible on the Springer webpage: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines .

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