You are invited to attend a welcome reception on Sunday evening, March 29, 2026, and the social event on Monday evening, March 30, 2026.

Sunday, March 29

18:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception in Regensburg's Old Town'.

Social Program

CASCADE Technical Program

The conference takes place in Vielberth Gebäude, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg. All talks will be in room H24.

Monday, March 30

09:30 - 10:15

Registration / Coffee

10:15 - 10:30

Opening / Welcome

10:30 - 11:45

Session 1:SCA Methodology

Session chair: Vincent Grosso
  • Emilie Deprez (UCLouvain, Belgium), Charles Momin (Belgian National Security Authority (BE-NSA), UCLouvain, Belgium), Francois-Xavier Standaert (UCLouvain) Simulatable Leakage, Revisited PAPER Slides
  • Nathan Rousselot (Thales and LIRMM), Karine Heydemann (Thales), Loïc Masure (LIRMM), Vincent Migairou (Thales) and Rémi Strullu (ANSSI) Is it Really Broken? The Failure of DL-SCA Scoring Metrics under Non-Uniform Priors PAPER Slides
  • Seyedmohammad Nouraniboosjin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Fatemeh Ganji (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Too Hot To Be True: Temperature Calibration for Higher Confidence in NN-assisted Side-channel Analysis PAPER Slides
11:45 - 12:15

Industrial Session

Session chair: Michael Meyer
  • Alex Dewar & Jean-Pierre Thibault NewAE
  • Peter Zuijdervliet Keysight
  • Benoît Morin ALPhANOV
  • André Monthieu & Fabien Bouffard eShard
12:15 - 14:15

Lunch

14:15 - 15:15

Invited talk 1: Entropy from Silicon: A Constructive Approach to PUF-based Roots of Trust

Roel Maes

Session chair: Fatemeh Ganji

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) have been studied for nearly 25 years, during which a significant and still growing body of literature has explored their constructions, properties, and applications from many perspectives. One of the most promising and practical uses of PUFs is as the physical foundation of an embedded root of trust. To transform a silicon PUF into a secure and reliable component within a security architecture, it is essential to thoroughly understand its properties and to apply appropriate processing techniques. This talk will examine the key components of a PUF-based root of trust, including a PUF construction and its properties, algorithms for response processing, and best practices for integration into security systems. Slides

15:15 - ...

Coffee Break

17:00 - ...

Social event and conference dinner

Social Program

Tuesday, March 31

09:00 - 9:30

Coffee & Snacks

9:30 - 11:10

Session 2: Fault injection

Session chair: Jens-Pieter Kaps
  • Guillaume BLANC (EURECOM), Abdellah BOUAGOUN (Qualcomm Technologies), Mosabbah Mushir AHMED (Qualcomm Technologies), Alieeldin MADY (Qualcomm Technologies) Deterministic Secret Seed : Practical Fault Injection on Kyber's Implementations PAPER speaker: Fabrizia MARRUCCO (Qualcomm, Cork)
  • Axel Guichaoua (IDEMIA StarChip, Meyreuil, France and Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Samuel Lesne (IDEMIA StarChip, Meyreuil, France), Jean-Baptiste Rigaud (Mines Saint-Etienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F - 13541 Gardanne France), Jean Max Duterte (EMSE, France) Assessing BBICS Efficiency in Monitoring Triple-Well Logic and Picosecond LFI PAPER Slides
  • Vladimir Sarde (Idemia, UVSQ), Nicolas Debande (Idemia) Differential Fault Attacks on MQOM - Breaking the Heart of Multivariate Evaluation PAPER Slides
  • Gwenn Le Gonidec (UMR 6285, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne-Sud), Guillaume Bouffard (National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI), Paris, France), Jean-Christophe Prévotet (UnivRennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR-UMR 6164, Rennes, France), Maria Méndez Real (UMR 6285, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne-Sud) A Lightweight Embedded Detection System against Voltage Drop Fault Attacks in Multi-Tenant FPGAs PAPER Slides
11:10 - 11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 - 12:55

Session 3: SCA

Session chair: Thomas Aulbach
  • Souhayl BEN EL HAJ SOULAMI (Valeo, Université Rennes I), Yann CONNAN (Secure-IC), Sylvain DUQUESNE (Université Rennes I) Full Secret Key Recovery of First-order Masked Crystals-Kyber implementation using multiple distinct chosen-ciphertexts PAPER Slides
  • George Attia (Barkhausen Institut), Martin Schmid(University of Passau), and Elif Bilge Kavun (Barkhausen Institut and Dresden University of Technology) A Multi-head CNN-based Side-channel Attack on the Energy-efficient DIZY Stream Cipher PAPER Slides
  • Edgard Nicéas Arcoverde Gusmão Lima (CESAR School), Fábio Wlademir Monteiro Maia (CESAR School), Tiago Alessandro Espínola Ferreira (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco), and Danilo Monteiro Ribeiro (CESAR School) A SLR of Modern AI-Driven SCA on NIST's PQC Standards PAPER
  • Thomas Marquet (GEMESYS), Elisabeth Oswald (University of Klagenfurt) Embedding belief propagation within a multi-task learning model : An example on Kyber's NTT PAPER Slides
12:55 - 14:50

Lunch

14:50 - 15:50

Invited talk 2: Explainable Leakage Assessments

Elisabeth Oswald

Slides

Session chair: François Gérard
15:50 - 16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 - 18:00

Session 4: Processor architecture And micro-architecture

Session chair: Olivier Bronchain
  • Côme Allart (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France and Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Kévin Guilloux (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), Jean-Roch Coulon (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), André Sintzoff (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), Olivier Potin (Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Jean-Baptiste Rigaud (Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France) Leveraging a Superscalar CVA6 to implement NTT instructions for Post-Quantum Cryptography PAPER Slides
  • Mahreen Khan (Telecom Paris), Renaud Pacalet (Telecom Paris), Maria Mushtaq (Télécom Paris), Ludovic Apvrille (Télécom Paris) Cross-Core Covert Channel for RISC-V: Implementation, Countermeasures and Cross-Platform Analysis PAPER
  • Christian Niesler (University of Duisburg-Essen), Christian Scholz (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen) MPUsh: Applying Security Hotpatches Instead Of MPU Barriers PAPER Slides
  • Christian Niesler (University of Duisburg-Essen), Christian Scholz (University of Duisburg-Essen), Nils Hannappel (University of Duisburg-Essen), Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen) Co-Guard: Guarding Safety-Critical Embedded Devices in Emergencies PAPER Slides

Wednesday, April 1

08:30 - 9:00

Coffee & Snacks

9:00 - 10:15

Session 5: PUFs & Fuzzing

Session chair: Guillaume Bouffard
  • Niklas Stein (Technical University of Munich (TUM)), Michael Pehl (Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Learning PUFs from Unsigned Stability: A Warning on Tolerable Leakage PAPER Slides
  • Neelam Nasir (Telecom Paris), Wei Cheng (NJUST, China; LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France), Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris), Ulrich Kühne (Télécom Paris), Tarik Graba (Télécom Paris) Virtual PUF: Built-in Model for Highly Reliable and Secure PUF PAPER Slides
  • Ulysse Vincenti (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38054 Grenoble, France), Thomas Hiscock (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38054 Grenoble, France), David Hely (Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, LCIS, F-26000 Valence, France) DuskFuzz: Encoding Side-Channel Information to Improve Blackbox Fuzzing PAPER Slides
10:15 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45

Invited talk 3: We Can Have Nice Things (Eventually): How Kerckhoffs's Principle Came to Silicon Too

Dominic Rizzo

Session chair: Gaëtan Cassiers
11:45 - 13:00

Session 6: Masking

Session chair: Jonas Schupp
  • François Gérard (University of the Bundeswehr Munich), Morgane Guerreau (PQShield) High-Order and Cortex-M4 First-Order Implementations of Masked FrodoKEM PAPER Slides
  • Guilhèm Assael (STMicroelectronics) and Gilles Van Assche (STMicroelectronics) Masked compression for ML-KEM PAPER Slides
  • Barbara Gigerl (Graz University of Technology), Florian Mendel (Infineon Technologies), Martin Schläffer (Infineon Technologies), and Robert Primas (Intel) Efficient Second-Order Masked Software Implementations of Ascon in Theory and Practice PAPER Slides
13:00 - 13:10

Closing remarks

13:10-...

Lunch

Platin

Gold

Silver