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EVENTS

Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2015

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There are several emerging areas in which highly constrained devices are interconnected, typically communicating wirelessly with one another, working in concert to accomplish some task. Examples of these areas include: sensor networks, healthcare, distributed control systems, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and the smart grid. Security and privacy can be very important in all of these areas. Because the majority of modern cryptographic algorithms were designed for desktop/server environments, many of these algorithms cannot be implemented in the devices used by these applications. When current algorithms can be engineered to fit into the limited resources of constrained environments, their performance is typically not acceptable. NIST seeks to discuss issues related to the security and resource requirements of applications in constrained environments, and potential future standardization of lightweight primitives.

List of Accepted Papers           Call for Submissions

Monday, July 20, 2015

9:00am - 9:10amOpening Remarks
Donna Dodson, ITL Associate Director, Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, and Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, NIST
9:10am - 10:30am

Session I: New Lightweight Primitives I
Session Chair:Kerry McKay 

  1. Simon and Speck: Block Ciphers for Internet of Things [paper]
    Ray Beaulieu, Douglas Shors, Jason Smith, Stefan Treatman-Clark, Bryan Weeks, Louis Wingers
  2. Lightweight version of pi-cipher [paper]
    Hristina Mihajloska, Mohamed El Hadedy, Danilo Gligoroski, Kevin Skadron
  3. Chaskey: a Lightweight MAC Algorithm for Microcontrollers [paper]
    Nicky Mouha, Bart Mennink, Anthony Van Herrewege, Dai Watanabe, Bart Preneel, Ingrid Verbauwhede
10:30am - 11:00amBreak

11:00pm - 11:50pm

Session II: Invited Talk **NEW TIME
Session Chair: Meltem Sonmez Turan

Lightweight Crypto on a Full Circle: From Industry to Academia and Back
Christian Rechberger

11:50am - 12:50pm

Session III: New Lightweight Primitives II
Session Chair:  Meltem Sonmez Turan 

  1. RPM: Lightweight communication Security from Additive Stream Ciphers [paper]
    Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Glenn O. Veach
  2. PFLASH – Secure Asymmetric Signatures on Smart Cards [paper] 
    Daniel Smith-Tone, Ming-Shing Chen and Bo-Yin Yang
  3. JAMBU Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Mode and AES-JAMBU [paper]
    Hongjun Wu, Tao Huang
12:50pm - 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Session IV: Industry Needs
Session Chair: Larry Bassham

  1. RAIN RFID and the Internet of Things: Industry Snapshot and Security Needs [paper]
    Matthew Robshaw, Tyler Williamson
  2. Thanks, but No Thanks: Current Cryptographic Standards are sufficient for software
    Dan Shumow
  3. Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems
    Victoria Pillitteri
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Break

3:20pm - 4:30pm

Session V: Standardization and Validation
Session Chair: Rene Peralta

  1. The Design Space of Lightweight Cryptography [paper]
    Nicky Mouha
  2. Japan CRYPTREC Activity on Lightweight Cryptography
    Shiho Moriai
  3. Cryptographic Validation Challenges with Brittle Algorithms
    Apostol Vassilev
4:30pm - 5:30pm

Session VI: Panel Discussion - Lightweight Crypto Standardization
Moderator: Meltem Sonmez Turan

Panelists:

  • Matt Robshaw, Impinj
  • Dan Shumow, Microsoft Research
  • Douglas Shors, NSA
  • Jens-Peter Kaps, George Mason University

 

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

9:00am - 10:40am

Session VII: Implementations & Performance
Session Chair: Larry Bassham

  1. Performance of State-of-the-Art Cryptography on ARM-based Microprocessors [paper]
    Presented by: Hugo Vincent
    Hannes Tschofenig, Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard
  2. FELICS - Fair Evaluation of Lightweight Cryptographic Systems [paper]
    Daniel Dinu, Alex Biryukov, Johann Großschädl, Dmitry Khovratovich, Yann Le Corre, Léo Perrin
  3. Triathlon of Lightweight Block Ciphers for the Internet of Things [paper]
    Daniel Dinu, Yann Le Corre, Dmitry Khovratovich, Léo Perrin, Johann Großschädl, Alex Biryukov
  4. Single-Cycle Implementations of Block Ciphers [paper]
    Pieter Maene, Ingrid Verbauwhede
  5. Efficient Hardware Implementations of the Warbler Pseudorandom Number
    Generator     [paper]
    Gangqiang Yang, Mark D. Aagaard, Guang Gong
10:40am - 11:00am

Break

11:00am - 12:20pm

Session VIII: Protocols
Session Chair: Dustin Moody

  1. A comprehensive and lightweight security architecture to secure the IoT throughout the lifecycle of a device based on HIMMO [paper] 
    Oscar Garcia-Morchon, Ronald Rietman, Sahil Sharma, Ludo Tolhuizen, Jose Luis Torre-Arce
  2. Algebraic Eraser: A lightweight, efficient asymmetric key agreement
    protocol for use in no-power, low-power, and IoT devices          [paper]
    Derek Atkins, Paul E. Gunnells 
  3. RECTANGLE: A Bit-slice Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher Suitable for Multiple Platforms [paper]
    Presented by: Tao Huang
    Wentao Zhang, Zhenzhen Bao, Dongdai Lin, Vincent Rijmen, Bohan Yang, Ingrid Verbauwhede
  4. Low power wireless scenarios and techniques for saving bandwidth without sacrificing security [paper]
    David McGrew
12:20pm - 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm - 2:50pm

Session IX: Invited Talk
Session Chair: Meltem Sonmez Turan

Lightweight Cryptography – From Smallest to Fastest
Miroslav Knezevic, NXP Semiconductors

2:50pm - 3:50pm

Session X: Attacks
Session Chair: John Kelsey

  1. Some observations on ACORN v1 and Trivia-SC [paper]
    Rebhu Johymalyo Josh, Santanu Sarkar
  2. A New Distinguisher on Grain v1 for 106 rounds [paper]
    Presented by Rebhu Johymalyo Josh
    Santanu Sarkar
  3. Differential Cryptanalysis of the BSPN Block Cipher Structure [paper] 
    Liam Keliher
3:50pm - 4:30pm 

Open Discussion
Moderator: Larry Bassham

4:30pm - 4:45pm 

Closing Remarks
Lily Chen

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