More than 500 experts from all over the world will be drawn to Prague by the conference, which is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). This year, the CHES forum for the latest ideas in the field of proposals, analyses and protection for cryptographic hardware and embedded systems will for the first time be held in the Czech Republic. The event alternates between Europe, America and Asia, and the choice of the Czech Republic is evidence for the growing recognition of the Czech Republic as a world-ranking player in the fields of information technologies and cybernetic security.
“We greatly appreciate being entrusted with organizing such a major conference as CHES. We are looking forward to meeting our colleagues and to the new ideas in cryptology that CHES will bring,’ says Prof. Hana Kubátová, head of the Department of Digital Design at FIT CTU, who is joint chair of the conference, together with Dr. Ing. Martin Novotný, who carries out his research in cryptology in the Laboratory of Embedded Security of FIT CTU. Prof. Kubátová adds “We teach our students how to identify threats to security, how to protect smart systems, how to anticipate hacker attacks and how to prevent them. New knowledge that the conference brings will be invaluable not only for the world community but also for us and for our students.’
The program includes two lectures. Prof. Peter Schwabe, who works at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and at Radboud University in Nijmegen, will speak about ways to create highly secure cryptographic software and how challenges can be overcome. Thomas Unterluggauer from Intel will inform participants about the current state of security of the microarchitecture for the Intel Core and Intel Atom processors, and will present how hardware and software means can be used jointly to overcome exploitable vulnerabilities and risks. The program of the conference is very rich and comprehensive. In addition to presentations of accepted conference papers, there will be tutorials led by specialists from Germany, Canada and Taiwan.
Within the framework of the CHES conference, there is a prize for the best paper and also the Test of Time Award. This award goes to the publication presented at the CHES conference 20 years ago, the quality and the significance for cryptology of which has best stood the test of time. Last year, this prize was awarded to a publication from 2002, in which the authors presented Template Attacks, which still remain a highly effective method for breaking the security of cybernetic systems.
At the 25th CHES conference, the founders, Prof. Çetin Kaya Koç, Prof. Christof Paar and long-term participant Prof. Jean-Jacques Quisquater will speak about the history of CHES, from its beginnings as a small workshop in 1999 until the present-day conference under the auspices of the IACR.
Complete program of the conference https://ches.iacr.org/2023/program.php
Further information about the conference https://fit.cvut.cz/cs/zivot-na-fit/aktualne/udalosti/19103-conference-on-cryptographic-hardware-and-embedded-systems-2023.