ASHES 2020: 4th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security

Abstract

The workshop on "Attacks and Solutions in HardwarE Security"(ASHES) welcomes any theoretical and practical works on hardware security, including attacks, solutions, countermeasures, proofs, classification, formalization, and implementations. Besides mainstream research, ASHES puts some focus on new and emerging scenarios: This includes the internet of things (IoT), nuclear weapons inspections, arms control, consumer and infrastructure security, or supply chain security, among others. ASHES also welcomes dedicated works on special purpose hardware, such as lightweight, low-cost, and energy-efficient devices, or non-electronic security systems. The workshop hosts four different paper categories: Apart from regular and short papers, this includes works that systematize and structure a certain (sub-)area (so-called "Systematization of Knowledge"(SoK) papers), and so-termed "Wild and Crazy"(WaC) papers, which distribute seminal ideas at an early conceptual stage. This summary gives a brief overview of the fourth edition of the workshop, which will take place virtually on November 13, 2020, as a post-conference satellite workshop of ACM CCS.