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Aim and Scope

The principles of security and trust remain an area of intense and creative work. This work is focused primarily on defining security and trust goals, developing methods to verify that systems meet those goals, and to synthesize systems that meet those goals by construction.

The areas of interest for HotSpot cut across many application areas, including hardware-software connections, vulnerability discovery and program verification, distributed and cloud systems, big data, machine learning for (and against) security and privacy, and single-purpose systems such as voting, electronic currency and smart contracts. The areas of interest are unified however by a focus on rigorous models and reasoning, clear semantics, and a balance between proof and empirical methods.

Format

The one-day workshop will be divided into a sequence of four main sessions. Some sessions will be devoted to a set of talks on related topics, both with invited talks and submitted papers. We expect the session topics to be drawn from the following list:

• Privacy and information flow
• Properties of voting protocols
• Machine-learning for (and against) security
• Hardware basis of security
• Vulnerability discovery and program verification
• Distributed ledger technologies
• Cyber-physical systems

Program

All times are in Central European Daylight Saving Time (GMT+2)

Session 1

• 14:00 Invited Talk: Annabelle McIver: A New Universally Optimal Mechanism for Metric Differential Privacy
• 14:30 Mukesh Tiwari and Dirk Pattinson: Machine Checked Properties of the Schulze Method
• 14:45 Invited Talk: Peter Rønne: Extremely (in)secure

Session 2

• 15:30 Invited Talk: Ilya Sergey: Practical Smart Contract Sharding with Ownership
• 16:00 Thomas Chen: Towards Greater Interpretability in Deep Learning Models for Phishing Email Detection
• 16:15: Andreas Lochbihler: Canton: Creating a Virtual Global Shared Ledger

Session 3

• 17:00 Invited Talk: Achim Brucker: When Integers are not What They Appear to Be: The Impact of Integer Overflows
• 17:30 Gabriele Costa, Pierpaolo Degano, Letterio Galletta and Simone Soderi: Toward Formal Verification of Physical Layer Security Protocols
• 17:45 Invited Talk: N. Asokan: Hardware-assisted run-time protection

Session 4

• 18:30 Invited Talk: Somesh Jha: Trustworthy ML: Past, Present, and Future
• 19:00 Panel of the invited speakers: The role of (mechanised) proof in security

Program Committee

• Catherine Meadows
• Catuscia Palamidessi
• Jan Jürjens
• Jean-Jacques Quisquater
• Joshua Guttman
• Lucca Hirschi
• Mark D. Ryan
• Peter Y. A. Ryan
• Pierpaolo Degano
• Sebastian Mödersheim (co-chair)
• Steve Schneider
• Toby Murray (chair)

This workshop is organised by IFIP WG 1.7: Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design.

See also HotSpot 2020