Invited speakers

• Meltem Sonmez Turan, Mathematician at NIST, U.S.

Title: On the final round of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization

Abstract: The talk aims to provide an update on the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. First, the evaluation of the second-round candidates and the selection of the ten finalists will be described. Then, an overview of the finalists will be provided, and finally, next steps of the process will be summarized.

• Elisabeth Oswald, Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  

Title: Lightweight Crypto Implementations or Side Channel Resilience?

Abstract: The question if or not the design of a cipher significantly impacts on our ability to create implementations (on a range of platforms) that are resilient to side channel attacks is not an easy one to answer. In this talk I will explain what makes an implementation hard to attack and how the cipher design can facilitate creating more resilient implementations. To do so I will touch on state of the art attack vectors, countermeasures, and contemporary evaluation strategies.

• Marc Stöttinger, Hessen3C, Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sport, Germany
  

Title: Lightweight Cryptography from an Application Perspective
– Two Sides of the Same Coin –

Abstract: NIST has initiated a process through the LWC Competition to evaluate and standardize lightweight cryptographic algorithms for use in resource-constrained devices. It is important to study a wide range of different domains such as healthcare, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems or automotive to get an overall picture and to derive the necessary system-level requirements of these domains and to consider them when evaluating the different proposed cryptographic algorithms. In this talk, I will to illustrate some application-related requirements from the automotive industry. In addition, I would like to raise awareness of a potential IT security misuse related to lightweight cryptography based on trends we are currently observing in the area of operational IT-security.

• Damian Vizár, Data Security Expert, CSEM, Switzerland
  

Where is Waldo: the search for LWC design targets

Abstract: Recently, lightweight cryptography has been among the most active research topics in symmetric key cryptography. On one hand, there is a growing number of real-world applications for which the “conventional” cryptography is either not optimal or not at all pertinent, most notably in the so called Internet of Things (IoT) domain. On the other hand, there has been a steady stream of research focused on catering to the challenges of such applications. Between these two ends, there exists a general consensus that new lightweight cryptography is necessary, materialized by NIST’s ongoing Lightweight Cryptography standardization effort. Yet, the term lightweight cryptography still remains hazy and the associated design targets implicit rather than clearly-defined. In this talk, we contemplate the definition of lightweight cryptography, take a critical look at the NIST LWC design targets, attempt to complement them by reviewing the requirements in several application scenarios and end by pointing out some interesting results.