SPACE – 2017

SPACE 2017 – Seventh International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography Engineering from 13^th December to 17^th December 2017

The Seventh International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE 2017) is seventh in the series of conferences which started in 2011. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. SPACE 2017 was organized by Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa, India, in cooperation with International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) during 13 to 17 December, 2017. The conference was sponsored by Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Goa, Rambus, Brahmos, Goa Shipyard Limited and AIRMAX. The Department of Science & Humanities & Department of Computer Engineering jointly organized SPACE 2017.

Day One – 13^th December 2017

The Workshop began with an inaugural function highlighting the importance of the workshop. The first tutorial was on Efficient Side Channel Testing of Cryptographic Devices using TVLA by Gary Kenworthy, Technical Director, Rambus Cryptography Research, United States. The second session was on An Industrial Outlook on Challenges of Hardware Security in Digital Economy         by Shivam Bhasin, Nanyang Technical University Singapore; Victor Lomné, NinjaLab, Montpellier, France; Karim Tobich, UL Transaction Security, Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Day Two – 14^th December 2017

The second day of the Workshop began with Cache Attacks: From Cloud to Mobile by Thomas Eisenbarth, University of Lubeck & Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States. The nest session was on How to Digitally construct and validate TRNG and PUF Primitives which are based on Physical Phenomenon? By Jean-Luc Danger, TelecomParisTech, University Paris-Saclay Scientific Advisor at Secure-IC, France. The workshop ended with a valedictory function where participants provided feedback of the workshop and tutorials conducted and the workshop summary was presented by Natasha D’Souza e Jaques to the delegates.

Day Three – 15^th December 2017

The Conference SPACE 2017 commenced with the Inauguration at the hands of Chairman, Goa Public Service Commission, Shri Jose Manuel Noronha and in the presence of Fr. Kinley D’Cruz, Director, Don Bosco College of Engineering & Honorary  General Chair; Dr.  Neena Panandikar, Principal, Don Bosco College of Engineering & General Chair; Steering Committee – Sanjay Burman & Debdeep Mukhopadhyay; Program Chair – Prof. Jean-Luc Danger, Professor, Institut Mines-Telecom/Telecom Paristech, France; Prof. Sk Subidh Ali, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India & Prof. Thomas Eisenbarth, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States; Prof. Roseline Fernandes, Organizing Chair, Don Bosco College of Engineering; Keynote Speakers, distinguished Guests from Academia and Industry; Delegates; and Staff of DBCE. While speaking on the occasion Shri Jose Noronha said there is a need to take technology at the door step of poorest of the poor people by involving them in technology transformation. A balance is required in the way which we leave, consume and project ourselves. Fr. Kinley D’Cruz and Shri Debdeep Mukhopadhyay also spoke on the occasion. Dr. Neena Panandikar welcomed the gathering while Prof. Roseline Fernandes proposed the vote of thanks.

58 delegates participated in the workshop, while 81 delegates – 61 Indian and 20 foreign delegates from US, UK, Singapore, Australia, Belgium, UAE, Ethiopia and France took part in the conference. The conference included 14 papers and seven invited talks and four tutorials delivered by world-renowned researchers Asaf Ashkenazi, Shivam Bhasin, Jean-Luc Danger, Thomas Eisenbarth, Harry Halpin, Mike Hamburg, Gary Kenworthy, Victor Lomne, Axel Poschmann, KarimTobich, Ingrid Verbauwhede, and Yuval Yaron.

After the inaugural function, the conference commenced with the First Keynote Speaker Shivam Bhasin, Nanyang Technical University Singapore on On the (in)Security of ChaCha20 against Physical Attacks , An Industrial Outlook on Challenges of Hardware Security in Digital Economy    . The papers presented on this day are – eSPF: A Family of Format-Preserving Encryption Algorithms using MDS Matrices by Donghoon Chang, IIT Delhi, India; Mohona Ghosh, IIITDM, India; Arpan Jati, IIIT Delhi, India;  Abhishek Kumar, IIIT Delhi, India; Somitra Kumar Sanadhya, IIT Ropar, India & Short Integrated PKE+PEKS in Standard Model by Vishal Saraswat, R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, ISI Kolkata, India; Rajeev Anand Sahu, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

The Second Keynote Speaker Yuval Yarom, University of Adelaide, Australia spoke on May the Fourth Be With You: A Microarchitectural Side Channel Attack on Several Real-World Applications of Curve25519  . The following were the paper presentations made in the second half on day three are – Practical Fault Attacks on Minalpher: How to Recover Key with Minimum Faults?        By Avik Chakraborti, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; Nilanjan Datta, IIT Kharagpur, India; Mridul Nandi,Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; A Secure and Efficient Implementation of the Quotient Digital Signature Algorithm (qDSA) by Armando Faz-Hernández, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil; Hayato Fujii,Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil; Diego F. Aranha, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil; Julio López, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil; Analysis of Diagonal Constants in Salsa and Chacha by Bhagwan Bathe, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India;  Bharti Hariramani, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute India; A.K. Bhattacharjee, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute India; Kulgod S.V., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India.

Day Four – 16^th December 2017

The conference started with the Keynote Speaker Ingrid Verbauwhede, K.U.Leuven, Belgium on Hardware Enabled Cryptography: Physically Unclonable Functions and Random Numbers as Roots of Trust.

The papers presented were Variable-Length Bit Mapping and Error Correcting Codes for Higher-Order Alphabet PUFs by Vincent Immler, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Germany; Matthias Hiller, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Germany; Qinzhi Liu, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Andreas Lenz, Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Antonia Wachter-Zeh,Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Differential Fault Attack on Grain v1, ACORN v3 and Lizard by Akhilesh Siddhanti, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India;  Santanu Sarkar, IIT Madras, Chennai, India;  Subhamoy Maitra, ISI Kolkata, India; Anupam Chattopadhyay, School of Computer Engineering, NTU, Singapore.

The next Keynote Speaker Asaf Ashkenazi, Rambus Cryptography Research, United States spoke on Keeping the IoT Secure: Preempting Cyber Attacks of Tomorrow.

The papers presented were Efficient software implementation of laddering algorithms over binary elliptic curves by Diego Aranha, University of Campinas, Brazil; Reza Azarderakhsh, Florida Atlantic University, United States; and Koray Karabina, Florida Atlantic University, United States; Efficient Implementation of Private License Plate Matching Protocols   by Harshul Vaishnav, DA-IICT, Gujarat, India; Smriti Sharma,  DA-IICT, Gujarat, India;  Anish Mathuria,  DA-IICT, Gujarat, India & Mutual Friend Attack Prevention in Social Network Data Publishing by Kamalkumar Macwan, PhD Scholar, SVNIT, Surat, India Sankita Patel, Asst Professor, SVNIT, Surat, India.

A press conference was organized for the press to update them on SPACE 2017.  Banquet Dinner was hosted for the delegates, speakers, organizers at Hotel Metropole.

Day Five – 17^th December 2017

The final day of the Conference started with the Keynote Speaker Michael Hamburg, Researcher, Rambus Cryptograhy Research, United States who spoke on Parameter Choices for LWE.

Harry Halpin, Research Scientist, Inria, United Kingdom gave a talk on The Crisis of Standardizing DRM:  The Case of W3C Encrypted Media Extensions.

The paper presented were Tackling the Time-Defence: An Instruction Count Based Micro-architectural Side-channel Attack on Block Ciphers by Manaar Alam, IIT Kharagpur, India; Sarani Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur, India; Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur, India.

The last Keynote Speaker for the Conference was Axel Y. Poschmann, DarkMatter, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates who delivered a talk on IoT Insecurity – Innovation and Incentives in Industry.

The final presentations were on Certain observations on ACORN v3 and the implications to TMDTO Attacks by Akhilesh Anilkumar Siddhanti, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India; Subhamoy Maitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; Nishant Sinha, IIT Roorkee, India & Hey Doc, Is This Normal?: Exploring Android Permissions in the Post Marshmallow Era by Efthimios Alepis, University of Piraeus, Greece; Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece.

The conference ended with a valedictory function where Prof. Sk Subidh Ali gave his feedback and appreciated the Organizing Committee for the smooth and impeccable organization of the conference. The Conference report was delivered by Gaurang Patkar. Appreciation Letters were awarded to the Organizing Committee by Rev. Fr. Kinley D’Cruz for their time, effort and valuable support.