SPACE 2024: Fourteenth International Conference on
Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering
December 14-17, 2024, Kerala / Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, India

14^th December, 2024

Time

Event

8.30 am -9.00 am

Welcome and Registration

9.00 am -9.30 am

Welcome address, inaugural speech, felicitations, and a vote of thanks

9.30 am-11 am

Tutorial 1: New Era of Faults: Attacks, Tools and Countermeasures

Workshop on FPGA based Hardware Accelerator for Elliptic Curve and Lattice Based Cryptography

Speaker: Sayandeep Saha, IIT Bombay

Speaker: Debapriya Basu Roy, IIT Kanpur

11 am-11.30 am

Tea Break

11.30 am-1 pm

Tutorial 2: Energy-Efficient ASIC Design for Cryptographic Hardware Acceleration

Workshop on FPGA based Hardware Accelerator for Elliptic Curve and Lattice Based Cryptography

Speaker: Utsav Banerjee, IISC Bangalore

Speaker: Debapriya Basu Roy, IIT Kanpur

1 pm-2 pm 

Lunch

2 pm-3.30 pm

Tutorial 3: A Brief History of ORAMs: From Theory to Practice 

Speaker: Adithya Vadapalli, IIT Kanpur

3.30 pm-4 pm

Tea Break

4 pm-5.30 pm 

Tutorial 4: Securing the Heart of Hardware: A Tutorial on Design-Time Security Closure for Integrated Circuits

Speaker: Johann Knechtel, NYU, Abu Dhabi

15^th December, 2024

Time

Event

8.30 am -9 am

Registration

9 am-9.30 am 

Conference Opening Session

9.30 am-10.30 am

Keynote 1:Online Testing Entropy and Entropy Tests with a Two State Markov Model

Speaker:David Johnston, ex INTEL

10.30 am-10.45 am

Tea Break

10.45 am-12.45 pm

Paper Session 1: ML Security

10.45-11.15

ML based Improved Differential Distinguisher with High Accuracy: Application to GIFT-128 and ASCON 

Authors: Tarun Yadav and Manoj Kumar (Defence Research and Development

Organisation, India) 

11.15-11.45

DLShield: A Defense Approach against Dirty Label Attacks in Heterogeneous Federated Learning 

Authors: Sameera K M, Abhinav M, Amal P. P., Abhiram T Babu, Abishek Raj K, Amal Tomichen, Anaina P, Vinod P, Rafidha Rehiman K. A. and Mauro Conti (Cochin University of Science and Technology,India; University of Padua, Italy)

11.45-12.15

Benchmarking Backdoor Attacks on Graph Convolution Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Analysis of Poisoning Techniques

Authors: Rupesh Raj Karn and Ozgur Sinanoglu (New York University Abu Dhabi)

12.15-12.30

BlockDoor: Blocking Backdoor Based Watermarks in Deep Neural Networks 

Authors: Yi Hao Puah, Anh Tu Ngo, Nandish Chattopadhyay and Anupam Chattopadhyay (NTU Singapore)

12.30-12.45

Adversarial Malware Detection 

Authors:Ashish Vishwakarma, Umesh Kashyap and Sk Subidh Ali (IIT Bhilai)

12.45 pm-2 pm 

Lunch

2 pm-3 pm

Keynote 2: TBD

Speaker: Ulrich Rührmair, TU Berlin and University of Connecticut

3 pm-3.15 pm

Tea Break

3.15 pm- 5 pm 

Paper Session 2: Homomorphic Encryption and Side Channel Attack

3.15-3.45

Privacy-Preserving Graph-Based Machine Learning with Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Collaborative Anti-Money Laundering 

Authors: Fabrianne Effendi and Anupam Chattopadhyay (NTU Singapore) 

3.45-4.15

"There's always another counter": Detecting Micro-Architectural Attacks in a Probabilistically Interleaved Malicious/Benign Setting 

Authors: Upasana Mandal, Rupali Kalundia, Nimish Mishra, Shubhi Shukla, Sarani Bhattacharya and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur)

4.15-4.30

Transferability of Evasion Attacks Against FHE Encrypted Inference     

Authors: Reeshav Chowdhury, Aman Kumar, Vaibhav Mohite and Ayantika Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur)

4.30-4.45

Security Analysis of ASCON Cipher under Persistent Faults 

Authors: Madhurima Das and Bodhisatwa Mazumdar (IIT Indore)

4.45-5 

SideLink: Exposing NVLink to Covert- and Side-Channel Attacks 

Authors: Issa Baddour, Dip Sankar Banerjee and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya     (IIT Jodhpur)

7 p.m.

Gala Dinner and Cultural Event

16^th December, 2024

Time

Event

9.30 am-10.30 am

Keynote 3: Physical Assurance for Advanced Packaging

Speaker: Navid Asadi, University of Florida

10.30 am-10.45 am

Tea Break

10.45 am-12.45 pm

Paper Session 3: Advanced Cryptographic Primitives and IoT Security

10.45-11.15

Post-Quantum Multi-Client Conjunctive Searchable Symmetric Encryption from Isogenies 

Authors: Sikhar Patranabis (IBM Research India)

11.15-11.45

Faster and more Energy-Efficient Equation Solvers over GF(2)

Authors: Subhadeep Banik and Francesco Regazzoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland; University of Amsterdam and Università della Svizzera italiana)   

11.45-12.15

Spatiotemporal Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT Networks 

Authors: Jonna Likith Sai, Souptik Majumder, Rohit Verma and Priyanka Bagade (IIT Kanpur)

12.15 pm-2 pm 

Lunch

2 pm- 3.20 pm 

          Lightening Talk on Extended Abstracts

2-2.10

Attacks and Countermeasures for Digital Microfluidic Biochips 

Authors: Navajit Singh Baban, Prithwish Basu Roy, Pauline John, Azhar Zam, Sukanta Bhattacharjee, Rafael Song, Ramesh Karri and Krishnendu Chakrabarty (New York University Abu Dhabi Division of Engineering; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; IIT Guwahati; Arizona State University,)

2.10-2.20

CoPrIME: Complete Process Isolation using Memory Encryption 

Authors: Saltanat Firdous, Asutosh Brahma, Arjun Menon and Chester Rebeiro (IIT Madras,; Incore Semiconductors)

2.20-2.30

High Speed High Assurance implementations of Multivariate Quadratic based Signatures

Authors: Samyuktha M, Pallavi Borkar and Chester Rebeiro (IIT Madras; SETS Chennai)

2.30-2.40

FPGA-Based Acceleration of Homomorphic Convolution with Plaintext Kernels

Authors: Rohith George Ninan and Kala S (IIIT Kottayam)

2.40 pm-3.20 pm

Poster Session and Tea Break 

FlashFuzz: A Format-Aware Fuzzing Framework for COTS Devices

OMR : A comprehensive platform and suite of tools for malware research and analysis

Faults in Neural Network Models  

3.20 pm -3.30 pm

Award Ceremony

3.30 pm onwards

Local Place Visit Arranged by IIIT Kottayam

17^th December, 2024

Time

Event

9.30 am-10.30 am

Keynote 4: TBD

Benedikt Gierlichs, KU Leuven

10.30 am-11 am

Tea Break

11.00 am-12.30 pm

Tutorial 5: TBD

Sarani Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur

12.30 pm-1 pm 

Industry Track: Vehere     

1 pm- 2 pm

Lunch

2 pm-3 pm

Industry Track: Nagaraju Kodalapura N (INTEL Corporation)

3 pm-3.30 pm

Tea Break 

3.30 pm-5 pm

Tutorial 6: Counterfeit IC Detection and Avoidance

Speaker: Domenic Forte, University of Florida

• Please note that all the extended abstracts will also be part of the poster session.