FCS 2023: Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security

9th July 2023 - Dubrovnik, Croatia -- co-located with CSF23

Contents

New Format: a Workshop-Mentoring Event

Computer security is an established field of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in the formal foundations of methods used in computer security. The first goal of the FCS 2023 workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of continued research in this area.
FCS 2023 also wants to provide young researchers with a place where to form long-term connections in the research community, and to access the perspectives of researchers from other institutions. Thus, the second goal of FCS 2023 is to address the mentoring needs of aspiring or junior researchers.

FCS 2023 will contain both paper presentations as well as mentoring sessions throughout the day.

Format

FCS 2023 will be an in-person event.

Mentoring details: TBD

Workshop Background, Aim, and Scope

FCS 2022 welcomes papers on all topics related to the formal underpinnings of security and privacy, and their applications. The scope of FCS 2022 includes, but is not limited to, formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications; formal definitions of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and network security; modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis; foundations of privacy; applications of formal techniques to practical security and privacy.

We are interested in new theoretical results, in exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, and in the development of security/privacy tools using formal techniques. Demonstrations of tools based on formal techniques are welcome, as long as the demonstrations can be carried out on a standard digital projector (i.e., without any specialized equipment). We solicit the submission of both mature work and work in progress.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Topics Goals
Automated reasoning techniques
Composition issues
Formal specification
Foundations of verification
Information flow analysis
Language-based security
Logic-based design
Program transformation
Security models
Static analysis
Statistical methods
Tools
Trust management		 for Access control & resource usage control
Authentication
Availability and denial of service
Blockchain & consensus protocols
Covert channels
Confidentiality
Integrity
Intrusion detection
Machine Learning
Malicious code
Mobile code
Mutual distrust
Privacy
Security policies
Security protocols

Important Dates & Submission Details

Event Date
Submission for Papers: May 11th 2023 (24:00 AoE)
Notification of Acceptance: June 9th 2023 (24:00 AoE)
Workshop: 9th July 2023 (24:00 AoE)
Submission Server

The submission server is here: TBD

Submission Kinds

FCS'23 welcomes two kinds of submissions:

  • long papers (at most 12vc pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices)
  • short papers (at most 2 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices)

FCS'23 will employ a light form of double-blind reviewing. Submitted papers must (a) omit any reference to the authors’ names or the names of their institutions, and (b) reference the authors’ own related work in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). The author information will be revealed to the reviewers after reviews are submitted. Please see the CSF conference site for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) that address many common concerns. When in doubt, contact the program chairs.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee listed below. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Short papers will receive as rigorous a review as long papers.

Papers may be formatted using a two-column proceedings style accepted by IEEE, ACM, or USENIX conferences. The first page should include the paper’s title, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so papers must be intelligible without them. Papers not adhering to the page limits may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Informal Proceedings

The workshop has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues (before, after or concurrently with FCS 2023). Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants, but this does not constitute an official proceedings.

Registration

Registration is done through the main CSF website. When you register, you will need to check the box for “FCS: Foundations of Computer Security” to register for the workshop.

Program

All times are in Central European Time (CET), which is GMT+1.

TBD

Program Committee

TBD

Contacts

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