[Om-announce] 5th Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium (ROOTS 2021)

[Adrian Dabrowski]

Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium 2021 (ROOTS)
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https://www.roots-conference.org/cfp.html

Call for Papers
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The Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium, an academic
workshop, is again co-located with the DeepSec conference in its fifth
year. ROOTS solicits contributions that focus on theorems and root
shells: In security, two things you absolutely cannot argue with.

Security is hard to define. Most often, security is defined by its
absence. For scientists, this is particularly unsatisfactory. A lack of
definition increases the difficulty to find suitable quantitative and
qualitative models. It is an academic landscape that needs further
surveying. ROOTS explores how exploitation, reverse engineering, and
offensive techniques fit into and enrich that field, as well as
surveying the territory as a whole.

The first European symposium of its kind, ROOTS aims to provide an
industry-friendly academic platform to discuss trends in exploitation,
reversing, offensive techniques, and effective protections. Submissions
should provide novel attack forms, describe novel reversing techniques,
or effective deployable defenses. Submissions can also provide a
comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art, and pinpoint promising
areas that have not received appropriate attention in the past.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- New exploitation techniques and methodologies
- New reverse engineering techniques and methodologies
- The science of (in)security
- The role of exploitation in the science of security
- The role of reverse engineering in the science of security
- Novel approaches to security scalability, in the actual world or in
simulated environments (CTF)
- New unintended programming and execution models (“weird machines”)
wherein the program is encoded in data, metadata, descriptors, etc.
- Automated code analysis and semantic understanding
- Formal models of exploitation and formal methods for exploitation
- Systematization of knowledge in exploitation
- Systematization of knowledge in reverse engineering
- Exploitation of trending platforms and architectures: IoT, cloud,
SDNs, etc.
- Reverse engineering of trending platforms and architectures: embedded
systems, IoT, cloud, SDNs, etc.
- Exploitation perspectives on emerging trust models: SGX, enclaves,
blockchains, etc.


PC & Publisher
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Program Chairs: Adrian Dabrowski (University of California, Irvine),
René Pfeiffer (DeepSec)
General chair: Edgar Weippl (Universität Wien, SBA Research)

Program & Review Committee 2021
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Patroklos Argyroudis (CENSUS S.A.)
Jean-Philippe Aumasson (Kudelski Security, Switzerland)
Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College)
Martina Lindorfer (University of Technology, Vienna)
Georg Merzdovnik (SBA Research)
Marius Muench (VU Amsterdam)
Sebastian Neuner (Google LLC)
Marcus Niemietz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Konrad Rieck (TU Braunschweig)
Sebastian Schinzel (Münster University of Applied Sciences)
Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
Alexios Voulimeneas (KU Leuven)
Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano)


Publication
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Similar to 2017-2020, proceedings will be published via ACM's Digital
Library. See http://authors.acm.org/main.html for details about the
author's rights.

Submission instructions
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Submissions to ROOTS are not limited in page count, but their length
should be commensurate with the results. We expect that 5--10 pages of
two-column PDF using the sigconf template should be sufficient. We
encourage submissions of papers based on results previously presented at
industry or hacker conferences, so long as the papers themselves have
not been presented or published elsewhere. We also encourage
Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) submissions.
Papers should be submitted through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=roots2021.

Submissions should be anonymous and direct references to the author
should be blinded or written as a 3rd person reference, where possible.
Additionally, submissions should not contain endorsements of specific
products or vendors.

Important dates
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Submission deadline: August 20 (anywhere in the world)
Author notification: October 1
Camera-ready papers due: October 22
Workshop and DeepSec: November 18/19

Travel cost reimbursement
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Authors will be expected to present their papers at ROOTS. ROOTS
(co-located with DEEPSEC) will follow the industry conference practice
of reimbursing presenters for lodgings at the conference hotel (limited
to two nights) and up to EUR 800 of other travel expenses.