[Caml-list] EXTENDED DEADLINE: Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW '14)

[Caml-list] EXTENDED DEADLINE: Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW '14)

[Todd McDonald]

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Please, find below the extended call for papers for PPREW 2014.

Apologies for any duplicates you may receive.

 

Best regards,

Todd McDonald, 

PPREW 2014 co-chair

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS 

Extended Submission Deadline: 8 November

3rd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW
2014)
Collocated with Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2014)
The US Grant, San Diego, CA
January 25, 2014
 <http://www.pprew.org> http://www.pprew.org

Important Dates: 
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Paper Submission:  November 8, 2013
Author Notification: December 1, 2013
Camera Ready: December 20, 2013

Workshop Aims: 
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Program protection and reverse engineering are dualisms of good and evil.
Beneficial uses of reverse engineering abound: malicious software needs to
be analyzed and understood in order to prevent their spread and to assess
their functional footprint; owners of intellectual property (IP) at times
need to recover lost or unmaintained designs. Conversely, malicious reverse
engineering allows illegal copying and subversion and designers can employ
obfuscation and tamper-proofing on IP to target various attack vectors. In
this sense, protecting IP and protecting malware from detection and analysis
is a double-edged sword: depending on the context, the same techniques are
either beneficial or harmful. Likewise, tools that deobfuscate malware in
good contexts become analysis methods that support reverse engineering for
illegal activity. 
PPREW invites papers on practical and theoretical approaches for program
protection and reverse engineering used in beneficial contexts, focusing on
analysis/deobfuscation of malicious code and methods/tools that hinder
reverse engineering. Ongoing work with preliminary results, theoretical
approaches, tool-based methods, and empirical studies on various methods are
all appropriate. Studies on either hardware/circuit based methods or
software/assembly based mechanisms are within scope of the workshop. We
expect the workshop to provide exchange of ideas and support for cooperative
relationships among researchers in industry and academia. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following.

- Obfuscation / Deobfuscation
- Tamper-proofing / Hardware-based protection
- Theoretical proofs for exploitation or protection
- Software watermarking / Digital fingerprinting
- Reverse engineering tools and techniques
- Side channel analysis and vulnerability mitigation
- Program / circuit slicing
- Information hiding and discovery
- Theoretical analysis frameworks:
  o Abstract Interpretation
  o Term Rewriting Systems
  o Machine Learning
  o Large Scale Boolean Matching
- Component / Functional Identification
- Program understanding
- Source code (static/dynamic) analysis techniques

Submission Guidelines: 
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Original, unpublished manuscripts of up to 12-pages including figures and
references must follow the ACM proceedings format. SIGPLAN conference paper
templates are available for LaTeX and Word at
<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author>
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author (use the 9 pt template). Submissions
must be in PDF. See workshop website ( <http://www.pprew.org>
http://www.pprew.org) for more details. 
 
Submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Re-publication Policy and the
ACM Policy on Plagiarism. Concurrent submissions to other conferences,
workshops, journals, or similar forums of publication are not allowed.
Submissions that do not meet these guidelines may not be considered.

All accepted papers will appear in formal proceedings published in the ACM
Digital Library
 
Workshop Steering Committee:
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Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy 

J. Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, USA

Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, USA
Roberto Giocabazzi, University of Verona, Italy

Program Committee:
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Jack Davidson, University of Virginia, USA 

Saumya Debray, University of Arizona, USA
Jean-Yves Marion, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Nancy (INPL),
France
Sylvain Guilley, TELECOM-ParisTech, France
Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Mathias Payer, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Andy King, University of Kent, UK
Stacy Prowell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Guillaume Bonfante, Loria, France

 


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