FDTC 2025: Call for Papers

Introduction

The Twenty-second Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC 2025) will be held on September 14, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FDTC 2025 is an event affiliated with CHES 2025, following the IACR calendar of events in cryptology.

About FDTC

Fault injection is one of the most exploited means for extracting confidential information from embedded devices and for compromising their intended operation. Therefore, research on established as well as upcoming methodologies, and techniques for fault injection, architectures and design tools for the design of robust and protected cryptographic systems and embedded devices (both hardware and software), are essential. Fault injection case studies on popular categories of embedded devices like mobile phones, industrial control devices, hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies, security tokens, etc., are of high interest to improve the understanding of the implications on realistic applications. FDTC is the reference event in the field of fault injection appliances, fault attacks and countermeasures.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Fault injection setups and praxis:
  • novel and improved mechanisms for fault injection, e.g., using lasers, electromagnetic induction, or clock / power supply manipulation
  • practical issues in fault injection setups and validation results
  • practical limitations of attacks and implications for security
  • fault injection in emerging technologies, e.g., memristor, carbon nanotubes, etc.
• Case studies:
  • attacks on cryptographic implementations including post-quantum cryptography and lightweight cryptography
  • attacks on embedded devices like mobile phones, industrial control devices, hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies, security tokens, smartcards, TEEs, secure enclaves, etc.
  • attacks on machine learning architectures and validation of results
  • attacks on privacy-preserving technologies, e.g., homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation
  • attacks on remote targets, e.g., fpgas in the cloud
• Related highly-invasive attacks on device security:
  • setups and practical results from invasive attacks, such as photonic emission analysis, laser thermal imaging, laser-voltage imaging, etc.
  • practical issues, limitations and potential
• Countermeasures (detection, resistance and tolerance):
  • countermeasures for cryptographic implementations
  • countermeasures for firmware of embedded devices, e.g., for bootloaders
  • detection countermeasures, e.g., control flow integrity
  • HW/SW co-design countermeasures for CPU architectures
• Design tools for analysis of fault attacks and countermeasures:
  • early estimation of fault attack robustness
  • automatic applications of fault countermeasures
  • formal methods and techniques for the verification of fault resiliency

Important Dates (2025)

• Submission deadline: June 2
• EXTENDED SUBMISSION deadline: June 9
• Notification of final acceptance: July 19
• Final version deadline: August 2
• Workshop: September 14

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors published elsewhere or that was submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop.
• Submissions should be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments or obvious references.
• Papers should be up to 12 pages (including bibliography and appendices), and formatted according to the provided template.
• FDTC encourages the submission of short papers, which will also be subject to peer review. Authors are encouraged to introduce work in progress, novel applications and corporate/industrial experiences. Short paper submissions are limited to 6 pages, formatted as the regular ones, and their title must include the text "Short Paper:".
• Further submission instructions and information can be found at the official website: fdtc-workshop.eu

Publication

All accepted papers (regular and short) will be published in an archival proceedings volume by CPS and will be distributed at the time of the workshop.

Presentation Requirement

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in order to be included in the proceedings.

Special Issue

FDTC is announcing a special issue on "Fault-Aware Security Design of Current and Post-Quantum Computing Systems" in the Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA).

Program Chairs

• Alessandro Barenghi (Politecnico di Milano)
• Juliane Krämer (University of Regensburg)

Program Committee

• Elham Amini (Univ. of Aarhus)
• Diego Aranha (TU Berlin)
• Aydin Aysu (NC State University)
• Melissa Azouaoui (NXP)
• Josep Balasch (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
• Sven Bauer (Siemens AG)
• Davide Bellizia (Telsy)
• Shivam Bhasin (NTU)
• Sarani Bhattacharya (IIT Kharagpur)
• Guillaume Bouffard (ANSSI)
• Jakub Breier (Silicon Austria Labs)
• Ileana Buhan (Radboud University)
• Fabrizio De Santis (Siemens)
• Elena Dubrova (Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH))
• Jean-Max Dutertre (Ecole des Mines Saint-Etienne)
• Wieland Fischer (Infineon Technologies)
• Fatemeh Ganji (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• Christophe Giraud (IDEMIA)
• Osnat Keren (Bar-Ilan University)
• Victor Lomné (NinjaLab)
• Soundes Marzougui (STM)
• Mehran Mozaffari Kermani (Univ. of South Florida)
• David Oswald (Univ. of Birmingham)
• Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano)
• Stjepan Picek (Radboud University)
• Chester Rebeiro (IIT Madras)
• Francesco Regazzoni (Univ. Amsterdam & UNISI)
• Sayandeep Saha (IIT Bombay)
• Pascal Sasdrich (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Georg Sigl (Tech. Univ. Muenchen)
• Sergei Skorobogatov (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Marc Stötinger (RheinMain Univ. of App. Sci.)
• Takeshi Sugawara (Univ. of Electro-Communictions)
• Junko Takahashi (NTT)
• Rei Ueno (Kyoto University)
• Fan Zhang (Zhejiang University)

Related Events

• CHES 2025 (September 14-18, 2025)
• PROOFS 2025 (September 14, 2025)

Acknowledgments

FDTC 2025 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of its sponsors.