International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice (IV)

There will be four focus areas:

• Real-life cryptography
• Standardization
• Regulatory requirements
• Innovative use cases for cryptography

Each focus area will be anchored in an invited talk and/or panel, but the emphasis will be on discussion. The participants will address broad research directions in encryption and secure computation and their applications in cloud computing, smart grid, mobile and embedded computing, hardware, software, and network security. They will also examine non-technical issues surrounding deployment and adoption of new security technologies using encryption, such as privacy or economic consideration. Approaches and projects in different countries will be discussed, in order to increase awareness of the R&D activities internationally and continue to for a strong community of research and practice and in order to generate new ideas in this field.

Although the workshop will cover a broad spectrum of issues from the list presented below with a specific focus that will be announced shortly. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following subjects:

• Secret versus public ciphers
• Cipher and algorithm development process
• Algorithms maturity and review
• Lightweight cryptography
• New requirements for cryptography for novel applications
• Cipher implementation and interoperability
• Standardization
• Regulatory initiatives
• Privacy enhancing cryptography