| These are the proceedings of CHES 2004, the 6th Workshop on Cryptographic
Hardware and Embedded Systems. For the first time, the CHES Workshop was
sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
This year, the number of submissions reached a new record. One hundred
and twenty-five papers were submitted, of which 32 were selected for presentation.
Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least 3 members of the program
committee. We are very grateful to the program committee for their hard and
efficient work in assembling the program. We are also grateful to the 108 external
referees who helped in the review process in their area of expertise.
In addition to the submitted contributions, the program included three invited
talks, by Neil Gershenfeld (Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT) about “Physical
Information Security”, by Isaac Chuang (Medialab, MIT) about “Quantum
Cryptography”, and by Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research) about “Physical
Attacks”. It also included a rump session, chaired by Christof Paar, which
featured informal talks on recent results.
As in the previous years, the workshop focused on all aspects of cryptographic
hardware and embedded system security. We sincerely hope that the CHES
Workshop series will remain a premium forum for intellectual exchange in this
area.
This workshop would not have been possible without the involvement of
several persons. In addition to the program committee members and the external
referees, we would like to thank Christof Paar and Berk Sunar for their help on
local organization. Special thanks also go to Karsten Tellmann for maintaining
the Web pages and to Julien Brouchier for installing and running the submission
and reviewing softwares of K.U. Leuven. Last but not least, we would like to
thank all the authors who submitted papers, making the workshop possible, and
the authors of accepted papers for their cooperation. |
