Submission Guidelines

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published
elsewhere or that has been  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 the bibliography and
appendices) and must be formatted following the instructions in the provided template.

FDTC also encourages the submission of short papers which will also be subject
to peer review; however, the intention is to encourage authors to introduce work in progress,
novel applications, and corporate/industrial experiences. Short papers will be evaluated
with a focus on novelty and potential for sparking the interest of the participants
and future research avenues. Short paper submissions are limited to 6 pages formatted
following the instructions in the provided template. The paper title for short papers
must include the text "Short Paper:". Accepted submissions will be included
in the conference proceedings. 

The submission of final papers will be managed directly by Conference Publishing Services
(CPS). CPS will contact the authors with instructions and will send links for uploading
the manuscripts.

Accepted papers will be published in an archival proceedings volume by CPS and will be
distributed at the time of the workshop.

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. Additional submission instructions
and further information on the FDTC workshop series can be found at:

   http://fdtc-workshop.eu

List of Topics

- Fault injection setups and praxis:
  - novel and improved mechanisms for fault injection, e.g., by 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, 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 (2026):Important dates (2026):

Submission deadline: June 30

Notification of final acceptance: Aug. 21

Final version (camera-ready): Aug. 31

Workshop: Oct. 11

Committees

Program Chairs

      Robert Buhren                    AMD & technische Univeritaet Berlin, DE
      Shahin Tajik                     Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA

Program Committee (preliminary)

      TBD

Organizing committee

      Michael Tunstall                 Google, US
      Luca Breveglieri                 Politecnico di Milano, IT
      Israel Koren                     University of Massachusetts, US
      Fabrizio De Santis               Siemens, DE

Publication

FDTC 2026 proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services

Venue

The conference will be held in Antalya, Turkey, in onsite mode, on Sun, 11 October 2026

Contact

Michael Tunstall - Google - mtunstall@google.com  -  see also: www.fdtc-workshop.eu