uASC 2025 : 1st Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC '25)

Submissions are from December 1, 2024 until January 27, 2025
Notifications are sent out as early as possible - we will try to stay within 2 weeks after submission. All decisions and notifications will be concluded by February 10, 2025.

uASC solicits submissions of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on microarchitecture security (attacks and defenses). This includes explicitly, papers that provide interesting insights with security implications under limited threat models (e.g., an attack that would be interesting on a trusted-execution environment on platforms that do not have a trusted-execution environment) as well as reproduction studies that provide an independent understanding of prior attacks and defenses.

Papers will be judged on scientific rigor, insights, novelty, correctness, and clarity as well as the clear documentation of limitations. We expect all papers to provide enough details to enable reproducibility of the experimental results.

Posters

High quality posters enable discussion of recent research results, deep interactions with interested attendees, a peek into ongoing work, and presentation of new crazy ideas. uASC welcomes the submission of posters on preliminary findings, ongoing work, or recently published work. Posters will be presented in a forum where attendees can mingle and interact. Poster submissions contain an extended abstract of up to two pages in the µASC paper submission format along with a draft of the poster. If the poster refers to a published paper, it must be referenced. At the conference, we will provide posters stands. Attendees can bring their printed posters up to size A0.

Talks

High quality talks enable discussion of recent open problems from practice and theory, give a peek into ongoing work, or to discuss crazy ideas. uASC welcomes the submission of talks and invites talks to also submit an extended abstract of up to two pages, which will be included in the conference proceedings.
Submissions

Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices. Papers that do not follow this format may be rejected without review. All talks (with and without papers) are 20 minutes.
Submission Guidelines

uASC has a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations must be excluded from the paper. Furthermore, authors should avoid obvious self-references, and should cite their own previous work in third person, whenever necessary. Papers that are not properly anonymized risk being rejected without review.

Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to physically present the submitted work at the conference, for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit code appropriately anonymized, using, e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science/.

Papers can be submitted using https://uasc25.hotcrp.com/.