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+title: "PriSC 2024: Call for Presentations"
+timestamp: "10/25/2023 15:39:33"
+deadline: "11/2/2023"
+---
+Short version: PriSC is a fun, welcoming and exciting venue. Share
+updates, ideas, thoughts or send students for a friendly gathering
+that may lead to future collaborations and ideas. Submit now!
+
+================================================
+Call for Presentations: PriSC 2024 @ POPL 2024
+================================================
+
+Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in
+security, programming languages, compilers, verification, systems,
+and hardware architectures in order to devise more secure compilation
+chains that eliminate many of today’s security vulnerabilities and
+that allow sound reasoning about security properties in the source
+language. For a concrete example, all modern languages provide a
+notion of structured control flow and an invoked procedure is
+expected to return to the right place. However, today’s compilation
+chains (compilers, linkers, loaders, runtime systems, hardware)
+cannot efficiently enforce this abstraction against linked low-level
+code, which can call and return to arbitrary instructions or smash
+the stack, blatantly violating the high-level abstraction. Other
+problems arise because today’s languages fail to specify security
+policies, such as data confidentiality, and the compilation chains
+thus fail to enforce them, especially against powerful side-channel
+attacks. The emerging secure compilation community aims to address
+such problems by identifying precise security goals and attacker
+models, designing more secure languages, devising efficient
+enforcement and mitigation mechanisms, and developing effective
+verification techniques for secure compilation chains.
+
+The goal of this workshop is to identify interesting research
+directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers
+interested in working on building secure compilation chains, on
+developing proof techniques and verification tools, and on designing
+software or hardware enforcement mechanisms for secure compilation.
+
+8th Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2024)
+=============================================================
+
+The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is an
+informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to bring
+together researchers interested in secure compilation and to identify
+interesting research directions and open challenges. The 8th edition
+of PriSC will be held on January 20, 2024 in London, United Kingdom
+together with the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming
+Languages (POPL) 2024.
+
+Important Dates
+===============
+
+* Thu 02 Nov 2023: Submission Deadline
+* Thu 07 Dec 2023: Acceptance Notification
+* Sat 20 Jan 2024: Workshop
+
+Presentation Proposals and Attending the Workshop
+=================================================
+
+Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an
+extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below) covering past,
+ongoing, or future work. Any topic that could be of interest to
+secure compilation is in scope. Secure compilation should be
+interpreted very broadly to include any work in security, programming
+languages, architecture, systems or their combination that can be
+leveraged to preserve security properties of programs when they are
+compiled or to eliminate low-level vulnerabilities. Presentations
+that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are
+also welcome. This includes presentations on new attack vectors such
+as microarchitectural side-channels, whose defenses could benefit
+from compiler techniques.
+
+Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
+
+* Attacker models for secure compiler chains.
+* Secure compiler properties: fully abstract compilation and similar
+properties, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preservation of
+safety, information flow and other (hyper-)properties against
+adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability.
+* Secure interaction between different programming languages: foreign
+function interfaces, gradual types, securely combining different
+memory management strategies.
+* Enforcement mechanisms and low-level security primitives: static
+checking, program verification, typed assembly languages, reference
+monitoring, program rewriting, software-based isolation/hiding
+techniques (SFI, crypto-based, randomization-based,
+OS/hypervisor-based), security-oriented architectural features such
+as Intel’s SGX, MPX and MPK, capability machines, side-channel
+defenses, object capabilities.
+* Experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilers.
+* Proof methods relevant to compilation: (bi)simulation, logical
+relations, game semantics, trace semantics, multi-language semantics,
+embedded interpreters.
+* Formal verification of secure compilation chains
+(protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked
+proofs, translation validation, property-based testing.
+
+Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts
+============================================
+
+Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2
+pages (references not included). They should be formatted in
+two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter
+sized paper. We recommend using the new acmart LaTeX style in sigplan
+mode.
+
+Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient
+detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the
+workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere.
+
+Contact and More Information
+============================
+
+You can find more information on the workshop website:
+https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/prisc-2024
+
+For questions please contact the workshop chairs, Marco Patrignani and
+Shweta Shinde.
+