CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment
Design (SEED)
Worldwide Virtual Event, September 20-21, 2021
Web: https://seed-symposium.org
Contact: seed21chairs@gmail.com

The IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution
Environment Design (SEED) is a forum which brings together researchers
from the computer architecture and computer security communities into
one venue that focuses on the design of architectural and system
primitives which provide secure and private execution environments for
applications, containers, or virtual machines.

SEED primarily focuses on research topics spanning across the boundaries
of computer architecture, systems, and security. Papers are solicited on
a range of topics, including (but not limited to):
Architecture, operating systems, and programming models and language for
supporting secure and private execution
Novel Designs for secure and private execution environments for GPUs,
accelerators, and FPGAs
Architectural support for new security primitives
Novel cryptographic hardware designs for secure and private execution
Models and analysis of performance-security trade-offs in the design of
a secure execution environment
Evaluation of security vulnerabilities in post-Moore’s Law
technologies, e.g. persistent memory, quantum computing
Demonstration and mitigation of architectural side channels, covert
channels and other security vulnerabilities
Metrics for measuring architecture-related security vulnerabilities
Compiler and code generation techniques for mitigating
architecture-induced side and covert channels and other vulnerabilities

PAPER TYPES

SEED will accept one of four types of papers: (1) regular papers of 11
pages, (2) SoK papers of 11 pages, (3) Seeds of SEED papers of 6 pages,
or (4) WiP paper of 6 pages. The primary focus of the regular papers
should be to describe new research ideas overlapping computer
architecture/systems and security, supported by experimental
implementation and evaluation of the proposed research ideas.
Systemization of Knowledge (SoK) papers are also welcome and should be
submitted as regular papers. The primary focus of "Seeds of SEED" should
be to describe the promising designs, initial development, and
preliminary evaluation of new ideas critical to the security of future
architecture/systems. Contributions from industry, that bring awareness
to a new security problem and/or lay vision for sound
architecture/systems security principles, are especially encouraged for
Seeds of SEED papers. Additionally, we accept Work-in-Progress (WiP)
papers that should describe novel secure systems designs supported by
experiments. For papers accepted under WiP category, the authors will
make a presentation and include the title and a brief abstract on the
conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Deadline: May 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM AoE
Full Paper Deadline: June 4, 2021 at 11:59 PM AoE
Rebuttal Period: TBD
Author Notification: July 31, 2021
Camera-ready Submission: August 15, 2021
Conference Dates: September 20-21, 2021

ORGANIZATION

General Chairs: Jakub Szefer (Yale Univ.) and Yan Solihin (Univ. of
Central Florida)
Program Chairs: Guru Venkataramani (George Washington Univ.) and Yinqian
Zhang (SUSTech)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Todd Austin (U. of Michigan)
David Kaeli (Northeastern U.)
Ruby Lee (Princeton)
Milos Prvulovic (Ga. Tech)
Deborah Shands (SRI)
Yan Solihin - Chair (U. of Central Florida)
Guru Venkataramani (GWU)