Program

Panel Discussion: Privacy Theme
Moderator: Dr. Sambuddho
Panelists:

• Mr. Apar Gupta, Founder and Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, India
• Dr. Mainak Mandal, IIT Kharagpur
• Dr. Abhishek Bichawat, IIT Gandhinagar
• Dr. Devashish Gosain, IIT Bombay

Invited Talk by Dr. Donghoon Chang, (NIST and Strativia, USA and IIIT-Delhi, India)
Title: Accordion Mode Development
Abstract: In 2023 and 2024, NIST held two workshops to discuss the development of an Accordion Mode based on a block cipher. NIST published a discussion draft for a proposal of requirements for an Accordion Mode. In this talk, I will first share the historical background to explain why NIST considers an Accordion mode, then review the previous two workshops, and finally, discuss the next steps moving forward.
Biography: Donghoon Chang received B.S. degree in mathematics from Korea University in 2001 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information security from Korea University in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He was a postdoc researcher in Columbia University, USA, from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was a guest researcher of NIST, USA. He was an assistant professor (June 2012-2016) and a tenured associate professor (2017- July 2024) and is an adjunct professor (August 2024 - present) of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India. From May 2019 to July 2021, he was a guest researcher of NIST, USA. Since August 2021, he has been working as a research scientist (NIST associate) at Strativia, USA. His research interests are cryptanalysis, provable security of cryptographic algorithms, and biometric security.

Keynote Session: Dr. Urbi Chatterjee, IIT Kanpur
Title: The Present and Future of Hardware Security for Embedded Systems
Abstract: In the past decade, the field of hardware security has grown into a major research topic, attracting intense interest from academics, industry, and governments alike. Currently, under the initiative of “Make-in-India”, a drive has been taken to develop, manufacture, and assemble semiconductor products made in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing. With the demand for electronic hardware expected to rise rapidly, India has the potential to become an electronic manufacturing hub. However, as with most emerging technologies, innovation is prioritized, and security is an afterthought in response to discovered vulnerabilities. In this talk, we are going to bridge this gap and highlight some key findings that can impact the security aspects of embedded systems. We will start with how a simple stethoscope can disassemble the instructions running on a simple Arduino board mounting ATmega328P microcontroller or a Raspberry Pi consisting of ARM processor using acoustic side-channel analysis (SCA). These devices are widely used in edge computing and industrial applications and, hence pose immense threats against acoustic SCA. Subsequently, we will delve into our contributions to timing SCA on network-on-chip architecture, which is coming up as an emerging network-based communications subsystem in Multiprocessor System-on-Chips. The talk will then shifts to approximate hardware circuits that are widely used now-a-days in ML/AI accelerators and show how digital Hardware Trojan Horses can exploit the probabilistic nature of approximate designs to reduce the end applications accuracy drastically. And finally, we will quickly discuss how the desperate attempts to make the delay-based physically unclonable functions (PUFs) using challenge-response Obfuscation can be dimished by intelligently crafting challenges to train the ML tools and build a soft model of the targeted PUF architecture.
Biography: Urbi Chatterjee is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. She received her MTech degree from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad in 2013 and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in 2020. She has also worked in the industry for one and half years. Her broad area of research is Hardware Security. She currently works on physically unclonable functions, security analysis of approximate computing hardware, timing side-channel attacks on network-on-chip architecture, and acoustic side-channel attacks.

Panel Discussion: Side-Channel Theme
Moderator: Dr. Ravi Anand
Panelists:

• Dr. Urbi Chatterjee, IIT Kanpur
• Dr. Chester Rebeiro, IIT Madras
• Col (Dr) Milan Patnaik, Co-Founder & CISO, Whizhack Technologies Pvt Ltd

Panel 1: Emerging Technologies and Vulnerable Populations: A Security by Design Approach
Panelists:

• Dr. Subi Chaturvedi, InMobi Group
• Samiran Gupta, ICANN
• Varun Sakhuja, Mastercard
• Prof. Sanjay Jha, UNSW Sydney

Moderator: Dr. Rajiv Jain, Intelligence Bureau, Government of India

Panel 2: Risk Mitigation in Digital Environments: Elevating User Grievance Redressal Mechanisms and Trust-Building in the Age of Emerging Technologies
Panelists:

• Mr. Bhajan Poonia, OLX India
• Dr. Rakesh Maheshwari, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India
• Sudhir Sharma, Google Singapore
• Dr. Aparajita Bhatt, National Law University, Delhi
• Mahima Kaul, Netflix

Moderator: Pradyot Chandra Haldar, President, Policy Perspectives Foundation

• CyberPeace Honours and Awards
• eRaksha Winners
• CyberPeace Corps Volunteers