CHES 2009, the 11th workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded
Systems, was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, September 6–9, 2009. The workshop
was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research
(IACR).
The workshop attracted a record number of 148 submissions from 29 countries,
of which the Program Committee selected 29 for publication in the workshop
proceedings, resulting in an acceptance rate of 19.6%, the lowest in the
history of CHES. The review process followed strict standards: each paper received
at least four reviews, and some as many as eight reviews.Members of the
Program Committee were restricted to co-authoring at most two submissions,
and their papers were evaluated by an extended number of reviewers.
The Program Committee included 53 members representing 20 countries and
five continents. These members were carefully selected to represent academia,
industry, and government, as well as to include world-class experts in various
research fields of interest to CHES. The Program Committee was supported
by 148 external reviewers. The total number of people contributing to the review
process, including Program Committee members, external reviewers, and
Program Co-chairs, exceeded 200.
The papers collected in this volume represent cutting-edge worldwide research
in the rapidly growing and evolving area of cryptographic engineering.
The submissions were sought in several general areas, including, but not limited
to, cryptographic hardware, cryptographic software, attacks against implementations
and countermeasures against these attacks, tools and methodologies of
cryptographic engineering, and applications and implementation environments
of cryptographic systems. Ten years after its first workshop, CHES is now very
firmly established as the premier international forum for presenting scientific
and technological advances in cryptographic engineering research, the event that
bridges the gap between theoretical advances and their practical application in
commercial products.