You are invited to attend a welcome reception on Sunday evening, March 29, 2026, and the social event on Monday evening, March 30, 2026.

Sunday, March 29

18:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception in Regensburg's Old Town'.

Social Program

CASCADE Technical Program

The conference takes place in Vielberth Gebäude, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg. All talks will be in room H24.

Monday, March 30

09:30 - 10:15

Registration / Coffee

10:15 - 10:30

Opening / Welcome

10:30 - 11:45

Session 1:SCA Methodology

Session chair:
  • Emilie Deprez (UCLouvain, Belgium), Charles Momin (Belgian National Security Authority (BE-NSA), UCLouvain, Belgium), Francois-Xavier Standaert (UCLouvain) Simulatable Leakage, Revisited
  • Nathan Rousselot (Thales and LIRMM), Karine Heydemann (Thales), Loïc Masure (LIRMM), Vincent Migairou (Thales) and Rémi Strullu (ANSSI) Is it Really Broken? The Failure of DL-SCA Scoring Metrics under Non-Uniform Priors
  • Seyedmohammad Nouraniboosjin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Fatemeh Ganji (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Too Hot To Be True: Temperature Calibration for Higher Confidence in NN-assisted Side-channel Analysis
11:45 - 12:15

Industrial Session

Session chair:
12:15 - 14:15

Lunch

14:15 - 15:15

Invited talk 1:

Roel Maes

Session chair:
15:15 - ...

Coffee Break

17:00 - ...

Social event and conference dinner

Social Program

Tuesday, March 31

08:30 - 9:00

Coffee & Snacks

9:00 - 10:40

Session 2: Fault injection

Session chair:
  • Guillaume BLANC (EURECOM), Abdellah BOUAGOUN (Qualcomm Technologies), Mosabbah Mushir AHMED (Qualcomm Technologies), Alieeldin MADY (Qualcomm Technologies) Deterministic Secret Seed : Practical Fault Injection on Kyber's Implementations
  • Axel Guichaoua (IDEMIA StarChip, Meyreuil, France and Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Samuel Lesne (IDEMIA StarChip, Meyreuil, France), Jean-Baptiste Rigaud (Mines Saint-Etienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F - 13541 Gardanne France), Jean Max Duterte (EMSE, France) Assessing BBICS Efficiency in Monitoring Triple-Well Logic and Picosecond LFI
  • Souhayl BEN EL HAJ SOULAMI (Valeo, Université Rennes I), Yann CONNAN (Secure-IC), Sylvain DUQUESNE (Université Rennes I) Full Secret Key Recovery of First-order Masked Crystals-Kyber implementation using multiple distinct chosen-ciphertexts
  • Vladimir Sarde (Idemia, UVSQ), Nicolas Debande (Idemia) Differential Fault Attacks on MQOM - Breaking the Heart of Multivariate Evaluation
  • Gwenn Le Gonidec (UMR 6285, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne-Sud), Guillaume Bouffard (National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI), Paris, France), Jean-Christophe Prévotet (UnivRennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR-UMR 6164, Rennes, France), Maria Méndez Real (UMR 6285, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne-Sud) A Lightweight Embedded Detection System against Voltage Drop Fault Attacks in Multi-Tenant FPGAs
10:40 - 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:50

Session 3: SCA

Session chair:
  • Souhayl BEN EL HAJ SOULAMI (Valeo, Université Rennes I), Yann CONNAN (Secure-IC), Sylvain DUQUESNE (Université Rennes I) Full Secret Key Recovery of First-order Masked Crystals-Kyber implementation using multiple distinct chosen-ciphertexts
  • George Attia (Barkhausen Institut), Martin Schmid(University of Passau), and Elif Bilge Kavun (Barkhausen Institut and Dresden University of Technology) A Multi-head CNN-based Side-channel Attack on the Energy-efficient DIZY Stream Cipher
  • Edgard Nicéas Arcoverde Gusmão Lima (CESAR School), Fábio Wlademir Monteiro Maia (CESAR School), Tiago Alessandro Espínola Ferreira (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco), and Danilo Monteiro Ribeiro (CESAR School) A SLR of Modern AI-Driven SCA on NIST's PQC Standards
  • Thomas Marquet (GEMESYS), Elisabeth Oswald (University of Klagenfurt) Embedding belief propagation within a multi-task learning model : An example on Kyber's NTT
12:50 - 14:50

Lunch

14:50 - 15:50

Invited talk 1:

Elisabeth Oswald

Session chair:
15:50 - 16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 - 18:00

Session 4: Processor architecture And micro-architecture

Session chair:
  • Côme Allart (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France and Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Kévin Guilloux (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), Jean-Roch Coulon (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), André Sintzoff (Thales DIS, Meyreuil, France), Olivier Potin (Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France), Jean-Baptiste Rigaud (Mines Saint-Étienne, CEA, Leti, Centre CMP, F-13541 Gardanne, France) Leveraging a Superscalar CVA6 to implement NTT instructions for Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • Mahreen Khan (Telecom Paris), Renaud Pacalet (Telecom Paris), Maria Mushtaq (Télécom Paris), Ludovic Apvrille (Télécom Paris) Cross-Core Covert Channel for RISC-V: Implementation, Countermeasures and Cross-Platform Analysis
  • Christian Niesler (University of Duisburg-Essen), Christian Scholz (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen) MPUsh: Applying Security Hotpatches Instead Of MPU Barriers
  • Christian Niesler (University of Duisburg-Essen), Christian Scholz (University of Duisburg-Essen), Nils Hannappel (University of Duisburg-Essen), Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen) Co-Guard: Guarding Safety-Critical Embedded Devices in Emergencies

Wednesday, April 1

08:30 - 9:00

Coffee & Snacks

9:00 - 10:15

Session 5: PUFs & Fuzzing

Session chair:
  • Niklas Stein (Technical University of Munich (TUM)), Michael Pehl (Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Learning PUFs from Unsigned Stability: A Warning on Tolerable Leakage
  • Neelam Nasir (Telecom Paris), Wei Cheng (NJUST, China; LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France), Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris), Ulrich Kühne (Télécom Paris), Tarik Graba (Télécom Paris) Virtual PUF: Built-in Model for Highly Reliable and Secure PUF
  • Ulysse Vincenti (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38054 Grenoble, France), Thomas Hiscock (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38054 Grenoble, France), David Hely (Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, LCIS, F-26000 Valence, France) DuskFuzz: Encoding Side-Channel Information to Improve Blackbox Fuzzing
10:15 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45

Invited talk 1:

Dominic Rizzo

Session chair:
11:45 - 13:00

Session 6: Masking

Session chair:
  • François Gérard (None), Morgane Guerreau (PQShield) High-Order and Cortex-M4 First-Order Implementations of Masked FrodoKEM
  • Guilhèm Assael (STMicroelectronics) and Gilles Van Assche (STMicroelectronics) Masked compression for ML-KEM
  • Barbara Gigerl (Graz University of Technology), Florian Mendel (Infineon Technologies), Martin Schläffer (Infineon Technologies), and Robert Primas (Intel) Efficient Second-Order Masked Software Implementations of Ascon in Theory and Practice
13:00 - 13:10

Closing remarks

13:10-...

Lunch

Platin

Gold

Silver