1st Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC '25)

General Information

The annual µASC conference serves as a premier forum for advancing our understanding of the security of microarchitectures. Each year, µASC brings together international experts from academia and industry, to present and discuss novel research in this area. The conference proceedings of µASC are published by Ruhr University Bochum in an issue of the Proceedings of the Microarchitecture Security Conference. With a Gold Open Access status, all papers published in the proceedings are immediately and freely available on the day of the conference.

Topics of Interest

uASC solicits submissions of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on microarchitecture security (attacks and defenses). This includes explicitly, papers that provide interesting insights with security implications under limited threat models (e.g., an attack that would be interesting on a trusted-execution environment on platforms that do not have a trusted-execution environment) as well as reproduction studies that provide an independent understanding of prior attacks and defenses.

Papers will be judged on scientific rigor, insights, novelty, correctness, and clarity as well as the clear documentation of limitations. We expect all papers to provide enough details to enable reproducibility of the experimental results.

Submissions

Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices. Papers that do not follow this format may be rejected without review. All talks (with and without papers) are 20 minutes.

Submission Guidelines

uASC has a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations must be excluded from the paper. Furthermore, authors should avoid obvious self-references, and should cite their own previous work in third person, whenever necessary. Papers that are not properly anonymized risk being rejected without review.

Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to physically present the submitted work at the conference, for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit code appropriately anonymized, using, e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science/.

Papers can be submitted using https://uasc25.hotcrp.com/.

Ethical considerations

Submissions that describe experiments related to vulnerabilities in software or systems should discuss the steps taken to avoid negatively affecting any third-parties (e.g., in case of probing of network devices), and how the authors plan to responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the appropriate software or system vendors or owners before publication.

If you have any questions, please contact the program chairs at pc-chairs@uasc.org.

Venue: Ruhr University Bochum

uASC will be held in TBD on the Ruhr University Bochum campus. The conference location is directly located in TBD. You can take the subway ("U-Bahn") U35 to the station "Ruhr-Universität". From the station, it is a 5-10 minute walk to the conference building. Otherwise, you can find parking spaces for your car directly under the conference location (University Center/"Universität Mitte", parking space P9).