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IACR News item: 17 February 2020

Award Award
Starting with the CHES conference in 2020 the CHES Test-of-Time Award is given yearly. An award will be given in year X to honor a paper published at (T)CHES in years X-21 to X-19 which has had a lasting impact on the field with respect to academia and/or industry.

Nominations for the 2020 award (for papers published in 1999-2001) are welcomed by the selection committee. Deadline for nomination is May 3, 2020 23:59 AoE.

The proceedings of the relevant conferences can be found here:
CHES 1999
CHES 2000
CHES 2001

In order to nominate please send an email to the chair of selection committee with the following contents:
  1. email subject line: ches test of time award nomination
  2. mention: paper title and publication year
  3. provide short justification why the paper should receive the award by providing number of citations, describing influence in industry, etc. in a max. 2 pages document or text in the email body
More information about the CHES Test-of-Time award can be found here: https://ches.iacr.org/testoftime.shtml

The 2020 Selection Committee:
  • Benedikt Gierlichs (chair)
  • Helena Handschuh
  • Marc Joye
  • Christof Paar
  • Pankaj Rohatgi
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