OPTIMIST

OPTIMIST Hours

The OPTIMIST Hour meetings are a place where citizens are able to discuss, share, and debate ideas to address standard APIs and interoperability issues for trace data formats of side-channel data and other real-time measurements of implementation security. These meetings are chaired by a member of the OPTIMIST Team and the primary discussion points are compiled and shared within the OPTIMIST OSE.

These meetings address three main points brought up during the previous OPTIMIST Hour meeting, including, trace format requirements, keywords, and common APIs. Over the course of three meetings, the goal is to produce documentation that compiles requirements, common keywords, and potential API solutions for trace data formats.

2nd OPTIMIST Workshop co-located with CHES 2025!

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting the 2nd OPTIMIST workshop! The OPTIMIST workshop is a forum to present and discuss new efforts that enable open and reproducible research in implementation security testing.

🚨 Tentative workshop program is now available!

Timeline

Acceleration of AI for Implementation Security Testing

✅April 17, 11 AM EDT (3PM GMT)

Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementation Security

✅March 27, 11 AM EDT (3PM GMT)

Capture Interface

✅January 23, 10 AM EST (3 PM GMT)

File Format for Traces

✅October 24, 11 AM EST (3 PM GMT)