OPTIMIST
OPTIMIST is a forum for open, reproducible, and community-driven work in implementation security. We aim to make security evaluation more measurable, reusable, and comparable by gathering researchers, practitioners, tool developers, dataset creators, evaluators, and standardization stakeholders in a single forum.
We organize various activities to network people around the topic of open-source implementation security testing. The OPTIMIST HOUR is a one-hour online meetings around a focused topic. The OPTIMIST WORKSHOP is organized yearly as a co-located event with CHES. Recently, we also started an OPTIMIST PHD Forum to bring new researchers into the field.
3rd OPTIMIST Workshop co-located with CHES 2026!
The 3rd OPTIMIST workshop will be co-located with CHES 2026! The OPTIMIST workshop a forum to present and discuss new efforts that enable open and reproducible research in implementation security testing.
📅 Workshop date: October 11, 2026🌍 Location: Antalya, Turkey
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