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OPTIMIST Timeline​

  • 4 September 2024 - OPTIMIST Kickoff Workshop @CHES 2024

  • 24 October 2024 - File Format for Traces: Plenary Kickoff

    • Dev Mehta (WPI), Challenges with using open source SCL databases [Slides]
    • Marc Witteman (Riscure), Standard API for Trace Data Formats [Slides]
    • Vincent Immler (OSU), Efficient Trace Storage [Slides]
    • Aurelien Vasselle (eShard), Open API for Trace Data Format [Slides]

  • 14 November 2024 - File Format for Traces: Working Group Meeting 1 [Slides]

  • 5 December 2024 - File Format for Traces: Working Group Meeting 2 [Slides]

  • 19 December 2024 - File Format for Traces: Working Group Meeting 3 [Slides]

  • 23 January 2025 - Capture Interface: Plenary Kickoff

    • Jean-Pierre Thibault (NewAE), Capture Interfaces in Chipwhisperer Family [Slides]
    • Arpan Jati (NTU), EFFLUX-F2: A High-Performance Hardware Security Evaluation Board [Slides]

  • 6 February 2025 - Capture Interface: Working Group Meeting 1

  • 20 February 2025 - Capture Interface: Working Group Meeting 2

  • 6 March 2025 - Capture Interface: Working Group Meeting 3

  • 27 March 2025 - Testing PQC: Plenary Kickoff

    • Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Professor of Practice, Tampere University — How to do Dilithium TVLA (with Adams Bridge examples) [Slides]
    • Sujoy Sinha Roy, Associate Professor, TU Graz — Hardware Challenges in PQC [Slides]
    • Panasayya Yalla, Principal Security Analyst, Riscure Security Solutions / Keysight Technologies — TVLA on NTT transformations [Slides]

  • 10 April 2025 - Testing PQC: Working Group Meeting 1

  • 17 April 2025 - AI Acceleration: Plenary Kickoff

    • Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur — Side Channel and Fault Attack Testing of Cryptosystems in the view of Dr AI
    • Stjepan Picek, Associate Professor, Radboud University — Machine Learning-based Side-channel Analysis and Evaluation
    • Jakub Breier, Senior Cyber Security Manager, TTControl GmbH — AI-accelerated Implementation Testing: Research vs Practice

  • 18 April 2025 - OPTIMIST User Group Meeting @NEHWS 2025

  • 24 April 2025 - Testing PQC: Working Group Meeting 2

  • 1 May 2025 - AI Acceleration: Working Group Meeting 1

  • 8 May 2025 - Testing PQC: Working Group Meeting 3

  • 15 May 2025 - AI Acceleration: Working Group Meeting 2

  • 29 May 2025 - AI Acceleration: Working Group Meeting 3

  • 14 September 2025 - 2nd OPTIMIST Workshop @CHES 2025