31st Fast Software Encryption Conference

March 17-21, 2025

Rome, Italy

Rump Session

Call for Proposals

The FSE 2025 rump session will be great again! We solicit short and entertaining talks on any topic that is of interest to the FSE community. This includes groundbreaking results, results that don't break the ground, funny presentations, hilarious songs, and the like.

This year's rump session will again feature a quiz, and a prize for the winner.

To encourage you all to submit hilarious talks, there will be awards for the funniest talks, including:

Submission Guidelines

Time constraints: 1-4 minutes for serious talks, 1-6 minutes if very funny

Submission deadline: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 10:00:00 Rome time

Late submissions are allowed, but not guaranteed to be included. Nonetheless, you can update the PDF of your slides until 13:00:00 local time.

Format

Please submit your slides in PDF format. With your submission, you will need to include the following:

Detailed Instructions

A final reminder: do not play copyrighted music as part of your talks. Yes, we're serious. Yes, we know it's a bummer. Since the rump session is recorded and posted on YouTube, if you play copyrighted music, the IACR YouTube account is at risk of being shut down. Please don't put us at risk!

Rump Session Chairs

fse2025rump@iacr.org

Rump Session Program

  • 16.00 - 16.05: "Welcome to the Rump Session", Gregor Leander, Bart Mennink
  • 16.05 - 16.15: "Program Chair Report for FSE 2025", Kazuhiko Minematsu, Christoph Dobraunig
  • 16.15 - 16.20: "Spring School on Symmetric Cryptography", Christof Beierle, Gregor Leander, Shahram Rasoolzadeh
  • 16.20 - 16.25: "Singapore for FSE 2026", Shiyao Chen, Shichang Wang
  • 16.25 - 16.30: "The Best of Italy (or the worst)", Rocco Brunelli
  • 16.30 - 16.33: "A practical distinguisher on full-round Skyscraper", Antoine Bak
  • 16.33 - 16.36: "A Scrutiny of AES-based Applications", Tianyu Zhang
  • 16.36 - 16.40: "Run Roma amoR nuR", Clemence Bouvier

  • 16.40 - 17.10: Break

  • 17.10 - 17.11: "LightSEC 2025 - September 01-03, 2025, Istanbul, Turkiye", Cihangir Tezcan
  • 17.11 - 17.15: "MacaKey: Full-State Keyed Sponge Meets the Summation-Truncation Hybrid", Charlotte Lefevre, Mario Marhuenda Beltran
  • 17.15 - 17.18: "Low-Latency Encryption 2025", Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Thorben Moos
  • 17.18 - 17.24: "On the Practical (In-)Security of Lions", Florent Mazelet, Dounia M'foukh
  • 17.24 - 17.28: "Knowledge organization", Aleksei Udovenko
  • 17.28 - 17.33: "A New Fast Software Encryption Algorithm", Han Chen, Tao Huang, Phuong Pham, Shuang Wu
  • 17.33 - 17.38: "Integral Resistance with Key-Whitening and How This Talk is Linked to Italy", Yevhen Perehuda
  • 17.38 - 17.43: "Transactions On Symmetries", Aurelien Boeuf
  • 17.43 - 17.45: "The Internal Block Cipher of FRAST is Almost Affine", Antoine Bak, Shibam Ghosh, Leo Perrin
  • 17.45 - 17.48: "How to (not) teach cryptography in America", Ricardo Rodriguez Reveco

  • 17.48 - 18.20: Break

  • 18.20 - 18.23: "Generalized ChiChi: Two odds Chi in an even world", Enrico Piccione, Samuele Andreoli, Gregor Leander, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Lukas Stennes
  • 18.23 - 18.29: "Italy and food", Ginevra Giordani, Nicoletta Falcone, Tiziana Liberati
  • 18.29 - 18.35: "Porkcipher: New Directions in Craptology", Roberto Avanzi, Orr Dunkelman
  • 18.35 - 18.37: "WCC 2025 + 1", Yann Rotella
  • 18.37 - 18.43: "The Best Low-Latency Cipher Ever", Shahram Rasoolzadeh
  • 18.43 - 18.47: "Recent Standardization Activities for Symmetric-Key Schemes by NIST", Yu Sasaki
  • 18.47 - 18.52: "SoK: on the hardness of some FSE rump problems", Giulio Baudrini, Rachelle Chiara Boissierino
  • 18.52 - 18.54: "Corrigeandum - SoK : on the hardness of some FSE rump problems", Rachelle Chiara Boissierino, Giulio Baudrini
  • 18.54 - 18.59: "Ciphers, Art, Food and Animals", Emanuele Bellini
  • 18.59 - 19.04: "Rump Session Prize Ceremony", Gregor Leander, Bart Mennink