IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) aims to facilitate the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. HOST highlights new results in the area of hardware security. Relevant research topics include architectures, design methods, circuits, and applications of secure hardware. HOST 2018 invites original contributions related to (but not limited to) the following:

• Hardware security primitives (Crypto, PUFs, RNGs)
• Hardware design techniques to facilitate software and/or system security
• Architecture support for security
• Side-channel analysis, attacks, and protection
• Hardware Trojan attacks, detection, and countermeasures
• Hardware security test and verification
• IoT, automotive, and cyber-physical system security
• FPGA and system-on-chip (SoC) security
• Supply chain risk mitigation (e.g., counterfeit detection & avoidance)
• Reverse engineering and hardware obfuscation
• Fault injection and mitigation
• Metrics, policies, assessment, and standards related to hardware security
• Hardware IP trust (watermarking, metering, trust verification)
• Trusted manufacturing including split manufacturing and 2.5/3D integration
• Hardware tampering attacks and protection
• Design and applications of emerging and nanoscale devices for security
• Sensor-enabled hardware security
• Machine learning for hardware security
• Hardware acceleration for security applications
• Applications of cyber deception in hardware security
• Privacy-preserving computing, secure function evaluation
• Architecture and hardware-enabled SoC, cyber, data center, etc. security