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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the First Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security 2017 (ASHES 2017), a post-conference satellite workshop of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2017 (CCS 2017) in Dallas!

ASHES deals with all aspects of hardware security, and welcomes any contributions to this area. Besides being a forum for mainstream hardware security research, its mission is to specifically foster new concepts, solutions, and methodological approaches, and to promote new application scenarios, within the field. This includes, for example, new attack vectors on secure hardware, the merger of nanotechnology and hardware security, novel designs and materials, lightweight security hardware, and physical unclonable functions (PUFs) on the methodological side, as well as the internet of things, automotive security, smart homes, supply chain security, pervasive and wearable computing on the applications side. ASHES thereby aims at giving researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others on various new and emerging aspects of hardware security.

In order to account for the nature of hardware security as a rapidly developing discipline, ASHES offers four categories of submissions and papers:

• Full papers

• Short papers

• Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers, which structure or survey a certain subarea within hardware security

• Wild and Crazy (WaC) papers, whose aim is to distribute a promising and potentially seminal research idea at an early stage to the community.

Our call for papers attracted overall 20 submissions from Australia (1), Asia (2), Canada (1), Europe (6), India (1), and the United States (9) within these four categories.

Six submissions were accepted as papers to the program, amounting to an acceptance rate of exactly 30%. Out of these six accepted papers, two originate from Europe, and four from the United States.

In terms of their scientific topics,

• two of the six accepted papers deal with solutions in hardware security;

• one each falls into the above SoK- and WaC-paper categories;

• and two others deal with attacks on security hardware.

This establishes a nice balance between the different themes and paper categories offered by the workshop.

The six technical papers are complemented by three carefully chosen keynotes from leading experts in their respective areas, to which we would particularly draw the attendees' attention.

In alphabetical order:

• Srini Devadas (MIT) will talk about "Secure Hardware and Cryptography: Contrasts, Synergies and Challenges"

• Ulfar Erlingsson (Google) will deal with "Data-driven Software Security and its Hardware Support"

• Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Darmstadt) will discuss "Hardware-Assisted Security: Promises, Pitfalls and Opportunities"