LangSec 2016 - Third Workshop on Language Theoretic Security

The Third Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) at the IEEE CS Security & Privacy Workshops solicits contributions related to the growing area of language-theoretic security.
LangSec offers a coherent explanation for the "science of insecurity" and imposes an easy-to-understand structure on the seemingly ad hoc collection of software mistakes or design flaws. This explanation is predicated on the connection between fundamental computability principles and the continued recurrence of software flaws despite numerous and diverse secure programming initiatives.
LangSec posits that the only path to trustworthy software that safely handles untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language and treating the respective input-handling routines as a recognizer for that language.
However, far from being an "Ivory Tower" theory, the LangSec approach to systems design is primarily concerned with achieving practical assurance: development that is rooted in fundamentally sound theory, but is expressed in efficient and practical tools for building software. One major objective of the workshop is to develop and share this viewpoint with attendees and the broader systems security community, to help establish a foundation for research based on LangSec principles.
The overall goal of the workshop is to bring more clarity and focus to two complementary areas: (1) practical software assurance and (2) vulnerability analysis (identification, characterization, and exploit development). The LangSec community views these activities as related and highly structured engineering disciplines and seeks to provide a forum to explore and develop this relationship.
Program Committee:
TBD
Organizing Committee:
Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College)
Daniel 'TQ' Hirsch (P3KI GmbH)
Felix 'FX' Lindner, (Recurity Labs / Phenoelit)
Michael E. Locasto (University of Calgary)
Meredith L. Patterson (Nuance Communications / Upstanding Hackers, Inc.)
Anna Shubina (Dartmouth College)
Julien Vanegue (Bloomberg)