On Monday, September 9, 2024, Dr. Stefan Lüders, Computer Security Officer & Head of Computer Security of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will visit the SECUSO research group. CERN is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. From 10.30 to 11.30 am, Dr. Lüders will give a talk about the different defense mechanisms that his team provides to protect CERN (and its infrastructure) from intrusions and attacks. Guests are welcome to join the talk in person or online.

The talk “What are secure elections?” is an accompanying event to the current exhibition “Digiloglounge N°3. But is it secure?”. Currently on display there is “The Ignorant Voting Machine”, which was developed by Felix Dörre with the Cryptography and Security working group. Michael Kirsten and Felix Dörre provide an insight into the background to the associated research projects and invite you to a discussion.

Fellows and members of KASTEL Security Research Labs support the Steering Committee and the Program Committee of the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024). Once a year, ARES transforms European cities into a center for knowledge exchange and puts the crucial aspects of reliability – availability, reliability and security – at the center of discussions. ARES 2024 will take place from July 30 to August 2 at the University of Vienna, Austria. Registration is open from May 3, 2024.

Thorsten Strufe (KIT/KASTEL) is co-organizing the SePAR workshop, the international workshop on Privacy and Security in Augmented (AR), Virtual (VR), and eXtended Realities (XR) on June 4th-7th in Perth, Australia. The workshop aims to raise awareness and advocate for novel solutions regarding security vulnerabilities and privacy risks of XR applications. It will be held in conjunction with the 25th IEEE, International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM).

Unveiling the Road Ahead – Quests and Quirks in Pursuit of Unanswered Security (Research) Questions

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The upcoming Community Congress is focusing on the compelling theme, “How the AI Revolution Is Transforming Cybersecurity and Privacy”. An exciting day program with presentations, panel discussion and an interactive poster session will round off the congress. Doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers can take part in the poster session, present their poster for the Best Poster Award and have the chance to win a prize of €1,000.

Next Thursday, February 29, 2024, we welcome Prof. Florian Schaub from Michigan University for a guest lecture in the SECUSO Research Seminar. Prof. Schaub will talk about “Human-centric Privacy Design and Engineering”.  The talk will be held in English and in a hybrid setting. Guests are, as always, very welcome!

Meet’n’Greet for students with KASTEL Researchers to learn more about Cryptography, Security and Privacy. 15:45-17:30

Join us for a festive coffee and a chat:
An opportunity to build connections across women in operations research
societies, identify common goals and grow together in achieving these  

At the Asiacrypt two papers of KASTEL SRL were accepted. “Practically Efficient Private Set Intersection From Trusted Hardware with Side-Channels” Felix Dörre, Jeremias Mechler, Jörn Müller-Quade   “Universally Composable Auditable Surveillance” Valerie Fetzer, Michael Klooß, Jörn Müller-Quade, Markus Raiber, Andy Rupp

Talk by Dr. Mohamed Maouche, INRIA/PRIVATICS (Lyon): In this talk, we examine the diverse array of privacy risks inherent in this data pipeline and present a range of proposed solutions. These solutions are presented through practical use cases, such as speech anonymization within Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems and decentralized collaborative filtering for recommender systems. Additionally, we delve into the distinctions between one-to-one anonymization techniques and synthetic data generation methods.  

Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Software: When developing web applications, the number one security rule is that the server should never trust anything it receives from clients. When developing peer-to-peer software, the equivalent rule is that a peer should never trust anything it receives from other peers. Unfortunately, many researchers working on peer-to-peer applications seem to have forgotten this rule. There have been efforts to build, for example, P2P equivalents of Google Docs, but they mostly assume trusted peers that correctly follow the protocol. A malicious peer can easily cause permanent inconsistencies in a document. This talk will introduce our work-in-progress research on making collaboration software robust against malicious (Byzantine) peers. Hint: there are no consensus algorithms and no blockchains involved! More Information.    

On Friday, July 28 the KIT faculty will traditionally say goodbye to all graduates of the bachelor’s and master’s programs in computer science, computer science teaching, business informatics, and information management as well as to the doctoral students.

On June 17, the KIT Open House will take place at the Campus North. Interested citizens will have the opportunity there to inform themselves about KASTEL SRL research in IT Security.

At the TRIANGEL Open Space at Kronenplatz, everything will revolve around the topic of Critical Infrastructure & Cyber Security on May 11, 2023. On this day, the regional cyber security community will come together to exchange ideas in person and to explore the entire range of topics. In addition, we will present our incubator StartUpSecure KASTEL. An exciting day program with presentations, panel discussion and an interactive poster session will round off the congress. The participants are yet to be announced.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is organizing the National Conference on IT Security Research 2023 from March 13 to 15, 2023. The conference’s main topic is “Strengthening the digitally networked society” and serves as a platform for exchange on the entire range of research in the field of IT security. Prof. Thorsten Strufe from KASTEL SRL will give a presentation on the international project PROPOLIS on March 15.

Prof. Dennis Hofheinz will talk about his personal perspective on cryptography at 4 pm.