Research at KASTEL SRL

Research at KASTEL Security Research Labs is distinguished by its broad scope. Privacy and reliability aspects are naturally part of IT security; basic and applied research complement each other, and a comprehensive approach to IT security needs to look not just at the technical system, but also at its social environment as well as its human aspects.

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    554 Publications from 2021 to 2024

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    99 Papers at 36 Top Conferences 2021 to 2024

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    48 Awards from 2021 to 2024

Our research covers a broad spectrum of cybersecurity. It combines the view of different disciplines in order to adress not only technical aspects, but also human factors and the legal framework.

KASTEL Security Research Labs conduct interdisciplinary and application-oriented research. Therefore, we permanently maintain and expand numerous partnerships with industrial enterprises and research institutions. The resulting synergy effects flow into our research.

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    142 Academic Cooperations in 16 Countries

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    20 New Projects in 2023 and 2024

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    102 Cooperations with Companies

Publications

Sep 15, 2025
Legal Informatics

Towards Legal Knowledge Transfer Based on Software Architecture

Boltz, N.; Wagner, J.; Sterz, L.; Raabe, O.; Gerking, C.
2025. Software Architecture : 19th European Conference (ECSA 2025), Limassol, CY, September 15–19, 2025

Publication
Jun 23, 2025
Cryptography

Security Analysis of Forward Secure Log Sealing in Journald

Dörre, F.; Ottenhues, A.
2025. International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 27 S

Publication
Jun 23, 2025
Cryptography

Protection Against Subversion Corruptions via Reverse Firewalls in the Plain Universal Composability Framework

Ottenhues, A.; Müller-Quade, J.; Arnold, P.; Berndt, S.
2025. International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, München, 23rd-26th June 2025

Publication
Jun 17, 2025
Energy Systems Security

Enhancing Situational Awareness in Smart Grids through Event Correlation for ATT&CK Mapping

Canbolat Kaya, S.; Elbez, G.; Hagenmeyer, V.
2025. ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2025), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Publication
Jun 04, 2025
Decentralized Systems

To the Best of Knowledge and Belief: On Eventually Consistent Access Control

Jacob, F.; Hartenstein, H.
2025. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 107–118, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Publication
May 14, 2025
Trustworthy Internet Technologies

Automated Market Makers: Toward More Profitable Liquidity Provisioning Strategies

Drossos, T.; Kirste, D.; Kannengießer, N.; Sunyaev, A.
2025. SAC ’25: Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. Ed.: J. Hong, 358–365, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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