Embedded Systems Security

Hi,

As you know, we give prizes to the best students in the course. It was a close call, and many of you could end up being the winner, you are all champions! and maybe in the next course, you will get it.

Winners are the following matriculation number (one seminar and one pro-seminar student):

The Prize:

1. An ARM development board from the sponsor of our course: Renesas Electronics.

2. A Black Hat EU 2024 registration voucher (around 2200 Euro value).

 

You can just drop by my office next week to receive your prize.

 

Cheers,

Ali

 

 

Hi,

The deadline for review submission is approaching for everyone (both seminar and proseminar students).

You must submit your review on time. You went through all the steps of the seminar and the heavy workload we had, and now this is the final step. So please do not ruin it for yourself.

Finish your reviews by tomorrow.

Also, note that because we had some drops from the initial registration of the seminar, there was no necessity to assign everybody two papers. Instead, everybody just got one paper to review.

It is also important that everybody attends the PC meeting on Wednesday this week as we discuss all the papers.

 

See you on Wednesday.

Cheers,

Ali

 

 

 

Hi,

To help Seminar students understand better how you should write a survey paper, I added two example survey papers together with reviewers' comments here:

https://cms.cispa.saarland/emsecsem_24/materials/index

Hopefully, this will help.

 

I would also like to add that you should not add your name to the survey paper when you submit it.

 

Cheers,

Ali

 

Hi Everybody,

I hope you are enjoying writing your survey paper!

I am writing you to kindly ask you to update your conflict list in the survey submission portal here:

https://cispa-emsec24.hotcrp.com/profile  (Section name: Collaborators and other affiliations)

For example, Nils, Eduard, and Robert might have conflicts of interest (as they always sit beside each other). If you have a friend in the class, then you do not want to review their paper.

Therefore, please update your conflict information in the hotcrp portal.

Additionally, before the reviewing period starts, please read the reviewing guidelines.

 

Cheers,

Ali

Hi,

As you know, only six topics were assigned to proseminar students. As a result, it is not necessary to submit your summary and questions for tomorrow. However, I strongly recommend that you read the fuzzing pro seminar paper and familiarize yourself with the topic of fuzzing embedded systems.

 

Additionally, tomorrow, we will take a different approach in the class. We want to discuss a proseminar paper that has less academic quality. You are not obliged to read the paper, but I still think it is not a bad idea to read it.

Paper name: Precise Instruction-Level Side Channel Profiling of Embedded Processors

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=1124894769683641869&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-06320-1_11

 

Also, we will not have a seminar presentation tomorrow. However, the seminar students should still read the paper and submit their questions for tomorrow. If there is any question, ask it in the forum and I'll answer it.

 

Cheers,

Ali

 

Hi Everybody,

I assigned topics for each one of you based on your preference. Unfortunately, not everyone got one of the three options they asked for.

 

You can observe your assigned topic here:

https://cms.cispa.saarland/emsecsem_24/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1

 

PS: If you were not assigned a topic, just write in the forum.

 

Cheers,

Ali