Joint Advances in Web Security Ben Stock, Cris Staicu, Giancarlo Pellegrino

Hi all,

after our news earlier today, students indicated they would feel more comfortable if we move to an online format. Because of this, from Monday, our meetings will move online. I have added the Zoom link to the topic assignment page.

I am sure that many of you were interested in continuing in-person, but as indicated we should all feel comfortable with this. We can revisit this decision if the situation changes dramatically for the better (which I, unfortunately, doubt).

Stay healthy & keep your spirits up!

 Ben (and the rest of the JAWS team)

Hi all,

after some discussion between the teaching staff, we would like to hear your opinion. Given that cases are increasing and there seems little stopping this, we are considering to move the seminar to an online-only format. Based on the feedback we received thus far, this would - from a purely technical point - not be an issue. And while we firmly believe the seminar is much more productive (and more fun) if we do it in-person, it nevertheless increases the exposure risk of everyone (albeit it's rather small with distance and masks on). It is up to everyone to assess if this risk is too high for them.

Hence, we would like to know if anyone does not feel comfortable to have meetings in-person at this stage. Please use the anonymous feedback feature from the CMS to tell us so. In that case, we would move to an online setting.

Thanks!

 Ben

Hi all,

before the start to the well-deserved weekend, let me quickly remind you that we will start at 10am *sharp* on Monday. Note that all questions/discussion items are due by Sunday night, 23:59. Also, if you want to test your equipment in the room, bring your device so you can test once we are done with the meeting.

Orthogonally, please also be sure to register in the LSF. The deadline is November 16, but please don't stretch it :-) Thus far, only five students have registered.

Just to quickly clarify: the "projector" we have at CISPA is a 16:9 TV screen, to which you can connect through HDMI or VGA. Make sure you have slides that fit that aspect ratio and also some output/adapter to connect to HDMI or VGA. You can test your setup also after the next meeting.

I have assigned the topics based on your preference and - since nobody wants to be first - a bid on notifications for everyone. The constraint solver has spoken, you can see the assigned topics at https://cms.cispa.saarland/jaws21/3/Topic_assignment.

Note that registration for the seminar should be open on LSF from now. You have to be registered by November 16.