Physical-Layer Security

Dear students of PLS'24,

I finished grading the exam, and made the grades visible on CMS now. In particular, I entered points for each of the five topics of the exam, so you have some information on where you gained/lost points. I also uploaded a solution for the final in the material collection.

Please let me know via mail (by replying to the notification mail to tippenhauer@cispa.de) until Wednesday 12pm if you would like to inspect your final. I will then send you a scanned copy Wednesday evening.

Regards,

Nils

Hi all,

For everyone that registered for the final on LSF, I used CMS to assign you seats. You should be able to see them here on CMS, I will also announce/display them before the exam starts. As announced previously, the  exam is scheduled for August 27, 10am in the lecture hall in C0 where we had the lectures.

See you then,

Nils

Hi all,

If you still plan to do the optional lab part of ex 4, please just contact us directly at gleb.rostanin@cispa.de or tippenhauer@cispa.de

Gleb will be available in the lab in the following slots: Monday: 10:30 - 17:30, Tuesday: 9:30 - 13:30. I might be there for additional slots.

Nils

Edit Simeon: I will be there Tuesday afternoon, so the whole Tuesday (until ~17:30) should be covered.

Hi everyone,

exercise 2 is now graded and you should see points/feedback on your profile. Exercise 4 is now online, as well as a solution to exercise 2.

A few general notes: As stated in the tasks, please submit your text in pdf, no other formats like docx. If you are to submit code changes, scripts or similar things, submit the file or the diff (in case you modified existing things). Please avoid pasting multiple screenshots of your code. Also remember to read the exercises carefully and provide the expected files.

Simeon

Hi everyone,
we received some questions about solutions and hints for task 2 as it helps with solving task 3. While we do not have a full sample solution (yet), we created a document that contains the relevant information to jumpstart your task 3 progress. You can find it here. We hope this helps and will provide a full sample solution as soon as possible.

Simeon

Dear students,

We released exercise 2 yesterday. This time, there will be an optional in-person part in my lab. Please use the following sheet to coordinate timeslots for that:
https://dl.cispa.de/s/qr3EZX3sQ82GDzW

The in-person exercise parts will run on shared hardware and will all be located in room 3.10, building E 9.1. We will try our best to keep them open between 9:30 and 17:00, Mon-Fri, but we cannot give any guarantees that this will always be the case. If there are any issues, post your question in the askbot.

• These exercises will all provide bonus points (6 in total), thus you are able to score 40/40 without them.
• It is not possible to score more than 40 total points on the exercises.
• Follow the instructions closely. There will be exercises that involve sound, and not following the instructions closely may lead to loud, high-pitch noises.
• Start working early. Only one team at a time can work on this hardware. Allocation is based on a first-come-first-serve principle.
• Be hygienic. Do not change the provided setup unless explicitly instructed. If you do, restore it to the original setup once you leave.
• Be nice. Please try to keep your time at the setup to a minimum to allow everyone a chance at the practical exercises

I hope you enjoy the exercises,

Nils

Dear students, we updated the instruction sheet for exercise 1. In particular, we fixed the submission date to May 14 as discussed in class. We also added a note on alternative architectures (i.e. M1). If you happen to use that one, please check out Maximilian's suggestions in Askbot. Please raise other issues there as well if you have any.

Regards, Nils

Dear students in PLS'24,

we will start with the first lecture this Friday at 14.15 (sharp). Lecture location is the lecture hall at CISPA (E9.1 on campus, Stuhlsatzenhaus 5). I will generally also livestream to zoom (link in material collection). As this will be the first lecture, I'll introduce the lecture format and planned content for this year, and will also check with you on preferred content from your side. I plan to record lectures in this class and to put them on Youtube afterwards, but please be aware that those recordings are not guaranteed as they may fail due to various technical issues. Please make sure to attend the lecture!

I also activated the askbot extension, please feel free to use it to ask questions that a) could be answered by other students, or b) can be answered by me and might be of interest for other students.

Hope to see you all on Friday,
Nils