Trusted and Secure Computing Seminar

(Summer Term 2018)

CISPA / Saarland University

Overview

In this seminar, the participants will be introduced to essential concepts in the domain of secure, trusted, and trustworthy computing. The focus is particularly on hardware-based security architectures in different settings like server, network, cloud, or embedded device security. Examples for such hardware security primitives are Trusted Platform Modules, Intel SGX, or ARM TrustZone. The participants should be additionally enabled to discuss and evaluate state-of-the-art research solutions in this domain.

Logistics

Course structure and grading

The course is structured as a standard seminar. Every week, one or two students will present one or more papers on a single topic, which we will then discuss. Prior to this, all students are expected to read the papers carefully, prepare a list of discussion questions and write a short critical review of the papers. Grading will be based on presentations, reviews, criticality of discussions questions and general in-class participation. 

You can take the course without taking university credit.

Registration and pre-requisites

There are no formal pre-requisites beyond a basic knowledge of how computer systems work internally. Some of the seminar papers will talk about certain hardware configuration. But no formal background on hardware design is required. 

Places in the seminar are limited. If you wish to take the seminar without credit, just say so in your email. Non-credit participation is not subject to any cap.

Topics

List of Papers

You can find the list of papers here.

The final list of papers with presenters name and schedule will be available once the attendance and paper selection is completed after Kick-off  meeting.