Information Security & Cryptography Group
Welcome to the Information Security and Cryptography Group of Saarland University!
The group is headed by CISPA director
Prof. Dr. Michael Backes
and focuses on various aspects of IT security and privacy and ranges from the design, analysis, and verification of protocols and systems, mechanisms for protecting end-user privacy, and research on new attack vectors to universal solutions in software and network security.
The group is part of
CISPA – the German Research Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability
.
News
Michael Backes co-chairing ACM CCS 2018 Program Committee
Two Publications at IEEE EuroS&P 2018
4 papers at EuroS&P accepted!
Teaching (current term)
Secure Compilation
- Seminar
- Dr. Marco Patrignani
- CISPA, Campus E9 1, Room 2.22
Recent Publications All Publications
Short Text, Large Effect: Measuring the Impact of User Reviews on Android App Security & Privacy
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2019 , 2019
HideNoSeek: Camouflaging Malicious JavaScript in Benign ASTs
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019) , 2019
MBeacon: Privacy-Preserving Beacons for DNA Methylation Data
26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019) , 2019