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
4 papers at EuroS&P accepted!
Members of our group got 4 papers accepted at the 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (EuroS&P). We…
Publications in 2016
The group managed to achieve the following publications in 2016: 5 papers at ACM CCS 5 papers at Usenix 2…
Michael Backes admitted into acatech
We are happy and honored to announce the admission of Michael Backes into the German Academy of Science and Engineering…
Teaching (current term)
Secure Compilation
- Seminar
- Dr. Marco Patrignani
- CISPA, Campus E9 1, Room 2.22
Recent Publications All Publications
Identifying Personal DNA Methylation Profiles by Genotype Inference
Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
, 2017
Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs
38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P '17)
, 2017
Stack Overflow Considered Harmful? The Impact of Copy&Paste on Android Application Security
38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P '17)
, 2017