[HGI-news-int] HGI Newsletter #06e

[English Newsletter of the Horst Goertz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

**HGI-Newsletter** http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/newsletter/n06e/

No 06e - May 2011
Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security
Ruhr-University Bochum
http://www.hgi.rub.de


Content
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* Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2011 for professor Thorsten Holz
* Tim Güneysu new professor at the HGI
* IT security events
* HGI well represented at Eurocrypt 2011
* More than 80 participants at SPRING and Kryptotag
* 4th job fair ITS.Connect 2011
* Amazon Web Services Research Grant
* Guests
* Workshops
* Program Committees
* Talks
* HGI Colloquium
* Publications


Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2011 for Professor Thorsten Holz
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Professor Thorsten Holz of the Horst Görtz Institute receives the 
renowned Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2011. This prize is being awarded 
annually by the German Research Association DFG and recognizes young 
scientists for their outstanding research. Professor Holz's work on 
security threads and developement of defence mechanisms combines 
original scientific research with broad expertise regarding technical 
details of malicious software and receives international acceptance. 
Further information can be found on 
http://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/pressemitteilung_nr_09/index.html 


Tim Güneysu new professor at the HGI
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Prof. Tim Güneysu became assistant professor in February 2011 and is now 
extending the expertise of the HGI with his Research Group “Secure 
Hardware”. His research covers the implementation of cryptographic 
systems on embedded and alternative platforms as well as the development 
of optimal computer systems for cryptoanalysis. He also focuses on 
security concepts for hardware based embedded systems like secure key 
memories and identification of components. For more information about 
his research activities, see 
http://www.emsec.rub.de/chair/_staff/tim_gueneysu/

IT security events
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- 27 May 2011 job fair ITS.Connect 2011
- 15 - 18 June 2011 CryptArchi Workshop
- 28 - 29 July 2011 Ecrypt II-MAYA Workshop
- October 2011 10 years of HGI

All events will take place in Bochum.

HGI well represented at Eurocrypt 2011
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Again, the Horst Görtz Institute shows strong presence at the largest 
conference on cryptography, Eurocrypt 2011. Out of a total of 30 
accepted papers 4 have been submitted by HGI members. Moreover, Prof. 
Eike Kiltz has - as in 2009 and 2010 - been awarded "Best Paper Award". 
The acceptance rate for papers was about 17% in the last few years. This 
year's Eurocrypt will take place on May 15-19 in Tallin (Estonia). 
Further information on the conference can be found on the following 
website: http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2011/accepted.php

More than 80 participants at SPRING and Kryptotag
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With more than 80 participants the joint workshops SPRING and Kryptotag 
have been a great success. SPRING aims at young academics working in the 
area of reactive IT security, whereas Kryptotag gathers people from 
cryptography. Both workshops took place on March 21-22. Abstracts of the 
talks, as well as slides and pictures of the event can be found at 
http://www1.hgi.rub.de/spring/Program.html and 
http://www1.hgi.rub.de/kryptotag/#programm. Both workshops have been 
organized by the HGI research groups LTS, EMMA and CITS:

4th job fair ITS.Connect 2011
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The job fair ITS.Connect offers great opportunities for graduates and 
students in IT security or similar subjects to get in contact with 
leading ITS companies. This year 22 companies present themselves at the 
fair and offer jobs, internships, and projects for theses. Furthermore 
there will be talks by alumni passing on their experience with starting 
a professional career. More information on http://www.hgi.rub.de/itsconnect/

Amazon Web Services Research Grant
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Within the framework of the "AWS (Amazon Web services) in Education 
Programme" which provides grants for teaching and research Dominik Birk 
from the Horst Görtz Institute has received an "AWS in Education 
Research Grant" for his work on "Cloud Computing Forensics". This grant 
enables him to take advantage of free usage credits to tap into the 
on-demand infrastructure of AWS and to use them for his research 
regarding the feasability of forensic investigations in the Amazon Cloud 
settings. The results will be of interest for clients of cloud services 
as well as for Amazon itself.

Guests
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**Antoine Joux und Anja Becker**, PRiSM - Cryptologie et Securite de 
l'Information - Universite Versailles (France), April 4 - 8, 2011


Workshops
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Members of the HGI are involved in organizing the following workshops

Tim Güneysu (General Chair):
**CryptArchi 2011**, 9th CryptArchi Workshop, June 15-18, 2011, Bochum
http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/cryptarchi/

Thorsten Holz (Program Chair):
**DIMVA 2011**, 8th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & 
Vulnerability Assessment, July 7-8, 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.cs.vu.nl/dimva2011/

Alexander May (General Chair):
ECRYPT Workshop **New Applications of New Computational Problems**, MAYA 
Working Group 1: Design and Analysis of Primitives and Protocols and 
MAYA Working Group 2: Cryptanalysis and Mathematical Foundations, July 
28-29, 2011, Bochum
http://www.cits.rub.de/conferences/maya2011.html


Program Committees
==================

Tim Güneysu:
**AHSA**, Architectures and Hardware for Security Applications, Special 
Session at 14th Euromicro Conference on System Design, Oulu, Finland, 
August 31 - September 2, 2011 http://dsmc2.eap.gr/dsd2011/

Thorsten Holz:
**ESORICS 2011**, 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer 
Security, Leuven, Belgium
**RAID 2011**, 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in 
Intrusion Detection**, Menlo Park, USA
**PST 2011**, 9th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust
**SecArt 2011**, 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Security (Security and 
Artificial Intelligence
**WOOT 2011**, USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, San Francisco, USA
**TRUST 2011**, 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy 
Computing, Pittsburgh, USA
**WEIS 2011**, 10th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 
George Mason University, USA
**DIMVA 2011**, 8th GI International Conference on Detection of 
Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, PC Chair, 
Amsterdam, Netherlands
**SecureComm 2011**, 7th International Conference on Security and 
Privacy in Communication Networks, London, UK

Alexander May:
**EUROCRYPT 2011**, 30th International Conference on the Theory and 
Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia, May 15 - 19, 
2011

Christof Paar:
**EUROCRYPT 2011**, 30th International Conference on the Theory and 
Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia, May 15 - 19, 
2011

Marcel Winandy:
**TRUST 2011**, 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy 
Computing, http://www.trust2011.org/
**SPattern 2011**,  5th International Workshop on Secure systems 
methodologies using Patterns,
http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48
**ACM IHI 2011**, 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics 
Symposium,
http://sites.google.com/site/web2011ihi/

Christopher Wolf:
**PQ Crypto 2011**, Post-Quantum Crypto, Taipei, Taiwan, November 29 - 
December 2, 2011,
http://pq.crypto.tw/pqc11/
**WEWoRC 2011**, Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology**, 
  Weimar, Germany, July 20 - 22, 2011, 
http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/mediensicherheit/weworc-2011/home.html


Talks
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Thorsten Holz: **The Underground Economy of Email Spam**, Northeastern 
University, March 2011

Thorsten Holz: **Towards Secure Systems**, Institute Eurecom, March 2011

Dominik Birk: **Technical Challenges of Forensic Investigations in Cloud 
Computing Environments - Workshop on Cryptography and Security in 
Clouds**, IBM Forum Switzerland, Zurich, March 2011

Dominik Birk: **Technische Herausforderungen der Cloud-Forensik - 
Anwendertag IT-Forensik 2011**, "Fraunhofer SIT/CASED, Darmstadt

Marcel Winandy: **MediTrust: Secure Client Systems for Healthcare IT to 
Protect Sensitive Data of Patients** - Med-e-Tel 2011, The International 
eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, Luxemburg, April 6 - 8, 2011



HGI Colloquium
==============

March 16, 2011 Selcuk Baktir / National Research Institute of 
Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), Turkey 	
**IC Trust through Fingerprinting**
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/archiv/ws-20102011/#ic-trust-through-fingerprinting 
	

March 29, 2011 Kevin Fu / University of Massachussetts, USA
**Trustworthy Medical Device Software**
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/archiv/ws-20102011/#trustworthy-medical-device-software

April 1, 2011 Sebastian Gajek / Tel-Aviv University, Israel 	
**Playing Games in UC**
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/archiv/ws-20102011/#playing-games-in-uc

April 7, 2011 Anja Becker / Université de Versailles, France
**Improved Generic Algorithms for Hard Knapsacks**
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/aktuelles/#improved-generic-algorithms-for-hard-knapsacks

April 7, 2011 Antoine Joux /Université de Versailles, France	
**Cover and Decomposition Index Calculus on Elliptic Curves made 
practical** 	
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/aktuelles/#cover-and-decomposition-index-calculus-on-elliptic-curves-made-practical

April 14, 2011 Mario Heiderich / Ruhr-Universität Bochum 	
**The Image that called me - Security impact of Scalable Vector Graphics 
on the WWW**
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/aktuelles/#the-image-that-called-me-security-impact-of-scalable-vector-graphics-on-the-www


Publications
============

Michael Becher, Felix C. Freiling, Johannes Hoffmann, Thorsten Holz, 
Sebastian Uellenbeck and Christopher Wolf:
**Mobile Security Catching Up? --- Revealing the nuts and bolts of the 
security of mobile devices**
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2011, Oakland

Alexandra Dmitrienko, Zecir Hadzic, Hans Löhr, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, 
Marcel Winandy:
**Securing the Access to Electronic Health Records on Mobile Phones**
Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies 2011 - Revised Selected 
Papers, Springer-Verlag, 2011

Mathias Herrmann:
**Improved Cryptanalysis of the Multi-Prime Phi-Hiding Assumption**
Africacrypt 2011, July 4-8, 2011, Dakar, Senegal

Brett Stone-Gross, Thorsten Holz, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna:
**The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster's Perspective of 
Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns**
4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 
2011)


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