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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'>Bochum, December 23, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:RubFlama'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Christmas Greetings and a Review of the Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>At the end of a successful year, we're heading off for the Christmas break.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>The Christmas season starts soon. The HGI and CASA Head Office Team wishes a Merry Christmas to you and your family. May your life be filled with warmth and good cheer this holiday season and throughout the New Year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Political and social events turned 2022 into a special year in many ways. When it comes to cybersecurity research, we at HGI and CASA can also look back on several eventful months. Read our review of the year here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>NIST Competition, ERC Grants and other Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>It was probably one of the greatest successes in the history of IT Security research in Bochum that we celebrated in July when </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/future-proof-data-encryption"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the winners of the "Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization"</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> competition: HGI/CASA scientists Eike Kiltz, Peter Schwabe, Tanja Lange, and Dan Bernstein were involved in <b>three of the four final algorithms</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>News from the <b>European Research Council</b> provided more reasons to celebrate. In April, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/erc-advanced-grant-for-prof-dr-eike-kiltz"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Eike Kiltz received an ERC Advanced Grant</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> endowed with 2.5 million euros for five years. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news/casa/prof-konrad-rieck-receives-erc-consolidator-grant"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Konrad Rieck (TU Braunschweig/CASA PI)</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>and </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news/casa/erc-consolidator-grant-for-prof-thorsten-holz"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Thorsten Holz received a Consolidator Grant</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/great-success-lucas-davi-receives-erc-starting-grant"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Lucas Davi (Uni Duisburg-Essen/CASA PI)</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>and </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/surprising-symmetries-for-theoretical-computer-science"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Michael Walter</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>were awarded an ERC Starting Grant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Speaking of winners: this year's <b>German IT Security Award</b> was held at the Ruhr-Universität in November. The </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/hgi-team-wins-1st-place-in-the-9th-german-it-security-award"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>first prize went to HGI scientists David Knichel, Amir Moradi, Nicolai Müller, and Pascal Sasdrich</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>for their project "Simply secure: A toolbox for automated creation of protected hardware". They won 100,000 euros in prize money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Numerous papers from our research team also received awards: Konrad Rieck, Erwin Quiring and Alexander Warnecke (Et al.) received a <b>Distinguished Paper Award</b> for the paper </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22summer_arp.pdf"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Dos and Don'ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security</span></a>" </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>at the "Usenix Security Symposium". At the same conference, Tobias Scharnowski, Nils Bars, Moritz Schloegel, Thorsten Holz, and Ali Abbasi (Et al.) won a <b>Distinguished Artifact Award</b> for their paper </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/scharnowski"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Fuzzware: Using Precise MMIO Modeling for Effective Firmware Fuzzing".</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> Alena Naiakshina was awarded a <b>Distinguished Paper Award</b> at the "SOUPS - Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security" for the paper </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2022/presentation/geierhaas"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Let's Hash: Helping Developers with Password Security".</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>The paper </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/286.pdf"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Faster Addition and Doubling on Elliptic Curves"</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange got the <b>IACR Test-of-Time Award</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>New Research Projects and Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>A new research project launched in 2022 is </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/getting-it-security-out-of-the-nerdy-corner"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Digital Fitness for Citizens - Realistic Risk Perception, Safe Routines," or DigiFit</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> for short, coordinated by <b>Angela Sasse</b>. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for three years with around 2 million euros.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Great news reached Postdoc Pascal Sasdrich right before Christmas: The German Research Foundation funds him for an <b>Emmy Noether group</b>, which will start next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>The cybersecurity research team in Bochum is constantly growing. In 2022 we welcomed some new colleagues. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/michael-walter-joins-as-professor-of-quantum-information"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Michael Walter holds now the professorship for Quantum Information</span></a>, <a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/amir-moradi-protects-data-in-digitized-everyday-objects"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Amir Moradi came back from Cologne to Bochum as a professor for Implementation Security</span></a>. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>By December, <b>Karola Marky</b> joined us as a professor for "Digital Sovereignty". The news that <b>Thorsten Holz</b> joins the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security as tenured faculty is a great pity, but we look forward to the future collegial collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Events and Outreach</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>After the long Corona break, we especially enjoyed the events this year that could take place face-to-face again. A detailed report on the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news/casa/blockchain-in-the-sun-casa-summer-school-2022"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>CASA Summer School on Blockchain Security</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>and the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news/casa/casa-retreat-2022"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>CASA Retreat in Königswinter</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> can be found on our </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>news pages</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Some of our </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/news/distinguished-lectures"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>CASA Distinguished Lectures</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> also took place on-site at Ruhr-Universität again. The lectures of the high-ranking speakers can all be watched on our </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZnvwRvkztcAkuCDlmj35F2pV7oa96jl"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>Youtube channel</span></a>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>A special evening was the closing event of the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/outreach/art-science-residency"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>artist residency of the media artist Marco Barotti</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>, who presented his concept<b> APES</b>. His sound sculptures made of recycled Wi-Fi sector antennas were created in collaboration with our researchers in 2022. Many have also a lot of positive memories when it comes to the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/the-moeglichmacher-research-trip-makes-a-stop-in-bochum"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>visit of the Minister of Culture and Science, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>, as part of her research trip "#Möglichmacher".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>The first </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/outreach/science-comics"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>CASA comic</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> entitled <b>"What's the Fuzz About Hub C and the Missing Carrots?"</b> also offers another, artistic approach to learning more about the science at CASA. Those who prefer to listen rather than read may have enjoyed <b>Cube 5’s podcast</b> series, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://nachgehacktpodcast.podigee.io/"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Nachgehackt - the Podcast on IT Security."</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Last but not least, at the end of the year, we’re happily looking back on our series </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/equal-opportunities/women-in-it-security"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>"Women in IT Security",</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'> in which we presented fantastic female scientists from our institute month by month.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>Preview for the Coming Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>With all these memorable moments in mind, we’re now leaving our office for a winter break until 09.01.2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>New, joyful events will be coming up in 2023. On this occasion, we can already announce a few dates. On February 10, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://sechuman.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/newsarchiv/sechuman/sechuman-annual-symposium-2023"><span style='color:#8DAE10'> SecHuman invites you to the Annual Symposium</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>. A <b>farewell party</b> for Thorsten Holz is dated for March 9. On April 20, we will host the opening of the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#8DAE10'><a href="https://casa.rub.de/en/outreach/art-installation-dis/play"><span style='color:#8DAE10'>IT art project "DIS/PLAY"</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:RubFlama;color:#003560'>by <b>artist Ralf Baecker</b>. 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