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Missed our conference this year?
No problem! All uASC'26 paper presentations and talks are available on Youtube. 🥳
The annual uASC conference serves as a premier forum for advancing our understanding of the security of microarchitectures. Each year, uASC brings together international experts from academia and industry, to present and discuss novel research in this area.
The 2nd Microarchitecture Security Conference in full swing. Thank you for joining us today at KU Leuven!
Coming up: Poster session & the social event afterwards!
Auch dieses Jahr wird die langjährige Kooperation der NooK-Orga mit Freifunk Lübeck und dem IT-Service-Center der Uni Lübeck fortgesetzt. Das WLAN auf der Veranstaltung wird wieder ein Freifunk sein, das über die Infrastruktur der Universität realisiert wird. Dieses Jahr gibt es aber noch ein weiteres, spezielles Freifunk-Event!
Just back from RAID 2025 (International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses) on the Gold Coast! 🇦🇺
I had the opportunity to present our paper, Zebrafix: Mitigating Memory-Centric Side-Channel Leakage via Interleaving (with @janw and Thomas Eisenbarth). Leakages from ciphertext side-channels or silent store suppression can leak secrets even from constant-time code. We show how Zebrafix stops this by adding freshness to memory writes through interleaving 🦓
It was a great conference, filled with inspiring keynotes and talks. I've also come away with many wonderful new connections. A definite highlight was the social event at Sea World! Networking alongside dolphins, seals, and rollercoasters is certainly a unique experience 🐬🎢
Big thanks to the organizers and everyone involved!
Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.
Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
This is an unfortunate development as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control.
Please make your voices heard! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontrolle-noch-haelt-sich-widerstand/
400 scientists speak out against chat control
Researchers from 33 European countries protests against mass surveillance on end devices. They warn that it is of little use and endangers everyone's safety.
Had a great time at the 1st uASC (Microarchitecture Security Conference) last week. I also had the opportunity to give a talk on software-based mitigations against memory-centric side-channels, and I appreciate the insightful questions and feedback. The discussions and presentations were really inspiring, and it was valuable to exchange ideas with so many brilliant researchers.
A big thank you to the organizers for putting together such a well-run event! Looking forward to the next edition 😊
📷: Jonas Juffinger
Das Programm der NooK 2024 ist online. Wie auch letztes Jahr findet sich darin eine bunte Mischung aus Technik und Gesellschaft, Forschung und Praxis, Geschichte und Vision. Wir freuen uns auf eine tolle NooK und ihr könnt euch jetzt als Helfer*in eintragen!
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