Description:

Top-tier security conferences (NDSS, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security) now require authors to publish research artifacts alongside their papers: source code, evaluation data, and reproducibility toolchains. We leverage these artifacts as starting points for bachelor projects. Students pick a recent publication, reproduce its results, understand its internals, and extend the system with new features or evaluations. This gives you hands-on experience with state-of-the-art security research, not textbook exercises, but real tools built by active researchers.

Important: This course is held entirely in English. The project report and oral presentation must be in English. We accept a maximum of 10 students.

How it works:

1. Join the kick-off meeting on Friday, 17.04. at 10:00 in SGW-009 (no pre-registration required).
2. We publish a curated list of artifacts from the above conferences on Moodle.
3. You select three artifacts from that list and submit them with a ranking preference.
4. We assign one artifact per student.
5. You read the paper, get the artifact running, and try to partially reproduce the results. Reach out to your supervisor if you need help. Then think about how to extend the artifact or advance the paper's concepts in a useful direction.
6. Meeting 2 (May/June): You present a summary of the paper, an overview of the artifact (implemented components, evaluation data, gaps), and your proposed extension.
7. You implement your project. Stay in regular contact with your supervisor for feedback.
8. Meeting 3 (end of July): Oral presentation and submission of the project report.

Remaining meeting dates will be fixed in April.