SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA’s paper “On the Usability of Authenticity Checks for Hardware Security Tokens” by Katharina Pfeffer, Alexandra Mai, Adrian Dabrowski, Matthias Gusenbauer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl, Michael… Read More
Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) will present our new paper at NDSS 2021 this year! RandRunner: Distributed Randomness from Trapdoor VDFs with Strong Uniqueness. Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, and Markus Hittmeir (SBA Research); Nicholas Stifter (SBA Research, TU Wien); Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Universität Wien) Abstract: Generating randomness collectively has been… Read More
SBA Research is happy to announce that our Qualification Network training program on Secure Software Development has been granted by the FFG. Beyond Coding – Software-Entwicklung der Zukunft – focuses on two key competencies of software developers of the future (i) mastering the complexity… Read More
Made for the makers! The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions. Addressed areas will cover application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As an… Read More
3 years of collaboration within the IoT4CPS project is coming to an end: 16 consortium partners (including SBA Research) nearly 100 project team members involved45+ deliverables achieved (+30 public documents)7 white papers written, 6 posters illustrated… Read More
SBA Research and the Austrian Institute of Technology hosted the workshop “Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastructures” during the CODE annual conference 2020 with around 60 participants. Resilience was specifically discussed in the context of hyperconnected software systems and what challenges and opportunities we face… Read More
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The FFG project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts – focused on research addressing the emerging requirements for supporting the whole lifecycle of smart contract infrastructures that are based on distributed ledger technology. At the time this project started in 2017, many of the characteristics and security guarantees of blockchain technologies… Read More
The bilateral KIRAS project SmartIdentification – Confident Identification by using Mobile Remote Devices – focused on the use of existing data on smartphones to analyse trends in human trafficking routes and to identify individuals, especially unaccompanied minors. Starting in 2017, in the aftermath of the European migrant crisis 2015/2016,… Read More
The 6th Euro S&P edition will be hosted by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna on September 7-11, 2021 at the University Center Althanstraße. Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy,… Read More