The paper “Accurate and Composable Noise Estimates for CKKS with Application to Exact HE Computation” was published in IACR Communications in Cryptology. The authors are Jean‑Philippe Bossuat, Anamaria Costache, Christian Mouchet, Lea Nürnberger and Juan Ramón Troncoso‑Pastoriza. This publication, developed within the PRIVIDEMA project, advances precise and composable noise estimation techniques for CKKS, enabling more reliable exact homomorphic computations.

The paper “Radio over Fiber with Cascaded Structure: Algorithm for Uplink Positioning” was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. The authors are Dexin Kong, Diana Pamela Moya Osorio & Erik G. Larsson.

The paper “Distributed Deployment and Dual-Frequency Concepts to Strenghten Sub-THz Wireless Systems” was was published in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. The authors are Liesbet Van der Perre, Gilles Callebaut, Thomas Eriksson, Muris Sarajlic, Christian Fager, Fredrik Tufvesson, Buon Kiong Lau & Erik G. Larsson.

The ORSHIN Demonstrator platform showcases secure device development, focusing on secure inter- and intra-device communication, as proposed in the ORSHIN project. This document provides a high-level overview of the demonstrator, while detailed documentation is provided in the demonstrator repository.

This document represents the user guide needed to setup and test the intra- and inter-devices communication prototypes.

This document conducts an examination of current protocols used to secure intra-device communication, including standard, proprietary, and literature-based approaches.

In this deliverable we present the creation of BlueBrothers: three new inter-device communication protocols providing essential and beyond-essential S&P guarantees.

This deliverable presents the prototype results.

In this report we present two concepts of hardware acceleration for SW security testing, one for accelerating simulation of fault injection on Software pre-silicon and the other to support Logical Software testing such as Fuzzing or Symbolic execution.

This deliverable reports on results on countermeasures against side-channel attacks.

This deliverable describes hardware implementations of cryptographic building blocks, such as the PRINCE and AES S-boxes, with formally verifiable protection against physical side-channel attacks.

This deliverable describes Proteus, a RISC-V processor designed for microarchitectural security research.

Sub-THz systems have been advocated for their potential to deliver ultra-fast wireless connectivity, precise localization, and innovative sensing capabilities—thanks to the abundant bandwidth available at these frequencies. Yet, as highlighted in Factsheet #4, there remains a critical challenge: the “elephant in the room” is the fragility of sub-THz links. Unlike wireless systems operating below 10 GHz, both the signal propagation and hardware performance at sub-THz frequencies pose unique difficulties that cannot simply be predicted by scaling up existing technologies. These often-overlooked complications make the path toward reliable sub-THz deployment more complex than it may initially appear. In this blog post, we explore these challenges and discuss why strengthening the foundation of sub-THz technology must come before efforts to standardize.

Title: Implementing CTI Exchange: A Framework for the DYNAMO Project Pilot Phase

Title: AI and Cyber Threat Intelligence Management in the Energy Sector

Title: Research in Education: Case Cybersecurity Project

Title: Cybersecurity training in the healthcare domain

Title: AI Governance: Achieving EU AI Act Compliance in the Dynamo Project

Title: Anchoring Security in Maritime: Defining and Protecting Critical Assets for Business Continuity

Title: Cyber Threats in Hospitals: GDPR and NIS2 Regulations in Preventing USB Injections.

Title: DYNAMO and the EU AI Act: Balancing Innovation and Regulation.

Title: Enhancing Cybersecurity through Integrated Business Continuity Management and Cyber Threat Intelligence

Title: Human Factors Make or Break Cybersecurity!

Title: Insights on Human Factors Enhancing Cybersecurity

Title: The Role of Standards in Enhancing Cybersecurity and Business Continuity Management for Organizations

Title: Implications of GDPR and NIS2 for Cyber Threat Intelligence Exchange in Hospitals

Title: Methodological resilience assessment of smart cyber infrastructures

The fifth issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of SciForensics.

The 6G Tandem project is pioneering a dual-frequency multiple antenna system, integrating sub-THz and sub-10GHz signals to meet the needs of future 6G applications. To identify future societal and industrial needs in health, entertainment, and industrial processes, the 6G Tandem project has analysed potential use cases that would benefit from its dual-frequency, highly reliable, and high-capacity network architecture.

The third issue of the ForRES Newsletter is now available. Download to get an overview of the latest developments within the project.

Vehicle-to-Everything Trust: Enabling Autonomous Trust Assessment of V2X Data by Vehicles

The paper JWT Back to the future: On the (ab)use of JWTs in IoT transactions was published at the 6th International Workshop on LIGHTWEIGHT CRYPTOGRAPHY FOR SECURITY & PRIVACY (LightSEC 2025). The authors are Alberto Battistello, Guido Bertoni, Filippo Melzani and Maria Chiara Molteni.

The paper EmuOCPP: Effective and Scalable OCPP Security and Privacy Testing was published at the 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec’25). The authors are Soumaya Boussaha, Victor Fresno-Gomez, Thomas Barber and Daniele Antonioli.

The paper PhaseSCA: When Jitter Meets Electromagnetic Side Channels was published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. The authors are Pierre Ayoub, Aurélien Hernandez, Romain Cayre, Aurélien Francillon and Clémentine Maurice.

The paper Higher-Order Time Sharing Masking was published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. The authors are Dilip Kumar S V, Siemen Dhooge, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Bluetooth Security Testing with BlueToolkit: a Large-Scale Automotive Case Study was published at the 19th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies

The paper SimProcess: High Fidelity Simulation of Noisy ICS Physical Processes was published at the 11th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS 2025) and won the best paper award. The authors are Denis Donadel, Gabriele Crestanello, Giulio Morandini, Daniele Antonioli, Mauro Conti and Massimo Merro.

The paper EmuOCPP: Effective and Scalable OCPP Security and Privacy Testing was published at the 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec’25). The authors are Soumaya Boussaha, Victor Fresno Gómez, Thomas Barber and Daniele Antonioli.

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Challenges and Priorities towards Trustworthy AI

D6.2 details the evaluation results of CONNECT’s Trust Assessment Architecture when integrated/deployed in the context of the envisioned use cases unlocking the assessment of such advanced trust mechanisms as part of the end-to-end operational profile of CCAM functionalities. Building on top of the benchmarking results (per standalone component) that were documented in the previous version of this deliverable, D6.2 validates the framework’s tangible impact through three core CCAM use cases: Intersection Movement Assistance (IMA), Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (C-ACC), and Slow Moving Traffic Detection (SMTD). Each was tested using the most appropriate methodology – from Large-Scale Simulation scenarios to Hardware-in-the-Loop and Real-World Living Labs environment following the development pipeline adopted in V2X security and safety engineering: from conception activities and prototyping to real-world evaluation. Our findings confirm the framework’s benefits in allowing trust-aware decision making, achieving all identified KPIs and positioning it a stepping stone for future research towards converging security and safety, which can further drive industry-wide adoption.

The 5th issue of the 6GTandem newsletter has been released. It focuses on the latest project progress and the key achievements during the second project period.

A Framework for Dynamic Trustworthiness Assessment in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles

The paper Hardware Cost Evaluation in Systems Security was published at the 2025 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability(ACM REP ’25). The authors are Jesse De Meulemeester, Quinten Norga, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Marton Bognar and Frank Piessens.

The paper “A 48 Gbps Communication Link Over D-Band Polymer Microwave Fiber” was accepted to and presented at ISCAS 2025. The authors are Yu Yan, Vessen Vassilev, Frida Strömbeck, Dapeng Wu & Herbert Zirath.

The 5th issue of the ORSHIN newsletter has been released. This issue reveals the latest progress and results during the past couple of months. As ORSHIN enters its final stretch, we’re celebrating major breakthroughs in Open-source hardware and software security, pre-silicon side-channel attack resilience, firmware fuzzing and fault injection tools, and secure communication protocols for IoT. Furthermore, the newsletter promotes upcoming events organized by the ORSHIN consortium.

The paper Wait a Cycle: Eroding Cryptographic Trust in Low-End TEEs via Timing Side Channels was published at the 8th Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution (SysTEX 2025) co-located with EuroS&P. The authors are Ruben Van Dijck, Márton Bognár and Jo Van Bulck.

The paper openIPE: An Extensible Memory Isolation Framework for Microcontrollers was published at the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P). The authors are Márton Bognár and Jo Van Bulck.

The paper  CTRAPS: CTAPClient Impersonation and API Confusion on FIDO2 was published at IEEE Euro S&P. The authors are  Marco Casagrande and Daniele Antonioli.

The paper “Wideband Single-Layer D-Band Patch Antenna with Parasitic Elements and Superstrate Loading” was accepted to and presented at EuCAP 2025. The authors are Yuyan Cao, Hanieh Aliakbari, Parisa Aghdam, Buon Kiong Lau.

The paper “Deep Learning for sub-THz Radio Unit Selection using sub-10 GHz Channel Information and Inferred Device Beamforming” was accepted to and presented at IEEE VTC Spring 2025. The authors are Nishant Gupta, Muris Sarajlic, and Erik G. Larsson.

The 1st Newsletter of the PRIVIDEMA project has been released. It presents the project`s objectives and the key achievements during the past few months.

The paper “D-Band Cascode Up conversion Mixer Utilizing Double Mixing Technique for Enhanced Linearity and Output Power in 130-nm SiGe Process” was published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technology. The authors are Marzie Mollaalipour, Mingquan Bao,Yu Yan, Herbert Zirath.

The paper “Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Cascaded Power Amplifiers” was accepted to EUSIPCO 2025 and will be presented there at the beginning of September. The authors are Oksana Moryakova, Thomas Eriksson, and Håkan Johansson.

The paper “Efficient Implementation of Wireless Links Employing Polymer Microwave” was accepted by Applied Sciences. The authors are Vasileios Liakonis, Yannis Papananos, Franz Dielacher, Maciej Wojnowski, Walter Hartner.

How do we secure today’s smart devices? ORSHIN’s Attack Defense Framework (ADF) offers a smarter way to spot and stop threats—across every layer of connected devices, from hardware to software. Easy to use, highly visual, and built for the real world.

A Real-Time Implementation of an Edge-Assisted Collision Warning System for Urban Intersections

The paper CheckOCPP: Automatic OCPP Packet Dissection and Compliance Check was published at ACSW 2025. The authors are  Soumaya Boussaha, Victor Fresno-Gomez, Thomas Barber and Daniele Antonioli.

This deliverable completes the description of the work of WP5 on the MEC-enabled networking technology to support the CONNECT task offloading needs, the CONNECT Distributed Ledger Technology, the use of Verifiable Credentials and the crypto protocols used to ensure the security and privacy of data in the CONNECT eco-system. Trusted task offloading, the CONNECT Distributed Ledger Technology and the use of attributes for access control and for signing and encrypting failed attestation data have all been described, implemented and measured. All of these extensions work in tandem with the MEC-enabled Orchestrator (described in earlier deliverables) managing the secure lifecycle management of CCAM services deployed over the continuum.

D4.3 presents the final update of the CONNECT Guard architecture including security extensions for virtualization and edge computing in CCAM systems. It introduces the latest trusted computing mechanisms, secure container deployment, and the TALOS framework for verifiable enclave migration. The document also evaluates cryptographic protocols for privacy-preserving trust assessment, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient service orchestration across vehicles, MEC, and cloud. It successfully concludes the mission of WP4 of CONNECT.

Dynamic Group Signatures with Verifier-Local Revocation

This deliverable describes the final version of the standalone trust assessment framework (TAF), the federated TAF and the digital twin version of the TAF (TAF-DT). For the standalone TAF, the federated TAF and the TAF-DT, the final architecture, implementation details, and evaluation results are provided. In addition to that, the approaches for trust quantification, the approach for calculating the required trustworthiness level (RTL), and details about the risk assessment framework are provided.

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The paper Design, implementation and validation of NSCP: a New Secure Channel Protocol for hardened IoT was published at DATE 2025. The authors are Alberto Battistello, Guido Bertoni, Vittorio Zaccaria and Joan Bushi.

The paper Low-Cost First-Order Secure Boolean Masking in Glitchy Hardware- full version was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. The authors are Dilip Kumar S.V., Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Partial Key Overwrite Attacks in Microcontrollers: a Survey was published at CASCADE 2025. The authors are Pcy Sluys and Benedikt Gierlichs.

Download Factsheet No 4: Community-Driven Security Improvements in Open Source Components

Discussion and analysis of RadioWeaves architecture, including control mechanisms and requirements on analog and digital hardware, leading into energy models for both domains and energy efficiency case studies for both communication and power transfer. Conclusions regarding energy consumption for different deployment/design choices are drawn.

This report summarizes all dissemination and com-munication activities carried out since project start and addresses planned activities beyond project lifetime (update of D6.3).

D5.3 reports the concept validation and experimental results of the RadioWeaves technology, corresponding to the activities in Task 5.1 and Task 5.2 of REINDEER. In total, five experiments are conducted covering multiuser capabilities, low-latency and reliable communication, accurate positioning,
interacting (powering, communicating with, and positioning) with energy-neutral device (END), and reconfigurability with dynamic hardware resource allocation.

This deliverable consolidates experimental findings from D5.1 and D5.3 into a series of demonstration videos, offering a visual representation of key challenges and solutions addressed in REINDEER. These videos cover topics such as dynamic resource allocation, robustness versus latency trade-offs, accurate positioning, energy-neutral device interaction, and multi-user capabilities. Together, they highlight the advancements in distributed antenna systems and wireless power transfer technologies, offering new insights into the development of next-generation wireless ecosystems.

Detailed experimental validation plan, design of experiments, and definition of common formats. This report provides a detailed experimental validation plan. The design of experiments describes the distributed RadioWeaves topologies to be realized in the KU Leuven testbed and the particular experiments to be performed in the ULund testbed. D5.1 also defines formats for interfacing with RadioWeaves panels and for the exchange of experimental data.

Assessment of signalling schemes, protocols, and algorithms for energy-neutral devices. Quantitative assessment of wireless power transfer, high-rate communications, and accurate positioning with energy neutral devices, based on the designs described in D4.2.

This deliverable builds on the theoretical foundation formed in D3.1 and provides a more detailed analysis of robustness and latency aspects of the RadioWeaves concept. New methods are presented, covering robust beamforming, employment of constant envelope waveforms, support of environmental awareness, and scheduling and control mechanisms for dynamic environments.

Position estimation and environment learning. Report on fundamental performance limits for positioning, algorithm design and analysis for system calibration, positioning and synchronization as well as data fusion of information from radio infrastructure. An algorithm for environment sensing and learning exploits MIMO radar to infer mirror source locations.

This deliverable reports on the evaluation and design of hardware resources needed for transfer of energy to energyneutral nodes and backscattering-based connectivity to these nodes. The assessment of the hardware requirements takes energy efficiency as an important target, and includes different aspects such as synchronization, reciprocity calibration, and out-of-band constraints due to frontend non-linearities.

This deliverable provides estimates of distributed hardware resources, and their synchronization, needed to implement targeted algorithms for selected services and the associated requirements on back-haul data transfer between processing/hardware units.

The fourth issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Scanning Electron Microscope Imaging.

The Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) is a Public-Private Partnership acting as a pivotal initiative within the European Union. SNS JU was designed to drive forward the research, innovation, and deployment of advanced network technologies, specifically focusing on 5G and future 6G networks and services. 6GTandem is part fo the SNS JU.

6G represents the next evolutionary step in wireless technology, succeeding 5. The 6GTandem project aims to advance the combined low-frequency and sub-THz distributed MIMO system to enable new applications that require an unprecedented combination of performance factors.

The third issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Delayering Techniques in Silicon Devices.

Check out the PRIVIDEMA administrative poster, now available for dissemination and communication activities.

The second issue of the ForRES Newsletter is now available. Download to get an overview of the latest developments within the project.

The 4th issue of the newsletter has been released. This issue reveals the latest progress and results and highlights key activities. It further provides an overview of the most recent publications and video interviews and provides an outlook of the upcoming activities.

Download Factsheet No 3: Secure Channel Protocols

The fourth issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the second project period.

The 4th issue of the 6GTandem newsletter has been released. It focuses on the latest project progress and the key achievements during the past few months.

GenSUMO: GenAI-Creation of Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicle Testing

The CONNECT project addresses security, privacy, and trust in Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems. D2.2 extends the overall architecture outlined in D2.1 and focuses on ethical analysis, the final architecture, detailed threat modelling and requirements, and the definition of the CONNECT Minimal Viable Platform. By prototyping this architecture, CONNECT will ensure secure collaboration across vehicles, MEC, and cloud, providing a foundation for privacy-preserving, trustworthy mobility solutions.

Third newsletter

The paper AttackDefense Framework (ADF): Enhancing IoT Devices and Lifecycles Threat Modeling was published at ACM TECS. The authors are Tommaso Sacchetti, Marton Bognar, Jesse De Meulemeester, Benedikt Gierlichs, Frank Piessens, Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi, Maria Chiara Molteni, Stefano Cristalli, Arianna Gringiani, Olivier Thomas, Daniele Antonioli.

Download Factsheet #2: ORSHIN’s Trusted Life Cycle
Discover ORSHIN’s comprehensive Trusted Life Cycle (TLC) framework for securing open-source hardware throughout every stage of development. Learn more about our holistic approach to ensuring the security and reliability of connected devices.

The official leaflet of the PRIVIDEMA project is available, containing project information, vision, goals of the project and more.

This report explains how abstract high-level security requirements are handled in the trusted life cycle and how they are broken down into more concrete procedural requirements for the life cycle phases, and into low-level security requirements for the components.

The deliverable provides the description of the methodology for composing open-source components. We envision a trusted life cycle of the device composed of several phases. The report will formalize these phases and identify the interaction and feedback of the design and production process up to the device decommissioning. The report provides the guidelines for the secure composition of building blocks. The guidelines help to achieve a secure result leveraging the security features of each component.

PRIVIDEMA will focus on developing user-friendly, scalable solutions to enhance cybersecurity across Europe. Find out more in the official announcement letter of PRIVIDEMA project.

The document is reporting the current state of the initial prototypes of the cyber-threat intelligence gathering, extraction, sharing components and AI-based solutions of DYNAMO while reflecting on the whole DYNAMO architecture and their collaboration with the rest of the platform.

Download Factsheet #1: ORSHIN’s Approach to Trust and Security
Explore ORSHIN’s innovative solutions for enhancing the security and trustworthiness of open-source hardware in IoT and critical infrastructure. Download now to learn more about transparency, third-party verification, and advanced security audits.

The paper “Propagation distance estimation for radio over fibre with cascaded structure” was presented at SPAWC2024. The authors are Dexin Kong, Diana P. Osorio and Erik G. Larsson.

AI/ML-based Services and Applications for 6G-connected and Autonomous Vehicles

On Enhancing Intersection Applications With Misbehavior Detection and Mitigation

High-Performance Polymer Microwave Fiber Coupler in eWLB Package for Sub-THz Communication | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

The paper “Toward Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO: Graph Neural Network Precoding for Mitigating Non-Linear PA Distortion” was published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. The authors are Thomas Feys, Liesbet Van der Perre, François Rottenberg

The paper “Libra: Architectural Support For Principled, Secure And Efficient Balanced Execution On High-End Processors” was published at ACM CCS 2024. The authors are Hans Winderix, Marton Bognar, Lesly-Ann Daniel, Frank Piessens.

Pluralism and the Design of Autonomous Vehicles

The second issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of the Broad Ion Mill Technology.

The paper “Duplication-Based Fault Tolerance for RISC-V Embedded Software” was published at the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2024). The authors are Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi, Jean-Michel Cioranesco, and Thomas Eisenbarth.

This deliverable presents the second and final version of the CONNECT Data Management Plan. In addition, the deliverable includes a roadmap definition as it pertains to the ethical and legal aspects of the Trust Assessment part, which plays a central role in CONNECT.

The paper “Intellectual Property Exposure: Subverting and Securing Intellectual Property Encapsulation in Texas Instruments Microcontrollers” was published at USENIX Security Symposium 2024. The Authors are Marton Bognar, Cas Magnus, Frank Piessens, Jo Van Bulck.

Personalized and Context-aware Route Planning for Edge-assisted Vehicles

The first issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of FinFET Technology.

The paper Time Sharing – A Novel Approach to Low-Latency Masking was published at TCHES 2024. The authors are Dilip Kumar S V, Siemen Dhooge, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper “MmWave for Extended Reality: Open User Mobility Dataset, Characterisation, and Impact on Link Quality” was published in IEEE Communications Magazine. The authors are Alexander Marinsek,  Sam De Kunst, Gilles Callebaut, Lieven De Strycker, Liesbet Van der Perre.

Adaptive Autopilot: Constrained DRL for Diverse Driving Behaviors

The fifth issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of crisis communication and the enhancement of organisational resilience.

Paper entitled: “CTI Sharing Practices and MISP Adoption in Finland’s Critical Infrastructure Protection”

Paper entitled: “Measuring Societal Impacts of Cybersecurity”

Paper entitled: “E-EWS-based Governance Framework for Sharing Cyber Threat Intelligence in the Energy Sector”

Paper entitled: “The Social Domain: Resilience of Information-Sharing Networks”

Paper entitled: “Business Model Canvas and Competition to Understand Exploitation of Cybersecurity Project Results”

The 3rd issue of the 6GTandem newsletter has been released. It focuses on the latest project progress and the key achievements during the past few months.

OScar: An ETSI-Compliant C-ITS Stack for Field-Testing with Embedded Hardware Devices

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The 3rd issue of the newsletter has been released, exploring the results and activities of the project’s first 18 months.

Maneuver Coordination Using V2I to Improve Traffic Efficiency at Intersections

ETSI-Compliant Protection of Connected Vulnerable Road Users: Simulation and Field Trial

All project videos in one place!

The paper “Channel Performance Metrics and Evaluation for XR Head-Mounted Displays with mmWave Arrays” was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications. The authors are Alexander Marinsek, Xuesong Ca, Lieven De Strycker, Fredrik Tufvesson and Liesbet Van der Perre.

The paper Unveiling the Vulnerability of Oxide-Breakdown-Based PUF was published at IEEE Electron Device Letters. The authors are Pablo Saraza-Canflanca, Ferenc Fodor, Javier Diaz Fortuny,  Benedikt Gierlichs,  Robin Degraeve Ben Kaczer and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The third issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first project period.

This deliverable provides an initial plan for dissemination and exploitation incl. communication activities and training and will be periodically updated based on the project’s progress. It also constitutes an initial dissemination & communication kit for 6GTandem, as well as the launch of the project website and communication infrastructure in M03.

This project quality plan constitutes a set of project templates and explains the project management, review and internal quality control process, as well as other organizational topics such as meeting organization. It further includes the open science practices within the 6GTandem project. This handbook shall support all partners in their daily work.

This is to inform the data subjects that may have been affected by the crawling operations about the processing carried out as part of the project and enable them to exercise their data protection rights. The responsible partner (controller) is CERTH.

The fourth issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of ethics in cybersecurity aspects.

Paper entitled: “Implications of GDPR and NIS2 for Cyber Threat Intelligence Exchange in Hospitals”

Paper entitled: “Utilization and Sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence Produced by Open-Source Intelligence”

Paper entitled: “Utilization and Sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence Produced by Open-Source Intelligence”

Paper entitled: “Implementation of OSINT for Improving an International Finance Sector Organization’s Cybersecurity”

Task 1.4 aims to identify the ethical and legal aspects of the DYNAMO project and to assess compliance of (a) the research and (b) the project’s technological solution with the current ethical and legal framework. D1.3 constitutes the official report.

The paper “Circularly Polarized Sub-THz Antenna Design for Distributed Deployment” was presented at EuCAP 2024. The authors are Yuyan Cao, Maciej Wojnowski and Buon Kiong Lau.

The paper An in-depth security evaluation of the Nintendo DSi gaming console was published at CARDIS 2023. The authors are Pcy Sluys, Lennert Wouters, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Architectural Mimicry: Innovative Instructions to Efficiently Address Control-Flow Leakage in Data-Oblivious Programs was published at IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2024.The authors are Hans Winderix, Márton Bognár, Job Noorman, Lesly-Ann Daniel and Frank Piessens.

D5.2 follows up the D5.1 contributions to deliver the first version of the CONNECT orchestrator and the mechanisms for secure data exchange. The here-in reported work covers the task-offloading logic and the implementation details of the CONNECT orchestartor software. Lastly, the work is completed with the Blockchain architecture and data handling principles to facilitate the CONNECT accountable attestation and monitoring (when combined with the D5.1 claims).

D4.2 documents the high-level design of the complete CONNECT security architecture as developed by Workpackage WP4. Compared to D4.1 we refine and add users stories and designs for the Multi- Access Edge Cloud (MEC). We also add detailed cryptographic protocols that implement the trust assessment of the services of CONNECT. Finally, we detail the concepts and interactions for secure migration and up- grade of TEE-protected workloads. This is the technical foundation for Secure Task Offloading. The key questions that this deliverable answers are “How can the Multi-access Edge Cloud (MEC) be architected to provide robust security and privacy guarantees?”, “How can cryptography help to remotely assess trust of services while maintaining sound privacy guar- antees?”, and “How can vehicle and edge collaborate while maintaining security?”.

This deliverable builds upon D3.1 and describes major build- ing blocks for the standalone trust assessment framework (TAF), the federated TAF and the digital twin version TAF-DT. For the standalone TAF, a fine-grained architecture underlying our current prototype is provided, federated TAF and TAF-DT are described as high-level architectures.

The first issue of the ForRES newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the latest developments within the project.

This deliverable presents the CONNECT dissemination, communication, clustering, standardization, and exploitation activities up to M18. Furthermore, it contains information highlighting open-source contributions and workshop organization activities.

WIP: A Trust Assessment Method for In-Vehicular Networks using Vehicle Risk Assessment

In-vehicle Trust Assessment Framework

Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives

MS-VAN3T-CARLA: An Open-Source Co-Simulation Framework for Cooperative Perception Evaluation

ms-van3t: An integrated multi-stack framework for virtual validation of V2X communication and services

The paper BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses was published at ACM CCS’23 on 26-30 NOV., 2023. The author is Daniele Antonioli.

Paper entitled: “Trust Environment for Cyber-Physical Systems: The DYNAMO Approach”

The third issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the 4Rs of Resilience of DYNAMO, the Resilience Cycle and the Resilience Assessment Methodology.

D4.1 documents the initial results of Workpackage 4. It speci- fies the core security architecture of CONNECT revolving around the use of HW-based trust anchors for supporting both the continuous trust as- sessment of the CCAM-wide continuum as well as the secure lifecylce management of all comprised devices. D4.1 refines the architecture (com- ponents and flows) presented in D2.1 and puts forth a deteiled description of all interactions and sequence of actions with the underlying Trusted Computing Base for providing node- and data-centric trustworthiness ev- idence. Furthermore, it documents user stories that specify desired fea- tures, and finally outlines the key hierarchy and formalized requirements. This overarching TEE architecture will guide the design of all security pro- tocols and cryptographic mechanisms to be documented in D4.2.

The paper “Impact of array configuration on head-mounted display performance at mmWave bands” is now available for open access on ArXiv. The authors are Alexander Marinsek, Xuesong Cai, Lieven De Strycker, Fredrik Tufvesson and Liesbet Van der Perre.

The 2nd 6GTandem newsletter has been released, which is focused on the current status of the project and future plans.

An Open Dataset Storage Standard for 6G Testbeds has been published by Gilles Callebaut, Michiel Sandra, Christian Nelson, Thomas Wilding, Daan Delabie, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, William Tärneberg, Emma Fitzgerald, Liesbet Van der Perre from the 6GTandem consortium. The paper was successfully presented at IEEE CAMA 2023.

D5.1 paves the way to the CONNECT orchestration im- plementation by first defining the task migration/offloading problem and then presenting a comprehensive analysis of the state-of-the-art. Derived insights suggest candidate approaches for the CONNECT implementation. Furthermore, the document explores identity management and proposes verifiable and presentation claims to verify a CONNECT entity’s attributes or identity. The involved data model to hold the needed information is finally introduced.

The 2^nd ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the main achievements of the first 12 project months and the outlook of what will follow. ORSHIN Newsletter Issue 02

Kees Schot, Aya Fukami: “In-situ Global Ultra Thinning of Live Chip Backside for Digital Forensic and Failure Analysis”

Paper entitled: “Improving the Cybersecurity Awareness of Finnish Podiatry SMEs”

The second issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first twelve months of the project.

The paper 6G Radio Testbeds: Requirements, Trends, and Approaches, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Microwave Magazine’s Wireless Communications Focus Issue by the MTT-S TC-23. The authors are Gilles Callebaut, Liang Liu, Thomas Eriksson, Liesbet Van der Perre, Ove Edfors and Christian Fager.

This deliverable includes information on the dissemination, communication and exploitation activities, as well as on internal and external training activities of the EXFILES project. It is the first report on the communication and dissemination activities of the first 18 project months. It thus contains relevant information about all executed activities up to M18, as well as an updated plan of future activities. The deliverable will be updated and finalized within “D7.6 Final report on dissemination & communication activities” at the project end. 

This document describes deliverable D7.2 “Hands-on training for contributors”. As part of this deliverable, RISCURE has made available (and will continue to enable access for the entire duration of the project) two standard, hands-on online training courses to all EXFILES contributors. 

The second issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Cyber Threat Intelligence and what role this discipline has within DYNAMO.

Machine-Checked Proofs of Accountability: How to sElect who is to Blame

Paper entitled: “Engagement of Actors in Expert communities”

The official leaflet of the ForRES project is available, containing project information, vision, goals of the project and more.

D2.1 defines the technical requirements of CONNECT, alongside the specification of the conceptual reference architecture, the functional components, and interfaces between them. It also provides an analysis and point of reference for CONNECT in relation to the use cases and reference scenarios including an analysis of the trust models, that need to be considered for capturing the security and privacy requirements of each of the target CCAM services, and the trusted computing anchors to be further investigated and deployed as part of all actors – both at the MEC and Edge. Its purpose is to define the parameters for the rest of the CONNECT project and provide the necessary input for the design and implementation of all security enablers and models towards the dynamic trust assessment of complex CCAM ecosystems.

This Project Quality Plan constitutes a set of project templates and explanations on the project management process, review process, quality checks and meeting organisation, which are communicated to all partners. It further includes the risk assessment plan and shows how potential risks are assessed and mitigated.

Inaugural newsletter

SAVE THE DATE and reserve your place in the first official DYNAMO webinar. Click on the link and get more information about what to expect at the webinar.

Hash-based Direct Anonymous Attestation

Safer Roads using a Vehicle Trust Assessment Framework

Edge-assisted ML-aided Uncertainty-aware Vehicle Collision Avoidance at Urban Intersections

Julien Maillard, Thomas Hiscock, Maxime Lecomte, Christophe Clavier: “Side-Channel Disassembly on a System-on-Chip: A Practical Feasibility Study”

Deliverable 3.1 presents initial work towards the Trust Asssessment Framework (TAF). It includes definition of core terminology for trust assessment, a state of the art analysis and requirements engineering which motivates our decision for a TAF based on Subjective Logic. Subsequently, an ap-proach to trust modeling is described including a methodol- ogy for deriving trust relationships and examples for such trust relationships and trust sources are given based on the four CONNECT use case. Finally, a high-level architecture of the TAF is presented and first considerations for the evaluation of the TAF are described.

CONNECT Fact Sheet 2: TRUSTWORTHINESS
Authors: Chirag Arora, Adam Henschke

ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation (pre-camera version Open Access)

The first issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Business Continuity Management and what role this discipline has within DYNAMO.

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) — Security, Privacy, Trust, and Reputation Management for Connected Vehicles
Authors: A. Drobot, T. Zhang, M. L. Buonarosa, F. Kargl, S. Schwinke and B. Sikdar

The paper MicroProfiler: Principled Side-Channel Mitigation through Microarchitectural Profiling was published at Euro SP23 on July 3-7 2023. The authors are Marton Bognar, Hans Winderix, Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens

It is time for advanced digital investigation to tackle the cybercrime of electronic devices. Find out more in the official announcement letter of ForRES project.

Paper entitled: “A Lens to Examine Communication Through Business Continuity Management” (p. 205-216)

Paper entitled: “Academic publications create sustainable knowledge in funded projects” (p. 223-232)

Securing Cooperative Intersection Management through Subjective Trust Networks

Eyes and Ears for the Car of the Future

The Car2TERA project launched in 2019 has successfully concluded, advancing smart electronic sensor systems.

Paper entitled: “Governance and Management Information System for Cybersecurity Centres and Competence hubs”

Paper entitled: “Cybersecurity Through Thesis in Laurea University of Applied Sciences”

The paper E-Spoofer: Attacking and Defending Xiaomi Electric Scooter Ecosystem was published at WiSec’23 on 31^st May 2023. The authors are Marco Casagrande, Riccardo Cestaro, Eleonora Losiouk, Mauro Conti and Daniele Antonioli.

S-LDM: Server Local Dynamic Map for 5G-based Centralized Enhanced Collective Perception

The 1st 6GTandem newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 4 project months.

The paper PROSPECT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy was published at USENIX Security’23 on 1^st February 2023. The authors are Lesly-Ann Daniel, Marton Bognar, Job Noorman, Sébastien Bardin, Tamara Rezk and Frank Piessens.

Comparative Evaluation of PKI and DAA-Based Architectures for V2X Communication Security
Authors: A. Angelogianni I. Krontiris, and T. Giannetsos

The paper Lightweight Countermeasures Against Original Linear Code Extraction Attacks on a RISC-V Core was published at HOST on 1^st-3^rd May 2023. The authors are Théophile Gousselot, Olivier Thomas, Jean-Max Dutertre, Olivier Potin and Jean-Baptiste Rigaud.

The first issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first six months of the project.

How To Bind A TPM’s Attestation Keys With Its Endorsement Key

The paper Low-Cost First-Order Secure Boolean Masking in Glitchy Hardware was published at the DATE 2023 on 19th April 2023. The authors are Dilip Kumar S V, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Efficient attack-surface exploration for electromagnetic fault injection was published at the COSADE 2023 on 4th April 2023. The authors are Daniele Antonio Carta, Vittorio Zaccaria, Gabriele Quagliarella and Maria Chiara Molteni.

Paper entitled “Beyond 100-Gbps Polymer Microwave Fiber Communication Link at D-Band”

The 4th and final newsletter of the Car2TERA H2020 project contains an reflection on the project, insights on the demonstrators, latest publications and dissemination activities.

This deliverable constitutes the launch of the internal and external DYNAMO communication infrastructure including the establishment of mailing lists, new IT infrastructure and the DYNAMO website. This deliverable describes the detailed plan for the project dissemination strategy to be adopted throughout the project’s lifetime, and it defines the plan with which the different stakeholder communities will be targeted, as well as the social media that will be used.

The 1st ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 6 project months.

CONNECT Fact Sheet 1: TRUST ASSESSMENT
Authors: Ana Petrovska, Natasa Trukulja, Artur Hermann, Frank Kargl

Paper entitled “A Wideband High-Gain Power Amplifier Operating in the D Band”

High-speed data links based on polymer microwave fiber (PMF) for 5G evolution and 6G radio systems by Yinggang Li (Ericsson)

This deliverable presents the CONNECT communication kit including the project’s visual identity as well as communication and dissemination material to be used within the project. Furthermore, a detailed standardization plan is documented constituting a guideline for the liaison and further dissemination of the CONNECT project to external target groups and related standardization working groups. A timeline of short- and long-term dissemination activities is presented.

Paper entitled: “Managing Variable Cyber Environments with Organizational Foresight and Resilience Thinking”

Poster entitled Design of 130-290 GHz rectangular polymer fibers for high-speed data links

The official DYNAMO Elevator Pitch is now available. Download it to get an overview of the most important information about the project.

Paper entitled “Design of an Amplitude-Tapered Corporate-Feed Slot Array Antenna with Reduced Side-Lobe Level for Silicon Micromachining”

On 8th February 2023 the 6GTandem technical lead, Parisa Aghdam from Ericsson AB, presented the Horizon Europe 6GTandem project within the ETSI Research Conference.

The official leaflet of the Horizon Europe project “6GTandem” is available, containing project information, mission, vision and goals of the project.

Paper entitled “ACCURATE RCS IMAGING OF CAR IN-CABIN OBJECTS AT SUB-THZ FREQUENCIES”.

Paper entitled “Radar Cross-Section Characterization of the Car In-Cabin Environment at Sub-THz Frequencies”.

Paper entitled “Concept analysis of a frequency-sweeping delta/ sigma beam-switching radar using machine learning”

FANJAS, Clément, GAINE, Clément, ABOULKASSIMI, Driss, PONTIÉ, Simon, POTIN, Olivier: “Combined Fault Injection and Real-Time Side-Channel Analysis for Android Secure-Boot Bypassing”

Clément Fanjas , Clément Gaine , Driss Aboulkassimi, Simon Pontié and Olivier Potin: “Real-Time Frequency Detection to Synchronize Fault Injection on System-on-Chip”

The Horizon Europe project “6GTandem” will co-design novel dual-frequency operation at sub-10 GHz and sub-THz frequencies and a new highly integrated and distributed radio transceiver architecture to deliver high-performance energy efficient services for future 6G applications.

An ML-Aided Reinforcement Learning Approach for Challenging Vehicle Maneuvers

The official DYNAMO Project Leaflet is now available. Download to get more information about the project, the involved partners, the mission, the vision and the goal of DYNAMO.

SHEPHERD, Carlton, SEMAL Benjamin, MARKANTONAKIS: “Investigating Black-Box Function Recognition Using Hardware Performance Counters”

The official leaflet of the Horizon Europe project CONNECT is now available, containing information about the consortium, the project’s mission, vision and objectives.

The official leaflet of the ORSHIN project is available, containing project information, mission, vision and goals of the project.

We are happy to announce that under the technical leadership of CERTH in Greece, the coordination of Frauenhofer EMI in Germany with the support of the Austrian based private research company Technikon, the scientists of the consortium are engaged in a EC funded research project entitled “Dynamic Resilience Assessment Method including combined Business Continuity Management and Cyber Threat Intelligence solution for Critical Sectors” or DYNAMO. In this three-year project, 15 partners from ten different countries will work to address the problem of cyber threats in critical sectors such as health, energy and transportation.

Announcing the launch of the Horizon Europe project CONNECT!

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SHEPHERD, Carlton, KALBANTNER, Jan, SEMAL, Benjamin, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos: “A Side-channel Analysis of Sensor Multiplexing for Covert Channels and Application Fingerprinting on Mobile Devices”

SHEPHERD, Carlton, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos, et JALOYAN, Georges-Axel: “LIRA-V: Lightweight remote attestation for constrained RISC-V devices”

SHEPHERD, Carlton, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos, VAN HEIJNINGEN, Nico, et al: “Physical fault injection and side-channel attacks on mobile devices: A comprehensive analysis”