May 2009

Dear Sir's,

Welcome to the May 2009 edition of escrypt's executive newsletter.

We would like to inform you that the 7th escar Conference dedicated to embedded security in vehicles will take place at Düsseldorf International Airport's conference centre November 24 - 25, 2009.

The conference will start with a sightseeing tour to experience the airport from a new perspective. Afterwards we will provide you with a top-class conference program including internationally renowned speakers in the area of Embedded Security for vehicle IT-systems. The program will comprise both invited talks and peer-reviewed papers. At the traditional escar Conference dinner you can socialize with other conference guests.

We would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit papers to the escar conference. Theoretical articles, scientific articles, case studies and real-world experiences are welcome. Please consider the Call for Submission. The submission deadline is June 29, 2009.

More information concerning the program and the conference registration is available at the conference web site escar 2009.

We are looking forward meeting you at escar 2009.

Best regards

Thomas Wollinger, Jan Pelzl, Katrin Mannheims


Further News

  • D . A . CH Security 2009

escrypt presents "Green Car Security: IT-Security and Green Car Mobility" at the D.A.CH conference on May 20th, 2009. escrypt's presentation will elaborate the following topics: Electric vehicles: State-of-the-art, Threads of electric vehicle systems (e.g. payment systems), Secure metering and Privacy preservation. Further information concerning the D.A.CH conference is available here.


  • Automotive Software Engineering Colloquium

Within the framework of "Automotive Software Engineering Colloquium" which takes place in Darmstadt, escrypt presents "Automotive Security: Existing solutions and new approaches" on May 19th, 2009 at Darmstadt University of Technology. More information concerning the Automotive Software Engineering Colloquium is available at the organizer`s web site.


  • ITS Annual Meeting

escrypt presents two articles at the ITS Annual Meeting in National Harbor, MD, June 1-3. The first presentation will describe the current state of security and privacy in vehicular networks, and it will present approaches to overcome current hurdles. The second presentation will give an overview of security issues that will arise with the deployment of electric vehicles. To our best knowledge, escrypt is the first to approach security issues for electric vehicles.


  • SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit

escrypt presented three papers at the SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, April 20-23, 2009. The papers cover an introduction to Secure Software Flashing as well as Vehicular Embedded Security and Secure Feature Activation. For further information concerning these papers please contact us at info@escrypt.com.


  • IWLS 2009 (International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis) in Berkely

escrypt presents a survey talk about embedded security at the IWLS 2009 conference in Berkely, California, July 31 - August 2, 2009. The presentation covers various topics of embedded security such as secure software download and verification, component identification, and secure feature activation. For further information concerning these papers please contact us at info@escrypt.com.


  • Transport Logistics 2009

escrypt presents the talk "Unforgeable product authentication and product tracing in the supply chain" at the "Transport Logistics 2009" fair. escrypt's talk considers the aspect of protection against plagiarism by using RFID technology and cryptographic primitives to provide mutual authentication of products and services. More information about the conference can be found here.

We are looking forward to your remarks and comments:
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