03.07.2018

IEEE ComSoc ITC Best Paper Award 2017

I8 team awarded IEEE ComSoc ITC Best Paper Award for 2017

A team from TUM's Chair of Network Architectures and Services have been awarded the IEEE ComSoc ITC Best Paper Award 2017. This award honors the best paper in the set of IEEE ComSoc ITC sponsored conferences in 2017, namely the Global Internet, ICC NGNI, ICC Cloud Networking SAC, ITC, NetGames, NetSys, NoF, TMA, and CSNet conferences. IEEE ComSoc ITC Best Paper Award

The award has been presented at the TMA 2018 conference: TMA 2018 Award Presentation

The awarded publication, "Push Away Your Privacy: Precise User Tracking Based on TLS Client Certificate Authentication" describes privacy implications in Apple Push Notification Service (APNs), that have been discovered, thoroughly described and responsibly disclosed by a team of I8 researchers. Before publication, Apple released a fix in January 2017. CVE Apple Release Note Code & Dataset

The publicaton has previously been awarded the Best Paper Award of TMA'17: TMA'17 Award

2017-06-01 Matthias Wachs, Quirin Scheitle, Georg Carle, “Push Away Your Privacy: Precise User Tracking Based on TLS Client Certificate Authentication,” in Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Best Paper Award TMA’17, IEEE ComSoc ITC Best Paper Award 2017, Jun. 2017. [Pdf] [Slides] [Recording] [Bib]