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Tentative Program
This is a tentative program. It may be subjected to changes in the next month.
Tuesday 4th November 2025
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 10:30 | Tutorial/Workshop: “New Developments and Insights from BSI’s Alliance for Cybersecurity in Space” accompanied by a Workshop on "Resilient Space Systems: A Standardized Method for Identifying Minimum Security Requirements" Florian Göhler (BSI, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik), Manuel Hoffmann (Information Security Consulting) and Maximilian Roth (Airbus Defence and Space) Session chair: Flora Herzner |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Welcome Dietmar Pilz, D/TEC, European Space Agency Opening Remarks Ivan Martinovic (Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) and Antonios Atlasis (Head of System Security Section, ESA) |
| 14:30 | Keynote (tbd) |
| 15:15 | EMBARGOED (Paper details withheld due to embargo and will only be revealed at the conference) Daniele Coppola (ETH Zurich), Harshad Sathaye (ETH Zurich), Giovanni Camurati (ETH Zurich) and Srdjan Capkun (ETH Zurich) |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 | Inherent Vulnerabilities in Hybrid CDMA & Cryptographic Spread Spectrum for Space Systems Edd Salkield (University of Oxford), Sebastian Köhler (University of Oxford), Simon Birnbach (University of Oxford) and Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford) |
| 16:45 | SPACECOP: System for Performance Assessment in Challenging Environments of Cryptographic Operations and Protocols Jacob Appelbaum (Eindhoven University of Technology), D. J. Bernstein (University of Illinois Chicago), Tanja Lange (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| 17:15 | Eavesdropping of Terahertz RIS-enabled HAPS-integrated satellite communication Daan van der Eijk, Simone Soderi and Mauro Conti |
| 17:45 | walk to Erasmus building |
| 18:00 | Welcome reception - Erasmus building |
Wednesday 5th November 2025
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | ESA Resilience and Security Programme Massimo Crisci (Head of End-to-End Systems Division, ESA) Antonios Atlasis (Head of System Security Section, ESA) |
| 09:30 | Efficient PKI Design for Secure Communication and Collaboration in Space Networks David Koisser (SANCTUARY Systems GmbH), Albert Schwarzkopf (SANCTUARY Systems GmbH), Ferdinand Brasser (SANCTUARY Systems GmbH) and Giacomo Da Broi (European Space Agency) |
| 10:00 | Towards Minimal Certificates in Federated Space Public Key Infrastructure Alin-Petru Rosu (Delft University of Technology) and Oana-Alexandra Graur (European Space Agency) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | End-to-End Quantum-Safe Security for Satellite Data Links (E2EQSS) Christoph Wildfeuer (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Timeo Jauslin (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Alain Lavoyer (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Milenko Starcik (VisionSpace Technologies GmbH), Afonso Serra (VisionSpace Technologies GmbH), Laszlo Etesi (Ateleris GmbH), Valentina Tamburello (Ateleris GmbH) and Bruno Huttner (ID Quantique) |
| 11:30 | Crypto Agility Definitions for Space Systems Jannik Mähn (OHB System AG), Matthias Müller (OHB System AG) and Karin Zielinski (OHB System AG) |
| 12:00 | Secure Satellite Software Defined Payloads with High-Assurance Post-Quantum Cryptography Virgile Robles (Parsimoni), Karthikeyan Bhargavan (Cryspen) and Franziskus Kiefer (Cryspen) |
| 12:30 | Securing Satellite Key Distribution via Covert Channels: A Cooperative Jamming and Watermarking Approach Simone Soderi (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Enrico Casini (European Space Agency) and Mauro Conti (University of Padova) |
| 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Quantum-Resilient Zero-Trust Remote Attestation and Dynamic Key Management for Optical Inter-Satellite Links in LEO Mega-Constellations Hossein Omidi Zadeh (University of Debrecen) |
| 14:30 | E-Laun: OTAR resistant to evil launchers Alexandre Duc (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Grégoire Guyot (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) and Pascal Perrenoud (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) |
| 15:00 | Decimated in Linear Time; Single Power Trace, Full Key Recovery Attack on Toeplitz Hash Privacy Amplification Niall Canavan (Queen’s University Belfast), Tuan Hoang (Queen’s University Belfast), Ayesha Khalid (Queen’s University Belfast) and Maire O’Neill (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Differential Testing of Bundle Protocol v7 Implementations: A Preliminary Report Stephan Havermans (IMDEA Software Institute), Lars Baumgaertner (European Space Agency), Marcus Wallum (European Space Agency) and Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) |
| 16:30 | 20 years of Satellite Navigation Security, lesson learned and future challenges Dr. Oscar Pozzobon (CEO, QASCOM) |
| 17:00 | From the past to IRIS2 and beyond: Cybersecurity Lessons Learnt and way Forward Interview with EC Cyber Security Manager GUILLERMIN Nicolas by Stefano Serva (ESA Security Office) |
| 17:30 | |
| 18:00 | Social dinner |
Thursday 6th November 2025
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Keynote Professor Bart Preneel (Head of COSIC group, KU Leuven) |
| 09:45 | On-board Digital Forensics For Space Missions: Requirements, Implementation, Testing and Demonstration using a FlatSat tbd (GMV) |
| 10:15 | Hybrid modular hardware-software solution for securing ground-satellites communication Enrico Petraglio (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Yorick Brunet (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Pascal Perrenoud (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Clément Dieperink (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Yoan Graf (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Anthony Convers (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Anthony Jaccard (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) and Yann Thoma (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 | Simulating and Observing Satellite Threats: A Monitoring-Aware Cyber Range for Satellite Security Training Lorenzo Bracciale (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, CNIT), Matteo Cicaglione (CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni), Alessandro Amici (CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni), Fabio Patrone (University of Genoa), Nour Badini (University of Genoa), Mario Marchese (University of Genoa), Andrea Detti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Daniel Xhakalliu (CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni), Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), Michele Luglio (Romars, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), Luca Fiscariello (Romars), Cesare Roseti (Romars, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), Arianna Miraval (ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) and Pierpaolo Loreti (Unversity of Rome Tor Vergata, CNIT) |
| 11:45 | An End-to-End GEO Satellite Links Simulation Framework for Cyber Range Applications Alessandro Santorsola (BV TECH spa, Politecnico di Bari), Daniele Mammone (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Longari (Politecnico di Milano), Francesco Topputo (Politecnico di Milano) and Matteo Mergè (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)) |
| 12:15 | A Satellite Constellation Simulator for Space Systems Cybersecurity Research and Development Simone Urbano (Starion Group), Jacques Girard (Thales Alenia Space), Louis Lolive (ITR Saint-Exupery), Vincent Nicomette (LAAS-CNRS), Pierre Bacquet (Thales Alenia Space), Patrick Hebrard (Starion Group), Guillaume Auriol (LAAS-CNRS), Ludovic Cintrat (Gatewatcher), Benjamin Deporte (IRT Saint-Exupery), Julien Airaud (CNES) and Matteo Merialdo (Nexova Cyber) |
| 12:45 | AegisSat: Securing AI-Enabled SoC FPGA Satellite Platforms Huimin Li (Technical University of Darmstadt), Vusal Novruzov (Technical University of Darmstadt), Nikhilesh Singh (Technical University of Darmstadt), Lichao Wu (Technical University of Darmstadt), Mohamadreza Rostami (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technical University of Darmstadt) |
| 13:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 | DSNS: The Deep Space Network Simulator Joshua Smailes, Filip Futera, Sebastian Köhler, Simon Birnbach, Martin Strohmeier and Ivan Martinovic |
| 14:45 | Semantic-Aware Anomaly Detection for Satellite-IoT Networks: A Lightweight Transformer-Based Approach Park Junbeom (Korea Aerospace University, Department of Computer Engineering), Park Jongsou (Korea Aerospace University, Department of Computer Engineering) and Yoon Zizung (Korea Aerospace University, Department of Smart Drone Engineering) |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 | Experiments in Orbit: The first selected experiments to run in-orbit M. Panzeri (ESA Security Office) + Turbotalks of the experiments from the idea proponents |
| 16:45 | Ctrl+SPACE CTF: Behind the “scenes” of the 1st European in-Orbit Hacking Challenge D-Orbit, Leafspace, MHACKERONI |
| 17:30 | Awards Closing Remarks |
Accepted papers
- Daniele Coppola, Harshad Sathaye, Giovanni Camurati and Srdjan Capkun - EMBARGOED: Paper details withheld due to embargo
- Simone Urbano, Jacques Girard, Louis Lolive, Vincent Nicomette, Pierre Bacquet, Patrick Hebrard, Guillaume Auriol, Ludovic Cintrat, Benjamin Deporte, Julien Airaud and Matteo Merialdo - A Satellite Constellation Simulator for Space Systems Cybersecurity Research and Development
- Simone Soderi, Enrico Casini and Mauro Conti - Securing Satellite Key Distribution via Covert Channels: A Cooperative Jamming and Watermarking Approach
- Christoph Wildfeuer, Timeo Jauslin, Alain Lavoyer, Milenko Starcik, Afonso Serra, Laszlo Etesi, Valentina Tamburello and Bruno Huttner - End-to-End Quantum-Safe Security for Satellite Data Links (E2EQSS)
- Daan van der Eijk, Simone Soderi and Mauro Conti - Eavesdropping of Terahertz RIS-enabled HAPS-integrated satellite communication
- Hossein Omidi Zadeh - Quantum-Resilient Zero-Trust Remote Attestation and Dynamic Key Management for Optical Inter-Satellite Links in LEO Mega-Constellations
- Lorenzo Bracciale, Matteo Cicaglione, Alessandro Amici, Fabio Patrone, Nour Badini, Mario Marchese, Andrea Detti, Daniel Xhakalliu, Giuseppe Bianchi, Michele Luglio, Luca Fiscariello, Cesare Roseti, Arianna Miraval and Pierpaolo Loreti - Simulating and Observing Satellite Threats: A Monitoring-Aware Cyber Range for Satellite Security Training
- Alexandre Duc, Grégoire Guyot and Pascal Perrenoud - E-Laun: OTAR resistant to evil launchers
- Niall Canavan, Tuan Hoang, Ayesha Khalid and Maire O’Neill - Decimated in Linear Time; Single Power Trace, Full Key Recovery Attack on Toeplitz Hash Privacy Amplification
- Enrico Petraglio, Yorick Brunet, Pascal Perrenoud, Clément Dieperink, Yoan Graf, Anthony Convers, Anthony Jaccard and Yann Thoma - Hybrid modular hardware-software solution for securing ground-satellites communication
- Stephan Havermans, Lars Baumgaertner, Marcus Wallum and Juan Caballero - Differential Testing of Bundle Protocol v7 Implementations: A Preliminary Report
- Alessandro Santorsola, Daniele Mammone, Stefano Longari, Francesco Topputo and Matteo Mergè - An End-to-End GEO Satellite Links Simulation Framework for Cyber Range Applications
- David Koisser, Albert Schwarzkopf, Ferdinand Brasser and Giacomo Da Broi - Efficient PKI Design for Secure Communication and Collaboration in Space Networks
- Joshua Smailes, Filip Futera, Sebastian Köhler, Simon Birnbach, Martin Strohmeier and Ivan Martinovic - DSNS: The Deep Space Network Simulator
- Jannik Mähn, Matthias Müller and Karin Zielinski - Crypto Agility Definitions for Space Systems
- Park Junbeom, Park Jongsou and Yoon Zizung - Semantic-Aware Anomaly Detection for Satellite-IoT Networks: A Lightweight Transformer-Based Approach
- Huimin Li, Vusal Novruzov, Nikhilesh Singh, Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi - AegisSat: Securing AI-Enabled SoC FPGA Satellite Platforms
- Virgile Robles, Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Franziskus Kiefer - Secure Satellite Software-Defined Payloads with High-Assurance Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Edd Salkield, Sebastian Köhler, Simon Birnbach and Ivan Martinovic - Inherent Vulnerabilities in Hybrid CDMA & Cryptographic Spread Spectrum for Space Systems
- Alin-Petru Rosu and Oana-Alexandra Graur - Towards Minimal Certificates in Federated Space Public Key Infrastructure