Workshop on the Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec) 2024 Program

08:00 - 09:00

Breakfast

Boardroom with Foyer

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Cockatoo Room

09:15 - 10:00

Keynote Talk: Unintended Consequences on the Final Frontier: Short–Term and Long-Term Outcomes of National Security Policy on Space Technology Development

Speaker: Prof Greg Autry, Director of the Thunderbird Initiative for Space Leadership, Policy, and Business in the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and an Affiliate Professor with the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University

Cockatoo Room

10:00 - 10:20

Break

10:20 - 12:00

Session 1

Cockatoo Room

• Resilient Routing for Low Earth Orbit Mega-Constellation Networks

  Alexander Kedrowitsch (Virginia Tech), Daphne Yao (Virginia Tech), Jonathan Black (Virginia Tech)
• Requirements and Concepts for TT&C Link Key Management

  Christoph Bader (Airbus Defence & Space GmbH)
• Sticky Fingers: Resilience of Satellite Fingerprinting against Jamming Attacks

  Joshua Smailes (University of Oxford), Edd Salkield (University of Oxford), Sebastian Köhler (University of Oxford), Simon Birnbach (University of Oxford), Martin Strohmeier (Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse S+T), Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford)
• Securing the Satellite Software Stack

  Samuel Jero (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Juliana Furgala (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Max A Heller (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Benjamin Nahill (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Samuel Mergendahl (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Richard Skowyra (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Lawn

13:30 - 15:10

Session 2

Cockatoo Room

• Connecting the Dots in the Sky: Website Fingerprinting in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Internet

  Prabhjot Singh (University of Waterloo), Diogo Barradas (University of Waterloo), Tariq Elahi (University of Edinburgh), Noura Limam (University of Waterloo)
• On the Security of Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control

  Martin Strohmeier (Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse S+T), Tobias Lüscher (ETH Zurich), Vincent Lenders (Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse S+T)
• On the Feasibility of CubeSats Application Sandboxing for Space Missions

  Gabriele Marra (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Ulysse Planta (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science), Philipp Wüstenberg (Chair of Space Technology, Technische Universität Berlin), Ali Abbasi (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
• Space-Domain AI Applications need Rigorous Security Risk Analysis

  Alexandra Weber (Telespazio Germany GmbH), Peter Franke (Telespazio Germany GmbH)

15:10 - 15:40

Break

15:40 - 17:00

Session 3

Cockatoo Room

• Merge/Space: A Security Testbed for Satellite Systems

  M. Patrick Collins (USC/ISI), J.P. Walters (USC/ISI), Calvin Ardi (USC/ISI), Chris Tran (USC/ISI), Stephen Schwab (USC/ISI)
• COSPAS Search and Rescue Satellite Uplink: A MAC-Based Security Enhancement

  Syed Khandker (New York University Abu Dhabi), Krzysztof Jurczok (Amateur Radio Operator), Christina Pöpper (New York University Abu Dhabi)
• Threats Against Satellite Ground Infrastructure: A retrospective analysis of sophisticated attacks

  Jessie Hamill-Stewart (University of Bristol and University of Bath), Awais Rashid (University of Bristol)
• Towards generic backward-compatible software upgrades for COSPAS-SARSAT EPIRB 406 MHz to support authenticated messaging with PKI digital signatures

  Ahsan Saleem (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Andrei Costin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Hannu Turtiainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

17:00 - 17:15

Closing Remarks

Cockatoo Room