Resources
Since I get asked certain questions for resources over and over again, I started to put a list together in order to be able to look them up fast. The lists come without varanty and as is, but I am happy to add further items or correct errors if you drop me a mail.Awards
Award | Donator | Scope | Phd | MA | BA | Others | Frequence | Deadline |
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Security and Privacy Awards | ||||||||
Deutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis | Horst Görzt Stiftung | IT-security: Relevant to the market, innovatice, mature | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Bi-Yearly | |
Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit | CAST / GI | progress in IT security, enable security in IT applications | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Yearly | Mid of December |
Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit | CAST | innovative ideas, interesting results, new points of view and ways within current and relevant topics of IT security | ✗ | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | Yearly | End of July |
GDD Wissenschaftspreis | GDD | help close the gap between the legal, technical and social framework of data protection and data security | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Yearly | End of July |
EDPL Young Scholars Award | European Data Protection Law Review | Articles based on (MA/PhD) thesis for young researchers (under 35), deal with data protection issues, European perspective (legal, interdisciplinary) | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | Yearly (?) | November |
ERCIM STM PhD Award | ERCIM, WG STM | Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Yearly (?) | July |
CNIL-Inria Privacy Award | CNIL, INRIA | scientific paper on privacy and personal data protection | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | September |
Casper Bowden PET Award | Petsymposium | any paper on privacy enhancing technologies | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | April |
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award | Petsymposium | Best student paper | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | |
Kristian Beckman Award | IFIP TC11 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | ||
Yves Deswarte Best Student Paper Award | IFIP TC11 | Best student paper on IFIP SEC | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | |
Awards suitable for Security and Privacy also | ||||||||
Deutscher Studienpreis | Körber Stiftung | social significance, benefit of scientific knowledge for society as a whole. | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Yearly | March 1st |
Wissenschaftspreis TARGION | Intargia | strategic information management, digitisation and digital transformation | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Yearly | End of Februar |
EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award | ACM EURO/SYS, Red Hat | creativity and innovation in systems research, broadly construed; price based on impact | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | Yearly | Mid of March |
Learning
Free Books
- Security Engineering
- A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography
- Cryptography, An Introduction: 3rd Edition
- Building Secure and Reliable Systems
- The Joy of Cryptography -- Undergraduate textbook
- Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Using R
- Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing
Lists of Books
Cheatsheets
- R color cheatsheet by
- Data Science Cheatsheet by (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, local mirror, January 2021)
- Probability Cheatsheet by (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, local mirror, January 2021)
Platforms
- CRYPTOHACK: A fun free platform for learning modern cryptography
- Information-Flow Control (IFC) Challenge
Videos
Free Online Courses
Research
Datasets
Response data - Survey on privacy impacts of voice & speech analysis. DepositOnce, 2021.
Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Jondonym. IEEE Dataport, 2020.
Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Tor. IEEE Dataport, 2020.
Collections
Publishing
Lists of possibly predatory journals
Open Access Policies
Writing
LaTeX Hints

Response data - Survey on privacy impacts of voice & speech analysis. DepositOnce, 2021.

Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Jondonym. IEEE Dataport, 2020.

Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Tor. IEEE Dataport, 2020.
Spacing between abbreviations such as e.g., i.e. | e.\,g. |
Spacing before citations such as \cite{ref} | Author et al.~\cite{ref} |
Presenting
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