Special Issue on Offensive and Defensive Techniques in the Context of Man At The End (MATE) Attacks
Guest Editors:
- Michele Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Sebastian Schrittwieser, University of Vienna, Austria, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
MATE (Man-At-The-End) is an attacker model where an adversary has access to the target software or hardwareenvironment of his victim and the ability to observe and modify it in order to extract secrets such as cryptographickeys or sensitive information, possibly with the subsequent goal of altering code integrity or inserting backdoors,among others. A typical example of such a scenario is the case of an attack on a stolen smartphone or againstsoftware leveraging protection to hide sensitive data or intellectual property.