Embedded Security Challenge

ESC is an educational, research-oriented tournament aimed at hacking into the hardware of embedded systems. First run in 2008, it is the oldest hardware security competition in the world. 2022 represents ESC's 15 year anniversary.

Past ESC competitions have focused on data exfiltration attacks against IoT devices, hacking the firmware of a RISC-V wifi access point and executing side channel/fault injection attacks using a popular ChipWhisperer board.

This year's ESC focuses on machine learning-based attacks in both edge and cloud computing. Machine learning cloud services are used by millions of users every day, and special care needs to be taken to ensure trained models are protected from malicious users. This year, teams will investigate a range of attacks (such as model leakage) on the machine learning models hosted on a cloud server using a remote Raspberry Pi virtual device.

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Raspberry Pi 4

CSAW'19 Europe ESC 1st Place Team

CSAW'19 US-CAN ESC 1st Place Team Shellphish, UC Santa Barbara

Raspberry Pi 4

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competition timeline

22 August 2022

30 September 2022

TBD

9-12 November 2022

Qualification Round Start

Registration Deadline

Qualification Report Submission Deadline

Finalist Notification

First Challenge Set Released

Final Challenge Deliverables Deadline

In-Person Demos & Presentations in NYC - US & Valence - France

Competition Details

judges

Our sincere thanks to the panel of judges who lend their support and expertise

in the assessment of finalist teams' research.

competition organizers

The competition is organized under the supervision of Assistant Professor Nektarios Tsoutsos and the global challenge leads at the University of Delaware.