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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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Sponsor

CSAW'23

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competition timeline

22 August 2022
30 September 2022
30 September 2022
   05 October 2022
06 October 2022
07 November 2022
Qualification Round Start
Registration Deadline 
Qualification Report Submission Deadline
Finalist Notification
First Challenge Set Released
Final Challenge Deliverables Deadline
11 November 2022
In-Person Demos & Presentations in NYC - US & Valence - France
Competition Details
Competiion Timeline
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Finalists

judges

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

in the assessment of finalist teams' research.

Judges

competition organizers

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

Email the Global Leads

Organizers
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2022 winners

Congratulations to our winning teams! 
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2022 Winners
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2021 winners

Congratulations to our winning teams! 
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2021 Winners

2021 finalists

Congratulations to our 2021 Finalists
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2021 Finalists
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