Robin Kirchner is a PhD candidate and is currently working in the field of web security, messenger privacy, Web components, and parser confusion vulnerabilities. Before starting his PhD, he worked in research & development at Siemens Mobility GmbH.
robin.kirchner (at) tu-braunschweig.de
Room IZ-243
0531/391-2271
The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data Protection
Simon Koch, Manuel Karl, Robin Kirchner, Malte Wessels, Anne Paschke, and Martin Johns
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS'25), 2025 [PETS] [BIB]
A Black-Box Privacy Analysis of Messaging Service Providers’ Chat Message Processing
Robin Kirchner, Simon Koch, Noah Kamangar, David Klein, and Martin Johns
Proc. of the 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2024, Bristol, UK. [BIB] [Artifact]
Dancer in the Dark: Synthesizing and Evaluating Polyglots for Blind Cross-Site Scripting
Robin Kirchner, Jonas Möller, Marius Musch, David Klein, Konrad Rieck, Martin Johns
Proc. of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [USENIX] [Slides] [BIB] [Artifact] [Video]
>>> Distinguished Paper Award Winner <<<
Server-Side Browsers: Exploring the Web’s Hidden Attack Surface
Marius Musch, Robin Kirchner, Max Boll, and Martin Johns
Proc. of the 17th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), 2022, Nagasaki, Japan. [BIB]
| Year | Conferences |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Euro S&P, CCS |
| 2023 | IEEE S&P Cycle 1, 2 & 3, WWW, ACSAC, ARES |
| 2022 | IEEE S&P Cycle 3, Euro S&P, Codaspy, ARES |
| 2021 | SAC, WWW, ACSAC, ARES |
| Year | Semester | Course |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Summer | Lecture Websicherheit (TA), Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA) |
| 2023/24 | Winter | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA), Hacklab: Praktikum IT-Sicherheit 2 (Contributor), Teamprojekt Anwendungssicherheit (TA) |
| 2023 | Summer | Lecture Websicherheit (TA), Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA) |
| 2022/23 | Winter | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA), Hacklab: Praktikum IT-Sicherheit 2 (Contributor) |
| 2022 | Summer | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA), Websicherheit (Contributor) |
| 2021/22 | Winter | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA), Hacklab: Praktikum IT-Sicherheit 2 (Contributor) |
| 2021 | Summer | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA) |
| 2020/21 | Winter | Seminar Anwendungssicherheit (TA) |