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 Power to Never Be Wrong: Evasions and Anachronistic Attacks Against Web Archives
Robin Kirchner, Chris Tsoukaladelis, Martin Johns, and Nick Nikiforakis
Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025 (to appear) [BIB] [GitHub] [Zenodo]
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
Proc. of 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]
2025, Speaker at RSAC, San Francisco
2025, Speaker at Google Workshop, München
2024, Speaker at Charter of Trust Meetup, Braunschweig
2023, Speaker at MyPhd, Münster
| Year | Conferences |
|---|---|
| 2025 | USENIX Security |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Winter | Seminar LLM Security |
| 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) |