UBITECH and SURREY represented CASTOR at the Trusted Computing Group physical meeting (held in the Netherlands) and talked about the advanced (composite) attestation and crypto structures designed for safeguarding the state verification of each routing element, which, in turn, allow the trust characterization of the entire path to be established. During the event, Stefanos Vasileiadis...
On 4 June, the Technical University of Iași attended the TECHNOVERS exhibition, where it showcased ongoing research and innovation initiatives. During the event, the CASTOR project was presented to interested visitors, offering an overview of its objectives, technologies, and expected impact. The exhibition brought together academic representatives, industry stakeholders, and the general public, providing organisations...
CASTOR actively participated in the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025, which took place from June 3–6 in Poznan, Poland. On June 4, the project contributed to the session "Network Softwarization Technology Enablers for Trust and Security in B5G and 6G Networks", where Ioannis Krontiris delivered a forward-looking presentation on “Trusted Path Routing & Path Validation...
UBITECH attended the IETF 123 Physical Meeting, where the team presented its vision on extending Trusted Path Routing, a key step towards enhancing the security and resilience of modern networks. The goal was to motivate the need towards incrementing the static nature of the current secure routing mechanisms, already established in the TPR Draft, with...
At the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, the University of Murcia participated in two workshops: NAIFNET – The First Workshop on Native AI in Future Networks Including 6G (https://naifnet.github.io/), where it served as co-chair and delivered presentations on an AI/ML framework for resource optimization, linked to CASTOR's work on orchestration, and the SecSOFT workshop...
Workshop on Cybersecurity Innovation and Resilience (CYBERSHIELD) UBITECH, CASTOR’s coordinator, presented a new paper, “Trust or Bust: Reinforcing Trust-Aware Path Establishment with Implicit Attestation Capabilities,” at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR). The paper addresses a critical challenge in today's digital landscape: ensuring trust and security across the entire...
At the 34th USENIX Security Symposium, NVIDIA presents BlueGuard, a new introspection architecture using a physically isolated Data Processing Unit (DPU) to perform full system introspection of the host system, including VMs running on it. By using a DPU, BlueGuard enables secure inspection of bare-metal systems while leveraging the hardware accelerators available in recent DPUs....
CASTOR at ITS World Congress: Spotlight on V2X Innovation Commsignia, a key partner in CASTOR Horizon program, will take centre stage at the ITS World Congress, Atlanta, both as exhibitor and panel organizer on the future of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies in the US and Europe. While the US pushes forward with its National Deployment Plan, Europe...
CASTOR consortium partners participated in the 2025 International Conference on Information and Communication Security (ICICS 2025), held in Nanjing, China, where they presented research advancing trust, privacy, and post-quantum security. Prof. Liqun Chen (University of Surrey) delivered the keynote “Post-Quantum Group-Oriented Anonymous Signatures from Symmetric Primitives,” discussing the evolution of anonymous signature schemes such as...
On November 13th, 2025, at Def.Camp, Orange Romania has hosted an SNS-focused workshop on “the critical challenges and innovative solutions for ensuring security, privacy, and reliability in the next generation of wireless technology.” The goal of the workshop was the dissemination of ambitions and outcomes for several SNS projects and B5G-topical projects. On that occasion,...
At the 24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2025), Yalan Wang (University of Surrey) presented the paper “An Improved Vector Commitment Construction with Applications to Signatures”. The work introduced an efficient batched vector commitment scheme, called BACON, based on the half-tree technique and relying solely on hash...
Suite5 took part in the RESCALE Workshop at the HiPEAC2026 Conference in Krakow, where they presented the CASTOR project. The event provided an excellent platform to highlight CASTOR’s vision and objectives for secure path routing in the compute continuum, while also reinforcing collaboration with the RESCALE project on cybersecurity-related initiatives.
