Events
The kick-off meeting for the Tearless project was held on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 from 1:00 till 18:00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in room 10.F.720 of building F.
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:30 Arrival and lunch
- 14:30 - 16:30 Meeting
- Project Overview (30 min)
- Technical Presentations
- 16:30 - 18:00 Reception with networking opportunities
The Tearless project was introduced to the Meteor community during the Meteor Brussels Meetup held on Saturday, February 27, 2016 from 10:00 till 18:00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in room 10.F.729 of building F.
Agenda
- 10:00 - 10:30 Arrival and coffee
- 10:30 - 12:30 Project Presentations
- MeteorLabs by Stavros Elaias
- Citizenlab by Aline Muylaert & Witse Van Ransbeeck
- IWT Tearless Project Overview by Joeri De Koster & Elisa Gonzalez Boix
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- 13:30 - 18:00 Hacking and networking
The Tearless project was introduced to the Node.js community during the Node.js User Group Belgium Meetup held on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 from 19:00 till 22:00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in room 10.F.720 of building F.
Agenda
- 19:00 - 19:30 Arrival and drinks
- 19:30 - 21:30 Project Presentations
- IWT Tearless Project Overview by Joeri De Koster
- Implementing Offline Functionality for RIAs by Joeri De Koster
- 21:30 - 22:00 Networking
The second user group meeting for the Tearless project was held on Friday, November 25, 2016 from 14:00 till 16:30 at the Distrinet Research Group (KU Leuven)
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:05 Welcome
- 14:05 - 14:55 Invited talk "CSP is Dead, Long Live CSP! On the Insecurity of Whitelists and the Future of the Content Security Policy" (Sebastian Lekies from Google) (Youtube)
- 14:55 - 15:15 The Tearless server-side JavaScript security architecture (Willem De Groef)
- 15:15 - 15:35 The static meta-level architecture of Tearless: transforming JavaScript into continuation-passing style (Joeri De Koster)
- 15:35 - 16:00 The dynamic meta-level architecture of Tearless: instrumenting JavaScript code for tier-specific monitoring (Laurent Christophe)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Informal discussion and feedback with drinks
- (optional 16:30) Closing keynote of OWASP Benelux Security Days "The Future of Security" by Bart Preneel
The third user group meeting for the Tearless project was held on Thursday, May 15, 2017 from 14:00 till 17:30 at the Software Language Lab (VUB Brussel)
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:30 Welcome + Status overview
- 14:30 - 15:30 Invited Keynote "Ocsigen: multi-tier programming for multi-platform apps" by Vincent Balat of Be Sport
- 15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
- 15:45 - 16:30 Cross-tier dynamic analysis of distributed JavaScript applications (VUB)
- 16:30 - 17:15 Stronger application isolation mechanisms for Tearless: why and how? (KULeuven)
- 17:15 - 17:30 Wrap-up + Round-table discussion
- 17:30 - 18:30 Reception with networking opportunities
The fourth user group meeting for the Tearless project was held on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 14:00 till 17:30 at the Distrinet Research Group (KU Leuven)
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:15 Welcome
- 14:15 - 15:15 Invited Keynote "JSLINQ: Building Secure Applications across Tiers" by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld
- 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 16:00 Cross-tier dynamic analysis of distributed JavaScript applications (VUB)
- 16:00 - 16:30 SGX-based confinement (KU Leuven)
- 16:30 - 17:10 Demonstrators of Tearless research: UniCorn calendar application (VUB) & Securely running server-side code on the client with SGX (KU Leuven)
- 17:10 - 17:30 Wrap up followed by reception
The fifth user group meeting for the Tearless project was held on Friday, December 14, 2018 from 14:00 till 16:30 at the Software Language Lab (VUB Brussel)
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:15 Welcome & Status Overview
- 14:15 - 14:45 VUB talk by Nathalie Oostvogels: a type system for expressing complex presence constraints in interfaces
- 14:45 - 13:15 VUB talk by Kevin De Porre: language extensions for strongly eventual consistent replicated objects
- 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 16:00 KUL talk by Frank Piessens: the impact of micro-architectural attacks like Spectre, Meltdown and Foreshadow on Tearless security mechanisms and on software security in general.
- 16:00 - 16:20 KUL demo of the Foreshadow attack
- 16:20 - 16:30 Wrap-up and closing remarks
- 16:30 - 17:30 Reception with networking opportunities
The Tearless project was introduced to the Node.js community during the JSbe.io User Group Belgium Meetup held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from 19:00 till 22:00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in room E.0.0.7 of building E.
Agenda
- 19:00 - 19:30 Arrival and drinks
- 19:30 - 21:30 Project Presentations
- 21:30 - 22:00 Networking
The sixth user group meeting for the Tearless project was held on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 from 14:00 till 18:00 at the Distrinet Research Group (KU Leuven)
Agenda
- 14:00 - 14:15 Welcome and project status overview
- 14:15 - 15:15 Keynote by Daniel Gruss, TU Graz: Jumping Abstraction Layers: Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript
- 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 16:00 KU Leuven talk by Bob Reynders about Gavial: combining ideas from multi-tier languages with functional reactive programming
- 16:00 - 16:30 VUB talk by Maarten Vandercammen about concolic testing for full-stack JavaScript web applications
- 16:30 - 17:00 Feedback on demonstrators & discussion of post-trajectory
- 17:00 - 18:00 Reception with networking opportunities