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Research Artifacts in Security Research

Position Paper on Research Artifacts in Security Research Published

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"What Has Artifact Evaluation Ever Done for Us?" in IEEE S&P Magazine discusses the possible benefits of wide-spread artifact sharing for the security community. Research Artifact Sharing in the Security community is not that prevalent yet. Authors are reluctant to share their data, prototypes, and experiments due to several issues - some justified, some not.

While artifact sharing is now an established practice in many part of computer science research, its adoption in the security community is still in lower than in other fields. This of course has several reasons which we reflect in this position paper in the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. We also make several suggestions to mitigate these issues in order to allow more artifact sharing in security research. This will overall benefit the community as a whole - so not only the research community but also industry and open-source communities. 

IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine is publication of the IEEE Computer and Reliability Societies. It has a vast readership in the scientific community and in the industry. 

What Has Artifact Evaluation Ever Done for Us?
Ben Hermann
in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 96-99, Sept.-Oct. 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2022.3184234