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Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling

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Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling. / Schlehuber, C.; Heinrich, M.; Vateva-Gurova, T. et al.
2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE, 2017. p. 139-145.

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Schlehuber, C, Heinrich, M, Vateva-Gurova, T, Katzenbeisser, S & Suri, N 2017, Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling. in 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE, pp. 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW.2017.63

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Schlehuber, C., Heinrich, M., Vateva-Gurova, T., Katzenbeisser, S., & Suri, N. (2017). Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling. In 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 139-145). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW.2017.63

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Schlehuber C, Heinrich M, Vateva-Gurova T, Katzenbeisser S, Suri N. Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling. In 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE. 2017. p. 139-145 doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW.2017.63

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Schlehuber, C. ; Heinrich, M. ; Vateva-Gurova, T. et al. / Challenges and approaches in securing safety-relevant railway signalling. 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE, 2017. pp. 139-145

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