"We just went with what seemed the best supported": Lessons on Cryptographic Practices in Securing Microcontrollers from Embedded CTFs

This repository contains the additional research artifacts for the paper "We just went with what seemed the best supported": Lessons on Cryptographic Practices in Securing Microcontrollers from Embedded CTFs.

In alignment with the open science policy, our study is committed to enhancing the transparency of our research findings. We make available all research artifacts that are permissible within the constraints of our IRB study protocol, including the background survey, interview questionnaire, and the codebook used for thematic analysis. Detailed interview transcripts, however, cannot be shared publicly due to privacy and confidentiality constraints specified by our IRB study protocol.

All the artifacts are available in the additional_artifacts.pdf file, which includes:

• Ethical Considerations
• Open Science
  • MITRE eCTF Competition Themes
  • Submission Analysis Tables in 2023 and 2024 eCTF
  • Demographics Survey
  • Participant Demographics Table
  • Interview Questions
  • Qualitative Codebook