Bachelor and Master Theses
This is a list of current proposed topics and research areas for theses. The degree column serves as an indicator for the expected complexity, but usually it is possible to adjust the scope to also fit other degrees. If you are interested in one of these topics, please get in touch with the indicated contact person. If you would like to write a thesis with us, but don't find a suitable topic on this list (or if you have your own idea), please contact us anyway.
| Topic | Degree | Contact person |
|---|---|---|
| An SGX-Enclave for Trustworthy Insurance Questionnaire Evaluation | Bachelor | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
| Datenschutzfreundliche Veröffentlichung von Business Process Log-Daten | Bachelor | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
| Security Analysis of Time Shared Intel Arria 10 PAC | Bachelor | Thore Tiemann |
| Security Analysis of the SOPR-Demonstrator on an Agilex FPGA | Bachelor | Thore Tiemann |
| Secure Extension of the Corona Warn App | Bachelor | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
| Privacy Attacks on Decision Trees for psychological and insurance surveys | Bachelor | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
| Stylometry Attacks | Bachelor | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
| Stealthy kleptographic crypto systems | Master | Thomas Eisenbarth |
| White-box cryptography | Master | Okan Seker |
| Securing cryptographic implementations | Master | Okan Seker |
| FPGA-based Rowhammer Attacks on DDR4 Memory | Master | Thore Tiemann |
| Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning | Master | Esfandiar Mohammadi |
Completed Theses
2021
| Degree | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Master | Alexander Treff | Side-Channel Attacks against Neural Network Hardware Accelerators |
| Master | Marven Kummerfeldt | The Curse of Dimensionality for Additive Noise |
| Bachelor | Daniel Widmer | Trading Computation Time for Energy |
| Bachelor | Christopher Krebs | Algorithms for RSA key recovery |
| Bachelor | Moritz Dorn | Optimizing the Picnic Signature Scheme for Small Devices |
| Master | Théo Giovanna | Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Cyber Insurance |
| Bachelor | Kevin Richter | Precision of city simulations using publicly available city data |
| Bachelor | Kilian Zeiseweis | Evaluation of Injected Data from an Adapted Smart City Simulation |
| Master | Niclas Kath | Privacy Concerns in Models about Physical Activity |
2020
| Degree | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Master | Lucas Bergmann | Anomaly Detection for Intrusion Detection |
| Bachelor | Anja Rabich | Software-based Undervolting Faults in AMD Processors |
| Master | Gilian Henke | Attacks on DDR4 Memory Scrambling |
| Bachelor | Tim-Henrik Traving | Practical Analysis of Algorithm Substitution Attacks |
| Master | Christoph Peglow | Security Analysis of Intel's Input/Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) |
| Bachelor | Moritz Nicklas | Security Analysis of Contact-less Smart Cards on Campus |
| Bachelor | Julia Gawlik | Quantification of information leakages in binaries |
| Master | Luca Wilke | Injection Attacks on Secure Encrypted Virtualization |
| Bachelor | Tim Gellersen | Side-Channel Attacks on Post-Quantum Signature Scheme Picnic |
| Bachelor | Pajam Pauls | An Analysis of Contemporary Attacks on White-Box Implementations |
| Master | Thore Tiemann | Exploiting Cache Side-Channels on CPU-FPGA Cloud Platforms |
| Master | Malte Stoffers | Analysis of microarchitectural attacks on ARM-platforms |
| Bachelor | Nils Gutjahr | Attacks on AVX-512 |
| Bachelor | Michael Brückner | Minimizing The Use of Personal Information in a Given Legacy System Via Data Synthesis |
2019
| Degree | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor | Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi | Fingerprinting and Secret Extraction in Docker Multi-Container Applications via Memory Deduplication |
| Bachelor | Anna Pätschke | Security Analysis of a JSON RPC API with JavaScript Frontends |
| Bachelor | Gordon Dahlke | Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Alternative Ethereum Clients |
| Bachelor | Oguzhan Tekin | Side-Channel Analysis of a Compact AES FPGA Implementation |
| Bachelor | Johannes Liebenow | Anomaly Detection in Login Data |
| Bachelor | Fabian Westphal | Secure Data Transfer and Processing in an Enclave using Intel SGX |
2018
| Degree | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Master | Nils Klawitter | Confidential Data Storage on an IoT-oriented Distributed Ledger |
| Bachelor | Florian Dahlmann | PKI for Automotive Applications |
| Bachelor | Jonas Sander | MemJam+Abort: Combining Two Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks |
| Master | Jacqueline Thaeter | Garbled Circuits: From White-Box Cryptography to Zero-Knowledge Proofs |
| Master | Moritz Krebbel | Browser-basierte Cache-Angriffe auf die RSA-Schlüsselgenerierung |
