Master Theses
Interested in a Master Thesis @ IAIK? Here you will find all the relevant information! We offer opportunites for all students of Informatik, Softwareentwicklung/Wirtschaft and Telematik. Most of these offers are closely related to one of our research-projects. Thus, even if you don't find something that interests you on the list of open topic, just ask any of the possible supervisors on other options!
Open Topics
All our research groups have topics related to our current research work available that are well suited for a masters thesis. If interested, contact one of the following members of IAIK...
| Field of Research | Possible Advisors |
|---|---|
| Design and Verification | Roderick Bloem |
| Trusted Computing, Java Security | |
| Krypto | Vincent Rijmen, Martin Schläffer, Tomislav Nad, |
| VLSI, RFID | Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos, Erich Wenger |
| Networks | Peter Teufl |
| Implementation Attacks (IMPA Lab) | Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos |
| eGovernment | Herbert Leitold |
Master Theses in progress
| Student | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Raphael Spreitzer | Practial Cache Attacks on Smartphones | Thomas Plos |
| Jeremias-Peter Kleer | A Low-Resource Hardware Implementation of Direct Anonymous Attestation | Michael Hutter |
| Wolfgang Issovits | Relay Attacks on RFID Systems Based on ISO 14443 | Michael Hutter |
| Thomas Kern | ECC Implementation for Passive RFID Tags | Martin Feldhofer |
| Markus Krainz | AES Crypto Module for Contactless Smartcard | Martin Feldhofer |
| Michael Mühlberghuber | Implementation of ECC module for smart cards | Martin Feldhofer |
| Johann Ertl | ASIC Implementation of UHF EPC Gen2 Security Tag | Martin Feldhofer |
| Zoran Milinkovic | Implementations of a SHA-3 candidate | Christian Rechberger |
| Jürgen Windhaber | GPU Implementation Techniques for Differential Collision Search Attacks | Christian Rechberger |
| Heinz Riener | Formal Methods for the Analysis of Program Mutations | Roderick Bloem |
| Hans Jürgen Gamauf | A Faster GR(1) Synthesis Algorithm | Roderick Bloem |
| Siegfried Podesser | Trust for Distributed Computing | Ronald Tögl |
| Florian Reimair | Trusted Virtual Security Module | Ronald Tögl Martin Pirker |
Finished Master Theses
| Student | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | ||
| Milan Milinkovic | Cycle Finding Techniques for Hash Functions | Florian Mendel |
| Thomas Korak | Evaluation of a Security-enabled NFC Tag with AES and ECDSA | Thomas Plos |
| 2010 | ||
| Erich Wenger | Low Power Cryptography for an ASIC Design | Martin Feldhofer |
| Andreas Grinschgl | Kryptographische Anonymisierung bei Verkehrsflussa... | Mario Lamberger |
| Christian Hanser | New Trends in Elliptic Curve Cryptography | Mario Lamberger |
| Markus Krainz | AES Crypto Module for Contactless Smartcards | Martin Feldhofer |
| 2009 | ||
| Konrad Lanz | Digital Signature Services | Peter Lipp |
| Robert Könighofer | Debugging Formal Specifications with Simplified Counterstrategies | Roderick Bloem |
| Gregor Kofler | A Canonical PDF Text Extraction Algorithm - Reconstruction of Electronic Signatures from Printouts | Reinhard Posch |
| Thomas Hodanek | Cryptanalysis of MD6 | Vincent Rijmen |
| Richard Springle | The adaptation from the biological unspecific immune system for analysis of network traffic. | Reinhard Posch |
| 2008 | ||
| Günther Lackner | IEEE 802.11 Layer 2 Address-Spoofing Protection | Udo Payer |
| Andreas Auer | Scaling Hardware for Electronic Signatures to a Minimum—A Low-Power Elliptic Curve Processor | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Michael Hofmann | FPGA extension for a chip card test device with an interface for the single wire protocol | Johannes Wolkerstorfer Friedrich Rupp (Infineon) |
| Daniel Hein | Elliptic Curve Cryptography ASIC for Radio Frequency Authentication | Johannes Wolkerstorfer Norbert Felber (ETH Zürich) |
| Georg Hofferek | Exploring the Design Space of the GPS Authentication Scheme | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Markus Primes | Evaluation of state-of-the-art trends in Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography and Implementation of a HECC library in Java | Mario Lamberger |
| Martin Mayer | Elektronische Stimmabgabe (E-Voting) unter Anwendung des Konzepts Bürgerkarte | Thomas Rössler |
| Simon Schwenner | Numerical Cryptanalysis of Modern Hash Functions | Mario Lamberger |
| Karin Koch | Linear Cryptanalysis of Reduced Variants of the Advanced Encryption Standard | Mario Lamberger |
| 2007 | ||
| Tomislav Nad | Numerical Solvers in Cryptanalysis | Vincent Rijmen, Mario Lamberger |
| Thomas Plos | Security-enhanced UHF RFID Tags | Martin Feldhofer |
| Mario Kirschbaum | Investigation of DPA-Resistant Logic Styles | Thomas Popp |
| Stefan Lemsitzer | Multi-Gigabit AES-Core for Reconfigurable Platforms | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Christoph Bouvier | Evaluation of Distributed Management Approaches for Embedded Systems | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Johannes Loinig | Gigabit Packet Filtering on Configurable Hardware | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Manuel Koschuch | Hardware/Software Codesign of Public-Key Cryptography for SSL Protocol Execution in Embedded Systems | Karl-Christian Posch, Johann Großschädl |
| Andreas Weitzer | Energy Evaluation of Instruction Set Extensions for Public-Key Cryptography | Karl-Christian Posch, Johann Großschädl |
| Thomas Zefferer | Attacking DPA-Resistant Logic Styles in Practice | Thomas Popp |
| 2006 | ||
| Markus Unterleitner | Computer Immune System for Network Intrusion Detection | Udo Payer |
| Martin Schläffer | Cryptanalysis of MD4 | Elisabeth Oswald |
| Kerstin Pötsch | Timing Attacks on RSA Implementations | Elisabeth Oswald, Stefan Mangard |
| Markus Demuth | Lattice Attack on ECDSA | Elisabeth Oswald, Mario Lamberger |
| Tobias Vejda | Instruction Set Extensions for Pairing-Based Cryptography | Elisabeth Oswald, Johann Großschädl |
| Bernd Zwattendorfer | Single Sign-On unter Verwendung der Bürgerkarte | Thomas Rössler |
| Michael Hutter | EM-Attacks on Cryptographic Devices | Stefan Mangard, Martin Feldhofer |
| Franz Fürbass | ECC Processor with Low Die Size for RFID Applications | Johannes Wolkerstorfer |
| Michael Steinkogler | The Power Consumption of Integrated Circuits in Simulation and Reality | Thomas Popp |
| Mario Ivkovic | Standalone CA and PKI Solution | Herbert Leitold |
| Klaus Stranacher | EDIAKT Viewer | Herbert Leitold |
| Christian Wieser | Security aspects in IP-Telephony (durchgeführt an Univ. Oulu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering) | Herbert Leitold |
| Michael Steinkogler | Implementation of a Standards-Based Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks Diese Diplomarbeit wurde in Kooperation mit den Sun Microsystems Laboratories (Menlo Park, CA, USA) durchgeführt. Der Betreuer in den Sun Labs war Dr. Vipul Gupta. |
Karl-Christian Posch, Johann Großschädl |
Title: Master Theses
E-Mail: teaching@iaik.tugraz.at
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