Bernd Prünster

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc

Secure Applications, Senior Staff - A-SIT Plus

Bernd Prünster received his PhD degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology in 2021 (with distinction) and a master's degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology (with distinction) in 2016. He joined IAIK in the same year. During his bachelor and master studies he was involved in EU-funded research projects at the Cognitive Science Section. He currently works as Senior IT Security Expert at A-SIT Plus, a limited company 100% owned by the non-profit association A-SIT.

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Research

My main research interest during my PhD studies lied in security and trust management in decentralised systems in the context of peer-to-peer and cloud environments. I focused on usable security and explore ways to enhance the security properties of connected services by harnessing the joint capabilities of different device classes.

I am/was involved in the following research projects:

mGov4EU – Mobile Cross–Border Government Services for Europe
EU H2020–SC6–GOVERNANCE–2020 (2021-2032)
SEMPER – Cross-border Semantic Interoperability of Powers and Mandates
EU CEF-TC-2018-1 (2019-2020)
SUNFISH – SecUre iNFormatIon SHaring in federated heterogeneous private clouds
EU H2020-ICT-2014-1 (2015-2017)
weSPOT – Working Environment with Social and Personal Open Tools for inquiry based learning
EU FP7-ICT-2011-8 (2012-2015)
ROLE – Responsive Open Learning Environments
EU FP7-ICT-2007-3 (2009-2013)

Publications

Armored Twins: Flexible Privacy Protection for Digital Twins through Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption and Multi-Party Computation

Hörandner F., Prünster B.
18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021), SECRYPT 2021

AndroTIME: Identifying Timing Side Channels in the Android API

Palfinger G., Prünster B., Ziegler D.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 1849-1856

Total Eclipse of the Heart – Disrupting the InterPlanetary File System

Prünster B., Marsalek A., Zefferer T.
30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21), 30th USENIX Security Symposium

AndroPRINT: Analysing the Fingerprintability of the Android API

Palfinger G., Prünster B.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2020, 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Multiply, Divide, and Conquer - Making Fully Decentralised Access Control a Reality

Prünster B., Palfinger G., Ziegler D.
Network and System Security - 14th International Conference, NSS 2020, Proceedings, 14th International Conference, NSS 2020, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings, 14th International Conference on Network and System Security, 311-326, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12570 LNCS)

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