Karl Koch
Dipl.-Ing. BScSecure Applications, PhD Student
Dig Deeper to Jump Higher and
Together is better are one of Karl's maxims.


Research
Interests
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Security & privacy in the cloud
→ search
→ data sharing
→ computation -
Secure & private messaging
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Web-application & mobile security
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Organizational/Team Culture & Servant Leadership; such as the research/work from Simon Sinek
“Imagine a world in which the vast majority of us wake up inspired, feel safe at work and return home fulfilled at the end of the day.” – Simon
→ Currently I’m not actively researching in this field, but let me know if you are also interested in this topic 🙂
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Mind-Body Connection; such as the research/work from Joe Dispenza;
especially the connection to Corporate Training, which aims to support organizations in thriving towards their vision
→ Currently I’m not researching in this field, but let me know if you are also interested in this topic 🙃
Activities
- Since May 2019 → Contributing to the EU-project Safe-DEED, which focuses, among other things, on MPC.
- January 2019 to April 2019 → Erasmus+ traineeship, as part of my Master’s thesis, at the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group (COSIC) at KU Leuven, Belgium. Focus on creating a benchmark framework for the MPC-engine SCALE-MAMBA.
- November 2016 to October 2018 → Contributed to the EU-project CREDENTIAL, which focused on privacy-preserving identity and data management.
Teaching
Current
At the moment I’m not involved in teaching; this may change. Stay Tuned (;
Previous
- Winter term 2018/19 -> SPRING 18 aka. Security & Privacy in Modern Web Services aka. Selected Topics IT Security 2
- Co-organizing and co-lecturing
- Winter term 2017/18 -> SPRING 17 aka. Security & Privacy in Modern Web Services aka. Selected Topics IT Security 2
- Co-organizing and co-lecturing
- 2018-01-12 -> Guest lecture in Information Security, former Introduction to Information Security
- Introduction to web-application security (mainly user input, XSS, CSRF, SQLi, and CTFing)
- 2016-01-22 -> Guest lecture in Security Aspects in Software Development
- Introduction to the padding-oracle attack on plain AES-CBC
Study Assistant
- Winter term 2016/17 -> Security Aspects in Software Development
- Focus on web-security part
- Winter term 2015/16 -> Security Aspects in Software Development
- Focus on web-security part
- Summer term 2015 -> IT Security
- Focus on side-channel-analysis task (AES DPA) and overview/scoring page (via Redmine)
- Winter term 2014/15 -> Security Aspects in Software Development
- Focus on cryptography part
- Winter term 2014/15 -> Software Development in Distributed Environments
- WebRTC and blockchain part
Publications
Privacy-preserving Analytics for Data Markets using MPC
Koch K., Krenn S., Pellegrino D., Ramacher S.
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search
Brown P., Cernava T., Huber M., Koch K., Polz M., Yang W., Pereira J., Chen Y., Jean-Quartier C., Nguyen T.
Database - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation