Thomas Zefferer
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.Secure Applications, SIC, A-SIT+

Research
My research interests include e-government, electronic identification and authentication, electronic signatures, mobile security, and blockchain technology. I contributed to several national and international research projects and activities, including:
- STORK and STORK 2.0: EU Large Scale Pilots on eID federation
- eSENS: EU Large Scale Pilot on Building Block consolidation
- SUNFISH: Horizon 2020 project on the secure federation of governments’ private cloud infrastructures
- FutureTrust: Horizon 2020 project on advancing trust services in the European Union and beyond
Service
- Programme Committee Member and reviewer of several conferences
- Reviewer of several journals, including Government Information Quarterly (Elsevier), Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), and Computers (MDPI)
Publications
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
E-Government in the Public Cloud: Requirements and Opportunities
Abraham A., Hörandner F., Zefferer T., Zwattendorfer B.
Electronic Government, Vol. 16(3), 260-280
Evaluation in Pilot-Based Research Projects: A Hierarchical Approach
Zefferer T.
Web Information Systems and Technologies - 14th International Conference, WEBIST 2018, Revised Selected Papers, 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2018, 125-146, (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 372 LNBIP)
A Correctable Public Blockchain
Marsalek A., Zefferer T.
2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019, 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering, 554-561
Tackling data inefficiency: Compressing the bitcoin blockchain
Marsalek A., Zefferer T., Fasllija E., Ziegler D.
2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019, 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering, 626-633, (Proceedings - 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019