Student Projects

We have several open proposals for student projects, both for Research Project (Semesterarbeiten) and Master theses. Below, you can find a non-exhaustive list of the open projects we have. Please do not hesitate to write an e-mail to syssec.projects@lists.inf.ethz.ch, we will come back to you as soon as possible with some open projects. Remember to specify what interests you or if you have any particular project in mind.

Project Proposals

• Security analysis of a blood glucose meter (Research Project)
• Side-channel analysis of UHF RFID tags (Research Project)
• Mobile Malware Analysis - Process Monitor Tool (Research Project) [PDF]
• Implementation and evaluation of GPS spoofing countermeasures [PDF]
  
• Theoretic investigation of GPS group spoofing attacks [PDF]
  

Current Projects

• Marc Röschlin, Security Analysis of Digital Currencies, Semester Project, SS 2012 [supervision: Ghassan, Elli]
• Tobias Scherer, Security Analysis of Digital Currencies, Semester Project, SS 2012 [supervision: Ghassan, Elli]
  

2012

• Matthias Herrmann, Security Analysis of Digital Currencies, Master's Thesis, SS 2012 [supervision: Ghassan, Elli]
• Hubert Ritzdorf, Analyzing Covert Channels on Mobile Devices, Master's Thesis, AS 2011 [supervision: Claudio M.]

2011

• Kirila Adamova, Fingerprinting UHF RFID tags as an Anti-counterfeit Mechanism, Research project, SS 2011 [supervision: Davide]
• Pascal Brogle, Smart and Secure WiFi Pairing, Master's Thesis, SS 2011 [supervision: Aanjhan, Ghassan]
• Luka Malisa, ARESOC: An Architecture for Assisted Reverse Engineering of System on Chips, Master's Thesis, SS 2011 [supervision: Aurélien]
• Der-Yeuan Yu, Schemes for Anti-Jamming Broadcast Communication, Research Project, SS 2011 [supervision: Christina]
• Pascal Sachs, Automated Reverse Engineering, Master's Thesis, AS 2010 [supervision: Aurélien]
• Luka Malisa, Low Level Platform Security of Modern Smartphones, Research project, SS 2010 [supervision: Aurélien]
• Roland Häusler, Efficient Query Processing over Encrypted Data, Masters Thesis, AS 2010 [supervision: Ghassan, Ramya]
• Tobias Heinzen, Automated Program Security Analysis, Master's Thesis, AS 2010 [supervision: Aurélien]
• Victor Budilivschi, Secure and Convenient Distributed Computing, Master's Thesis, AS 2010 [supervision: Aurélien, Ghassan]

2010

• Stefan Thöni, Cryptographic Device Simulation, Masters Thesis, AS 2010 [supervision: Ghassan]
• Cyrill Bannwart, Large Scale Network Measurements, Semester Project, AS 2010 [supervision: Boris, Ghassan]
• Pascal Sachs, A Physical-layer Fingerprinter Implementation in USRP2 Platforms, Research project, SS 2010 [supervision: Boris, Davide]
• Ramya Jayaram Masti, On the Security of Virtual Trusted Platform Modules, Master's Thesis, SS 2010 [supervision: Boris, Ghassan]
• Lars Krapf, Improving a Privacy-preserving Clone Detection Mechanism with Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Master's Thesis, SS 2010 [supervision: Davide]
• Reto Weingart, A Privacy-preserving Clone Detection Mechanism against Realistic Adversaries, Master's Thesis, SS 2010 [supervision: Davide]
• Claudio Marforio, Timed Data Deletion on Mobile Communication Devices, Master's Thesis, SS 2010 [supervision: Christina]

2009

• Ramya Jayaram Masti, Physical-layer RFID Analysis, Semester Thesis, AS 2009 / SS 2010 [supervision: Boris]
• Pascal Lippmann, Clustering Analysis of Source Code, Master's Thesis, AS 2009 [supervision: Boris]
• Sami Kerim Galal, Physical layer attacks on sensor nodes, Master's thesis, SS 2009 [supervision: Nils Ole]
• Leo Fellmann, Privacy–preserving Anti-counterfeiting for RFID-enhanced Supply Chains, Master's Thesis, SS 2009 [supervision: Davide]
• Basil Hess, Clone Detection in RFID–enhanced Supply Chains, Master's Thesis, SS 2009 [supervision: Davide]
• Arthur Schmitt, Reactive Jamming and Active Signal Interference, Master's Thesis, SS 2009 [supervision: Boris & Christina]

2008

• Rolf Wagner, Secure Verification of Computing Power, Master's Thesis, AS 2008 / SS 2009 [supervision: Ghassan]
• Sami Kerim Galal, DWT-based Fingerprinting of Wireless Sensor Nodes, Semester Thesis, AS 2008 [supervision: Boris]
• Bojan Konic, Security Issues in SharePoint 2007, Master's Thesis, SS 2008, [supervision: Nils Ole]

2007

• Ada Lezama Lugo, Implementation and evaluation of a realistic VANET simulator, Master's Thesis, AS 2007 [supervision: Nils Ole]
• Sasa Meskovic, Jamming-resistant Communication, Master's Thesis, AS 2007 [supervision: Christina & Mario]
• Dominik Langenegger, Trusted computing based opportunities for financial services, Master's Thesis, AS 2007 [supervision: Nils Ole]
• Laurent Zimmerli, Implementation of Secure RSS-based Localization in Sensor Networks, Semester Thesis, AS 2007 [supervision: Christina & Kasper]
• David Gubler, Peer-to-Peer Security, Master's Thesis, AS 2007 [supervision: Ghassan]
• Andrea Malagoni, Multi-party key agreement over insecure wireless channels, Master's Thesis, SS 2007 [supervision: Christina & Kasper]
• Dominik Langenegger, Integrity-codes over Wi-Fi, Semester Thesis, SS 2007 [supervision: Kasper]