Tippenhauer, Nils Ole

I completed my degree in Computer Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany, in May 2007. During my studies I spent 3 terms at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where I researched topics relating to artificial intelligence and pattern recognition.
My master thesis, written in cooperation with Philips Semiconductors, received the K.-H. Ditze excellency award 07/08 of the TUHH. It covered the design of cryptographical systems on smart cards and cryptanalysis of these systems, including side channel attacks.

I started my PhD at the ETH in July 2007, where I work on the design and analysis of hardware for secure systems. My current research is directed towards the implementation of secure ranging (distance bounding and authenticated ranging). Other interests include security analysis of existing hard- and software in mobile and embedded devices. In two projects, I investigated location spoofing attacks on Wlan localization systems and the GPS. In addition, I am interested in modelling active adversarial interference with physical layer wireless communications.

In 2011, I was working on a summer project on toy-to-toy communication and related novel channel implementations with Disney Research Zurich for 3.5 months.

I successfully defended my thesis with the title "Physical-Layer Security Aspects of Wireless Localization" in March 2012. The current draft is available here.

Publications

My publications can be found on our group's publication list.

Education

Thesis (co)supervisor

I am/was supervising the following master thesis:

• Sami Kerim Galal, Physical layer attacks on sensor nodes, master thesis, Summer 2009
• Bojan Konic, Security Issues in SharePoint 2007, master thesis, Spring 2008
• Ada Lezama Lugo, Implementation and evaluation of a realistic VANET simulator, master thesis, Fall 2007
• Dominik Langenegger, Trusted computing based opportunities for financial services, master thesis, Fall 2007

Teaching

The following is a list of courses I have been, or currently am, involved in:

• Spring semester 2012, System Security (5 ECTS)
• Spring semester 2011, System Security (5 ECTS)
• Spring semester 2010, System Security (5 ECTS)
• Spring semester 2009, System Security (5 ECTS)
• Spring semester 2008, System Security (5 ECTS)
• Winter semester 2007/08, Security of Wireless Networks (5 ECTS)