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Reading Group

At the reading group, members and guests of our group present various scientific papers and results. Students and guests are welcome to listen to these talks. The individual presentations are usually self-contained. For questions or comments please contact Raphael Reischuk.

Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar

This seminar gives Bachelor, Master and Diploma students in our group the opportunity to present their work. Participation in the seminar is mandatory for our Bachelor, Master, and Diploma students. The seminar usually takes place at irregular intervals. The Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminars are specially labelled in the timetable below.

Upcoming Talks (1:30 p.m. s.t.)


For time and location, and up-to-date information, see our calendar.

Date Speaker Paper/Topic Slides
next → Wed, 2012/05/23 Oana Ciobotaru Reading Group Talk

Past Talks

Date Speaker Paper/Topic Slides
Wed, 2012/05/16 Florian Schöder Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2012/05/09 Aniket Kate Practice Talk
Wed, 2012/04/25 Sebastian Gerling Reading Group Talk
Wed, 2012/04/25 Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky Reading Group Talk
Wed, 2012/03/07 Aniket Kate Computational Verifiable Secret Sharing Revisited (own work)
Wed, 2012/02/29 Karsten Knuth Final Talk
Wed, 2012/02/22 Fabian Bendun Reading Group Talk
Wed, 2012/02/01 Erik Derr Final Talk
Wed, 2012/02/01 Goran Doychev Final Talk
Wed, 2012/01/25 Sebastian Meyer Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2012/01/25 Philip Peter Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2012/01/18 Malte Skoruppa Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2012/01/11 Tim Ruffing Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2012/01/11 Sven Obser Bachelor/Master Seminar
Wed, 2011/10/26 Livio Teris Master Seminar
Wed, 2011/10/05 Manuel Reinert Master Seminar
Wed, 2011/10/05 Jan Balzer Final Talk
Wed, 2011/08/31 Ines Lucia Ciolacu Final Talk
Wed, 2011/08/31 Holger Bornträger Final Talk
Wed, 2011/08/24 Joachim Lutz Bachelor Seminar
Wed, 2011/08/24 Karsten Knuth Bachelor Seminar
Wed, 2011/07/13 Amit Datta Reading Group
Wed, 2011/06/15 Erik Derr Master Seminar
Wed, 2011/06/15 Sven Obser Master Seminar
Wed, 2011/06/15 Jan Balzer Bachelor Seminar
Wed, 2011/05/18 Sebastian Meiser Reading Group
Smart Metering and Differential Privacy (ongoing work)
Wed, 2011/05/18 Stefan Lorenz Master Seminar
Anonymous Webs of Trust
Wed, 2011/04/27 Oana Ciobotaru Reading Group (exceptionally: 12:30 a.m.)
Towards Bridging Strong Universal Implementation and Universal Composability
Wed, 2011/04/20 Alex Busenius Master Seminar
Mechanized Formalization of a Transformation from an Extensible Spi Calculus to Java
PDF
Wed, 2011/04/06 Goran Doychev Master Seminar
Analysis and Mitigation of Information Leaks in Encrypted Web Browsing Traffic
Wed, 2011/04/06 Jan Balzer Bachelor Seminar
Towards a formal semantics for G2C
Wed, 2011/03/16 Kim Pecina Reading Group
A Security API for Distributed Social Networks
Wed, 2011/03/16 Sebastian Gerling Reading Group
Security in Mobile Systems
Wed, 2011/03/16 Aniket Kate Reading Group
Distributed Onion Routing
Tue, 2010/12/14 Sebastian Meiser Master Seminar
Computational Soundness of Passively Secure Encryption
Thu, 2010/11/25 Ines Ciolacu Master Seminar:
Universally Composable Relativistic Commitments
Tue, 2010/11/09 Holger Bornträger Master Seminar:
Automatic Verification of Equivalences of Cryptographic Games
Thu, 2010/09/30 Johannes Gehrke (unusual time: 1pm) tba
Wed, 2010/09/29 Robert Künnemann Master Seminar: tba
Tue, 2010/09/28 Aniket Kate Constant-Size Commitments to Polynomials and Their Applications
joint work with Gregory M. Zaverucha and Ian Goldberg
Tue, 2010/09/21 Thorsten Tarrach Master Seminar: Automatically Verifying "M" Modelling Language Constraints
(Thesis Defence)
PDF
Tue, 2010/09/21 Alex Busenius Master Seminar: A Certified Code Generator for Security Protocols
(Introductory Talk)
PDF
Fri, 2010/09/03 Aniket Kate Distributed Private-Key Generators for Identity-Based Cryptography
joint work with Ian Goldberg
Tue, 2010/07/06 Boris Köpf Approximation and Randomization for Quantitative Information-flow Analysis
joint work with Andrey Rybalchenko
Tue, 2010/06/22 Matthias Berg Non-uniform Distributions in Quantitative Information Flow
joint work with Michael Backes and Boris Köpf
Tue, 2010/06/08 Robert Künnemann Master Seminar: Game-theoretic Modeling of Coercion-resistance
Tue, 2010/05/25 Kim Pecina Ring Signatures
Tue, 2010/05/11 Dominique Unruh Quantum Proofs of Knowledge
Wed, 2010/03/17 Sebastian Meiser Master Seminar
Computational Soundness with IND-CPA
Wed, 2010/03/03 Fabienne Eigner Ralf Küsters and Tomasz Truderung
An Epistemic Approach to Coercion-Resistance for Electronic Voting Protocols
Wed, 2010/02/24 Thorsten Tarrach Master Seminar (17:00 to 17:30)
Automatically Verifying "M" Modelling Language Constraints
PDF
Wed, 2010/01/27 Esfandiar Mohammadi Temporal Logic
Wed, 2010/01/13 Sebastian Gerling The Internet remembers - Privacy in times of Web 2.0
Wed, 2009/12/16 Cătălin Hriţcu Gavin M. Bierman, Andrew D. Gordon, Cătălin Hriţcu, and David Langworthy
Semantic Subtyping with an SMT Solver (own work)
PDF
Wed, 2009/12/02 Goran Doychev
Dominik Feld
Rajiv Lund
Bachelor Seminar (15:30)
Speaker Recognition in Encrypted Voice Streams
Anonymity in Online Polls
Formal Analysis of Mastermind
Tue, 2009/10/20 Esfandiar Mohammadi Secure Multiparty Computation
Tue, 2009/10/13 Jonathan Driedger
Malte Skoruppa
Bachelor Seminar
Verification of Game-Based Proofs
Tue, 2009/10/06 Markus Dürmuth Deniable Encryption
Tue, 2009/09/15 Raphael Reischuk Towards a Declarative Language for Secure Networking
Tue, 2009/06/23 Fabienne Eigner Master Seminar
Type-based Verification of Electronic Voting Systems
Tue, 2009/05/26 Anton Krohmer Bachelor/Master Seminar
File Sharing with Rational Users
Tue, 2009/04/21 Cătălin Hriţcu Michael Backes, Martin P. Grochulla, Cătălin Hriţcu, and Matteo Maffei
Achieving Security Despite Compromise Using Zero-knowledge (own work), CSF 2009
PDF
Tue, 2009/04/07 Esfandiar Mohammadi Computational Soundness for Symbolic Zero-Knowledge Proofs under Relaxed Assumptions (own work)
Tue, 2009/03/31 Matthias Berg Divesh Aggarwal, Ueli Maurer, Eurocrypt 2009
Breaking RSA Generically is Equivalent to Factoring
Tue, 2009/03/24 Dominique Unruh Jan Camenisch, Nishanth Chandran, Victor Shoup, Eurocrypt 2009
A public key encryption scheme secure against key dependent chosen plaintext and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks
Tue, 2009/03/17 Boris Köpf Michael Backes, Boris Köpf, Andrey Rybalchenko
Automatic Discovery and Quantification of Information Leaks (own work)
Tue, 2009/03/03 Kim Pecina Dan Boneh, Antoine Joux and Phong Nguyen, Asicarypt 2000
Why Textbook ElGamal and RSA Encyption Are Insecure
Tue, 2009/02/24 Oana Ciobotaru Differential Privacy (based on works by Cynthia Dwork, Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, Adam Smith)
Tue, 2009/02/17 Markus Dürmuth Don Coppersmith
Finding Small Solutions to Small Degree Polynomials
Wed, 2009/02/11 Christian Schunck
Sebastian Gerling
Bachelor/Master Seminar
Christian Schunck: Computing Bounds for Side-Channel Leakage
Sebastian Gerling: Accoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Printers
Tue, 2008/10/14 Markus Dürmuth Itai Dinur and Adi Shamir
Cube Attacks on Tweakable Black Box Polynomials
Tue, 2008/10/07 Dominique Unruh Jörn Müller-Quade and Dominique Unruh
Composable Incoercibility (own work)
Tue, 2008/09/30 Oana Ciobotaru S. Dov Gordon and Jonathan Katz, SCN 2006
Rational Secret Sharing, Revisited
Tue, 2008/09/16 several Crypto 2008 Reading Group
Tue, 2008/09/09 Robert Künnemann
Sebastian Gerling
Bachelor/Master Seminar
Robert Künnemann: On Obfuscation of Malicious Programs
Sebastian Gerling: Acoustic side-channel attacks on printers
Tue, 2008/07/29 N/A PowerPoint Karaoke
Tue, 2008/07/22 Boris Köpf Michael Backes and Boris Köpf
A Formal Evaluation of Message-Blinding as a Countermeasure against Timing Attacks (own work)
Tue, 2008/07/15 several CSF 2008 Reading Group
Tue, 2008/07/08 Cătălin Hriţcu Jesper Bengtson, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Cédric Fournet, Andrew D. Gordon, Sergio Maffeis; CSF 2008
Refinement Types for Secure Implementations
PDF
Tue, 2008/07/01 Alex Busenius
Thorsten Tarrach
Bachelor/Master Seminar
Alex Busenius: Extending Spi2Java with Nested Types
Thorsten Tarrach: Spi2F# Code Generator
PDF, PDF
Tue, 2008/06/17 Martin Grochulla
Esfandiar Mohammadi
Bachelor/Master Seminar
Martin Grochulla: Security Despite System Compromise
Esfandiar Mohammadi: Computational Soundness of Symbolic Zero Knowledge Proofs
PDF, PDF
Tue, 2008/06/10 Matteo Maffei Michael Backes, Cătălin Hriţcu, and Matteo Maffei; FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08
Type-checking Zero-knowledge (own work)
Tue, 2008/05/20 Matthias Berg Iftach Haitner and Thomas Holenstein
On the (Im)Possibility of Key Dependent Encryption
PDF
Tue, 2008/05/13 Markus Dürmuth David Brumley, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn Song, Jiang Zheng, IEEE SSP 2008
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications
Tue, 2008/05/06 Oana Ciobotaru Tal Moran, Gil Segev, Eurocrypt 2008
UC Computation for Asymmetric Parties Using Tamper-Proof Hardware
Tue, 2008/04/29 Dominique Unruh Ran Canetti, Rosario Gennaro, FOCS 1996
Incoercible Multiparty Computation
Tue, 2008/04/22 Cătălin Hriţcu Cédric Fournet, Andrew D. Gordon and Sergio Maffeis; CSF 2007
A Type Discipline for Authorization in Distributed Systems
PDF
Tue, 2008/04/01 N/A PowerPoint Karaoke
Tue, 2008/03/04 Boris Köpf Side-Channel Attacks - A Medley
Tue, 2008/02/26 Matteo Maffei Michael R. Clarkson, Stephen Chong, and Andrew C. Myers
Civitas, a Secure Voting System
Tue, 2008/02/19 Markus Dürmuth Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma, Computational Complexity 2005
If NP languages are hard on the worst-case then it is easy to find their hard instances
Tue, 2008/02/05 Matthias Berg The Calculus of Inductive Constructions
Tue, 2008/01/15 Dominique Unruh C. Jones, G. D. Plotkin, LICS '89
A Probabilistic Powerdomain of Evaluations
Handout (PDF)
Tue, 2008/01/08 Cătălin Hriţcu Cătălin Hriţcu, Jan Schwinghammer, FOOL 2008
A Step-indexed Semantics of Imperative Objects (own work)
PDF
Tue, 2007/12/18 Holger Bornträger Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
MD5 collisions on multimedia files
Tue, 2007/12/11 N/A PowerPoint Karaoke
Tue, 2007/12/04 Matthias Berg Martin Schläffer, Master's thesis
Cryptanalysis of MD4
Tue, 2007/11/27 Matteo Maffei Aslan Asgorov, Andrei Sabelfeld, IEEE SSP 2007
Gradual Release: Unifying Declassification, Encryption, and Key Release Policies
Tue, 2007/11/20 Markus Dürmuth Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena, Annals of Mathematics
PRIMES is in P
Tue, 2007/11/13 Cătălin Hriţcu Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Cédric Fournet, Andrew D. Gordon, Stephen Tse, CSFW 2006
Verified Interoperable Implementations of Security Protocols
PDF
Tue, 2007/10/23 Dominique Unruh Rafael Pass, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam, STOC 2007
An efficient parallel repetition theorem for Arthur-Merlin games
Tue, 2007/10/16 N/A PowerPoint Karaoke
Tue, 2007/10/02 Matthias Berg Michael Ben-Or, Shafi Goldwasser, Joe Kilian, Avi Wigderson, STOC 1988,
Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs: How to Remove Intractability Assumptions
Tue, 2007/09/18 Matteo Maffei Electronic Voting Protocols in the Applied Pi-Calculus
Tue, 2007/07/24 Dominique Unruh Bruno Blanchet, An Efficient Cryptographic Protocol Verifier Based on Prolog Rules
Martín Abadi, Bruno Blanchet, Analyzing Security Protocols with Secrecy Types and Logic Programs
Tue, 2007/07/17 Oana Ciobotaru Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
Efficient long-term universally composable secure protocols
Tue, 2007/05/15 Markus Müller
Sebastian Gerling
Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
Markus Müller: Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption
Sebastian Gerling: LAN Crypt Gateway and Secure Browser Access
Tue, 2007/04/03 Kim Pecina
Stefan Lorenz
Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
Kim Pecina, Stefan Lorenz: Mechanized Verification of Security Protocols Using Causality-based Abstractions
PDF
Tue, 2007/03/06 Martin Grochulla
Fabienne Eigner
Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
Fabienne Eigner: Extending the Cryptographic Library
Martin Grochulla: Trust Model for eVoting
Wed, 2007/02/14 Dominique Unruh Adi Shamir, J ACM, 1992
"IP=PSPACE"
Wed, 2007/02/07 Matthias Berg
Süntje Böttcher
Bachelor/Master/Diploma Seminar
Matthias Berg: On Key-dependent Encryption
Süntje Böttcher: On the Security of Multiparty Computations
Tue, 2007/01/23 Markus Dürmuth Dan Boneh, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
"Breaking RSA may be easier than factoring"
Thu, 2007/01/18 Matteo Maffei Martín Abadi and Cédric Fournet
"Mobile values, new names, and secure communication"
(Applied π-calculus)
Wed, 2007/01/10 Dominique Unruh Minh-Huyen Nguyen, Shien Jin Ong, and Salil Vadhan, FOCS'06
"Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments for NP from Any One-Way Function"
Tue, 2006/10/24 Dominique Unruh Recent research on the security of protocols with logarithmic communication complexity.
Additional material: paper, interactive example.
Mon, 2006/09/04 Matteo Maffei Current work on safely abstracting away multiplicities
Mon, 2006/08/28 Markus Dürmuth Phil Rogaway
"Formalizing Human Ignorance: Collision-Resistant Hashing without the Keys"
Tue, 2006/08/22 Dominique Unruh D. Micciancio and O. Regev
"Worst-case to Average-case Reductions based on Gaussian Measures"