Theses

Our research group is active in the areas of network mearurements, Internet censorship, security, and privacy. Masters students are welcome to contact us about working on a thesis topic or research project.

Open Theses Topics

• VPNs, pluggable transports, censorship circumvention and traffic obfuscation (advisor)
• Internet censorship tracking (advisor)
• Vulnerabilities and risks of network protocols/architectures (advisor)
• Security and privacy in middlebox architectures (advisor)
• Surveillance and privacy risks of submarine cables (advisor)
• Security evaluation of state-sponsored network attacks (advisor)
• Analysis of web browser advertisement privacy policies (advisor)

Ongoing Theses

• A Comparative Evaluation of DNS over QUIC with DNS over HTTP/3 - Philipp Bielefeld
• Evaluating Resiliency and Performance of Networked Satellite Systems - Robert Richter
• Towards Encrypted DNS with DDR: Standards, Adoption and Security Implications - Steffen Sassalla

Completed Theses