Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai
 

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