Vera Wesselkamp

PhD Student

Room: H-1.11

Phone: +4933155094908
Email: Vera.Wesselkamp(at)hpi.de

After a Master of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich, Vera worked in IT security consulting and standardisation policy. She started her PhD at HPI in April 2026.

Teaching Activity

Advanced Cryptography (Master, Summer 2026)

Publications

Cremers, C., Günsay, E., Wesselkamp, V., Zhao, M.: ETK: External-Operations TreeKEM and the Security of MLS in RFC 9420. to appear at IACR Eurocrypt (2026).

Wagner, A., Wesselkamp, V., Oberhansl, F., Schink, M., Strieder, E.: Faulting Winternitz one-time signatures to forge LMS, XMSS, or signatures. International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (2023).

Wesselkamp, V., Rieck, K., Arp, D., Quiring, E.: Misleading Deep-Fake Detection with GAN Fingerprints. 2022 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW). IEEE (2022).

Wesselkamp, V., Fouad, I., Santos, C., Boussad, Y., Bielova, N., Legout, A.: In-depth technical and legal analysis of tracking on health related websites with Ernie extension. Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (2021).

Contact

Prof. Dr. Anja Lehmann
Cybersecurity - Identity Management

Room: H-1.13
E-Mail: Anja.Lehmann(at)hpi.de

Office:

Mélanie Angoujard

Room: H-1.12
E-Mail: Office-Lehmann(at)hpi.de

Directions

Visiting Address:

Hasso Plattner Institute
Campus I Building H (main building)
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3
14482 Potsdam, Germany

News

05/26 | Busy week at Eurocrypt: Karla, Cavit, Andrea, Alexandros and Anja presented their works at the largest cryptography concerence and affiliated workshops.

05/26 | New accepted papers: two papers have been accepted at Crypto and two at the SCN conference.

04/26 | We welcome Vera Wesselkamp as new PhD student in our group!

03/26 | Our group hosted the 11th edition of the Young Researcher Crypto Seminar.

01/26 | Two papers have been accepted at IACR Eurocrypt.

01/26 | Anja Lehmann gave a keynote talk on cryptographic pseudonyms at the DSK European Data Privacy Day.

12/25 | Awards for excellent master theses: Karla Friedrichs hat won the 1st and Konrad Hanff the 3rd price of the CAST-Award IT-Security 2025 for their master theses. Congratulations!

12/25 | Anja Lehmann gave a joint invited talk on the EUDI Wallet & ZKP with Gregor Seiler at the European Conference on PQC Migration.

11/25 | The paper "Multi-Party Private Join" has been accepted at PETS 2026.

11/25 | Anja Lehmann participated in the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin, and discussed “Hidden Structures: The Secret Life of your Digital Footprint” together with Felix Naumann.

10/25 | Two papers have been accepted at the Security Standardisation Research Conference 2025.