This page provides an updated list of proposed COSIC thesis topics. Students who are interested to do their thesis at COSIC should contact Bart Preneel and the daily supervisors mentioned on the proposal (if choosen one from the list below).
Students from the Dutch-speaking program (Burgerlijk Ingenieur) should have a look at the topics over here.
Thesis topics for the students of MAI (Master in Artificial Intelligence)
| # | Title | Daily supervisors | Promoters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smart-card support in Gnomint | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos | Bart Preneel | - |
| 2 | Security levels in cryptographic protocols | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Filipe Beato |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 3 | Privacy-preserving pay-per-view in mobile TV broadcast applications | Alfredo Rial Josep Balasch |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 4 | Novel Techniques for Side-Channel Analysis of Cryptographic Systems | Michael Sterckx Gabriel Hospodar Andreas Pashalidis |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 5 | Implementation and Evaluation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge | Alfredo Rial Josep Balasch |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
The presentations can be found here: pending
Thesis topics for other English-speaking students (Erasmus students, ...)
| # | Title | Daily supervisors | Promoters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analysis of diversity in virtual machines | Jan Cappaert Nessim Kisserli Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 2 | Smart-card support in Gnomint | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos | Bart Preneel | - |
| 3 | Security levels in cryptographic protocols | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Filipe Beato |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 4 | Optimizations in the TLS protocol | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Andreas Pashalidis |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 5 | Privacy-preserving pay-per-view in mobile TV broadcast applications | Alfredo Rial Josep Balasch |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 6 | Online Voting Systems: is your vote really secret and was it tallied? | Jens Hermans Frederik Vercauteren |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 7 | Provable Security Analysis of SHA-3 Candidates | Elena Andreeva Bart Mennink |
Bart Preneel Vincent Rijmen |
- |
| 8 | Privacy Friendly Reputation Systems for On-line Markets | Stefan Schiffner Filipe Beato |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 9 | Traffic Analysis for Reputation Systems | Stefan Schiffner Andreas Pashalidis |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 10 | RFID fingerprinting | Dave Singelee Elke De Mulder |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 11 | Novel Techniques for Side-Channel Analysis of Cryptographic Systems | Michael Sterckx Gabriel Hospodar Andreas Pashalidis |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 12 | Implementation of Low-level Spyroutines for Side Channel Attacks on Personal Computers | Leif Uhsadel Anthony Van Herrewege |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 13 | Efficient and Secure Implementation of a Public-Key Cryptosystem | Josep Balasch Benedikt Gierlichs Leif Uhsadel Markus Ullrich |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 14 | Video Encryption using H.264 | Andras Boho | Bart Preneel | - |
| 15 | Video authentication and key schedule using H.264 | Andras Boho | Bart Preneel | - |
| 16 | Fast Cryptography in Browsers for Online Voting | Jens Hermans Frederik Vercauteren |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 17 | Secure protocols for small devices: do more h less | Jens Hermans Frederik Vercauteren Dave Singelee |
Bart Preneel | - |
| 18 | Mobile e-Voting | Filipe Beato Gauthier Van Damme |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 19 | Preserving privacy in mobile communication devices | Filipe Beato Gauthier Van Damme |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 20 | Hardware attacks on trusted computing platforms | Benedikt Gierlichs Dries Schellekens Leif Uhsadel Markus Ullrich |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 21 | Practical Attacks on Security of Cars | Anthony Van Herrewege | Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 22 | Embedded Security for Car Telematics and Infotainment | Sylvain Subileau (Daimler) Josep Balasch Benedikt Gierlichs |
Dr. Viktor Friesen (Daimler) Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 23 | Sub-zero: Temperature fault attack on an embedded processor | Dusko Karaklajic Josep Balasch |
Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 24 | Sub-zero: Crypto Stick | Svetla Nikova Anthony Van Herrewege |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 25 | Design and realization of an RF distance bounding protocol | Dave Singelee | Bart Preneel Dominique Schreurs |
- |
| 26 | Attacking TLS-secured communications | Elmar Tischhauser Vesselin Velichkov |
Bart Preneel Vincent Rijmen |
- |
| 27 | Evaluation of Micro-Architectural Attacks h client-side scripting | Leif Uhsadel | Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 28 | On-the-fly Tests for Random Number Generators | Vladimir Rozic | Ingrid Verbauwhede | - |
| 29 | Implementation and Evaluation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge | Alfredo Rial Josep Balasch |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede |
- |
| 30 | Anonymous Payment Mechanisms for Electric Car Infrastructure | Alfredo Rial Josep Balasch |
Bart Preneel Ingrid Verbauwhede Johan Driesen |
- |
| 31 | Collaborative Privacy-Preserving Online Social Networks | Ero Balsa | Claudia Diaz | - |
| 32 | A reputation based mechanism to solve privacy conflicts on online social networks | Ero Balsa | Claudia Diaz | - |
| 33 | A Survey on Graph and Information Theory for the Analysis of Online Social Networks | Ero Balsa | Claudia Diaz | - |