Thesis Topics

The chair of Privacy and Security is constantly offering new topics for student theses. Most topics can be adapted, no matter if you are looking for a Bachelor's, or Master's thesis, or if you're aiming at doing a Diplom-/Belegarbeit, or even a research related module.

The offered tasks generally cover the following topics (contact  by email symbol)

• Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
  • Darknets (Freenet, I2P)
  • Inference attacks
  • Network-layer anonymization (AN.ON/tor)
  • Vehicle-Platooning and Privacy (5G NetMobil)  
• Network security
  • HoneyPots and intrusion detection
  • Physical Layer Security 
  • VPN
  • Secure Network Coding 
  • Kanalkodierung
• Data Analysis
  • Analysis of social media usage
  • Intentions recognition and early detection of social media oversharing
  • Graph-based analysis of dynamic systems (Intrusion detection, user behavior, even biological systems) 
  • Multimedia forensics 
• System security
  • Secure implementation of instant messengers (specifically the Off-the-record protocol)
  • System- and protocol vulnerability analysis of SCADA systems/Smart-Grids
  • Component based software

You can find the interest on the pages of our research assistants, who will be happy to discuss if you send them an email. Should you need more advice, or a more general overview, please don't hesitate to contact Thorsten Strufe.