Requirements. All theses at ENCRYPTO are research-oriented. Therefore, we require that students who start a thesis at ENCRYPTO have successfully completed for a Bachelor thesis the course “Computersystemsicherheit” (or equivalent), and for a Master thesis at least one specialized ENCRYPTO course (CRYPROT, PRIVTECH, or PRIVDEV).
Below we give examples for open thesis topics, but often have further topics that are not announced and are also open to discuss innovative self-proposed topics that match with our research profile. To allow us to find a suitable topic, please send a list of courses you attended successfully, ideally in form of a current transcript of records.
For an idea what our theses topics can be about, check out currently running and finished theses.
Master Thesis
Privacy has become a crucial topic that nowadays is addressed in a wide range of domains outside of cryptography. It has been shown that such research proposing non-standard secure computation constructions can be seriously flawed, as fundamental impossibility results were not considered. This thesis aims at surveying the literature for such cases, identifying misuse of secure computation, and proposing specific attacks and, if possible, fixes.
