Completed Projects

Diploma Projects

Winter semester 2010

Anonymous access control with attribute based encryption

Cloud Storage Integrity

Cryptanalysis of SHA-3 candidates

Winter semester 2009

Analysis and implementation of the security in VoIP solutions

Vulnerabilities of the GSM stream cipher protocol

Winter semester 2008

Attacks on RSA with pre-formating rules

Conception and development of a web server audit tool

Public Key Infrastructure in a DVB-CPCM Environment

Secure Bluetooth Payment Application

Summer semester 2007

Efficient Protocols for Set Membership and Range Proofs

Strong Privacy in RFID needs public-key cryptography

Winter semester 2007

Fail-stop signatures

Summer semester 2006

Applications of MOVA signatures

Carrying out financial Transactions over cellular network

Security and Privacy in RFID

Trapdoor stream cipher

Summer semester 2005

Application avancée de compromis temps-mémoire

Secure Communications over Insecure Channels Based on Short Authenticated Strings

Winter semester 2005

E-Voting System

La sécurité dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil

Network-Based Anomaly detection

Secure Identification Technologies

Summer semester 2004

AUTODAFE: an Act of Software Torture

Bluetooth Security

Formal verification of security protocols

Winter semester 2004

Analysis and optimizations of a key distillation protocol in quantum cryptography

Analysis of game based proofs for encryption schemes in the random oracle model

GPRS over billing attacks

On the security of ZIP files

VoIP Security

Web applications security - Automation of vulnerabilities assessment

Summer semester 2003

A Generalization Of Linear Cryptanalysis

GPRS Overbilling Attacks Detection

Integrating medium-oriented and network-oriented DRM technologies

PKI Deployment Considerations

Winter semester 2003

Strength and weaknesses analysis of security industrial standard TCPA and Finread

Winter semester 2001

EasyRide: Risk analysis and security concepts

Summer semester 2000

Linear cryptanalysis of DES

Doctoral School Projects

Winter semester 2009

On the complexity of distinguishing distributions

Summer semester 2002

Cryptanalysis of A5/1

Discrete logarithm algorithm in elliptic curves of trace one

Fair exchange for terminodes

Summer semester 2000

Implementation and Comparison of Several Public Key Cryptosystems

Semester Projects

Winter semester 2011

Iteration Techniques for Compression Hash Functions

Quantum-based authentication protocol

Winter semester 2010

Grobner Basis Algorithms Evaluation

On Hiding Message Length in Symmetric-key Cryptography

Primeless Cryptography

Quasi-groups in symmetric cryptography

Summer semester 2009

Mistrusting Sellers and Malicious Buyers

When Passwords are Sufficient for Exchanging Keys among Humans

Winter semester 2009

Analysis of lightweight functions (Armadillo)

Approximation of carry bits in XAR hash functions

CAPTCHA

Cryptanalysis of MIBS Block Cipher

Identity-based encryption

KeeLoq

Rethinking the PKI Trust Model

Selling train tickets by SMS

Surveys Database

TCHo implementation in hardware

The Learning Parity With Noise Problem in Cryptography

Total complexity of generic algorithms

Summer semester 2008

Incremental Hash Functions for Message Authentication

Winter semester 2008

Attack on IPSEC in non-authenticated mode

Diffie-Hellman vs Discrete Logarithm

RFID

Summer semester 2007

Bluetooth v2.1

Breaking SSH in a second using cache attack

Generic Algorithms for (Pseudo-)Collisions Search on Hash Functions

Passive RFID Sniffer

Secure VoIP

Winter semester 2007

Nostradamus attack

Summer semester 2006

Break WEP faster with statistical analysis

Breaking GPG v1.2.3

Collisions on MD4

Listening GSM communication: Cipher-only attack on A5/1

Voice over IP Security

Winter semester 2006

.NET security thanks to obfuscation

Cryptography over elliptic curves

Human computation and Turing tests

Projective Coordinates Leak

Summer semester 2005

Attacks on Radio Frequency Identification Protocols

Side-Channel Attack against RSA OAEP

SPAM Control using Tokens and Signatures

Winter semester 2005

Building a platform and user identification mechanism using Trusted Computing

Generic Homomorphic Signature Scheme: Optimizations

Man in the middle attack against a Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator

Watch-out: Data-Mining illegal web sites

Why Textbook ElGamal and RSA Encryption Are Insecure

Summer semester 2004

Breaking A5/1

Breaking WEP encryption

Ciphertext Only Attack on GSM

Making Presentations with LaTeX

Monitoring Chat Users

New Applications of the Time-Memory Trade-Off

RFID tags replacing bar codes: Privacy issues and practical solutions

Undeniable Signatures on IPAQ

Winter semester 2004

File Encryptor on a Smartcard

Implementation of the quadratic sieve

Non Adjacent Digit Sets for use in cryptographic primitives

Strong authentication using PaTHword

The security bug catcher, reloaded

Summer semester 2003

Advanced Instant NT Password Cracker

Cluster Management Software

Electronic Wallet on a Palm Pilot

Empreinte digitale d'images et de films

Encrypting FileSystem for Gnu/Hurd

NIS / NFS security

Security Bug Catcher

Security Issues in the Andrew File System

Winter semester 2003

Collisions on MD4

Cracking ZIP

Cryptographic Applications for iPAQ over Bluetooth

Elliptic Curves Factorisation

IDS in Large Scale Networks

Key Ring Safe

Linux on iPAQ

Monitoring IRC User Migration

Power Analysis on smartcards

Secure Key Exchange

WEP and CBC-PAD attacks

Summer semester 2002

Advanced exploitation of buffer overflows

Advanced host detection using TCP/IP

Encrypted conduits for infrared connections

Instant NT Passwords Cracker

Man-in-the-Middle attack in a windowing system

Vigenère

Winter semester 2002

A new public key cryptosystem based on residuosity

Cryptanalysis of PKCS#1

DNS spoofing

ENIGMA

Factorisation

POP and IMAP access control

Secure messaging system for PDA over 802.11

Summer semester 2001

Desktop access control with a Palmtop I

Desktop access control with a Palmtop II

Winter semester 2001

Man-in-the-middle attack against SSL

SSH

Study of a strong entropy gathering mechanism: the Linux case

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