Below you can find lectures and tutorials that I have been teaching at different institutions as well as students whose theses I had a pleasure to supervise.

Lectures & Tutorials

  • Applied Cryptography.     [more]
    Research course at TU Darmstadt, since 2010, 3h/week

  • Introduction to Cryptography.     [more]
    Lecture at TU Darmstadt, since 2009, 2h/week (+ exercises 2h/week)
    This lecture received E-Teaching Award 2010 from Carlo and Karin Giersch-Stiftung at TU Darmstadt.

  • Cryptographic Protocols - Design, Analysis, Applications.     [more]
    Lecture at TU Darmstadt, since 2009, 2h/week (+ exercises 2h/week)

  • Group-Oriented Communication and Application Security.     [more]
    Distance lecture (e-learning) for M.Sc. in Applied IT Security course at isits International School of IT Security, since 2008

  • Cryptography and Data Security.
    Tutorial for industry at Academy of Ruhr University Bochum, 2006 - 2008

PhD Students

I am happy to work with my current PhD students: Amir Sadr-Azodi, Bertram Poettering, Marion Steiner.

Supervised Theses

at Technische Universität Darmstadt (since 2009)
  • 2011 | Alexander Stolfik | MSc thesis
    Affiliation-Hiding Group Key Exchange with Multiple Credentials

  • 2010 | Felix Günther | BSc thesis | Co-supervisor: Thorsten Strufe (TU Darmstadt)
    Cryptographic Treatment of Private User Profiles
    Results of this thesis were published at FC 2011/RLCPS.

  • 2009 | Vladimir Mildenberger | MSc thesis
    Platform-Independent Implementation of an Authentication Protocol for the Tunnel-based Wireless Roaming


at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2005 - 2007)
  • 2006 | Lijun Liao | MSc thesis | Co-supervisor: Jörg Schwenk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
    Group Key Agreement for Ad-Hoc Groups

  • 2006 | Simon Bernard | BSc thesis | Co-supervisor: Jörg Schwenk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
    Efficient, Platform-Independent Implementation of ECC for Mobile Devices

  • 2005 | Markus Diett | BSc thesis | Co-supervisor: Jörg Schwenk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
    Umstellung von Lucane Groupware auf sichere Gruppenkommunikation mittels TGDH