Students I (co-)supervise(d)

PhD students

• Ellen Jochemsz
  Cryptanalysis of RSA variants using small roots of polynomials, TU Eindhoven
  Ellen defended her PhD thesis on October 4, 2007. Henk van Tilborg was promotor, I was co-promotor.
  
  download Ellen's PhD thesis (pdf, about 900 KB)
  
  The TU/e weekly newspaper Cursor interviewed Ellen (in Dutch).
• Marc Stevens
  Attacks on Hash Functions and Applications, University of Leiden
  expected spring 2012, Ronald Cramer is promotor, Arjen Lenstra and I are co-promotors
• Jan-Jaap Oosterwijk
  Jan-Jaap works on the Crest project, supervised by Boris Škorić and me.
• Meilof Veeningen
  Meilof works on the Mobiman project (Identity Management on Mobile Devices), supervised by Nicola Zannone and me.
• Thijs Laarhoven
  Thijs works on the SLaBaC project (Security of Lattice Based Cryptography), supervised by Tanja Lange, Michael Naehrig and me.

master students mathematics

• Christiaan van de Woestijne (supervisor professor Rob Tijdeman, I was co-supervisor)
  On the diameter of tuples of weighted powers
  Leiden University, July 28, 1998
  download Christiaan's thesis (281 KB)
• Martijn Maas
  Pairing-based crypto
  NBV / TU Eindhoven, January 30, 2004
  download Martijn's thesis (504 KB) and a Weil pairing demo Mathematica Notebook (44 KB)
• Toon Segers
  Algebraic Attacks from a Gröbner Basis Perspective
  NBV / TU Eindhoven, November 16, 2004
  download Toon's thesis (1121 KB)
  download Toon's afstudeerpresentatie (Nederlands) (727 KB)
  download Toon's final presentation (English) (727 KB)
  Magma source code is available upon request
• Marjanne Plasmans
  White-Box Cryptography for Digital Content Protection
  Philips Software / TU Eindhoven, May 19, 2005
• Remco Jacobs
  A White-box 3DES Algorithm and its Application in Conditional Access Systems
  Philips CryptoTec / TU Eindhoven, November 8, 2005
• Marc Stevens
  On Collisions for MD5
  See the HashClash webpages, Marc's thesis can be downloaded from there.
  NBV / TU Eindhoven, August 28, 2007.
  On July 2, 2008 Marc received the "TU/e Afstudeerprijs 2008", i.e. the TU/e Best Master Thesis Award for the best final project in one of the TU/e master's programs completed in 2007.
• Sebastiaan de Hoogh
  On the speed of VSH,
  Macquarie University / TU Eindhoven, March 18, 2008, supervised by Scott Contini (Macquarie University, Sydney) and me.
  download Sebastiaan's thesis (1.7 MB).
• Nieke Aerts
  Cryptanalysis of Hash Functions, in particular the SHA-3 contenders Shabal and Blake,
  Macquarie University / TU Eindhoven, August 31, 2011, supervised by Josef Pieprzyk (Macquarie University, Sydney) and me.
  
• Thijs Laarhoven
  Collusion-resistant traitor tracing schemes,
  Irdeto / TU Eindhoven, August 31, 2011
• Joop van de Pol
  Lattice-based cryptography,
  NBV / TU Eindhoven, August 31, 2011

master students computer science

• Eric Elsackers
  Extending DRM technology for supporting co-creation
  Philips Research / TU Eindhoven, August 28, 2007
• Frits van Tiel
  Securely accessing a Web Service using a Mobile Station
  Ericsson Research and Development / TU Eindhoven, June 17, 2008
• Stan Hegt (co-supervised with Johan Lukkien)
  Analysis of Current and Future Phishing Attacks on Internet Banking Services
  KPMG IT Security / TU Eindhoven, June 17, 2008
• Harm van Tilborg
  Shaping DNS Security with Curves, a Comparative Security Analysis of DNSSec and DNSCurve
  ON2IT, Waardenburg / TU Eindhoven, August 9, 2010.
  For his master thesis Harm has been awarded the "Kooy Afstudeerprijs 2011" by Kivi Niria Department of Defense and Security.
• Spyros Antakis
  A Diskless Cluster Architecture for Hashing Operations
  Intel, Shannon, Ireland / TU Eindhoven, August 20, 2010.

master students TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven (and its predecessors)

• Dimitri van de Kelft (Zuiveringschap Limburg)
  Informatiebeveiliging bij integratie van SCADA en IT
  MSIT, TU/e PostGraduate School, TU Eindhoven, October 3, 2003
• Joost Boelaars (Interpay)
  Het gebruik van biometrie voor bancaire betaalproducten
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 15, 2004
• Erwan Smits (Atos-Origin)
  Public-Key Based Authentication Architecture for Wireless LAN’s using Kerberos
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, April 1, 2005
• Hans Edelhausen (DTO)
  Externe koppelingen: een onderschatte dreiging?
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Stephan Fijneman (Swift)
  Intrusion Detection Systems, Dead or Alive?
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Leo van Koppen (Haagse Hogeschool)
  Ontwikkeling van een security architectuur voor de Haagse Hogeschool, gebruikmakend van TOGAF
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Karl Lovink (Belastingdienst)
  Security Event Management raamwerk in een e-Business infrastructuur
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Henk Mirck(BNG)
  Veilig archiveren van digitale gegevens in een bancaire omgeving
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Igor Schoonbrood (AzM)
  Identity and access management, blauwdruk voor het AzM
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Anastasia Setyowati (Belastingdienst)
  Toepassing van classificatie ter beveiliging van extra gevoelige informatie in een complexe omgeving
  MSIT, TIAS Business School Eindhoven, October 7, 2005
• Joost van de Leur (Wincor Nixdorf)
  The EMV level-3 certification process
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, April 7, 2006
• Peter Braakman (Petercam Bank)
  Long term digital preservation of digital signed documents
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, October 6, 2006
• Sedat Capkin (SARA)
  ISO 27001 voor de Supercomputerdienstverlening van SARA
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, October 6, 2006
• Dimitri Goos (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
  Veilig Archiveren van Digitale Informatie
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, October 6, 2006
• Henk van de Ven (Venit)
  Veilig gebruik van Webapplicaties onder vuur
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, March 2008
• Jasper Essers (Equens)
  Beware! Security Awareness voor retail banking in Nederland
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, June 27, 2008
• Rob Himmelreich (BDO CampsObers)
  MP III, Methode voor een Pragmatische Implementatie van Integrale Informatiebeveiliging in het MKB
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, June 27, 2008
• Ton van Opstal (Ericsson)
  A Structured Approach to Software Security
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, December 12, 2008
• Tomas Smulders (Belastingdienst)
  Meten van Security in Netwerkontwerpen
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, December 11, 2009
• Gerjan Grootenhuis (Belastingdienst)
  Information Security Control Framework
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, June 12, 2010
• Damein Meijer (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
  Policy-Based Access Management
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, June 12, 2010
• Michael van Valkenburg (KPN)
  Informatiebeveiliging bij ICT-uitbestedingscontracten
  MSIT, TIASNimbas Business School Eindhoven, June 12, 2010

internships

• Marjanne Plasmans
  Crypto-analyse van het A5-algorithme
  TU Eindhoven, February 2004
• Marc Stevens
  Efficient implementation of Koblitz curves over binary finite fields
  Universität Bochum / TU Eindhoven, February 2005

bachelor students

• Sebastiaan de Hoogh
  Cryptographic Hash Functions
  TU Eindhoven, February 2005
• Thijs Laarhoven
  The 3n+1 conjecture
  TU Eindhoven, July 2009
• Coen Ramaekers
  The abc-conjecture and the n-conjecture
  TU Eindhoven, November 2009
• Leanne Scheepers
  Lattice basis reduction
  TU Eindhoven, December 2011
• Tom Slenders
  Low hanging fruit factoring
  TU Eindhoven, 2012
• Bouke Cloostermans
  Fast GCDs
  TU Eindhoven, 2012