Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider
- Former Research Assistant - Research Group System Security
Address
Ruhr-University Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
D - 44780 Bochum
Germany
Location:
Dept. of Electr. Eng. and Information Sciences
Chair for System Security
Universitätsstr. 150
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- email:
- thomas.schneider@trust.rub.de PGP key
- Website:
- http://thomaschneider.de/
Vita
- 2002: Abitur at Leibniz-Gymnasium Altdorf, Germany.
- 2003-2008: Studies at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Diploma ("Master") in computer science.
- 2007: Research internship at Bell Labs, Security Solutions/Cryptographic Systems in Murray-Hill, NJ, USA. "Practical Secure Function Evaluation" supervised by Vladimir Kolesnikov.
- April 2008 - February 2011: Research assistant and PhD student at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI), Ruhr-University Bochum. PhD on "Engineering Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols - Advances in Design, Optimization, and Applications of Efficient Secure Function Evaluation" advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Prof. Dr. Benny Pinkas.
- since March 2011 I am affiliated with the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), Technical University Darmstadt as postdoctoral researcher. There you find my new Website with most recent information.
See full CV for details.
Research
- Compilers for Cryptographic Protocols
- Secure Two-Party Computation (see TASTY, FairplayPF, FairplaySPF)
- Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowledge (see ZKC)
- Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols
- Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols (see TASTY)
- Secure Evaluation of (Semi-)Private Functions, Universal Circuits (see FairplayPF, FairplaySPF)
- Function Representations (Circuits, Neural Networks, Branching Programs, ...)
- Hardware-Assisted Cryptographic Protocols
- Privacy-Preserving Protocols
The following word cloud is generated from the key words in the titles of my papers and gives an overview of my research topics.
See List of Publications for details (abstracts, bibtex, PDF, ...).