Dipl.-Ing. Christian Wachsmann

Dipl.-Ing. Wachsmann, Christian

Address

Ruhr-University Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
D - 44780 Bochum
Germany

Location:
Dept. of Electr. Eng. and Information Sciences
Universitätsstr. 150
IC 4/43

Phone:
(+49) (0)234 / 32 - 29091
Fax:
(+49) (0)234 / 32 - 14956
Email:
christian.wachsmann@trust.rub.de PGP key

Vita

  • 2002: Ab­itur at Gym­na­si­um Ernestinum Coburg, Ger­ma­ny.
  • 2002–2008: Studies at Horst Görtz In­sti­tu­te for IT Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Germany. Diplom ("Master") in IT Security.
  • 2004-2008: Student assistant at System Security Lab at Horst Görtz In­sti­tu­te for IT Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Germany.
  • Since 2008: Re­se­arch as­sis­tant and PhD stu­dent at Horst Görtz In­sti­tu­te for IT Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Germany.

Research

  • Privacy-protecting primitives and protocols (in particular for embedded devices like RFID chips)
  • Hardware-based primitives (e.g., Physically Unclonable Funcitons, PUFs) and their applications
  • Trusted Computing

Projects

  • UNIQUE (Foundations for Forgery-Resistant Security Hardware) - EU FP7
  • SPEED (Si­gnal Pro­ces­sing in the En­cryp­ted Do­main) - EU FP6

Publications

2010
Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy by Physically Unclonable Functions (Extended Abstract)
In Foundations for Forgery-Resilient Cryptographic Hardware, volume 09282 of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, pages 10-11. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010.
2009
Anonymizer-Enabled Security and Privacy for RFID
In 8th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS), Kanazawa, Japan, December 2009, Proceedings, volume 5888 of LNCS, pages 134-153. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
Efficient RFID Security and Privacy with Anonymizers
Presented at: The 5th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec) 2009, Leuven, Belgium, June 30 - July 2, 2009.
Location Privacy in RFID Applications
Privacy in Location-Based Applications: Research Issues and Emerging Trends, volume 5599 of LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pages 127-150, August 2009.
2008
User Privacy in Transport Systems Based on RFID E-Tickets
In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Privacy in Location-Based Applications (PiLBA), Malaga, Spain, October 9, 2008.
2006
TCG Inside? - A Note on TPM Specification Compliance
In Proceedings of the first ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (ACMSTC), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, November 3, 2006, pages 47-56. ACM Press, 2006.