Security Systems
Resume:
Dr. Andr Weimerskirch
Ann Arbor, MI *****, USA
Internet: www.weimerskirch.org
email: *****@************.***
EDUCATION
Henley Management College, Greenlands, England
Executive MBA
Part-time in parallel to full-time employment
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2001 - 2004
Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, July
2004
Thesis: Authentication in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
Advisor: Prof. Christof Paar; Reader: Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Grade: 1.0
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
1999 - 2001
Master of Science, Computer Science, May 2001
Thesis: The Application of the Mordell-Weil Group to Cryptographic
Systems
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
1995 - 1999
Double Major in Business Administration and Computer Science
Second Major in Mathematics
Pre Diploma October 1997 (BA/CS), Pre Diploma April 1998
(Mathematics)
GPA: Ranked first (BA/CS)
EXPERIENCE
Chief Executive Officer and President, escrypt Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Mar. 2007 -
today Successfully set up the US business of escrypt. Managing the company and
responsible for all international business. Developed the future vehicle-to-
vehicle safety communications security and privacy protocols and
architecture for the USA deployment and worked on the European standard
for secure and privacy preserving vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-
infrastructure communication. Performed FIPS 140-2 security certifications
and lead development of a vehicle-to-vehicle secure communication unit
complying to the IEEE 1609.2 standard. Performed a large variety of risk
assessments for industrial and high-tech customers, and designed legacy-
aware cost-efficient secure systems.
Chief Technology Officer, escrypt GmbH, Bochum, Germany
2004 -
Feb. 2007 Co-founder and responsible for strategic planning and operative business.
Set-up escrypt to become widely known in the embedded security market.
Performed Common Criteria certifications and production-level code
development for the automotive industry. W orked intensely to evaluate and
secure computing platforms (e.g. smart-cards, TPMs, and standard
embedded controllers) and performed forensic security evaluation of Pay-TV
hacks for court.
Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Oct. 2001 -
Aug. 2004 Doing my Ph.D. in pervasive and embedded security. Research in the area
of security in mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks, cryptographic protocols,
efficient arithmetic, and applied cryptography. Performed teaching and
student s supervising, and headed several industry projects.
Researcher, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (fellowship)
Feb. 2003 -
Aug. 2003 European Union full-time fellowship to do research as part of my Ph.D.;
W orked on security protocols for embedded systems and ad-hoc networks.
Researcher, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA USA
July 2002 -
Sept. 2002 (internship)
Did research in the area of efficient next generation cryptography;
Implemented elliptic curve cryptography for a software library.
IT-Consultant, Josteit, Herten & Partner, Dusseldorf, Germany (part-time
Jan. 2002 -
June 2002 job)
Consultancy in security related areas like PKI, Internet and application
security, and vulnerability assessments.
Researcher, Accenture, Sophia Antipolis, France (internship)
June 2001 -
Sept. 2001 Analyzed security of wireless networks; Modeled new security policies and
developed a biometric access control mechanism.
Research Assistant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Aug. 2000 -
May 2001 USA
Doing my Master in cryptography. Worked on an industry project; helped
organizing a large conference.
Researcher, Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY USA (internship)
May 2000 -
July 2000 W orked on copy protection method for digital music; Analyzed a hardware
random number generator; Studied cryptanalysis methods for DES.
Web Developer, Deutsche Post AG, Darmstadt, Germany (part-time job)
Feb. 97 -
July 99 Set up the Intranet with Lotus Notes; Designed and developed Workflow,
W orkgroup and Database applications; Consulted customers and in -house
developers.
Dec. 98 - Notes Developer, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt,
July 99 Germany (part-time job)
Planned and implemented a Novell Network and Lotus Notes system;
Analyzed extant workflows and implemented them.
Teaching Assistant, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt,
Oct. 98 -
Feb. 99 Germany
Teaching Assistant for Operating Systems course. Advised, instructed and
graded students.
Network Administrator, Siemens AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (part-
March 96 -
Nov. 96 time job)
Administered a Windows NT network, maintained the e-mail system and
performed troubleshooting of LAN computer systems.
Network Administrator, Agrevo AG, Frankfurt/Hoechst, Germany
May 95 -
Jun. 95 (internship)
Administered the network, maintained a Microsoft Mail system, installed new
PC equipment and upgraded software.
AWARDS AND Selected as expert by the European Telecommunications Standards
HONORS Institute (ETSI) to define the European standard for vehicle -to-vehicle
and vehicle-to-infrastructure secure communication.
Transferpreis (Transfer Award) 2005 for technology transfer from
academia to industry of rubitec (awarded with 10,000 ).
European Union Marie Currie full-time fellowship for research visit at
Aarhus University, Feb. 2003 - Aug. 2003.
e-fellows.net scholarship 2001-2004.
Selected by Sun Microsystems Laboratories for a full scholarship for the
academic year 2000/2001.
Full-time scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1999-2000.
Best Pre Diploma out of 80 students in my field at Darmstadt University
of Technology in the academic year 1997/98.
PUBLICATIONS
Andr Weimerskirch, Secure Software Flashing, In Society of
Journal Papers
Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Journal of Passenger Cars
Electronic and Electrical Systems, October 2009, 2:83-86.
Christof Paar and Andr Weimerskirch, Embedded Security in a
Pervasive World, Elsevier Science s Inform ation Security Technical
Report, vol 12, no 3, pp 155-161, 2007.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Thomas Wollinger, State-of-the-
Art: Embedding Security in Vehicles, EURASIP Journal on Embedded
Systems, Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Intelligen t Vehicles,
2007.
Bernd Lamparter, Christof Paar, Andr Weimerskirch, and Dirk Westhoff,
"On Digital Signatures in Ad Hoc Networks", Wiley Journal European
Transactions on Telecommunications, Special Issue on Self -
Organization in Mobile Networking, September 2005.
Book Chapters Andr Weimerskirch, Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, and Kenneth P.
Laberteaux, Data Security in Vehicular Communications Networks,
VANET Vehicular Applications and Inter-Networking Technologies,
W iley Blackwell, 2010.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, Secure In-Vehicle
Communication, Embedded Security in Cars, Springer Monograph
Series, 2005.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, Automotive Digital
Rights Management Systems, Embedded Security in Car s, Springer
Monograph Series, 2005.
Andr Weimerskirch, Dirk Westhoff, Stefan Lucks, and Erik Zenner,
"Efficient Pairwise Authentication Protocols for Sensor and Ad -hoc
Networks", Sensor Network Operations, IEEE Press, 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch, "Fixed-base exponentiation", Encyclopedia of
Cryptography and Security, 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch, "Fixed-exponent exponentiation", Encyclopedia of
Cryptography and Security, 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch, "Karatsuba algorithm", Encyclopedia of
Cryptography and Security, 2004.
Tim G neysu, Igor Markov, and Andr Weimerskirch, Securely Sealing
International
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Multi-FPGA Systems, The 8 International Symposium on Applied
Conference Papers
Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2012), March 21-23, 2012, Hong Kong.
Andr Weimerskirch, V2X Security & Privacy: The Current State and its
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Future, 18 ITS World Congress, October 16-20, 2011, Orlando, USA.
Hariharan Krishnan, Andr Weimerskirch, Verify-on-Demand A
Practical and Scalable Approach for Broadcast Authentication in Vehicle -
to-Vehicle Communication, SAE 2011, World Congress, April 12-14,
2011, Detroit, USA.
Andr Weimerskirch, Do Vehicles need Data Security?, SAE 2011
W orld Congress, April 12-14, 2011, Detroit, USA.
Christof Paar, Kai Schramm, Andr Weimerskirch, and Mar ko Wolf,
Implementing Data Security and Privacy in Next-Generation Electric
Vehicle Systems, SAE 2010 World Congress, April 13-15, 2010, Detroit,
USA.
Levente Butty n, Tam s Holczer, Andr Weimerskirch, and William
W hyte, SLOW: A Practical Pseudonym Changing Scheme for Location
Privacy in VANETs, First IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2009
(IEEE VNC 2009), October 28-30, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.
Andr Weimerskirch, Kai Schramm, Lars Wolleschensky, and Thomas
W ollinger, The Dilemma of Data Security, Privacy, Control and Liability
in V2X, ITS World Congress, September 21-25, 2009, Stockholm,
Sweden.
Andr Weimerskirch, Kai Schramm, and Lars Wolleschensky,
Authentication and Privacy in Vehicular Networks: State-of-the-Art and
Outlook, ITS America s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition, June 1-3,
2009, National Harbor, MD, USA.
Christof Paar, Andy Rupp, Kai Schramm, Andr Weimerskirch, and
W ayne Burleson, Securing Green Cars: IT Security in Next Generation
Electric Vehicle Systems, ITS America s 2009 Annual Meeting and
Exposition, June 1-3, 2009, National Harbor, MD, USA.
Andr Weimerskirch, Marko Wolf, and Thomas Wollinger, Introduction to
Vehicular Embedded Security, SAE 2009 World Congress, April 20-23,
2009, Detroit, USA.
Andr Weimerskirch, Secure Software Flashing, SAE 2009 World
Congress, April 20-23, 2009, Detroit, USA; selected for inclusion in SAE
International Journal of Passenger Cars Electronic and Electrical
Systems, 2(1): 83-86, 2009.
Stefan Lucks, Erik Zenner, Andr Weimerskirch, Dirk W esthoff,
Concrete Security for Entity Recognition: The Jane Doe Protocol, 9th
International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2008),
December 14-17, 2008, IIT Kharagpur, India.
Andrey Bogdanov, Dario Carluccio, Andr Weimerskirch, and Thomas
W ollinger, Embedded Security Solutions for Automotive Applications,
11th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive
Applications, May 9-10, 2007, Berlin, Germany.
Axel Poschmann, Dirk Westhoff, and Andr Weimerskirch, Dynamic
Code Update for the Efficient Usage of Security Components in WSNs,
4th Workshop on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (WMAN 2007), March 1-2,
2007, Bern, Switzerland.
Andr Weimerskirch, Christof Paar, and Marko Wolf, "Cryptographic
Component Identification: Enabler for Secure Inter-vehicular Networks",
62nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, September 25-28, 2005,
Dallas, TX, USA.
Andr Weimerskirch, Katrin H per, Christof Paar, and Marko Wolf,
"Component Identification: Enabler for Secure Networks of Complex
Systems", Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2005,
June 7-10, 2005, New York City, NY, USA.
Jonathan Hammell, Andr Weimerskirch, Joao Girao, and Dirk Westhoff,
"Recognition in a Low-Power Environment", WWAN 2005, The 25th
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS-2005), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6-9, 2005.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, "Security in
Automotive Bus Systems", escar 2004 - Embedded Security in Cars
W orkshop, Bochum, 10.-11. November, 2004.
Sandeep Kumar, Marco Girimondo, Andr Weimerskirch, Christof Paar,
Arun Patel, and Arvinderpal S.Wander, "Embedded End-to-End Wireless
Security with ECDH Key Exchange", 46th IEEE Midwest Symposium On
Circuits and Systems, December 27-30, 2003, Cairo, Egypt.
Andr Weimerskirch and Dirk Westhoff, "Identity Certified Authentication
for Ad-hoc Networks", 2003 ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and
Sensor Networks (SASN '03), October 31, 2003.
Andr Weimerskirch and Dirk Westhoff, "Zero Common-Knowledge
Authentication for Pervasive Networks", Selected Areas in Cryptography
- SAC, August 14-15, 2003.
Andr Weimerskirch, Douglas Stebila, and Sheueling Chang Shantz,
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"Generic GF(2 ) Arithmetic in Software and its Application to ECC", The
Eighth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
(ACISP 2003), 9-11 July 2003, Wollongong, Australia.
Olivier Pelletier, Andr Weimerskirch, "Algorithmic Self -Assembly of DNA
Tiles and its Application to Cryptanalysis", The Genetic and
Evoluationary Computation Conference 2002 (GECCO 2002), July 9-13,
2002, New York City, USA.
Andr Weimerskirch and Gilles Thonet, "A Distributed Light -Weight
Authentication Model for Ad-hoc Networks", The 4th International
Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2001),
December 6-7, 2001, Seoul, South Korea.
Andr Weimerskirch, Christof Paar, and Sheueling Chang Shantz,
"Elliptic Curve Cryptography on a Palm OS Device", The 6th Australasian
Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2001), July 11 -
13 2001, Sydney, Australia.
National Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Andy Rupp, Kai Schramm, Andr Weimerskirch
Conference Papers "Green Car Security: IT-Sicherheit und Elektromobilit t". DACH Security
2009, Ruhr-Universit t Bochum, Bochum, Germany, May, 19-20, 2009.
Stefan Lucks, Erik Zenner, Andr Weimerskirch, and Dirk Westhoff,
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Entity Recognition for Sensor Network Motes, 2 W orkshop on Sensor
Networks at Informatik 2005, Bonn, September 19-22, 2005.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, "Digital Rights
Management Systems (DRMS) als Enabling Technology im Automobil"
(Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMS) as Enabling Technology in
the Automobile), Sicherheit 2005: Sicherheit - Schutz und
Zuverl ssigkeit, Regensburg, April 5-8, 2005.
Ulrich Kaiser, Christof Paar, D rte Rappe, Werner Schindler, Andr
W eimerskirch, and Thomas Wollinger, "Kriterien f r die Auswahl der
kryptographischen Algorithmen bei Low-Cost-RFID-Systemen" (Criteria
for the Selection of Cryptographic Algorithms for Low-Cost RFID
Systems), D-A-CH Security 2005, Darmstadt University of Technology,
2005.
Andr Weimerskirch, Marko Wolf, and Christof Paar,
"Komponentenidentifikation: Voraussetzung f r IT -Sicherheit im
Automobil" (Component Identification: Enabler for IT -Security in the
Automobile), Automotive - Safety & Security 2004, Stuttgart, 6.-7.
October, 2004.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, "Sicherheit in
automobilen Bussystemen" (Security in Automotive Bus Networks),
Automotive - Safety & Security 2004, Stuttgart, 6.-7. October, 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch, "Authentikation in Ad-hoc und Sensornetzwerken"
(Authentication in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks), GUUG-
Fr hjahrsfachgespr ch 2004, Ruhr-Universit t Bochum, 9.-12. M rz,
2004.
Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Kai Schramm, Andr Weimerskirch and Thomas
W ollinger, "Eingebettete Sicherheit: State-of-the-art" (Embedded
Security: State-of-the-art), D-A-CH Security 2004, University of Basel,
March 30-31, 2004.
International Andrey Bogdanov, Christof Paar, Andr Weimersk irch and Thomas
W ollinger, Embedded Security in Next-Generation Civilian and
Magazine Articles
Government Systems, Safety and Security International, 2008.
Andr Weimerskirch and Christof Paar, "Embedded Security in
Geoinformation Systems", GeoInformatics Magazine, 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch and Christof Paar, Was der ISM ber Embedded
National Magazine
Security wissen sollte, Information Security Management Das
Praxishandbuch, T V Media, 2007.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christoph Wegener, "Rechte f r
Kleine Digital Rights Management in mobilen und eingebetteten
Ger ten, iX, 1/2006.
Marko Wolf, Andr Weimerskirch, and Christof Paar, "Digitale
Rechteverwaltung" (Digital Rights Management), Elektronik Automotive,
2/2005
Andr Weimerskirch and Christof Paar, "Sicherheit schlicht verpennt"
(Security Simply Overslept), Automobil Elektronik, 02.2005.
Andr Weimerskirch and Prof. Paar, "Der digitale Goldesel - DRM im
Automobil" (The Digital Cash Cow - DRM in the Automobile), Automobil
Elektronik, December 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch and Christof Paar, "IT -Sicherheit in
Geoinformations-Systemen" (IT-Security in Geoinformations Systems),
GeoBit, 2004.
Technical Reports Stefan Lucks, Erik Zenner, Andr Weimerskirch, and Dirk Westhoff,
Concrete Security for Entity Recognition: The Jane Doe Protocol (Full
Paper), IACR ePrint Archive, 2009/175, 2009.
Andr Weimerskirch and Christof Paar, "Generalizations of the
Karatsuba Algorithm for Efficient Implementations", 2003.
Theses Andr Weimerskirch, "Authentication in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks",
Ph.D. Thesis, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, July 2004.
Andr Weimerskirch, "The Application of the Mordell-Weil Group to
Cryptographic Systems", MS Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
W orcester, MA, USA, May 2001.
Other Publications Armin Scholl and Andr Weimerskirch, "Robuste Projektplanung auf der
(not related to data Grundlage des Linear Time-Cost Tradeoff-Problems" (Robust Project
security) Scheduling Based on the Linear Time-Cost Tradeoff Problem), Schriften
zur Quantitativen Betriebswirtschaftslehre, 10/99, November 1999.
Patents Andr Weimerskirch, "Method and apparatus for preventing noise from
influencing a random number generator based on flip -flop meta-stability",
United States Patent Application 200********.
Andr Weimerskirch, "Method and apparatus to prevent the unauthorized
copying of digital information", United States Patent Application
Laslo Hars, Antonius Staring, and Andr Weimerskirch, "Apparatus and
methods for attacking a screening algorithm based on partitioning of
content", United States Patent Application 200********.
VSC-3 Vehicle Safety Communications 3, funded by the US
PUBLIC
PROJECTS Department of Transportation: Responsible for escrypt Inc.
VSC-2 Vehicle Safety Communications 2, funded by the US
Department of Transportation: Responsible for escrypt Inc.
UbiSec&Sens Ubiquitous Sensing and Security in the European
Homeland, Sixth Framework Program of the European Union:
Representative and Task Leader for Bochum Ruhr-University
EMSCB European Multilaterally Secure Computing Base, partly funded
by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology:
Responsible for escrypt GmbH
COMMITTEE VEHICULAR 2012 (The First International Conference on Advances in
MEMBER Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications), in conjunction with
InfoWare 2012, June 24-29, 2012, Venice, Italy.
Technical Program Committee of VANET 2011 (The Eighth ACM
International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking), in conjunction
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with ACM Mobicom 2011, September 23, Las Vegas, USA.
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Technical Program Committee of the 4 International Symposium on
W ireless Vehicular Communications (WIVEC 2011), September 5 -6, San
Francisco, USA.
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Technical Program Committee of the 73 Vehicular Technolog y
Conference 2011 (VTC 2011), May 15-18, Budapest, Hungary.
Technical Program Committee of Second IEEE Vehicular Networking
Conference 2010 (IEEE VNC 2010), December 13-15, Jersey City, NJ,
USA.
General Co-Chair of VANET 2010 (The Seventh ACM Internatio nal
W orkshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking), In conjunction with ACM
Mobicom 2010, Chicago, USA.
General Co-Chair of VANET 2009 (The Sixth ACM International
W orkshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking), In conjunction with ACM
MobiCom 2009, Beijing, China.
Industry Track Organization Committee of The First Annual International
Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS 2008), July 22,
2008, in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2008, Dublin, Ireland.
Program Committee of The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on
W ireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS'08), September 29,
2008, in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Technical Program Committee of the Fifth ACM International Workshop
on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008, in conjunction with ACM
MobiCom, San Francisco, USA.
Program Committee of WiSP 2008 (Workshop on Wireless Security and
Privacy), Beijing, China, June 20, 2008.
Program Committee of SPEED 2007 (Software Performance
Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption), Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, June 11-12, 2007.
Program Committee of escar 2006 ( Embedded Security in Cars), Berlin,
Germany, November 14-15, 2006.
Program Committee of WSNS 06 (The Second International Workshop
on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security), in conjunction with MASS
2006 (The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and
Sensor Systems), Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006.
Program Committee of ESAS 2006 (3rd European Workshop on Security
and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks), in conjunction with
ESORICS 2006 (European Symposium on Research in Computer
Security), Hamburg, Germany, September 20-21, 2006.
Program Committee of ESAS 2005 (2nd European Workshop on
Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks), Visegrad,
Hungary, July 13-14, 2005.
Program Committee of MADNES 2005 (Secure Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
and Sensors W orkshop), in conjunction with ISC 2005 (Information
Security Conference), Singapore, September 20-22, 2005.
Program Committee of ESAS 2004 (1st European Workshop on Security
in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks), Heidelberg, Germany, August 5 -6,
2004.
REVIEWER Evaluator for the European commission as well as for European
ministries.
Peer review:
o ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (ACM
TISSEC)
o Elsevier Computer Communications
o Embedded Security in Cars (escar)
o European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor
Networks (ESAS)
o IEEE Communications Letters
o IEEE Globecom
o IEEE Transactions on Computers
o IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
o Information Processing Letters (IPL)
o Journal of Cryptology
o Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
o Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN)
o New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW )
o Secure Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Sensors Workshop
(MADNES)
o The Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-
NETworking (VANET 2009)
o W orkshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
(CHES)
o W orkshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography
(FDTC)
PRESENTATIONS
INVITED SAE 2011 Intelligent Vehicle Systems Symposium, Detroit, MI,
PRESENTATIONS November 8-9, 2011
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Invited presentation and panel member, COMeSafety 7 International
W orkshop on Vehicle Communications for Safety and Sustainability,
Orlando, FL, October 21, 2011.
Keynote presentation WIVEC 2011, San Francisco, USA, September 5 -
6, 2011.
Pitney Bowes, Seventh Annual Conference on Information Security and
Communication, Stamford, CT, USA; June 14, 2011
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9 Annual W ireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS 2010),
Tampa, FL, USA, 21-23 April, 2010.
ITS World Congress 2008, New York City, NY, November 18, 2008.
Pitney Bowes, Fourth Annual Conference on Information Security and
Communication, Stamford, CT, USA, June 25, 2008.
IES Industry Forum, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 5-6, 2008.
SECSI Secure Component and System Identification, Berlin, Germany,
March 17-18, 2008.
The 9th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2005),
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19, 20 & 21, 2005.
"Datensicherheit f r Location Based Services" (Data Security for
Location Based Services), esgeo (embedded security in geoinformations
systems) 2005, Bochum, Germany, June 2nd, 2005.
"IT-Sicherheit im Automobil" (IT-Security in the Automobile),
Autokongress der Ruhr-Universit t Bochum, Bochum, Germany, June
1st, 2005.
"Datensicherheit im Fahrzeug" (Data Security in Vehicles), Cebit,
Hannover, Germany, March 11, 2005.
"Embedded Security im Automobil" (Embedded Security in the
Automobile), Entwicklerforum "Drahtlose und drahtgebundene
Netzwerke 2004", Munich, Germany, July 7, 2004.
"Cryptographic Performance in Practical Applications", TransFIT
W orkshop, Berlin, Germany, June, 2001.
Held further invited presentations at
Accenture Technology Labs
Embedded World, Nuremberg
NEC Europe Network Laboratories
Philips Research
Ruhr-University of Bochum
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
W orcester Polytechnic Institute
Why do we need Data Security in ITS, ITS World Congress (World
Further
Presentations Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems), New York City, USA,
November 16-20, 2008.
TEACHING Held several courses and workshops for industry including
DaimlerChrysler, TUV, Ford, and Toyota:
o Introduction to Cryptography
o Elliptic Curve Cryptography
o Secure Car-to-Car Communication
o Trusted Hardware in Embedded Systems
Teaching assistant of "Asymmetric Cryptography" course. Organized
homework and exercises, and held several classes.
Supervised diploma theses:
o Daniel Hamburg, "Implementing Public Key Algorithms on
Embedded Systems", 2004.
o Michael Holzt, "Penetration of Infotainment Devices", 2005
(external Masters Thesis).
o Katrin H per, "Cryptographic Protocols for Component
Identification and Applications", 2002.
o Hakim Izaamriouane, "Erstellung eines drahtlosen
kryptographischen Identifizierungstokens" (Development of a
W ireless Cryptographic Identification Token), 2005.
o Makoto Miyamoto, "Security in Ad-hoc Networks - Survey and
Implementation", 2003.
o Ingo Riedel, "Security in Ad-hoc Networks: Protocols and Elliptic
Curve Cryptography on an Embedded Platform", 2003 (thesis
was awarded with 2nd place of the CAST forum).
o Lars Wolleschensky, Efficient Cryptographic Protocols for
Secure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication, 2009.
o Zheng Wu, Secure Hardware Platforms for Embedded
Applications, 2006.
Supervised seminar term work:
o Marko Borrmann, "Steganographie" (Steganography), 2003.
o Tim G neysu, "CD/DVD Copy Protection", 2004.
o Marius Hilckmann, "Quantum Cryptography", 2003.
o Lijun Liao, "Kryptographie in der Praxis" (Cryptography in
Practical Applications), 2003.
o Egmont Semmler, "Schnelle Faktorisierung" (Fast Factorization),
2004.
o Christof Schmits, "e-Voting", 2004.
o Marcel Selhorst, "Die Geldkarte - Eine "sichere" elektronische
Geldb rse?!" (The Electronic Money Card - A Secure Electronic
W allet 2002.
COMPUTER Certifications: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Lotus Notes
EXPERIENCE Administrator
Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux, MS Windows, Novell Networks
Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Visual Basic/Notes Script,
JavaScript, HTML
Misc. Packages: MS Office, Star Office, Lotus Notes 4.x, LATEX
LANGUAGES Fluent in German and English, basic Spanish knowledge
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