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Secure Software Systems Group

Theses/Practicum

Bachelor Thesis / Master Thesis / Master Practicum

The following topics are available at SS 25

 

Security of Systems and Protocols

(Master Thesis)  Three times the charm - Implementation of FPGA-based Fuzzing against CPU Simulation Software [Contact Person: Melanie]

(Practicum / Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Guide the Blind: RL/LLM-Guided Fuzzing of eBPF Runtimes [Contact Person: Melanie]

(Practicum / Bachelor/ Master Thesis) LLMs for Intelligent Network Protocol Implementation Fuzzing [Contact Person: Melanie]

 

Application of AI for Improving Security

(Master Thesis) Securing Software Systems with Graph Clustering: Towards Automated Compartmentalization [Contact Person: Melanie​​​​​​​]

(Practicum) LLM-Based Agentic RAG for Automated Program Repair and Security Vulnerability Fixes [Contact Person: Varun]

(Practicum) RESTing LLAMA: LLM-based REST API Fuzzing  [Contact Person: Varun]

 

Improving the Security of Machine Learning

(Master Thesis) Countering LLM Jailbreaks - Improving LLM Safety Allignment via Parameter Entanglement [Contact Person: Torsten]

(Master Thesis) Forget About This! - Removing Tasks from Large Language Models [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Practicum) Evaluation of Siamese Networks for Quality Insurance in the Image Domain [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Practicum/ Bachelor Thesis) MatreshkaNN: Hide Multiple AI Models within Each Other [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Similarity-Preserving Hash Functions for Prediction Trust Scoring of AI Models [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Master Thesis) The Space of Language: Fuzzing LLMs for Defects [Contact Person: Varun​​​​​​​]

(Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Semantically-Aligned Poisoning attack on LLM-RAG Systems [Contact Person: Varun​​​​​​​]

(Master Thesis) Inception: Email Phishing for LLM RAG Injection  [Contact Person: Melanie]

 

Contact

If you are interested in the topics above, please contact the respective group member mentioned above via E-mail.. 

Please note that some topics advertised as a master thesis may also be suitable for a bachelor thesis with some modifications. You may also propose topics of your own choosing.

Past Theses written by our Students

2024[ to top ]
  • SPOQchain: Platform for Secure, Scalable, and Privacy-preserving Supply Chain Tracing and Counterfeit Protection. Finke, Moritz; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2024, June).
  • Kako: Mirai’s Vaccine Using Worm-Like Propagation Methods To Immunize Devices. Hack, Felix; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2024, January).
  • PUF-Based Device-to-Device Authentication in IoT without Trusted Intermediaries. Petzi, Lukas; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2024, February).
2023[ to top ]
  • Email Discovery in Modern Applications. Pastukh, Andrii; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, July).
  • Ensuring Integrity of NVMe Offloaded Data in Large-Scale Machine Learning. Götz, Raphael; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, January).
  • Gamification of Ethical Hacking Lab. Schraud, Johannes; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, February).
  • Penetration Testing of the eSano Platform. Schumacher, Moritz; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, March).
  • Adversarial Training in Federated Learning using Constrained Optimization Methods. König, Jan; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, May).
  • Penetration Testing of the eSano Platform with the focus on Patient and eCoach components. Nolte, Alexander; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, July).
  • Vulnerability Assessment of Smart Contracts using Explainable AI Methods. Hefter, Alexander; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, January).
  • Sybil Attack in Tor - Shedding Light to the Diversity Problem in Tor. Schreider, Dominik; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, August).
  • Constrained Learning for Improved Attack Resilience in Federated Learning. Fella, Tobias; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, September).
2021[ to top ]
  • Security Analysis of UniNow App. Zimmermann, Keven; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2021, June).
  • Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning in Databases. Schindler, Sebastian; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2021, April).
  • Security and Privacy Aspects of Digital Contact Tracing. Roos, Filipp; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2021, October).
  • Remote Attestation for IoT with Smart Verifier. Petzi, Lukas; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2021, January).
2020[ to top ]
  • Evaluating the Privacy of Contact Discovery. Sendner, Christoph; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2020, July).
  • Aggregatable Remote Attestation for IoT. Alistarov, Vasil; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, December).
  • Strategies for the Security Assessment of IoT Devices by Certification Authorities. Finke, Moritz Anton; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, May).
  • Detection of Software Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts using Deep Learning. Lutz, Oliver; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2020, October).
  • Testbed for Security Testing of Smart Contracts. Denk, Lukas; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, November).
  • Understanding UI attacks on Android. Jasper, Stang; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, December).
2019[ to top ]
  • Implementation and Evaluation of a Group Encryption Scheme. Ten, Peter; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2019, December).
2018[ to top ]
  • Hardening Bitcoin Against Off-Topic Data Inclusion Attacks. Seeg, Andreas; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2018, August).
  • DIMAQS - Dynamic Identification of Malicious Query Sequences. Jobst, Michael; Thesis; Master Thesis. (2018, June).
  • Design of a Shared Parking System with Special Attention to Security Aspects. Englert, Simon; Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2018, August).