Seminar Topics

Digital Currencies

Partitioning Attacks on Bitcoin: Colliding Space, Time, and Logic (Paper)
How to Beat Nakamoto in the Race (Paper)
Bitcoin Under Volatile Block Rewards: How Mempool Statistics Can Influence Bitcoin Mining (Paper)

Functional Encryption with Bounded Collusions via Multi-party Computation (Paper)
Efficient Pattern Mining Based Cryptanalysis for Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (Paper)
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Automated Cryptanalysis of Bloom Filter Encryptions of Health Records (Paper)
A Framework for Designing Provably Secure Steganography (Paper)

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels (Paper)
Sound of Interference: Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Attack on Digital Microphones Using Pulse Density Modulation (Paper)
Timing Attacks on Differential Privacy are Practical (Paper)

Machine Unlearning (Paper)
SMOTE and Mirrors: Exposing Privacy Leakage from Synthetic Minority Oversampling (Paper)
Making AI Forget You: Data Deletion in Machine Learning (Paper)
Chimera: Creating Digitally Signed Fake Photos by Fooling Image Recapture and Deepfake Detectors (Paper)

More is Less: Extra Features in Contactless Payments Break Security (Paper)
Don't Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites (Paper)

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Security&Privacy) (Conferences up to 2026)
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) (Example: EuroS&P 2026)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (Example: CCS 2026)
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) (Past conferences)
USENIX Security Symposium (Past conferences)
Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO) (Example: CRYPTO 2026)
Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT) (Example: EUROCRYPT 2026)
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) (Past conferences)