Courses

I'm involved in the following courses. Course material can be found on Brightspace.

Q1 »
Calculus
(premaster CS) with Perry Groot
Q2 »
Combinatorics
(bachelor CS) with Perry Groot
Q3,4 »
Networks and Security
(bachelor CS) with Pol van Aubel

Thesis supervision

Below are some potential bachelor/master thesis topics. If you're interested send me an email. I'm also open to interesting topics not on this list.

Topic: Trusting Eduroam

Before connecting to Eduroam, your OS might ask you to check a certificate, but according to Radboud’s instructions you shouldn’t bother and trust the certificate blindly. What’s going on here? Is the RU callous, or the OS overzealous?

Topic: Security of identicons

In PubHubs hubs, users are identified by a (shortened) hash, like a3g-a48, to, in principle, prevent impersonation. “In principle”, because it’s unlikely that you’d remember another user’s hash, let alone notice when it’s changed. That’s why we’re considering using an ‘identicon’ like the one used by GitHub (and others), but we see two problems:

How to prevent users from being assigned an identicon they consider offensive? (For example, one having the colors of an opposing soccer team.)
Is it feasible for an attacker obtain an identicon that’s close enough to another person’s identicon, by registering a whole bunch of user accounts.