Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt

Research Areas

• Secure Data: Basic research and development of procedures for digital data security in a heterogeneous, dynamic and decentralized world with computers being present everywhere.
• Secure Things: Basic research and development of procedures for protection of embedded systems, which often only have small resources and few means of communication.
• Secure Services: Basic research and development of procedures for durable improvement of security and reliability of on-demand services.
• Smart Civil Security: Basic research and development of procedures for security and reliability of new human-computer interaction as well as software- and communication concepts.
• The graduate school offers a structured program for CASED PhD students.

  Research Topics

• Cryptography including Quantum Cryptography, Public-Key- and other Secure Infrastructures
• Formal Verification
• Long-time Archiving
• Digital Watermarking, Digital Rights Management and Enterprise Rights Management
• Data Privacy and Copyright
• IT Forensics
• Trusted Computing
• Security of Embedded systems
• Security of RFIDs and Chipcards
• Self-healing and Self-defence
• Security in Wireless and Sensor-networks
• Secure Applications for Mobile devices
• Recognition of Malware
• Protection against Product piracy
• Trusted Computing
• Side Channel Analysis and Hardening
• Security-Policies
• Software Security
• Secure Operating systems and Middleware
• Identity/Access-Management
• Models of Trust and Reputation
• E-Voting, eHealth, eCommerce, eGovernment
• Multimedia Security
• Risk Management
• Compliance recognition of Malware Security testing, Security metrics, Security in Service-orientaded Architectures and Clouds
• Secure Webapplications, Usability of Secure products
• Legally and economically Aspects
• Security critical Infrastructures and Emergency Management
• Biometry, Recognition of Persons and Tracking Security Awareness

  Involved Scientists