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Ransomware attacks – in contrast to other cyber attacks – must not be detected and especially not blocked or recovered on first sight. This relaxation is supported by the rareness of ransomware attacks. Certainly, the uprising of ransomware families, which are able to circumvent the detection mechanism, integrated into the local machine, prevents the approaches from taking advantage of the relaxation. Justified by the attack isolation, the move to the personal cloud storage is the reasonable way…

The mDNS-SD Privacy Extension replaces many multicast packets by unicast packets sent to pre-paired devices only, thus not only distributing less privacy-sensitive data in the network, but also reducing the amount of broadcast traffic that uses a considerable amount of resources on modern wireless networks.

In the past years digital communication became an important aspect in every day life. Everything is shared and discussed in groups of friends, family or business part- ners without a proper way to protect that information. This master thesis introduces the first secure robust multi-party communication protocol which mimics a physical conversation with the help of a Diffie-Hellman key tree and social behaviours. Robust- ness against offline group members is reached by taking advantage of…

TLS Interposter allows current SSL vulnerabilities to be fixed in legacy software that cannot be configured properly by replacing unsafe SSL parameters before any call to the SSL library is made.

The SARA project (Software Archiving of Research Artefacts) aims to develop a new scientific service that allows long-term access and publishing of research data and scientific software. Its main focus is on software tools that support the processing and analysis of research data. In biological research, for example, measured data is collected and processed with the support of computers. Within Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, the different versions of newly developed software need…

Chat — instant messaging, audio and video calls — have come to form an integral part of our daily life. Most people use closed systems for these needs, which is acceptable for private use, but fail the privacy requirements for official use in a research or teaching environment. However, this does not have to be the case: WISEchat offers the security, comfort and availability demanded by a modern university based on the open, federated Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocols (XMPP).

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In this thesis two generic approaches on how to store different datatypes to a cloud storage are proposed, thereby utilizing Treetank. As part of this thesis implementations for the proposed approaches have been implemented to evaluate their practicability and search out strengths as well as weaknesses. Current cloud storage systems, security concerns towards privacy, stability and integrity of data shared with “the Cloud” is discussed. An overview of Treetank, that originally was designed to be…

This Bachelor thesis describes the architecture of an iSCSI target written in Java, investigates the effects of various parameters on the program's performance, and compares the results to those of a native code implementation.