Thesis projects completed since 2019 with the Cryptology and Data Security Research Group at the University of Bern and in the Swiss Joint Master in Computer Science.

Date completed Title Type Advisor Student
FS2025 Adapting the PBFT Consensus Algorithm to the Asymmetric Trust Setting MSc Michael Senn, Juan Villacis Jonathan Bernhard
FS2025 Privacy-preserving Authentication Flow for U2SSO with Open ID Self-Provider BSc Mariarosaria Barbaraci Yanis Berger
FS2025 Privacy-preserving credentials with BBS+ BSc François-Xavier Wicht Lukas Leuba
HS2024 Exploring the Consensus Mechanism of the BNB Smart Chain BSc François-Xavier Wicht, Michael Senn Daniele De Jeso
HS2024 Privacy Preserving Decentralized Identities MSc Jayamine Alupotha, Mariarosaria Barbaraci Marko Cirkovic
FS2024 Balancing Privacy and Public Policy Objectives: A study of eCash applied to the Digital Euro BSc François-Xavier Wicht Joel David Auerbach
FS2024 ROAST in Rust MSc Mariarosaria Barbaraci Lukas Leo Schacher
HS2023 An extended, modular library of distributed protocols BSc Jovana Micic Marcel Haag
FS2023 Implementing Distributed Randomness MSc Mariarosaria Barbaraci, Orestis Alpos Marius Asadauskas
HS2023 Blockchain and BlockDAG protocols MSc Ignacio Amores Sesar Renato Rao
HS2023 Design and Implementation of an Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation Protocol MSc Orestis Alpos, Mariarosaria Barbaraci Markus Eggiman
FS2023 Analyzing Inter-blockchain Communication BSc David Lehnherr Raphael Fehr
FS2023 Analyzing FastPay BSc David Lehnherr Noah Maggio
FS2023 Solana Consensus Protocol
(available on request)
MSc Jovana Micic, Luca Zanolini Elias Wipfli
FS2023 Balance attack on a forkable blockchain MSc Ignacio Amores Sesar Marcel Zauder
FS2023 Implementing and evaluating protocol Π3 in BlockSim BSc Orestis Alpos, Ignacio Amores Sesar Lawrence Chiang
FS2023 Exploring threshold cryptosystems MSc Orestis Alpos Michael Senn
FS2023 E-Voting verifier for the Swiss Post voting system BSc Patrick Liniger, Mariarosaria Barbaraci Marc Günter
HS2022 Security in the NFT world BSc Jovana Micic Noé Bayard
HS2022 Blockchain privacy notions using the transaction graph model MSc Duc V. Le François-Xavier Wicht
HS2022 Concurrent distributed storage protocols MSc David Lehnherr Marco Cacciatore
HS2022 Benchmarking threshold signatures for consensus protocols BSc Orestis Alpos Julien Brunner
FS2022 Implementation of a threshold post-quantum signature scheme MSc Ignacio Amores Sesar, Nathalie Steinhauer Dominique Roux
FS2022 Cryptographic primitives for on-chain tumbler designs BSc Duc V. Le Marko Cirkovic
FS2022 Filecoin consensus: Performance analysis MSc Christian Cachin Marcel Würsten
FS2022 Secure execution on a blockchain MSc Christian Cachin Riccardo Zappoli
FS2022 Blockchain consensus protocols based on stake MSc Luca Zanolini Timo Bürk
FS2022 Fair transaction order in Hedera Hashgraph BSc Nathalie Steinhauer Matteo Biner
HS2021 A concurrent DEX on Cardano BSc Luca Zanolini, Jovana Micic Peter Brühwiler
HS2021 Consensus zoo
(available on request)
MSc Jovana Micic Paula Raseni
HS2021 Multiparty computation on blockchain BSc Orestis Alpos Gillian Cathomas
HS2021 Randomness and games on Ethereum MSc Luca Zanolini
Ignacio Amores Sesar
Peter Allemann
HS2021 Exploring blockchain-based decentralized exchanges BSc Jovana Micic Benjamin Helmy
FS2021 Implementation of an asset transfer system … BSc Orestis Alpos Jérémie De Faveri
FS2021 Encrypting into the future BSc Christian Cachin, Giorgia Marson Lukas Schacher
FS2021 PoET: An eco-friendly alternative to PoW BSc Ignacio Amores Sesar Marius Asadauskas
FS2021 Secure causal atomic broadcast BSc Orestis Alpos Noah Schmid
FS2021 Provably robust proof-of-stake protocols MSc Giorgia Marson Arbër Kuçi
FS2021 Implementing RSA signatures on the Internet Computer BSc Jovana Micic Michael Senn
HS2020 Analysis of the Tangle BSc Ignacio Amores Sesar Michael Brunner
HS2020 The library of distributed protocols MSc Jovana Micic Aleksandar Lazic
FS2020 Blockchain and BlockDAG protocols BSc Ignacio Amores Sesar Luca Althaus
FS2020 Using polynomial systems to decode binary linear codes BSc Alex Pellegrini Annina Helmy
FS2020 Implementing Byzantine-fault tolerant algorithms in DistAlgo BSc Orestis Alpos
Luca Zanolini
Roland Widmer
FS2020 BLS signatures in PROTECT MSc Christian Cachin Patrick Hodel
HS2019 Threshold cryptography with Tendermint Core MSc Christian Cachin Nathalie Froidevaux
HS2019 Evaluating the B3 condition in asymmetric quorums BSc Orestis Alpos Sabine Brunner
FS2019 Execution of smart contracts with ARM TrustZone MSc Christian Cachin, Pascal Felber (UniNE) Christina Müller
HS2019 Generalized quorums for consensus BSc Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin Angela Keller
FS2019 Security analysis of Ripple consensus
(available on request)
MSc Christian Cachin Jovana Micic