Past student projects

On this page, some of the student projects conducted under our supervision can be found. Student projects at ETH Zurich come in three flavors:

Semester thesis

150 person-hours project

Diploma thesis (i.e., Master's thesis in the old curriculum)

4 person-months project

Master's Thesis

6 person-months project (i.e., Diplom thesis in the new curriculum)

• Access Control Markup Languages for XML Documents
• Cocoa GUI for the AVISPA Protocol Analyzer, A
• Defense Against SQL Injection Attacks
• Diff and XML-Diff Algorithms
• Extending fwtest to handle UDP and ICMP
• Firewall Testing
• Firewall Testing with NAT
• Generation of Test Cases from Automata
• Simulation of Security Protocols
• Software-based TPM Emulator for Linux, A
• Representation of a Network
• Trusted Knoppix
• WS-based Provisions Service
• Timing, ... in Firewall Testing

Winter Semester 2006/2007

Timing, ... in Firewall Testing

• proposal: PS
  report: PDF
  talk: PDF
  source code: TAR.GZ
  student: Gabriel Müller
  supervisor: Diana von Bidder

WS-based Provisions Service

• proposal: PDF
• report: PDF
• talk: PDF
• source code: ZIP
• student: Judith Rüesch
• supervisor: Paul E. Sevinç

Winter Semester 2005/2006

Taxonomy of Control Mechanisms (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (78 KB)
• report: PDF (2.6 MB)
• talk: PDF (688 KB)
• student: Florian Schütz
• supervisors: Manuel Hilty and Alexander Pretschner

Trusted Knoppix (Master's Thesis)

• proposal: PDF (39 KB)
• talk: PDF (859 KB)
• student: Thomas Zweifel
• supervisors: Paul E. Sevinç and Mario Strasser

Firewall Testing with NAT (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (104 KB)
• report: PDF (712 KB)
• talk: PDF (417 KB)
• fwtest v1.0: TAR.GZ (50 KB)
• student: Adrian Schüpbach
• supervisor: Diana Senn

Extending fwtest to handle UDP and ICMP (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (89 KB)
• report: PDF (503 KB)
• talk: PDF (252 KB)
• fwtest v1.0: TAR.GZ (50 KB)
• student: Beat Strasser
• supervisor: Diana Senn

A Cocoa GUI for the AVISPA Protocol Analyzer (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (78 KB)
• report: PDF (2.6 MB)
• talk: PDF (688 KB)
• AVISPA tool: zipped Mac OS X app (686 KB)
• student: Natalie Trommer
• supervisors: Paul Hankes Drielsma and Paul E. Sevinç

Summer Semester 2005

Representation of a Network (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (110 KB)
• report: PDF (529 KB)
• student: Markus Frauenfelder
• supervisor: Diana Senn

Generation of Test Cases from Automata (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (200 KB)
• report: PDF (834 KB)
• talk: PDF (362KB)
• TCG-Tool: JAR (304 KB), TCGTool_source.tar.gz (998K)
  
• student: Stefan Hildenbrand
• supervisor: Diana Senn

Diff and XML-Diff Algorithms (Doppel-Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (45 KB)
• report: PDF (503 KB)
• talk: PDF (504 KB)
• Java classes: JAR (46 KB)
  Java classes with sources: JAR (80 KB)
• students: Franziska Meyer and Daniel Hottinger
• supervisor: Paul E. Sevinç

Winter Semester 2004/2005

Firewall Testing (Diplomarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (88 KB)
• report: PDF (824 KB)
• fwtest v0.6: obsolete (=> fwtest v1.0 WS0506)
• student: Gerhard Zaugg
• supervisor: Diana Senn

Summer Semester 2004

Access Control Markup Languages for XML Documents (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PDF (29 KB)
• report: PDF (175 KB)
• talk: PDF (1.5 MB)
• student: Jan Rihak
• supervisors: Paul E. Sevinç and Bernhard Seybold

A Software-based TPM Emulator for Linux (Semesterarbeit)

The latest version of the Software-based TPM Emulator is hosted by BerliOS Developer.

• proposal: PDF (50 KB)
• report: PDF (519 KB)
• talk: PDF (458 KB)
• emulator (including source): TAR.GZ (241 KB)
• device-driver library: TAR.GZ (5 KB)
• student: Mario Strasser
• supervisor: Paul E. Sevinç

Winter Semester 2003/2004

Simulation of Security Protocols (Doppel-Semesterarbeit)

• report (in German): PDF (179 KB)
• source code: TGZ (8.5 MB)
• students: Tommi Lindgren and Thomas Tscherrig
• supervisors: Paul Hankes Drielsma, Michael Näf, and Paul E. Sevinç

Summer Semester 2003

Defense Against SQL Injection Attacks (Semesterarbeit)

• proposal: PS (353 KB)
• report (in German): PDF (486 KB)
• talk (in German): PDF (154 KB)
• code examples (including source): TAR.GZ (9.1 MB)
• student: Daniel Lutz
• supervisors: Paul E. Sevinç and Michael Näf