Habilitation

Habilitationsschrift

Gradually, I reach another milestone: the habilitation. Today I submitted my habilitation thesis digitally. The printed version (which can be seen in the photo) will follow next week – eight months before the deadline (four years from accepting my habilitation proposal) and with a further scientific question. In the further process, I will only be […]

International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities

The Call for Paper for our International Workshops on Emerging Digital Identities (EDId), located at ARES 2024, is now public. Based on the topic, we search for contributions related to digital identities, including interoperability, protocols, security, and more. Topics of interest are, for example, the following: Interoperability and user experience related to digital identities Analysis […]

Authentication Analysis Framework (AAF)

Einhorn05

Recently, our paper [1] on the Authentication Analysis Framework (AAF) was accepted and published by Elsevier COSE. But what is it all about? User accounts on the Internet usually support different primary and fallback authentication methods. Fallback methods take effect when the primary authentication methods are (temporarily) not available, for example, because the password has […]

Analyzing GDPR Article 15

When the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented, I made inquiries to many service providers in accordance with Article 15 (right of access of the data subject) – out of my own interest. In the beginning, the requests had mostly the form of emails. Slowly, more and more service providers integrated functions (forms […]

Different Aspects of IT Security

ARES 2022

As I found out, I hadn’t written any posts in the last 12 months. This despite the fact that we had published some interesting papers and three (?) Incidents happened at LastPass. The latter obviously has to do with one of my research topics, identity management. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about it soon. […]