Richard von Seck
Research Associate
Postal address
- Institut für Informatik der
- Technischen Universität München
- Lehrstuhl I8
- Boltzmannstr. 3
- 85748 Garching bei München - Germany
Contact
- Tel: +49 89 289 - 18010
- e-Mail: seck
net.in.tum.de(GPG: 5A6F 9C53 5145 D48D 738E 3977 B1FB A648 B420 B9AC) - Building/Room: MI Building, 03.05.060
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Consultation hours
By arrangement
Research
Topics
- Distributed Algorithms
- Peer to Peer Networks
projects
- ACE-SUPPRA: Security, Usability, Performance, and Privacy Research on Algorand (2022 – 2027)
- VITAF: Vertrauenswürdige IT für autonomes Fahren (Trustworthy IT for Autonomous Driving) (2019 – 2021)
Teaching
- Since SS 2019: Teaching Assistant for P2P Networks and Security
- Since WS 2018: Teaching Assistant for Network Security
- Since WS 2018: Seminar IITM and FI (advisor)
Supervised Theses
Open
| Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
| Data Plane based Optimization for Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus | MA | Richard von Seck, Manuel Simon | 2023 |
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In progress
| Student | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
| Simon Borowski | Macro View on Smart Contracts and their Processing Overhead | IDP | Filip Rezabek, Kilian Glas, Richard von Seck | 2023 | |
| Simon Entholzer | Congestion Control Optimization for Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus | MA | Richard von Seck, Benedikt Jaeger, Kilian Glas | 2023 | |
| Nadeeshani William | Eventually Consistent and Resilient CBDC System | MA | Kilian Glas, Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck, Peter Zeller | 2023 |
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| Shouvik Ghosh Parshant Singh | Extension of the Diablo Framework and Profiling Blockchains to Identify and Optimize Bottlenecks | IDP | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Christoph Rotte | C++-based MASQUE-Proxying for Lower OSI-Layer Protocol Traffic | IDP | Lion Steger, Richard von Seck | 2022 |
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Finished
| Author | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
| Nina Schwanke | Modeling Network Characteristics of Blockchain Protocols | MA | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck, Kilian Glas | 2023 | |
| Lukas Bernwald | Towards Consistency in Distributed REST API Caching | MA | Markus Sosnowski, Richard von Seck | 2023 | |
| Simon Borowski | Structure and Performance of Smart Contracts in Different Ecosystems | MA | Filip Rezabek, Kilian Glas, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Andreas Kramer | Performance Evaluation of Privacy Enhancing Infrastructure | MA | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Andrei-Cosmin Aprodu | Providing Network Layer Privacy to Blockchain Protocols | IDP | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Christoph Schnabl | Private Group Management for Mix Networks | BA | Daniel Hugenroth, Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Ahmet Öztürk | ECDSA Signatures for Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus in C++ | BA | Richard von Seck, Filip Rezabek | 2022 | |
| Christoph Probst | Rust-based MASQUE-Proxying for Lower OSI-Layer Protocol Traffic | MA | Lion Steger, Richard von Seck | 2022 |
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| Johannes Pfannschmidt | Feasibility Study of Threshold BLS Signature Scheme for Tamper-Resistance Signature Service | BA | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck, Dr. Holger Kinkelin | 2022 |
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| Timo Michael Saunus | Software-based Security for Intellectual Property and Collaboration | MA | Richard von Seck, Filip Rezabek, Holger Kinkelin | 2022 | |
| Justus von der Beek | TEE Support for Digital Data Marketplaces | IDP | Filip Rezabek, Holger Kinkelin, Richard von Seck | 2022 | |
| Stefan Madzharov | NFT Recommendation System and Behavior-Analysis of Distributed Ledger Systems using Transaction Data | MA | Filip Rezabek, Richard von Seck, Antonius Gress, Dominik Mueller | 2022 | |
| Christian Kilb | Analysis of Practical Permissionless PoS-based Consensus | MA | Richard von Seck, Filip Rezabek | 2021 |
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| Aaron Huber | Schnorr Signatures for Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus in C++ | BA | Richard von Seck, Filip Rezabek | 2021 | |
| Philip Höbler | BLS Signatures for Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus in C++ | BA | Richard von Seck, Filip Rezabek | 2021 | |
| Chon Kit Kuok | Dockerized Network Experiments Done Right | MA | Richard von Seck, Holger Kinkelin, Filip Rezabek | 2021 |
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| Christoph Probst | Robust UDP-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus | BA | Richard von Seck, Johannes Schleger | 2020 | |
| Simon Schäffner | Embedded Testbed for Reproducible Measurements | IDP | Richard von Seck, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2020 | |
| Lucas Fabian Mair | Performance of UDP-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus | BA | Richard von Seck, Johannes Schleger | 2020 | |
| Jakob Mezger | Performance Analysis of BFT Consensus | BA | Johannes Schleger, Richard von Seck, Dr. Holger Kinkelin | 2020 | |
| Twan Schoonen | Decentral Trust Infrastructure based on Tamper-Evident Logs | MA | Johannes Schleger, Richard von Seck, Dr. Holger Kinkelin | 2020 | |
| Christoph Rudolf | Tamper-resistant creation of integrity tokens for trustworthy communication in cyber-physical systems | MA | Dr. Holger Kinkelin, Richard von Seck | 2019 | |
| Christian Kilb | Privacy-preserving VoIP Signaling with Secure Multiparty Computation | BA | Dr. Marcel von Maltitz, Richard von Seck | 2019 |
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Publications
| 2023-11-01 | Filip Rezabek, Kilian Glas, Richard Von Seck, Achraf Aroua, Tizian Leonhardt, Georg Carle, “Multilayer Environment and Toolchain for Holistic NetwOrk Design and Analysis,” Nov. 2023. [Preprint] [Bib] |
| 2022-12-01 | Richard Von Seck, Filip Rezabek, Benedikt Jaeger, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “BFT-Blocks: The Case for Analyzing Networking in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus,” in 2022 IEEE 21st International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Dec. 2022, vol. 21, pp. 35–44. [Preprint] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2020-04-01 | Holger Kinkelin, Richard von Seck, Christoph Rudolf, Georg Carle, “Hardening X.509 Certificate Issuance using Distributed Ledger Technology,” in NOMS 2020 - IEEE/IFIP Workshop DISSECT 2020, Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 2020. [Preprint] [Bib] |