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Signe Rüsch
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 1st floor
38106 Braunschweig
Room 116
+49 531 3913265
ruesch[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 1st floor
38106 Braunschweig
Room 116
+49 531 3913265
ruesch[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Research
Interests
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Trusted Execution (Intel SGX)
Projects
Publications
2021
- Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Signe Rüsch, Marcus Brandenburger and Marko Vukolic: Adding Fairness to Order: Preventing Front-Running Attacks in BFT Protocols using TEEs, in 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021), Chicago, USA/virtual, September 2021 (Stathakopoulou21Fairy, BibTeX, Accepted for publication.)
2019
- Signe Rüsch, Kai Bleeke and Rüdiger Kapitza: Themis: An Efficient and Memory-Safe BFT Framework in Rust (Research Statement), in 3rd Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers (SERIAL 2019), Davis, CA, USA, December 2019 (ruesch2019themis, BibTeX, Slides)
- Signe Rüsch, Kai Bleeke and Rüdiger Kapitza: Bloxy: Providing Transparent and Generic BFT-Based Ordering Services for Blockchains, in 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019), Lyon, France, October 2019 (ruesch2019bloxy, BibTeX, Slides, Poster, Best Poster Award.)
2018
- Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi and Rüdiger Kapitza: Towards Low-Latency Byzantine Agreement Protocols Using RDMA, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains, BCRB'18, Luxemburg, June 2018 (ruesch2018rubin, BibTeX, Slides)
- Signe Rüsch: High-Performance Consensus Mechanisms for Blockchains, in 12th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop, EuroDW'18, Porto, Portugal, April 2018 (ruesch2018dw, BibTeX, Poster)
- David Goltzsche, Signe Rüsch, Manuel Nieke, Sébastien Vaucher, Nico Weichbrodt, Valerio Schiavoni, Pierre-Louis Aublin, Paolo Costa, Christof Fetzer, Pascal Felber, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: EndBox: Scalable Middlebox Functions Using Client-Side Trusted Execution, in Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN'18, 2018 (goltzsche2018endbox, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
- Wenbo Xu, Signe Rüsch, Bijun Li and Rüdiger Kapitza: Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Consensus in Asynchronous and Wireless Embedded Systems, in 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2018), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pages 15:1-15:16, 2018 (xu2018opodis, DOI, BibTeX)
2017
- Signe Rüsch, Dominik Schürmann, Rüdiger Kapitza and Lars Wolf: Forward Secure Delay-Tolerant Networking, in Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenged Networks, CHANTS '17, Snowbird, Utah, USA, pages 7-12, ACM, October 2017 (ruesch:chants:2017, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
Teaching
Courses
- WS21/22 Betriebssysteme
- SS21 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- SS21 SEP: Verteilter Blockchain-basierter Flugdatenschreiber für UAV
- WS20/21 Betriebssysteme
- SS20 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- WS19/20 Betriebssysteme
- WS19/20 Teamprojekt Verteilte Systeme: Automated Urban Gardening
- SS19 SEP: Automated Urban Gardening
- SS19 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- WS18/19 Betriebssysteme
- SS18 Teamprojekt verteilte Systeme: Pervasive Computing in Blockchains
- SS18 SEP: IBRCoin: Eine ressourcenschonende Alternative zu Bitcoin
- SS18 Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Byzantine Fault Tolerance-Based Consensus Protocols for Blockchains
- SS18 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- WS17/18 Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Blockchain: From Cryptocurrencies to Smart Contracts
- WS17/18 Betriebssysteme
- SS17 SEP: Trusted I/O für Intel SGX Enklaven mittels Raspberry Pi
- WS16/17 Betriebssysteme
Supervised Theses
Open theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementing the ByzCoin Agreement Protocol in a Rust-Based BFT Framework | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | open |
| Design and Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Framework for Comparison of Scalability Approaches in Rust | Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | open |
Running theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formal Verification of a Byzantine Agreement Protocol | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | running |
Finished theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARM TrustZone-based Byzantine Agreement | Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Thesis | Ines Messadi, Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Literature Analysis of BFT Protocol Scalability in Blockchains | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Integrating a Blockchain Application into the Social Media Platform Twitter | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Multi-Enclave BFT Protocols | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi | examined |
| Design and Implementation of an Embedded Blockchain in Train Systems | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi | examined |
| Design and Implementation of Byzantine Consensus with Bus Communication in Rust | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Security-Aware Application Partitioning in Rust Using Intel SGX | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Implementierung von symmetrischen kryptographischen Verfahren in einem Rust-basierten BFT-Framework | Bachelor Thesis | Kai Bleeke, Signe Rüsch | examined |
| Implementing the Gosig Agreement Protocol in a Rust-Based BFT Framework | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Scheme in Rust | Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Improving the Scalability of BFT Protocols | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Characterization and Benchmarking of Current Blockchains | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Collecting Time and Location Evidence on Smartphones | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Integration of a BFT consensus protocol in Hyperledger Fabric | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Datentransparenz und Rückverfolgung von Produkten in globalen Lieferketten durch Blockchain | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Maximilian Rolinck | finished |
| Implementing a Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Approach for Interactive Event Verification | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Trusted Location Traces in Blockchains | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Trustworthy Recording of Media Files using Blockchains | Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Design and Implementation of a Ranking System with Gamification Elements | Bachelor Thesis | David Goltzsche, Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Low Latency Byzantine Agreement using RDMA | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi | finished |