Nico Weichbrodt Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Technische Universität Braunschweig Carl Friedrich Gauß Faculty Department of Computer Science Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks Room 116 Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 1st floor 38106 Braunschweig Phone: +49 531 3913265 Fax: +49 531 3915936 EMail: weichbrodt[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Research

Interests

• Virtualization
• Cloud-Computing
• Trusted Computing
• Trusted Execution (Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone)

Projects

• Secure Enclaves for REactive Cloud Applications (SERECA)
• Scalable Hardware-Aided Trusted Data Management (STAN)

Teaching

As WiMi:

• WS18/19 Operating System Security
• SS18 Cloud Computing
• SS18 SEP: IBRCoin: Eine ressourcenschonende Alternative zu Bitcoin
• WS17/18 Betriebssysteme
• WS17/18 Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Blockchain: From Cryptocurrencies to Smart Contracts
• SS17 SEP: Trusted I/O für Intel SGX Enklaven mittels Raspberry Pi
• SS17 Verteilte Systeme
• WS16/17 Seminar Informatik WS 2016/2017 Verteilte Systeme: Secure Trusted Execution for Resilient Distributed Systems
• SS16 Softwareentwicklungspraktikum: Sichere Wahlen mit Intel SGX
• SS16 Verteilte Systeme

As HiWi:

• SS15 Cloud Computing
• WS14/15 Betriebssysteme
• SS14 Verteilte Systeme
• SS13 Verteilte Systeme
• WS12/13 Betriebssysteme
• SS12 Verteilte Systeme

Publications

• Bijun Li, Nico Weichbrodt, Johannes Behl, Pierre-Louis Aublin, Tobias Distler and Rüdiger Kapitza: Troxy: Transparent Access to Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems, in Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN'18, 2018 (bli2018troxy, BibTeX)
• 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)
• Vasily Sartakov, Nico Weichbrodt, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Leich and Rüdiger Kapitza: STANlite-a database engine for secure data processing at rack-scale level, in Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2018 IEEE International Conference on, IEEE, pages 23-33, 2018 (sartakov2018stanlite, BibTeX)
• Nico Weichbrodt, Pierre-Louis Aublin and Rüdiger Kapitza: sgx-perf: Performance Analysis Tool for Intel SGX Enclaves, in Accepted for publication at MIDDLEWARE 2018, ACM, 2018 (weichbr2018sgxperf, BibTeX)
• Jo Van Bulck, Nico Weichbrodt, Rüdiger Kapitza, Frank Piessens and Raoul Strackx: Telling Your Secrets without Page Faults: Stealthy Page Table-Based Attacks on Enclaved Execution, in 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 17), USENIX Association, 2017 (bulck17usenixsecurity, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Colin Wulf, Matthias Lorenz, Nico Weichbrodt, David Goltzsche, Christof Fetzer, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: SecureKeeper: Confidential ZooKeeper using Intel SGX, in Middleware'16: 17th International Middleware Conference Proceedings, ACM, 2016 (mw16seckeeper, BibTeX)
• Nico Weichbrodt, Anil Kurmus, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: AsyncShock: Exploiting Synchronisation Bugs in Intel SGX Enclaves, in Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016), 2016 (weichbr16esorics, BibTeX)

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