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:

• SS20 Cloud Computing
• WS19/20
• SS19
• WS18/19
• SS18
• SS18
• WS17/18
• WS17/18
• SS17
• SS17
• WS16/17
• SS16
• SS16

As HiWi:

• SS15
• WS14/15
• SS14
• SS13
• WS12/13
• SS12

Publications

• Ines Messadi, Shivananda Neumann, Nico Weichbrodt, Lennart Almstedt, Mohammad Mahhouk and Rüdiger Kapitza: Precursor: A Fast, Client-Centric and Trusted Key-Value Store using RDMA and Intel SGX, in 22th International Middleware Conference Proceedings (Middleware'21), Quebec city , QC , Canada, December 2021 (messadi2021precursor, BibTeX, Slides, Best Student paper finalist, https://youtu.be/9Yg442MlgAI)
• Mohammad Mahhouk, Nico Weichbrodt and Rüdiger Kapitza: SGXoMeter: Open and Modular Benchmarking for Intel SGX, in Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Systems Security, EuroSec '21, Online, United Kingdom, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021 (mahhouk2021SGXoMeter, DOI, BibTeX)
• 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 19th International Middleware Conference Proceedings (Middleware'18), 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)

Supervised Theses

Finished theses: