Dr. Roman Matzutt
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Last updated on 2023-10-27
Last updated on 2023-10-27
I have been with COMSYS until October 2023 and my main research areas there were blockchain technology and privacy-enhancing systems.
Publications
Complementing Organizational Security in Data Ecosystems with Technical Guarantees.
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Building a Secure and Empowered Cyberspace (BuildSEC ‘24), Dec 19 - Dec 20, 2024, New Delhi, India.
December 2024.
Demystifying and Adjusting the Promises of Blockchain-based Data Management in the Permissionless Setting.
Ph.D. Thesis. June 2024.
The Unresolved Need for Dependable Guarantees on Security, Sovereignty, and Trust in Data Ecosystems.
Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 151.
May 2024.
Blockchain Technology Accelerating Industry 4.0.
Blockchains – A Handbook on Fundamentals, vol. 105.
March 2024.
Illicit Blockchain Content – Its Different Shapes, Consequences, and Remedies.
Blockchains – A Handbook on Fundamentals, vol. 105.
March 2024.
An Interdisciplinary Survey on Information Flows in Supply Chains.
ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 56, no. 2.
February 2024.
Collectively Enhancing IoT Security: A Privacy-Aware Crowd-Sourcing Approach.
Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS ‘23), vol. 14551, Dec 11 - Dec 13, 2023, Bordeaux, France.
January 2024.
Poster: Accountable Processing of Reported Street Problems.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), Nov 26 - Nov 30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.
November 2023.
Complying with Data Handling Requirements in Cloud Storage Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 10, no. 3.
September 2022.
On the Need for Strong Sovereignty in Data Ecosystems.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Ecosystems (DEco ‘22), vol. 3306, Sep 5 - Sep 5, 2022, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Event co-located with the 8th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '22).
September 2022.
A Moderation Framework for the Swift and Transparent Removal of Illicit Blockchain Content.
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC ‘22), May 2 - May 5, 2022, Shanghai, China.
May 2022.
Scalable and Privacy-Focused Company-Centric Supply Chain Management.
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC ‘22), May 2 - May 5, 2022, Shanghai, China.
May 2022.
CoinPrune: Shrinking Bitcoin's Blockchain Retrospectively.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 3.
September 2021.
The Road to Accountable and Dependable Manufacturing.
Automation, vol. 2, no. 3.
September 2021.
Blockchain-Based Privacy Preservation for Supply Chains Supporting Lightweight Multi-Hop Information Accountability.
Information Processing & Management, vol. 58, no. 3.
May 2021.
Insights on Data Sensitivity from the Technical, Legal and the Users' Perspectives.
Computer Law Review International, vol. 22, no. 1.
February 2021.
Putting Privacy into Perspective -- Comparing Technical, Legal, and Users' View of Information Sensitivity.
INFORMATIK 2020, Karlsruhe, Germany.
January 2021.
Utilizing Public Blockchains for the Sybil-Resistant Bootstrapping of Distributed Anonymity Services.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS ‘20), Oct 5 - Oct 9, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan.
October 2020.
Secure End-to-End Sensing in Supply Chains.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec ‘20), Jul 1 - Jul 1, 2020, Avignon, France. Event co-located with the 8th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS '20).
July 2020.
How to Securely Prune Bitcoin’s Blockchain.
Proceedings of the 19th IFIP Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING ‘20), Jun 22 - Jun 26, 2020, Paris, France.
June 2020.
Private Multi-Hop Accountability for Supply Chains.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Blockchain for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems (BIoTCPS ‘20), Jun 7 - Jun 7, 2020, Dublin, Ireland. Event co-located with the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '20).
June 2020.
A Secure and Practical Decentralized Ecosystem for Shareable Education Material.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN ‘20), Jan 7 - Jan 10, 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
January 2020.
Privacy-Preserving Remote Knowledge System.
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP ‘19), Oct 8 - Oct 10, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA.
October 2019.
Dispute Resolution for Smart Contract-based Two Party Protocols.
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 (ICBC 2019), May 14 - May 17, 2019, Seoul, South Korea.
May 2019.
Smart Contract-based Car Insurance Policies.
2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Dec 9 - Dec 13, 2018, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
December 2018.
Thwarting Unwanted Blockchain Content Insertion.
Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Blockchain Technologies and Applications (BTA), Apr 17 - Apr 20, 2018, Orlando, Florida, USA.
April 2018.
Secure and anonymous decentralized Bitcoin mixing.
Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 80.
March 2018.
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Nieuwpoort, Curaçao.
February 2018.
Network Security and Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems.
Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications.
November 2017.
Distributed Configuration, Authorization and Management in the Cloud-based Internet of Things.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom), Aug 1 - Aug 4, 2017, Sydney, Australia.
August 2017.
BLOOM: BLoom filter based Oblivious Outsourced Matchings.
BMC Medical Genomics, vol. 10, no. Suppl 2, Nov 11 - Nov 11, 2016, Chicago, IL, USA.
July 2017.
Practical Data Compliance for Cloud Storage.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017), Apr 4 - Apr 7, 2017, Vancouver, BC.
April 2017.
myneData: Towards a Trusted and User-controlled Ecosystem for Sharing Personal Data.
INFORMATIK 2017, Chemnitz, Germany.
January 2017.
POSTER: I Don't Want That Content! On the Risks of Exploiting Bitcoin's Blockchain as a Content Store.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Vienna, Austria.
October 2016.
The SensorCloud Protocol: Securely Outsourcing Sensor Data to the Cloud.
Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University.
July 2016.
A Trust Point-based Security Architecture for Sensor Data in the Cloud.
Trusted Cloud Computing.
December 2014.
Maintaining User Control While Storing and Processing Sensor Data in the Cloud.
International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC), vol. 5, no. 4.
December 2013.
Advised Theses
A Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Platform based on Trusted Execution Environments
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2022
Advisors:
Johannes Lohmöller,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Topic in Communication Privacy
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2022
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Privacy-preserving Ledger for Tracking Civic Issues
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2022
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Stefan Decker (i5)
A Privacy-Aware Collective-Knowledge Platform for Improved Security Configurations
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2021
Advisors:
Markus Dahlmanns,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Company-Centric Approach for Incrementally Deployable Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Management
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2021
Advisors:
Eric Wagner,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Differential Privacy for Vehicular Data Marketplaces
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2020
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Dirk Thißen
Design and Implementation of Flexible and Trustworthy Redactions for Permissionless Blockchains
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2020
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
Enabling Limited Identity Recovery in Anonymity Networks
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, May 2020
Advisors:
,
Asya Mitseva (uni.lu)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Andriy Panchenko (BTU Cottbus)Luxembourg Prix d'excellence 2020 & One of the runners-up for CAST Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit 2020
Privacy and Transparency in Digital Supply Chains
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2020
Advisors:
Jan Pennekamp,
,
Philipp Niemietz (WZL)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Thomas Bergs (WZL)Young Researcher Award 2021 of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD)
Design and Implementation of a Blockchain-based Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Education Material
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2020
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrik Schroeder (LuFG i9)
Remote and Privacy-Preserving Security Vulnerability Identification
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2019
Advisors:
Markus Dahlmanns,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Voting-based Management for Consortium Blockchains
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2019
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
An Empirical Analysis of Influences on the Structure of IOTA's Tangle
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2019
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
An Empirical Analysis of Tip Selection Anomalies in the IOTA Tangle
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2019
Advisors:
Martin Henze,
,
Philipp Niemietz (WZL)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Thomas Bergs (WZL)
Distributed and Traceable Regulation of Governmental User Deanonymization
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2018
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
Design and Implementation of Privacy-preserving User Data Analyses Incorporating Individual Privacy Demands
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2018
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Privacy-Preserving Aggregation of Multi-user Sensor Data for Data Markets
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2018
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
A Scalable-to Micropayment Scheme for Data-sharing Platforms
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2017
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
Efficient and Secure Compaction of Prunable Blockchains
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2017
Advisors:
,
Felix Konstantin Maurer
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
Decentralized Bootstrapping for SMC-based Services
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2017
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Walter Unger (i1)
A User-controlled Data Market for Privacy-preserving Data Analyses
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2017
Advisors:
,
Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
Analysis and Classification of Arbitrary Data Storage in Bitcoin's Blockchain
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2016
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)