Dr. Ephraim Zimmer
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About
Ephraim works as a postdoc and Scientific Coordinator in the Research Training Group "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users" at TU Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, Section Telecooperation with Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser.
He studied IT at Dresden University of Technology with focus on IT-security and data privacy. In 2012, he was granted a one-year-scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for studying abroad at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand, where he extended his knowledge in digital forensics and network security. Alongside his studies, he worked as teaching assistant at AUT University and delivered lectures and tutorials in mathematics and IT. Afterwards, Ephraim wrote his diploma thesis on the theoretical and practical integration of post-quantum cryptography into IPsec/IKEv2 in cooperation with secunet Security Networks AG, which ranked 2nd in the CAST-Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit 2014. He graduated in 2014 as Diplom-Informatiker.
Research Interests
- Possibilities, boundaries, and risks of insider attack detection and prevention
- Principles and recent developments of privacy enhancing technologies
- Mechanisms of user activity monitoring as basis for digital forensics
- Classical cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and cryptanalysis
- Network security and white hat hacking