Katja Assaf

Contact

Phone: +49 331 5509-575
E-Mail: katja.assaf ... hpi.de
Room: C-1.6

Research Interests

  • Cybersecurity and Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity in Railway Systems
  • Digital and Anonymous Credentials

Publications

  • Katja Assaf, Alexander Mühle, Daniel Köhler, and Christoph Meinel. Prison break: from proprietary data sources to ssi verifiable credentials. In International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 355–366. Springer, 2023.
    ×
    @inproceedings{assaf2023prison,
    author = {Assaf, Katja and M{\"u}hle, Alexander and K{\"o}hler, Daniel and Meinel, Christoph},
    title = "Prison Break: From Proprietary Data Sources to SSI Verifiable Credentials",
    booktitle = "International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)",
    pages = "355--366",
    year = "2023",
    organization = "Springer",
    tags = "katja.assaf"
    }
  • Alexander Mühle, Katja Assaf, Daniel Köhler, and Christoph Meinel. Requirements of a digital education credential system. In 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 1–10. IEEE, 2023.
    ×
    @inproceedings{muhle2023requirements,
    author = {M{\"u}hle, Alexander and Assaf, Katja and K{\"o}hler, Daniel and Meinel, Christoph},
    title = "Requirements of a Digital Education Credential System",
    booktitle = "2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)",
    pages = "1--10",
    year = "2023",
    organization = "IEEE",
    tags = "katja.assaf"
    }
  • Alexander Mühle, Katja Assaf, and Christoph Meinel. One to bind them: binding verifiable credentials to user attributes. In International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT). 2023.
    ×
    @inproceedings{Mhle2023OneTB,
    author = {M{\"u}hle, Alexander and Assaf, Katja and Meinel, Christoph},
    title = "One to Bind Them: Binding Verifiable Credentials to User Attributes",
    booktitle = "International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)",
    year = "2023",
    tags = "katja.assaf"
    }
  • Francisco Daza Pastrana, Francois Hausman, and Katja Stumpp. Railway cybersecurity: comprehensive and standardized approach to security risk assessment. In Proceedings of the 8th Transport Research Arena (TRA). 04 2020.
    ×
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
    author = "Daza Pastrana, Francisco and Hausman, Francois and Stumpp, Katja",
    year = "2020",
    month = "04",
    pages = "",
    title = "Railway cybersecurity: Comprehensive and standardized approach to security risk assessment",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Transport Research Arena (TRA)",
    tags = "katja.assaf"
    }

Selected Talks

  • Digital Credentials in 2028 - A reflection about the challenges we had to solve at eMadrid, UC3M (Madrid, 2023) 1
  • Ich bin |<47j4 - mehr müssen Sie nicht wissen (German) at Science Slam im Waschhaus (Potsdam, 2023) and at 1. Brandenburger Science Slam (Oranienburg, 2022) 2
  • Herausforderungen bei der Umsetzung Digitaler Bildungsnachweise im Hochschulbereich (German) at openHPI-Forum (Potsdam, 2021) 3
1.
^ https://emadridnet.uc3m.es/en/2023/01/02/credenciales-digitales-en-2028-una-reflexion-sobre-los-retos-que-teniamos-que-resolver/
2.
^ https://youtu.be/NbmOACq4Das?si=cYR-dBpV1ucW7Wqy&t=3731
3.
^ https://www.tele-task.de/lecture/video/8857/

Teaching Activities

  • SS23
    • Anonymous Credentials (Master Seminar)
    • Zusatzqualifikation Cybersecurity (openHPI)
  • WS22/23
    • Mathe I
    • Tatort Internet (openHPI)
  • WS21/22
    • Mathe I
    • User Authentication for a Digital Credential System (Master Project)
    • Hot Topics in Secure Identity Research (Master Seminar)
    • Malware (openHPI)

Biographical Sketch

  • since 2021: PhD Student / Researcher at Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
  • 2017 - 2021: Product Solution Security Expert (PSSE) & Product Manager for an Identity and Access Management System (IAM)
  • until 2017: M.Sc. Mathematics at TU Berlin