Master projects

IST master projects have to pertain to a security related topic. The graduation supervisor can be a staff member from the Security group or the Coding Theory and Cryptology group.

Available MSc projects in the Security group can be found here:
Security group: Master Projects

For available MSc projects in the Coding Theory and Cryptology group please directly contact the professor you would like to work with:
Coding Theory and Cryptology group

The Graduation Checklist can be found here.

Master projects can be done at TU Eindhoven or at a company

The university has excellent contacts with high-tech companies, which are abundant in the Eindhoven region.

Here is a list of recent locations for external Master’s projects:

Brightsight | Compumatica | Deloitte | Forescout | Fox IT | Fraunhofer SIT | IntrinsicID | Irdeto | Nedap | NXP | Philips | Riscure | Roseman Labs | Secura | TNO | universities | Wireguard

Examples of recent projects:

  • Formally analyze a protocol
  • Build a real-life honey pot and analyze what happens
  • Performance study of wide block ciphers
  • Hack into several computer systems (controlled environment)
  • Design and build a biometric security system
  • Cryptanalysis of lightweight ciphers
  • Malware reverse engineering