Dr. Ghassan Karame

Dr. Ghassan Karame

NEC Laboratories Europe
Kurfürsten-Anlage 36
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

phone: (+49) 6221 4342-0
fax: (+49) 6221 4342-155

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About me

I am the Manager and Chief researcher of the Security Group of NEC Labs in Germany. I joined NEC Labs in April 2012. Before then, I was working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Information Security of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. I hold a Master of Science degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and a PhD degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.

I am interested in all aspects of security and privacy with a focus on cloud security, IoT security, network security, and Blockchain security.

My full list of publications is available here (by date) and here (by topic).

My Book on Bitcoin and Blockchain Security

This comprehensive new resource presents a thorough overview and analysis of the security and privacy provisions of Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain clients. This book goes beyond the analysis of reported vulnerabilities of Bitcoin, evaluating a number of countermeasures to deter threats on the system. Readers are given concrete solutions and recommendations on the best practices to use when relying on Bitcoin as a payment method.This resource provides a clear explanation of assumptions governing the security of Bitcoin, including the scalability measures adopted in Bitcoin, privacy for clients, and the proper means of securing Bitcoin wallets. Readers learn how the security and privacy provisions of other blockchain technologies compare to Bitcoin and the security lessons learned after extensive research of Bitcoin since the inception of the currency.

Selected Recent Activities

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Guest Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, Special Issue on Blockchain security and privacy
PC Chair of ACM CCSW 2017
PC Member of FC 2018
Associate Editor of Royal Society Open Science Thematic Issue on Blockchain
PC Member of FC 2019
PC Member of ESORICS 2019

Selected Recent Papers

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Sinisa Matetic, Karl Wuest, Moritz Schneider, Kari Kosiainen, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun, BITE: Bitcoin Lightweight Client Privacy using Trusted Execution, In Proceedings of USENIX Security, 2019 (to appear).

Michael Rodler, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame, Lucas Davi, Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks, In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019 (to appear).

Jian Liu, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame, N. Asokan, Scalable Byzantine Consensus via Hardware-assisted Secret Sharing, In IEEE Transaction on Computers (IEEE TC), 2019.

Hubert Ritzdorf, Claudio Soriente, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Marinovic, Damian Gruber, Srdjan Capkun, Towards Shared Ownership in the Cloud, In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Securityy (IEEE TIFS), 2018.