Research

Interests

• Cloud-Computing
• Trusted Computing
• Trusted Execution Environments (ARM TrustZone, Intel SGX)

Projects

• Trustworthy Clouds - Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure
• Secure Enclaves for REactive Cloud Applications (SERECA)

Publications

• Stefan Brenner and Rüdiger Kapitza: Trust More, Serverless, in Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage (SysTor'19), Haifa, Israel, pages 33-43, 2019 (systor19lambda, DOI, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner and Rüdiger Kapitza: Programmieren mit Intels Trusted Execution SGX, in IX, pages 100-104, January 2018 (brenner18ix, BibTeX)
• Vasily A. Sartakov, Stefan Brenner, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak, Gaël Thomas and Rüdiger Kapitza: EActors: Fast and flexible trusted computing using SGX, in 19th International Middleware Conference Proceedings (Middleware'18), ACM, 2018 (sartakov18eactors, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Michael Behlendorf and Rüdiger Kapitza: Trusted Execution, and the Impact of Security on Performance, in SysTEX'18, Toronto, Canada, 2018 (systex18smenclave, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Tobias Hundt, Giovanni Mazzeo and Rüdiger Kapitza: Secure Cloud Micro Services using Intel SGX, in Proceedings of the 17th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Springer, 2017 (dais17vertxbridge, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, David Goltzsche and Rüdiger Kapitza: TrApps: Secure Compartments in the Evil Cloud, in XDOM0'17: Workshop on Security and Dependability of Multi-Domain Infrastructures, 2017 (xdom017trapps, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Colin Wulf, Matthias Lorenz, Nico Weichbrodt, David Goltzsche, Christof Fetzer, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: SecureKeeper: Confidential ZooKeeper using Intel SGX, in Middleware'16: 17th International Middleware Conference Proceedings, ACM, 2016 (mw16seckeeper, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Benjamin Garbers and Rüdiger Kapitza: Adaptive and Scalable High Availability for Infrastructure Clouds, in Proceedings of the 14th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Berlin, Germany, Springer, 2014 (dais14ros, BibTeX)
• Stefan Brenner, Colin Wulf and Rüdiger Kapitza: Running ZooKeeper Coordination Services in Untrusted Clouds, in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '14), USENIX Association, 2014 (hotdep14confzk, BibTeX)
• Sven Schober, Stefan Brenner, Franz J. Hauck and Rüdiger Kapitza: Bandwidth Prediction in the Face of Asymmetry, in Proceedings of the 13th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Firenze, Italy, pages 99-112, Springer, 2013 (dais13dae, BibTeX)

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