Christoph Meinel

Christoph Meinel is a professor and director at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut at the University of Potsdam, where he leads the Internet Technologies and Systems research group. His research interests include security and trust engineering, Web 3.0, and eLearning. Meinel has a PhD in computer science from the Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Publications

Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2019. 22 pages.
With the increased use of the Internet to share confidential information with other users around the world, the demands to protect this information are also increasing. This is...
Necessary Standard for Providing Privacy and Security in IPv6 Networks
Necessary Standard for Providing Privacy and Security in IPv6 Networks
Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2019. 19 pages.
Security and privacy have become important issues when dealing with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networks. On one hand, anonymity, which is related to privacy, makes it...
Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2019. 22 pages.
With the increased use of the Internet to share confidential information with other users around the world, the demands to protect this information are also increasing. This is...
VuWaDB: A Vulnerability Workaround Database
VuWaDB: A Vulnerability Workaround Database
Atefeh Khazaei, Mohammad Ghasemzadeh, Christoph Meinel. © 2018. 11 pages.
This paper introduces VuWaDB, which is a database for vulnerability workarounds. When faced with a newly discovered vulnerability, experts tend to use workarounds in order to...
Design Thinking in Higher Education: How Students become Dedicated Creative Problem Solvers
Design Thinking in Higher Education: How Students become Dedicated Creative Problem Solvers
Julia von Thienen, Adam Royalty, Christoph Meinel. © 2017. 23 pages.
This chapter introduces design thinking as an educational approach to enhance creative problem-solving skills. It is a problem-based learning paradigm that builds on three...
Solving Security and Availability Challenges in Public Clouds
Solving Security and Availability Challenges in Public Clouds
Maxim Schnjakin, Christoph Meinel. © 2015. 23 pages.
Cloud Computing as a service-on-demand architecture has grown in importance over the previous few years. One driver of its growth is the ever-increasing amount of data that is...
Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies
Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2015. 20 pages.
With the increased use of the Internet to share confidential information with other users around the world, the demands to protect this information are also increasing. This is...
Mobile IPv6: Mobility Management and Security Aspects
Mobile IPv6: Mobility Management and Security Aspects
Tayo Arulogun, Ahmad AlSa'deh, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 31 pages.
Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) enables a mobile node to be recognized via a single IP address while the node moves between different networks. MIP attains the connectivity to...
Challenges and Solutions for DNS Security in IPv6
Challenges and Solutions for DNS Security in IPv6
Hosnieh Rafiee, Martin von Löwis, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 23 pages.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a necessary component of the Internet that allows hosts on the Internet to communicate with other hosts without needing to know their cryptic IP...
Scalability and Performance Management of Internet Applications in the Cloud
Scalability and Performance Management of Internet Applications in the Cloud
Wesam Dawoud, Ibrahim Takouna, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 31 pages.
Elasticity and on-demand are significant characteristics that attract many customers to host their Internet applications in the cloud. They allow quick reacting to changing...
Information Security in Diverse Computing Environments
Information Security in Diverse Computing Environments
Anne Kayem, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 354 pages.
Information security systems have become more popular due to the prevalence of criminal activity over benign attacks. Because computer systems are constantly changing, it is...
The Automated Generation and Further Application of Tree-Structure Outline for Lecture Videos with Synchronized Slides
The Automated Generation and Further Application of Tree-Structure Outline for Lecture Videos with Synchronized Slides
Xiaoyin Che, Haojin Yang, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 17 pages.
In this paper, the authors illustrate their motivation and method in the automated generation of tree-structure outline for lecture videos with supplementary synchronized slides...
Necessary Standard for Providing Privacy and Security in IPv6 Networks
Necessary Standard for Providing Privacy and Security in IPv6 Networks
Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 18 pages.
Security and privacy have become important issues when dealing with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networks. On one hand, anonymity, which is related to privacy, makes it...
Solving Security and Availability Challenges in Public Clouds
Solving Security and Availability Challenges in Public Clouds
Maxim Schnjakin, Christoph Meinel. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud Computing as a service-on-demand architecture has grown in importance over the previous few years. One driver of its growth is the ever-increasing amount of data that is...
SEcure Neighbor Discovery: A Cryptographic Solution for Securing IPv6 Local Link Operations
SEcure Neighbor Discovery: A Cryptographic Solution for Securing IPv6 Local Link Operations
Ahmad AlSa’deh, Hosnieh Rafiee, Christoph Meinel. © 2013. 21 pages.
SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) was proposed to counteract threats to the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). It is a strong security extension that can make the IPv6 local link...
Cryptography in Electronic Mail
Cryptography in Electronic Mail
Hosnieh Rafiee, Martin von Löwis, Christoph Meinel. © 2013. 22 pages.
Electronic Mail (email) is a very important method of communicating across the Internet, but the protocols used to handle emails during transmission, downloads, and...
From Domain-Based Identity Management Systems to Open Identity Management Models
From Domain-Based Identity Management Systems to Open Identity Management Models
Ivonne Thomas, Christoph Meinel. © 2012. 20 pages.
One of the main reasons is the problem of establishing trust relationships between independent parties—a problem inherent to open environments with multiple trust domains. In...
Identity Assurance in Open Networks
Identity Assurance in Open Networks
Ivonne Thomas, Christoph Meinel. © 2012. 19 pages.
Identity assurance is the degree of confidence another party, such as a service provider, can have in the belief that identity in the digital world actually matches with...
Taking Trust Management to the Next Level
Taking Trust Management to the Next Level
Rehab Alnemr, Matthias Quasthoff, Christoph Meinel. © 2010. 21 pages.
Business often develop proprietary reputation systems for their community, with the side effect of locking users into that service if they wish to maintain their reputation...