Christian Dickmann
Applied Computer Science student at the University of Göttingen

Current Location:
Currently I am in Palo Alto, California, United States.

 
An Implementation and Evaluation of the General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) Protocol

September 2005 - I wrote my bachelor's thesis within the Telematics Group of the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Prof. D. Hogerefe and Prof. X. Fu.

Abstract - The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) Protocol is currently beeing developed at the IETF Next Steps In Signaling (NSIS) working group. It is the base protocol supporting a variety of signaling applications to be run on top of it. This thesis targets at validating the GIST specification as well as examining the design of an implementation. Therefore, I discuss the mayor design aspects of the GIST implementation we developed at the University of Göttingen and evaluate it with respect to CPU and resource utilization.
The performance experiments show that the implementation performs resonable even under heavy load. In general the implemenatation shows that the specification is very mature and that the main features work very well.

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Vorstellung, Implementierung und Analyse kryptographischer Verfahren im Rahmen eines Anwendungsbeispiels

March 2002 - I wrote this Besondere Lernleistung (i.e. special learning effort) as part of my Abitur (German high school equivalent) at Goethe Gymnasium Kassel. The document given an introduction to cryptographic algorithms and explains DES and RSA as representatives of symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, respectively. Both algorithms were implemented in Delphi and combined to design and implement a home banking software for demonstration purposes. The document concludes with a brief analysis of the discussed topics and gives an outlook on the future of cryptography.

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