Daniel Schadt

M. Sc. Daniel Schadt

About the Scientist

Daniel is a PhD student at the Chair of Privacy and Security at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on anonymous communication networks and includes practical aspects in implementation, performance and security evaluation of these networks. Outside of research, practical data protection and open source projects play a role for him.

Research Interests

  • Practical Anonymous Communication Networks
  • Attacks on Anonymous Networks
  • Formalizations of Privacy
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Supervised Theses

Title Qualification Year
Towards a Universal Mix Format: Analyzing and Combining Onion Encryption Formats Bachelor 2026
Towards Programmable Mix Networks Master 2025
Evaluating Potential Attacks Against the Nym Network Bachelor 2025
An Empirical Evaluation of Anonymity Guarantees in Mixnets Bachelor 2025
Fragging – A Fragment-Drop Based Tagging Attack in Mix Networks Master 2024
Towards Efficient Sender-Anonymity in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Master 2024

Publications


OmniSphinx: Active Mix Networks
Schadt, D.; Coijanovic, C.; Shabani, S.; Strufe, T.
2027. Computer Security – ESORICS 2026 : 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Rome, Italy, September 14–18, 2026, Proceedings, Part IV. Ed.: A. Spognardi, 629–647, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-38708-0_31
Breaking and (Partially) Fixing Onion Routing with Fragmentation
Schadt, D.; Coijanovic, C.; Strufe, T.
2026. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2026 (4), 272–289. doi:10.56553/popets-2026-0120
Aimless Onions: Mixing without Topology Information
Schadt, D.; Coijanovic, C.; Strufe, T.
2025. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2025 (4), 293–307. doi:10.56553/popets-2025-0131
Pirates: Anonymous Group Calls over Fully Untrusted Infrastructure
Coijanovic, C.; Stark, A.; Schadt, D.; Strufe, T.
2024. Information Security and Privacy – 29th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2024, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 15–17, 2024, Proceedings, Part III. Ed.: T. Zhu, 193 – 212, Springer Nature Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-97-5101-3_11
PolySphinx: Extending the Sphinx Mix Format With Better Multicast Support
Schadt, D.; Coijanovic, C.; Weis, C.; Strufe, T.
2024. 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 44–44, IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/SP54263.2024.00044
BAZAAR: Anonymous Resource Sharing
Coijanovic, C.; Schadt, D.; Weis, C.; Strufe, T.
2023. WPES ’23: Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Kopenhagen, 26th November 2023, 135–139, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3603216.3624957
PolySphinx: Extending the Sphinx Mix Network with Better Multicast Support. master’s thesis
Schadt, D.
2022, August 6. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000192806