On Thursday 12 September 2013 Ebenezer Paintsil publicly defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in Information Security at the Gjøvik University College (GUC).

Title of the dissertation: «Privacy and Security Risks Analysis of Identity Management Systems».

Trial lecture
Thursday 12 September 2013 at 10.15 in aud. K-102
Topic: «Model-Checking of Security Protocols».

Public dissertation defense
Thursday 12 September 2013 at 12.30 in aud. K-102

Evaluation committee

• First external opponent: Prof. Dr. Claudia Diaz, University of Leuven, Belgium
• Second external opponent: Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Internal opponent: Dr. Hanno Langweg, Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Gjøvik University College.
• Head of the committee: Prof. Dr. Stephen Wolthusen, Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, Gjøvik University College.

The candidate's principal supervisor was Dr. Lothar Fritsch, Norsk Regnesentral. The secondary supervisor was Prof. Dr. Einar Snekkenes, GUC.
Dean Terje Stafseng conducts the public defense.

The trial lecture and the dissertation defense are open to everyone interested.
An electronic version of the doctoral dissertation is found in GUC’s institutional archive HiGIA: http://brage.bibsys.no/hig/handle/URN:NBN:no-bibsys_brage_42242