There are many real-world applications that make use of cryptography. Students that are interested in investigating such an application can make a proposal and formulate a research question and come to us. We will then do our best to supervise an interesting bachelor thesis. In the past we had some interesting bachelor theses in this category on bluetooth authentication, key management in the signal protocol, email phishing prevention, security of car key fobs, etc. The type of work will depend on the research question agreed upon at the beginning of the thesis.
If you are interested in this topic, please send an email to Joan Daemen via joan@cs.ru.nl .