Prof. Dr. Amir Moradi

Außerplanmäßige/r Professor/in - Chair Security Engineering
Former Assistant - Chair Embedded Security

Address

ID 2-605
Security Engineering Group
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Universitaetsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Germany

Room: ID 2/605
Phone:: (+49)(0)234 / 32 - 27219
Email:: amir.moradi@rub.de PGP key
Website:: https://www.seceng.rub.de/moradi

Vita

Since 4/2021: Extraordinary Professor (Außerplanmäßiger Professor)

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Since 1/2020: Academic Councilor (Akademischer Rat)

Security Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2016-2019: Academic Councilor (Akademischer Rat)

Embedded Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Since 10/2015: Faculty Member (Privatdozent)

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2015: Habilitation in Embedded Security ("Advances in Side-Channel Security")

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2009-2016: post-doctoral researcher

Embedded Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2008: PhD in Computer Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2007-2008: visiting PhD student

Embedded Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2004: MSc in Computer Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2001: BSc in Computer Engineering

Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Research

Side-Channel Cryptanalysis
Efficient Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms
Applied Cryptography

Awards/Honors

Co-author of the Best Student-Paper Award at International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2014.
Best Paper Award at International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design - COSADE 2015.
Nominated for the best paper award at Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2015.
Co-author of the Best Student-Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust - HOST 2016.
Nominated for the best paper award at Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition - DATE 2017.
Nominated for the best paper award at Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition - DATE 2018.
Best paper award at Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2019.
Distinguished Paper award at USENIX Security Symposium - USENIX 2020.

Teaching

since Summer 2011, Physical Attacks and Countermeasures, Dep. of Elect. Engineering and Info. Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, 141028.
since Winter 2015/16, Cryptography on Hardware-based Platforms, Dep. of Elect. Engineering and Info. Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, 141031.
since Winter 2010/11, Side-Channel Attacks (Lab Course), Dep. of Elect. Engineering and Info. Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, 142023.
Winter 2009/10 - Winter 2014/15, Embedded Smartcard Microcontrollers (Lab Course), Dep. of Elect. Engineering and Info. Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, 142020.
Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Logical Circuits, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, CE40212.
Spring 2006, Summer 2006, Digital Electronics Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, CE40307.
Summer 2001, Logical Circuits Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, CE40206.

Program Committee Membership

50+ memberships including CHES, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, FSE, INDOCRYPT, DATE, CARDIS, COSADE, etc.

Editorial Board Membership

PC co-chair of Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS 2014).
PC co-chair of International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security & Privacy (LightSec 2015).
PC co-chair of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2020).
Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Cryptography 2011-2020 (IJACT).
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE-TETC).
Associate Editor of Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (JCEN).

Selected Talks

Statistical Tools Flavor Side-Channel Collision Attacks EUROCRYPT 2012, April 17, Cambridge, UK. (talk)
Breaking the Bitstream Decryption of FPGAs invited talk at ECRYPT II Summer School: Challenges in Security Engineering, 2012, September 5, Bochum, Germany.
How Far Should Theory Be from Practice? Evaluation of a Countermeasure CHES 2012, September 10, Leuven, Belgium.
On the Simplicity of Converting Leakages from Multivariate to Univariate CHES 2013, August 21, Santa Barbara, US.
Altera vs. Xilinx which one keeps your design hidden? rump session CHES 2013, August 22, Santa Barbara, US.
Side-Channel Countermeasures for Hardware: is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel? invited talk at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2013, September 11, Worcester, US.
Evaluation of Side-Channel Leakages through Statistical Moments invited talk at Bosch GmbH, 2014, March 13, Stuttgart, Germany.
Side-Channel Leakage through Static Power Should We Care about in Practice? invited talk at NXP Semiconductors, 2014, April 22, Hamburg, Germany (+ CHES 2014, September 26, Busan, South Korea).
Early Propagation and Imbalanced Routing, How to Diminish in FPGAs CHES 2014, September 26, Busan, South Korea.
Physical Attacks, extracting the secrets from cryptographic devices invited talk at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2015, January 22, Weimar, Germany.
Side-Channel Security Analysis of Ultra-Low-Power FRAM-based MCUs COSADE 2015, April 14, Berlin, Germany.
Hiding Higher-Order Leakages in Hardware invited talk at TI day, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Leakage Assessment Methodology - a clear roadmap for side-channel evaluations invited talk at Sharif University of Technology, 2015, August 29, Tehran, Iran.
Improved Side-Channel Analysis Attacks on Xilinx Bitstream Encryption of 5, 6, and 7 Series COSADE 2016, April 14, Graz, Austria.
Masking as a Side-Channel Countermeasure in Hardware invited tutorial at ISCISC 2016, September 6, Tehran, Iran.
Moments-Correlating DPA CCS 2016 Workshops (TIS), October 24, Vienna, Austria.
Side-Channel Analysis Protection and Low-Latency in Action - case study of PRINCE and Midori ASIACRYPT 2016, December 07, Hanio, Vietnam. (talk)
Bit-Sliding: A Generic Technique for Bit-Serial Implementations of SPN-based Primitives CHES 2017, September 28, Taipei, Taiwan. (talk)
The First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan ASIACRYPT 2017, December 05, Hong Kong, China. (talk) + at Theory of Implementation Security (TIS) Workshop 2018, January 09, Zurich, Switzerland
Exploring the Effect of Device Aging on Static Power Analysis Attacks CHES 2019, August 28, Atlanta, USA. (talk)
How to Apply Threshold Implementation to any PUF Primitive invited talk at Theory of Implementation Security (TIS) Workshop 2019, November 11, London, England

Current PhDs

Joint Supervision

Maik Ender (with Christof Paar)

Finished PhDs

Oliver Mischke (jointly supervised with Tim Güneysu)
Pascal Sasdrich (jointly supervised with Tim Güneysu)
Tobias Schneider (jointly supervised with Tim Güneysu)
Alexander Wild (jointly supervised with Tim Güneysu)
Bastian Richter
Shahram Rasoolzadeh

I am always looking for PhD students/Post-docs that have shown outstanding performance in their previous studies and research. If you feel fitting into the group, send your application via e-mail.

Projects

NaSCA- Nano-Scale Side-Channel Analysis: Physical Security for Next-Generation CMOS ICs (DFG 2016-2020)
VeriSec- Computer-Assisted Integration and Verification of Masking in Cryptographic Implementations (BMBF 2017-2020)
SysKit- A Development Tool for Secure Communications in Industry 4.0 (BMBF 2017-2020)
GreenSec- Security for Internet of Things with Low Energy and Low Power Consumption (DFG 2018-2021)
SuCCESS- SymmetriC CiphEr design with inherent phySical Security (DFG 2019-2022)
Aged but Fit- Long Lasting Security for Trusted Platforms (DFG 2020-2022)
mINDFUL - Intrusion Detection in Industry 4.0 via Fusion of Physical Channels using Artificial Intelligence (BMBF 2020-2023)
SAUBER - phySicAlly secUre reconfiguraBlE platfoRm (DFG 2020-2023)

Courses

Publications

Let’s Take it Offline: Boosting Brute-Force Attacks on iPhone’s User Authentication through SCA

Oleksiy Lisovets, David Knichel, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 3.

New First-Order Secure AES Performance Records

Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Dušan Božilov, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 2, pp. 304-327.

Re-Consolidating First-Order Masking Schemes - Nullifying Fresh Randomness

Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 1, pp. 305-342.

Second-Order SCA Security with almost no Fresh Randomness

Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 3.

Countermeasures against Static Power Attacks – Comparing Exhaustive Logic Balancing and Other Protection Schemes in 28 nm CMOS

Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 3.

DL-LA: Deep Learning Leakage Assessment: A modern roadmap for SCA evaluations

Thorben Moos, Felix Wegener, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 3.

Inconsistency of Simulation and Practice in Delay-based Strong PUFs

Anita Aghaie, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2021, No. 3.

Real-World Snapshots vs. Theory: Questioning the t-Probing Security Model

Thilo Krachenfels, Fatemeh Ganji, Amir Moradi, Shahin Tajik, Jean-Pierre Seifert - 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, USA, May 23-27, 2021.

Automated Masking of Software Implementations on Industrial Microcontrollers

Arnold Abromeit, Florian Bache, Leon A. Becker, Marc Gourjon, Tim Güneysu, Sabrina Jorn, Amir Moradi, Maximilian Orlt, Falk Schellenberg - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2021, February 1 - 5 , 2021.

Stealthy Logic Misuse for Power Analysis Attacks in Multi-Tenant FPGAs

Dennis R. E. Gnad, Vincent Meyers, Nguyen Minh Dang, Falk Schellenberg, Amir Moradi, Mehdi B. Tahoori - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2021, February 1 - 5 , 2021.

On the Impact of Aging on Power Analysis Attacks Targeting Power-Equalized Cryptographic Circuits

Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Bijan Fadaeinia, Amir Moradi, Naghmeh Karimi - 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2021, January 18-21, 2021

SILVER - Statistical Independence and Leakage Verification

David Knichel, Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi - 26th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2020, December 6-10, 2020.

Clock Glitch versus SIFA

Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Amir Moradi - 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, DFT 2020, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, October 19-21, 2020.

The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20), Boston, MA, USA, August 12-14, 2020. **Distinguished Paper Award**

Impeccable Circuits II

Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Amir Moradi - 57th Annual Design Automation Conference 2020, DAC 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.

Lightweight Ciphers on a 65 nm ASIC - A Comparative Study on Energy Consumption

Bastian Richter, Amir Moradi - IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2020, Limassol, CYPRUS, July 6-8, 2020.

The Risk of Outsourcing: Hidden SCA Trojans in Third-Party IP-Cores Threaten Cryptographic ICs

David Knichel, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi - 25th IEEE European Test Symposium, Tallin, Estonia, May 25-29, 2020

Template attacks on nano-scale CMOS devices

Bastian Richter, Amir Moradi - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 10, pages 275–285, 2020.

Cryptographic Fault Diagnosis using VerFI

Victor Arribas, Felix Wegener, Amir Moradi, Svetla Nikova - IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2020, San Jose, USA, May 4-7, 2020.

Side-Channel Hardware Trojan for Provably-Secure SCA-Protected Implementations

Samaneh Ghandali, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 28, Issue 6, 2020.

TI-PUF: Toward Side-Channel Resistant Physical Unclonable Functions

Anita Aghaie, Amir Moradi - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 15, Pages 3470 - 3481, 2020.

3-Phase Adiabatic Logic and its Sound SCA Evaluation

Bijan Fadaeinia, Amir Moradi - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2020.

Spin Me Right Round Rotational Symmetry for FPGA-Specific AES: Extended Version

Felix Wegener, Lauren De Meyer, Amir Moradi - Journal of Cryptology volume 33, pages 1114–1155, 2020.

Remote Electrical-level Security Threats to Multi-Tenant FPGAs

Dennis R.E. Gnad, Falk Schellenberg, Jonas Krautter, Amir Moradi, Mehdi B. Tahoori - IEEE Design & Test, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2020.

A Comparison of χ²-Test and Mutual Information as Distinguisher for Side-Channel Analysis

Bastian Richter, David Knichel, Amir Moradi - 18th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference, CARDIS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, November 11-13, 2019.

Active Fences against Voltage-based Side Channels in Multi-Tenant FPGAs

Jonas Krautter, Dennis Gnad, Falk Schellenberg, Amir Moradi, Mehdi B. Tahoori - International Conference On Computer Aided Design, ICCAD 2019, Westminster, Colorado, USA, November 4-7, 2019.

Automated Probe Repositioning for On-Die EM Measurements

Bastian Richter, Alexander Wild, Amir Moradi - International Conference On Computer Aided Design, ICCAD 2019, Westminster, Colorado, USA, November 4-7, 2019.

Impeccable Circuits

Anita Aghaie, Amir Moradi, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Falk Schellenberg, Tobias Schneider - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019.

Static Power Side-Channel Analysis - An Investigation of Measurement Factors

Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Bastian Richter - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2019.

Exploring the Effect of Device Aging on Static Power Analysis Attacks

Naghmeh Karimi, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2019, No. 3, pp 233-256, 2019. (presentation at CHES 2019, Atlanta, USA, August 25–28, 2019)

Glitch-Resistant Masking Revisited or Why Proofs in the Robust Probing Model are Needed

Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Tobias Schneider, François-Xavier Standaert - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2019, No. 2, pp 256-292, 2019. (presentation at CHES 2019, Atlanta, USA, August 25–28, 2019) **best paper award**

Shuffle and Mix: On the Diffusion of Randomness in Threshold Implementations of Keccak

Felix Wegener, Christian Baiker, Amir Moradi - International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2019, Darmstadt, Germany, April 3-5, 2019.

CRAFT: Lightweight Tweakable Block Cipher with Efficient Protection Against DFA Attacks

Christof Beierle, Gregor Leander, Amir Moradi, Shahram Rasoolzadeh - IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2019, No. 1, pp 5-45, 2019. (presentation at FSE 2019, Paris, France, March 25–28, 2019)

Yet Another Size Record for AES: A First-Order SCA Secure AES S-box Based on GF(2^8) Multiplication

Felix Wegener, Amir Moradi - 17th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference, CARDIS 2018, Montpellier, France, November 12-14, 2018.

Remote Inter-Chip Power Analysis Side-Channel Attacks at Board-Level

Falk Schellenberg, Dennis R.E. Gnad, Amir Moradi, Mehdi B. Tahoori - International Conference On Computer Aided Design, ICCAD 2018, San Diego, CA, USA, November 5-8, 2018.

Hardware Masking, Revisited

Thomas De Cnudde, Maik Ender, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2018, No. 2, pp 123-148, 2018. (presentation at CHES 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 9 – 12, 2018)

Leakage Detection with the χ²-Test

Amir Moradi, Bastian Richter, Tobias Schneider, François-Xavier Standaert - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2018, No. 1, pp 209-237, 2018. (presentation at CHES 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 9 – 12, 2018)

Spin Me Right Round - Rotational Symmetry for FPGA-Specific AES

Lauren De Meyer, Amir Moradi, Felix Wegener - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2018, No. 3, pp 596-626, 2018. (presentation at CHES 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 9 – 12, 2018)

Threshold Implementation in Software - Case Study of PRESENT

Pascal Sasdrich, Rene Bock, Amir Moradi - 9th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2018, Singapore, April 23-24, 2018.

A First-Order SCA Resistant AES without Fresh Randomness

Felix Wegener, Amir Moradi - International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2018, Singapore, April 23-24, 2018.

An Inside Job: Remote Power Analysis Attacks on FPGAs

Falk Schellenberg, Dennis R.E. Gnad, Amir Moradi, Mehdi B. Tahoori - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2018, Dresden, Germany, March 18 - 23 , 2018 (best paper candidate).

Bitstream Fault Injections (BiFI) - Automated Fault Attacks against SRAM-based FPGAs

Pawel Swierczynski, Georg T. Becker, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 348-360, 2018.

GliFreD: Glitch-Free Duplication - Towards Power-Equalized Circuits on FPGAs

Alexander Wild, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 375-387, 2018.

The First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan

Maik Ender, Samaneh Ghandali, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, Hong Kong, China, December 3 - 7, 2017.

Bit-Sliding: A Generic Technique for Bit-Serial Implementations of SPN-based Primitives

Jérémy Jean, Amir Moradi, Thomas Peyrin, Pascal Sasdrich - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2017, Taipei, Taiwan, September 25 – 28, 2017.

On the Easiness of Turning Higher-Order Leakages into First-Order

Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi - 8th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2017, Paris, France, April 13-14, 2017.

SafeDRP: Yet Another Way Toward Power-Equalized Designs in FPGA

Maik Ender, Alexander Wild, Amir Moradi - International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2017, Paris, France, April 13-14, 2017.

SPARX - A Side-Channel Protected Processor for ARX-based Cryptography

Florian Bache, Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27 - 31 , 2017.

Static Power Side-Channel Analysis of a Threshold Implementation Prototype Chip

Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Bastian Richter - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27 - 31 , 2017 (best paper candidate).

Hiding Higher-Order Side-Channel Leakage - Randomizing Cryptographic Implementations in Reconfigurable Hardware

Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - RSA Conference Cryptographers’ Track, CT-RSA 2017, San Francisco, February 14-17 2017.

Side-Channel Analysis Protection and Low-Latency in Action - case study of PRINCE and Midori

Amir Moradi, Tobias Schneider - International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 4 - 8, 2016.

Moments-Correlating DPA

Amir Moradi, François-Xavier Standaert - Theory of Implementation Security (TIs) Workshop (of ACM CCS 2016), Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2016.

Strong 8-bit Sboxes with Efficient Masking in Hardware

Erik Boss, Vincent Grosso, Tim Güneysu, Gregor Leander, Amir Moradi, Tobias Schneider - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2016, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 17 - 19, 2016.

ParTI - Towards Combined Hardware Countermeasures against Side-Channel and Fault-Injection Attacks

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - International Cryptology Conference - CRYPTO 2016, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 14 - 18, 2016.

The SKINNY Family of Block Ciphers and its Low-Latency Variant MANTIS

Christof Beierle, Jérémy Jean, Stefan Kölbl, Gregor Leander, Amir Moradi, Thomas Peyrin, Yu Sasaki, Pascal Sasdrich, Siang Meng Sim - International Cryptology Conference - CRYPTO 2016, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 14 - 18, 2016.

Bridging the Gap: Advanced Tools for Side-Channel Leakage Estimation beyond Gaussian Templates and Histograms

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi, François-Xavier Standaert, Tim Güneysu - 23nd International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2016, St. John's, NL, Canada, August 10–12, 2016.

Interdiction in Practice – Hardware Trojan Against a High-Security USB Flash Drive

Pawel Swierczynski, Marc Fyrbiak, Philipp Koppe, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Springer, June 2016.

Large Laser Spots and Fault Sensitivity Analysis

Falk Schellenberg, Markus Finkeldey, Nils C. Gerhardt, Martin R. Hofmann , Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2016, McLean, VA, USA, May 3-5, 2016 (best student-paper award).

Improved Side-Channel Analysis Attacks on Xilinx Bitstream Encryption of 5, 6, and 7 Series

Amir Moradi, Tobias Schneider - 7th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2016, Gray, Austria, April 14-15, 2016

Robust and One-Pass Parallel Computation of Correlation-Based Attacks at Arbitrary Order

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - 7th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2016, Gray, Austria, April 14-15, 2016

White-Box Cryptography in the Gray Box - A Hardware Implementation and its Side Channels

Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - 23rd International Conference on Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2016, Bochum, Germany, March 20-23 2016

Leakage Assessment Methodology - Extended Version

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering June 2016, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp 85–99

Assessment of Hiding the Higher-Order Leakages in Hardware - what are the achievements versus overheads?

Amir Moradi, Alexander Wild - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 13 - 16, 2015 (best paper candidate).

Leakage Assessment Methodology - a clear roadmap for side-channel evaluations

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 13 - 16, 2015.

Affine Equivalence and its Application to Tightening Threshold Implementations

Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - 22nd International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2015, Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, August 12-14 2015

Advances in Side-Channel Security

Amir Moradi - Habilitation Thesis

Arithmetic Addition over Boolean Masking - Towards First- and Second-Order Resistance in Hardware

Tobias Schneider, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2015, New York, USA, 2–5 June 2015.

Achieving Side-Channel Protection with Dynamic Logic Reconfiguration on Modern FPGAs

Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke, Tim Güneysu - IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2015, McLean, VA, USA, May 5-7, 2015

A Hardware-based Countermeasure to Reduce Side-Channel Leakage - Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Andreas Gornik, Amir Moradi, Jürgen Oehm, Christof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 34, No.8, pages 1308-1319, 2015.

Evaluating the Duplication of Dual-Rail Precharge Logics on FPGAs

Alexander Wild, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - 6th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2015, Berlin, Germany, April 13-14, 2015.

Side-Channel Protection by Randomizing Look-Up Tables on Reconfigurable Hardware - Pitfalls of Memory Primitives

Pascal Sasdrich, Oliver Mischke, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - 6th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2015, Berlin, Germany, April 13-14, 2015

Side-Channel Security Analysis of Ultra-Low-Power FRAM-based MCUs

Amir Moradi, Gesine Hinterwälder - 6th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2015, Berlin, Germany, April 13-14, 2015 (best paper award).

Side-Channel Attacks from Static Power: When Should we Care?

Santos Merino Del Pozo, François-Xavier Standaert, Dina Kamel, Amir Moradi - Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2015, Grenoble, France, March 9 - 13 , 2015.

Wire-Tap Codes as Side-Channel Countermeasure - an FPGA-based experiment

Amir Moradi - 15th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Indocrypt 2014, New Delhi, December 14 - 17, 2014.

Physical Security Evaluation of the Bitstream Encryption Mechanism of Altera Stratix II and Stratix III FPGAs

Pawel Swierczynski, Amir Moradi, David Oswald, Christof Paar - ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), Volume 7 Issue 4, December 2014.

Full-Size High-Security ECC Implementation on MSP430 Microcontrollers

Gesine Hinterwälder, Amir Moradi, Michael Hutter, Peter Schwabe, Christof Paar - Third International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Latincrypt 2014, Florianópolis, Brazil, September 17 - 19, 2014.

Early Propagation and Imbalanced Routing, How to Diminish in FPGAs

Amir Moradi, Vincent Immler - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2014, Busan, Korea, September 23 - 26, 2014.

Side-Channel Leakage through Static Power – Should We Care about in Practice?

Amir Moradi - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2014, Busan, Korea, September 23 - 26, 2014.

Fault Sensitivity Analysis Meets Zero-Value Attack

Oliver Mischke, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu - Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2014, Busan, Korea, September 23, 2013.

Detecting Hidden Leakages

Amir Moradi, Sylvain Guilley, Annelie Heuser - International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 10 - 13, 2014 (best-[student]-paper award).

Comprehensive Evaluation of AES Dual Ciphers as a Side-Channel Countermeasure

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke - International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2013, Beijing, China, November 20 - 22, 2013.

One Attack to Rule Them All: Collision Timing Attack versus 42 AES ASIC Cores

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke, Christof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 1786-1798, Sept. 2013.

On the Simplicity of Converting Leakages from Multivariate to Univariate - Case Study of a Glitch-Resistant Masking Scheme

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2013, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 20 - 23, 2013.

Attacking Atmel's CryptoMemory EEPROM with Special-Purpose Hardware

Alexander Wild, Tim Güneysu, Amir Moradi - Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 11th International Conference, ACNS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, June 25-28, 2013

Side-Channel Attacks on the Bitstream Encryption Mechanism of Altera Stratix II - Facilitating Black-Box Analysis using Software Reverse-Engineering

Amir Moradi, David Oswald, Christof Paar, Pawel Swierczynski - 21st ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays- FPGA 2013, pages 91-100, February 11 - 13. ACM, 2013.

Side Channels as Building Blocks

Markus Kasper, Amir Moradi, Georg T. Becker, Oliver Mischke, Tim Güneysu, Christof Paar, Wayne Burleson - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 2, Number 3, pages 143-159, 2012, Springer.

How Far Should Theory be from Practice? – Evaluation of a Countermeasure

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2012 - 14th International Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, September 9-12, 2012

Glitch-Free Implementation of Masking in Modern FPGAs

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 3-4, 2012

Statistical Tools Flavor Side-Channel Collision Attacks

Amir Moradi - Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2012 - 31th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 15-19, 2012, pages 428-445.

Black-Box Side-Channel Attacks Highlight the Importance of Countermeasures – An Analysis of the Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 Bitstream Encryption Mechanism

Amir Moradi, Markus Kasper, Christof Paar - Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2012 - The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 27- March 2, 2012, pages 1-18.

Praktische Angriffe auf die Bitstromverschlüsselung von Xilinx FPGAs

Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD - Ausgabe 11/2011 - http://www.dud.de/Ausgabe/2011-11.html

On the Vulnerability of FPGA Bitstream Encryption against Power Analysis Attacks – Extracting Keys from Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs

Amir Moradi, Alessandro Barenghi, Timo Kasper, Christof Paar - 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17-21, 2011, pages 111-124.

Generic Side-Channel Countermeasures for Reconfigurable Devices

Tim Güneysu, Amir Moradi - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2011 - 13th International Workshop, Nara, Japan, September 28 - October 1, 2011

On the Power of Fault Sensitivity Analysis and Collision Side-Channel Attacks in a Combined Setting

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke, Christof Paar, Yang Li, Kazuo Ohta, Kazuo Sakiyama - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2011 - 13th International Workshop, Nara, Japan, September 28 - October 1, 2011

Masked Dual-Rail Precharge Logic Encounters State-of-the-Art Power Analysis Methods

Amir Moradi, Mario Kirschbaum, Thomas Eisenbarth, Christof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Volume 20 , Issue 9, Pages 1578 - 1589, 2012.

Practical Evaluation of DPA Countermeasures on Reconfigurable Hardware

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke, Christof Paar - HOST 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 5-6 June 2011, San Diego, California, USA

Pushing the Limits: A Very Compact and a Threshold Implementation of AES

Amir Moradi, Dipl.-Kfm. Axel Poschmann, San Ling, Christof Paar, Huaxiong Wang - Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2011 - 30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia, May 15-19, 2011, volume 6632 of LNCS, pages 69-88, Springer.

Side-Channel Resistant Crypto for less than 2,300 GE

Axel Poschmann, Amir Moradi, Khoongming Khoo, Chu-Wee Lim, Huaxiong Wang, San Ling - Journal of Cryptology, Special Issue on Hardware and Security, Volume 24, Number 2, pages 322-345, April 2011.

Side-channel based watermarks for IP Protection

Georg T. Becker, Markus Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - COSADE 2010 - First International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design

Correlation-Enhanced Power Analysis Collision Attack

Amir Moradi, Oliver Mischke, Thomas Eisenbarth - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2010, 12th International Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 17-20, 2010. Proceedings

Side-channel based watermarks for integrated circuits

Georg T. Becker, Markus Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2010), AnaheimCA , USA, 13-14 June 2010.

Practical Power Analysis Attacks on Software Implementations of McEliece

Stefan Heyse, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - Post-Quantum Cryptography, Third International Workshop, PQCrypto 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, May 25-28, 2010. Proceedings

Lightweight Cryptography and DPA Countermeasures: A Survey

Amir Moradi, Axel Poschmann - First International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices, WLC 2010 (co-located with Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2010), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Januar 25-28, 2010.

A New Remote Keyless Entry System Resistant to Power Analysis Attacks

Amir Moradi, Timo Kasper - 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS 2009, Macau, China, Dezember 7-10, 2009.

Power Analysis of Single-Rail Storage Elements as used in MDPL

Amir Moradi, Thomas Eisenbarth, Dipl.-Kfm. Axel Poschmann, Christof Paar - 12th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2009, Seoul, Korea, December 2-4, 2009.

KeeLoq and Side-Channel Analysis --- Evolution of an Attack

Christof Paar, Thomas Eisenbarth, Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi - 6th IEEE Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2009.Lausanne, Switzerland, September 6, 2009.

A Comparative Study of Mutual Information Analysis under a Gaussian Assumption

Amir Moradi, Nima Mousavi, Christof Paar, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh - 10th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2009, Busan, Korea. August 25-27, 2009.

Breaking KeeLoq in a Flash: On Extracting Keys at Lightning Speed

Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - 2nd International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2009, Gammarth, Tunisia, 21-25 Juni, 2009.

On the Power of Power Analysis in the Real World: A Complete Break of the KeeLoq Code Hopping Scheme

Thomas Eisenbarth, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh, Mohammad T. Manzuri Shalmani - 28th International Cryptology Conference -- CRYPTO 2008. Santa Barbara, California, USA. August 17-21, 2008.

Susceptibility of eSTREAM Candidates towards Side Channel Analysis

Benedikt Gierlichs, Lejla Batina, Christophe Clavier, Thomas Eisenbarth, Aline Gouget, Helena Handschuh, Timo Kasper, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Stefan Mangard, Amir Moradi, Elisabeth Oswald - The State of the Art of Stream Ciphers, SASC 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland. Februar, 13-14 2008.

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