Christof Paar

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2024
Publications (10 Years): 132

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IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.

IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst.

J. Cryptogr. Eng.

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (PHD)

Education History

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

PHD

Publications

Maik Ender, Felix Hahn, Marc Fyrbiak, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
JustSTART: How to Find an RSA Authentication Bypass on Xilinx UltraScale(+) with Fuzzing. CoRR (2024)
Guyue Li, Paul Staat, Haoyu Li, Markus Heinrichs, Christian T. Zenger, Rainer Kronberger, Harald Elders-Boll, Christof Paar, Aiqun Hu
RIS-Jamming: Breaking Key Consistency in Channel Reciprocity-based Key Generation. CoRR (2023)
Susanne Engels, Maik Ender, Christof Paar
Targeted Bitstream Fault Fuzzing Accelerating BiFI on Large Designs. HOST (2023)
Nils Albartus, Maik Ender, Jan-Niklas Möller, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Russell Tessier
On the Malicious Potential of Xilinx' Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP). ICFPT (2023)
Timo Speith, Julian Speith, Steffen Becker, Yixin Zou, Asia Biega, Christof Paar
Expanding Explainability: From Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Explainable Hardware. CoRR (2023)
Nils Rothaug, Simon Klix, Nicole Auth, Sinan Böcker, Endres Puschner, Steffen Becker, Christof Paar
Towards Unsupervised SEM Image Segmentation for IC Layout Extraction. ASHES@CCS (2023)
Simon Klix, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith, Paul Staat, Alice Verstege, Annika Wilde, Daniel Lammers, Jörn Langheinrich, Christian Kison, Sebastian Sester, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar
Stealing Maggie's Secrets - On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering. CoRR (2023)
Endres Puschner, Thorben Moos, Steffen Becker, Christian Kison, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Red Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations. SP (2023)
Alexander Warnecke, Julian Speith, Jan-Niklas Möller, Konrad Rieck, Christof Paar
Evil from Within: Machine Learning Backdoors through Hardware Trojans. CoRR (2023)
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, René Walendy, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
The Anatomy of Hardware Reverse Engineering: An Exploration of Human Factors During Problem Solving. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 30 (4) (2023)
Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, René Walendy, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
REVERSIM: A Game-Based Approach to Accessing Large Populations for Studying Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering. CoRR (2023)
Maik Ender, Gregor Leander, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
A Cautionary Note on Protecting Xilinx' UltraScale(+) Bitstream Encryption and Authentication Engine. FCCM (2022)
Paul Staat, Kai Jansen, Christian T. Zenger, Harald Elders-Boll, Christof Paar
Analog Physical-Layer Relay Attacks with Application to Bluetooth and Phase-Based Ranging. WISEC (2022)
Julian Speith, Florian Schweins, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Alexander May, Christof Paar
How Not to Protect Your IP - An Industry-Wide Break of IEEE 1735 Implementations. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2022)
Guyue Li, Lei Hu, Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar, Aiqun Hu
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Key Generation: Constructive or Destructive? IEEE Wirel. Commun. 29 (4) (2022)
Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces. AsiaCCS (2022)
Paul Staat, Johannes Tobisch, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Anti-Tamper Radio: System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2022)
Endres Puschner, Thorben Moos, Steffen Becker, Christian Kison, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Red Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2022 (2022)
Paul Staat, Simon Mulzer, Stefan Roth, Veelasha Moonsamy, Markus Heinrichs, Rainer Kronberger, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
IRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2022)
Susanne Engels, Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
A critical view on the real-world security of logic locking. J. Cryptogr. Eng. 12 (3) (2022)
Paul Staat, Kai Jansen, Christian T. Zenger, Harald Elders-Boll, Christof Paar
Analog Physical-Layer Relay Attacks with Application to Bluetooth and Phase-Based Ranging. CoRR (2022)
Max Hoffmann, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
ARMORY: Fully Automated and Exhaustive Fault Simulation on ARM-M Binaries. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 16 (2021)
Nils Albartus, Clemens Nasenberg, Florian Stolz, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Russell Tessier
On the Design and Misuse of Microcoded (Embedded) Processors - A Cautionary Note. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021 (2021)
Florian Stolz, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith, Simon Klix, Clemens Nasenberg, Aiden Gula, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Tim Güneysu, Russell Tessier
LifeLine for FPGA Protection: Obfuscated Cryptography for Real-World Security. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2021 (4) (2021)
Paul Staat, Johannes Tobisch, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Anti-Tamper Radio: System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems. CoRR (2021)
Paul Staat, Simon Mulzer, Stefan Roth, Veelasha Moonsamy, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
IRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021 (2021)
Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs. CoRR (2021)
Guyue Li, Lei Hu, Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar, Aiqun Hu
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Key Generation: Constructive or Destructive? CoRR (2021)
Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
Doppelganger Obfuscation - Exploring theDefensive and Offensive Aspects of Hardware Camouflaging. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2021 (1) (2021)
Nils Albartus, Clemens Nasenberg, Florian Stolz, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Russell Tessier
On the Design and Misuse of Microcoded (Embedded) Processors - A Cautionary Note. USENIX Security Symposium (2021)
Paul Staat, Simon Mulzer, Stefan Roth, Veelasha Moonsamy, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
IRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing. CoRR (2021)
Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
An Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering Technical and Cognitive Processes. CoRR (2021)
Julian Speith, Florian Schweins, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Alexander May, Christof Paar
How Not to Protect Your IP - An Industry-Wide Break of IEEE 1735 Implementations. CoRR (2021)
Florian Stolz, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith, Simon Klix, Clemens Nasenberg, Aiden Gula, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Tim Güneysu, Russell Tessier
LifeLine for FPGA Protection: Obfuscated Cryptography for Real-World Security. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021 (2021)
Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces. CoRR (2021)
Endres Puschner, Christoph Saatjohann, Markus Willing, Christian Dresen, Julia Köbe, Benjamin Rath, Christof Paar, Lars Eckardt, Uwe Haverkamp, Sebastian Schinzel
Listen to Your Heart: Evaluation of the Cardiologic Ecosystem. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021 (2021)
Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Rainer Kronberger, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Key Generation for Low-Entropy Environments. PIMRC (2021)
Endres Puschner, Christoph Saatjohann, Markus Willing, Christian Dresen, Julia Köbe, Benjamin Rath, Christof Paar, Lars Eckardt, Uwe Haverkamp, Sebastian Schinzel
Listen to Your Heart: Evaluation of the Cardiologic Ecosystem. ARES (2021)
Leonid Azriel, Julian Speith, Nils Albartus, Ran Ginosar, Avi Mendelson, Christof Paar
A survey of algorithmic methods in IC reverse engineering. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021 (2021)
Max Hoffmann, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
ARMORY: Fully Automated and Exhaustive Fault Simulation on ARM-M Binaries. CoRR (2021)
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
Promoting the Acquisition of Hardware Reverse Engineering Skills. CoRR (2021)
Susanne Engels, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
SPFA: SFA on Multiple Persistent Faults. CoRR (2021)
Leonid Azriel, Julian Speith, Nils Albartus, Ran Ginosar, Avi Mendelson, Christof Paar
A survey of algorithmic methods in IC reverse engineering. J. Cryptogr. Eng. 11 (3) (2021)
Pascal Zimmer, Roland Weinreich, Christian T. Zenger, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
Keys from the Sky: A First Exploration of Physical-Layer Security Using Satellite Links. ICC (2021)
Julian Speith, Steffen Becker, Maik Ender, Endres Puschner, Christof Paar
Hardware-Trojaner. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 44 (7) (2020)
Samaneh Ghandali, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Side-Channel Hardware Trojan for Provably-Secure SCA-Protected Implementations. IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst. 28 (6) (2020)
Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Temme, Leonid Azriel, Christof Paar
DANA Universal Dataflow Analysis for Gate-Level Netlist Reverse Engineering. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2020 (4) (2020)
Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Rainer Kronberger, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Key Generation for Low-Entropy Environments. CoRR (2020)
Benjamin Kollenda, Philipp Koppe, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
An Exploratory Analysis of Microcode as a Building Block for System Defenses. CoRR (2020)
Susanne Engels, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
SPFA: SFA on Multiple Persistent Faults. FDTC (2020)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Sascha Reinhard, Nicolai Bissantz, Christof Paar
Graph Similarity and its Applications to Hardware Security. IEEE Trans. Computers 69 (4) (2020)
Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs. USENIX Security Symposium (2020)
Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Temme, Leonid Azriel, Christof Paar
DANA - Universal Dataflow Analysis for Gate-Level Netlist Reverse Engineering. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2020 (2020)
Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
An Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering - Technical and Cognitive Processes. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium (2020)
Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
Doppelganger Obfuscation - Exploring the Defensive and Offensive Aspects of Hardware Camouflaging. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2020 (2020)
Pascal Zimmer, Roland Weinreich, Christian T. Zenger, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
Keys from the Sky: A First Exploration of Physical-Layer Security Using Satellite Links. CoRR (2020)
Christian Kison, Omar Mohamed Awad, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar
Security Implications of Intentional Capacitive Crosstalk. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 14 (12) (2019)
Maik Ender, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallat, Matthias Wilhelm, Paul Martin Knopp, Christof Paar
Insights into the mind of a trojan designer: the challenge to integrate a trojan into the bitstream. ASP-DAC (2019)
Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Steffen Becker, Sebastian Wallat, Marc Fyrbiak, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Towards cognitive obfuscation: impeding hardware reverse engineering based on psychological insights. ASP-DAC (2019)
Samaneh Ghandali, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar
Temperature-Based Hardware Trojan For Ring-Oscillator-Based TRNGs. CoRR (2019)
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
CCCiCC: A Cross-Core Cache-Independent Covert Channel on AMD Family 15h CPUs. CARDIS (2019)
Sebastian Wallat, Nils Albartus, Steffen Becker, Max Hoffmann, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Adrian Drees, Sebastian Maaßen, Christof Paar
Highway to HAL: Open-Sourcing the First Extendable Gate-Level Netlist Reverse Engineering Framework. CoRR (2019)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Sascha Reinhard, Nicolai Bissantz, Christof Paar
Graph Similarity and Its Applications to Hardware Security. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2019 (2019)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Strauß, Christian Kison, Sebastian Wallat, Malte Elson, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Hardware Reverse Engineering: Overview and Open Challenges. CoRR (2019)
Astrid Wichmann, M. Angela Sasse, Christof Paar
IT-Sicherheit ist mehr als Technik. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 43 (11) (2019)
Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
Wie arbeiten Reverse Engineers? Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 43 (11) (2019)
Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
Stealthy Opaque Predicates in Hardware - Obfuscating Constant Expressions at Negligible Overhead. CoRR (2019)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Jonathan Déchelotte, Nils Albartus, Sinan Böcker, Russell Tessier, Christof Paar
On the Difficulty of FSM-based Hardware Obfuscation. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2019 (2019)
Maik Ender, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallat, Matthias Wilhelm, Paul Martin Knopp, Christof Paar
Insights into the Mind of a Trojan Designer: The Challenge to Integrate a Trojan into the Bitstream. CoRR (2019)
Arunkumar Vijayakumar, Vinay C. Patil, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar, Sandip Kundu
Physical Design Obfuscation of Hardware: A Comprehensive Investigation of Device- and Logic-Level Techniques. CoRR (2019)
Sebastian Wallat, Marc Fyrbiak, Moritz Schlögel, Christof Paar
A Look at the Dark Side of Hardware Reverse Engineering - A Case Study. CoRR (2019)
Philipp Koppe, Benjamin Kollenda, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Robert Gawlik, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode. CoRR (2019)
Samaneh Ghandali, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Side-Channel Hardware Trojan for Provably-Secure SCA-Protected Implementations. CoRR (2019)
Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Steffen Becker, Sebastian Wallat, Marc Fyrbiak, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Towards Cognitive Obfuscation: Impeding Hardware Reverse Engineering Based on Psychological Insights. CoRR (2019)
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Marc Fyrbiak, Nils Albartus, Malte Elson, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Teaching Hardware Reverse Engineering: Educational Guidelines and Practical Insights. CoRR (2019)
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
Promoting the Acquisition of Hardware Reverse Engineering Skills. FIE (2019)
Pawel Swierczynski, Marc Fyrbiak, Philipp Koppe, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Interdiction in Practice - Hardware Trojan Against a High-Security USB Flash Drive. CoRR (2019)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Pawel Swierczynski, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Hoppach, Matthias Wilhelm, Tobias Weidlich, Russell Tessier, Christof Paar
HAL - The Missing Piece of the Puzzle for Hardware Reverse Engineering, Trojan Detection and Insertion. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 16 (3) (2019)
Sebastian Wallat, Nils Albartus, Steffen Becker, Max Hoffmann, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Adrian Drees, Sebastian Maaßen, Christof Paar
Highway to HAL: open-sourcing the first extendable gate-level netlist reverse engineering framework. CF (2019)
Susanne Engels, Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
The End of Logic Locking? A Critical View on the Security of Logic Locking. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2019 (2019)
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Marc Fyrbiak, Nils Albartus, Malte Elson, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Teaching Hardware Reverse Engineering: Educational Guidelines and Practical Insights. TALE (2018)
Pawel Swierczynski, Georg T. Becker, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Bitstream Fault Injections (BiFI)-Automated Fault Attacks Against SRAM-Based FPGAs. IEEE Trans. Computers 67 (3) (2018)
Max Hoffmann, Christof Paar
Stealthy Opaque Predicates in Hardware - Obfuscating Constant Expressions at Negligible Overhead. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2018 (2) (2018)
Benjamin Kollenda, Philipp Koppe, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
An Exploratory Analysis of Microcode as a Building Block for System Defenses. CCS (2018)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Jonathan Déchelotte, Nils Albartus, Sinan Böcker, Russell Tessier, Christof Paar
On the Difficulty of FSM-based Hardware Obfuscation. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2018 (3) (2018)
Shahrzad Keshavarz, Falk Schellenberg, Bastian Richter, Christof Paar, Daniel E. Holcomb
SAT-based Reverse Engineering of Gate-Level Schematics using Fault Injection and Probing. CoRR (2018)
Shahrzad Keshavarz, Falk Schellenberg, Bastian Richter, Christof Paar, Daniel E. Holcomb
SAT-based reverse engineering of gate-level schematics using fault injection and probing. HOST (2018)
Marc Fyrbiak, Simon Rokicki, Nicolai Bissantz, Russell Tessier, Christof Paar
Hybrid Obfuscation to Protect Against Disclosure Attacks on Embedded Microprocessors. IEEE Trans. Computers 67 (3) (2018)
Christian T. Zenger, Mario Pietersz, Andreas Rex, Jeremy Brauer, Falk-Peter Dressler, Christian Baiker, Daniel Theis, Christof Paar
Implementing a real-time capable WPLS testbed for independent performance and security analyses. ACSSC (2017)
Maik Ender, Samaneh Ghandali, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
The First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2017 (2017)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Strauss, Christian Kison, Sebastian Wallat, Malte Elson, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
Hardware reverse engineering: Overview and open challenges. IVSW (2017)
Philipp Koppe, Benjamin Kollenda, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Robert Gawlik, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode. USENIX Security Symposium (2017)
Marc Fyrbiak, Sebastian Wallat, Pawel Swierczynski, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Hoppach, Matthias Wilhelm, Tobias Weidlich, Russell Tessier, Christof Paar
HAL- The Missing Piece of the Puzzle for Hardware Reverse Engineering, Trojan Detection and Insertion. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2017 (2017)
Maik Ender, Samaneh Ghandali, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
The First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan. ASIACRYPT (1) (2017)
Christof Paar
Hardware Trojans and Other Threats against Embedded Systems. AsiaCCS (2017)
Shahrzad Keshavarz, Christof Paar, Daniel E. Holcomb
Design Automation for Obfuscated Circuits with Multiple Viable Functions. CoRR (2017)
Arunkumar Vijayakumar, Vinay C. Patil, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar, Sandip Kundu
Physical Design Obfuscation of Hardware: A Comprehensive Investigation of Device and Logic-Level Techniques. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 12 (1) (2017)
Pawel Swierczynski, Marc Fyrbiak, Philipp Koppe, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
Interdiction in practice - Hardware Trojan against a high-security USB flash drive. J. Cryptogr. Eng. 7 (3) (2017)
Shahrzad Keshavarz, Christof Paar, Daniel E. Holcomb
Design automation for obfuscated circuits with multiple viable functions. DATE (2017)
Christian T. Zenger, Hendrik Vogt, Jan Zimmer, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
The Passive Eavesdropper Affects my Channel: Secret-Key Rates under Real-World Conditions (Extended Version). CoRR (2017)

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