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Christof Paar

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

132

Venues

52

Active years

1997–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

132 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ITiCSEDesigning a Hardware Reverse Engineering Course: Lessons from Eight Years in a Rapidly Evolving Tech Domain.Zehra Karadag, Ren Walendy, Carina Wiesen, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel, Steffen Becker
2026SPHardware Trojans from Invisible Inversions: On the Trojanizability of Standard Cell Libraries.Kolja Dorschel, Ren Walendy, Lukas Pltz, Thorben Moos, Christof Paar, Steffen Becker
2026SPThe Battle of Metasurfaces: Understanding Security in Smart Radio Environments.Paul Staat, Christof Paar, Swarun Kumar
2025CHIReverSim: An Open-Source Environment for the Controlled Study of Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering.Steffen Becker, Ren Walendy, Markus Weber, Carina Wiesen, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
2025CISSKey Exchange in the Quantum Era: Evaluating a Hybrid System of Public-Key Cryptography and Physical-Layer Security.Paul Staat, Meik Drpinghaus, Azadeh Sheikholeslami, Christof Paar, Gerhard P. Fettweis, Dennis Goeckel
2025NDSSSpatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces.Philipp Mackensen, Paul Staat, Stefan Roth, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar, Veelasha Moonsamy
2025SIGCSEAn Evidence-Based Curriculum Initiative for Hardware Reverse Engineering Education.Ren Walendy, Markus Weber, Steffen Becker, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
2024ACSACEvil from Within: Machine Learning Backdoors Through Dormant Hardware Trojans.Alexander Warnecke, Julian Speith, Jan-Niklas Mller, Konrad Rieck, Christof Paar
2024CCSStealing Maggie's Secrets-On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering.Simon Klix, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith, Paul Staat, Alice Verstege, Annika Wilde, Daniel Lammers, Jrn Langheinrich, Christian Kison, Sebastian Sester-Wehle, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar
2024CHII see an IC: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Study Human Problem-Solving Processes in Hardware Reverse Engineering.Ren Walendy, Markus Weber, Jingjie Li, Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Malte Elson, Younghyun Kim, Kassem Fawaz, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
2024CRYPTOHAWKEYE - Recovering Symmetric Cryptography From Hardware Circuits.Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Julian Speith, Lukas Stennes
2024REExplainability as a Requirement for Hardware: Introducing Explainable Hardware (XHW).Timo Speith, Julian Speith, Steffen Becker, Yixin Zou, Asia Biega, Christof Paar
2023SPRed Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations.Endres Puschner, Thorben Moos, Steffen Becker, Christian Kison, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
2022AsiaCCSMirror, Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces.Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
2022FCCMA Cautionary Note on Protecting Xilinx' UltraScale(+) Bitstream Encryption and Authentication Engine.Maik Ender, Gregor Leander, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
2022SPHow Not to Protect Your IP - An Industry-Wide Break of IEEE 1735 Implementations.Julian Speith, Florian Schweins, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Alexander May, Christof Paar
2022SPIRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing.Paul Staat, Simon Mulzer, Stefan Roth, Veelasha Moonsamy, Markus Heinrichs, Rainer Kronberger, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
2022SPAnti-Tamper Radio: System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems.Paul Staat, Johannes Tobisch, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
2021PIMRCIntelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Key Generation for Low-Entropy Environments.Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs, Rainer Kronberger, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
2020FDTCSPFA: SFA on Multiple Persistent Faults.Susanne Engels, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
2020SOUPSAn Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering - Technical and Cognitive Processes.Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
2019ASPDACInsights into the mind of a trojan designer: the challenge to integrate a trojan into the bitstream.Maik Ender, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallat, Matthias Wilhelm, Paul Martin Knopp, Christof Paar
2019ASPDACTowards cognitive obfuscation: impeding hardware reverse engineering based on psychological insights.Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Steffen Becker, Sebastian Wallat, Marc Fyrbiak, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar
2019CARDISCCCiCC: A Cross-Core Cache-Independent Covert Channel on AMD Family 15h CPUs.Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2019FIEPromoting the Acquisition of Hardware Reverse Engineering Skills.Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus, Christof Paar, Nikol Rummel
2018CCSAn Exploratory Analysis of Microcode as a Building Block for System Defenses.Benjamin Kollenda, Philipp Koppe, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
2017ACSSCImplementing a real-time capable WPLS testbed for independent performance and security analyses.Christian T. Zenger, Mario Pietersz, Andreas Rex, Jeremy Brauer, Falk-Peter Dressler, Christian Baiker, Daniel Theis, Christof Paar
2017ASIACRYPTThe First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan.Maik Ender, Samaneh Ghandali, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
2017CCSHardware Trojans and Other Threats against Embedded Systems.Christof Paar
2017DATEDesign automation for obfuscated circuits with multiple viable functions.Shahrzad Keshavarz, Christof Paar, Daniel E. Holcomb
2016CHESA Design Methodology for Stealthy Parametric Trojans and Its Application to Bug Attacks.Samaneh Ghandali, Georg T. Becker, Daniel E. Holcomb, Christof Paar
2016GLOBECOMThe Passive Eavesdropper Affects My Channel: Secret-Key Rates under Real-World Conditions.Christian T. Zenger, Hendrik Vogt, Jan Zimmer, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar
2015CHESFinding the AES Bits in the Haystack: Reverse Engineering and SCA Using Voltage Contrast.Christian Kison, Jrgen Frinken, Christof Paar
2015DATEScandalee: a side-channel-based disassembler using local electromagnetic emanations.Daehyun Strobel, Florian Bache, David F. Oswald, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
2015DSDNew ASIC/FPGA Cost Estimates for SHA-1 Collisions.Muhammad Hassan, Ayesha Khalid, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Christian Rechberger, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar
2015FCCMProtecting against Cryptographic Trojans in FPGAs.Pawel Swierczynski, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, Christophe Huriaux, Russell Tessier
2015FDTCOn the Complexity Reduction of Laser Fault Injection Campaigns Using OBIC Measurements.Falk Schellenberg, Markus Finkeldey, Bastian Richter, Maximilian Schapers, Nils C. Gerhardt, Martin Hofmann, Christof Paar
2015MobiquitousOn-line Entropy Estimation for Secure Information Reconciliation.Christian T. Zenger, Jan Zimmer, Jan-Felix Posielek, Christof Paar
2015NSPWExploiting the Physical Environment for Securing the Internet of Things.Christian T. Zenger, Jan Zimmer, Mario Pietersz, Jan-Felix Posielek, Christof Paar
2015VTCBringing PHY-Based Key Generation into the Field: An Evaluation for Practical Scenarios.Ren Guillaume, Fredrik Winzer, Andreas Czylwik, Christian T. Zenger, Christof Paar
2014CCSHow to Build Hardware Trojans.Christof Paar
2014CRYPTOBlock Ciphers - Focus on the Linear Layer (feat. PRIDE).Martin R. Albrecht, Benedikt Driessen, Elif Bilge Kavun, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Tolga Yalin
2014ICISCRemote IP Protection Using Timing Channels.Ariano-Tim Donda, Peter Samarin, Jacek Samotyja, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2014PQCryptoAttacking Code-Based Cryptosystems with Information Set Decoding Using Special-Purpose Hardware.Stefan Heyse, Ralf Zimmermann, Christof Paar
2014SCNStatistics on Password Re-use and Adaptive Strength for Financial Accounts.Daniel V. Bailey, Markus Drmuth, Christof Paar
2014WISTPSweet Dreams and Nightmares: Security in the Internet of Things.Timo Kasper, David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2013ARITHA Non-Linear/Linear Instruction Set Extension for Lightweight Ciphers.Susanne Engels, Elif Bilge Kavun, Christof Paar, Tolga Yalin, Hristina Mihajloska
2013CCSConstructive and destructive aspects of embedded security in the internet of things.Christof Paar
2013CHESStealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans.Georg T. Becker, Francesco Regazzoni, Christof Paar, Wayne P. Burleson
2013CRYPTOFuming Acid and Cryptanalysis: Handy Tools for Overcoming a Digital Locking and Access Control System.Daehyun Strobel, Benedikt Driessen, Timo Kasper, Gregor Leander, David F. Oswald, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar
2013FCP4R: Privacy-Preserving Pre-Payments with Refunds for Transportation Systems.Andy Rupp, Gesine Hinterwlder, Foteini Baldimtsi, Christof Paar
2013FPGASide-channel attacks on the bitstream encryption mechanism of Altera Stratix II: facilitating black-box analysis using software reverse-engineering.Amir Moradi, David F. Oswald, Christof Paar, Pawel Swierczynski
2013RAIDSide-Channel Attacks on the Yubikey 2 One-Time Password Generator.David F. Oswald, Bastian Richter, Christof Paar
2012ASIACRYPTPRINCE - A Low-Latency Block Cipher for Pervasive Computing Applications - Extended Abstract.Julia Borghoff, Anne Canteaut, Tim Gneysu, Elif Bilge Kavun, Miroslav Knezevic, Lars R. Knudsen, Gregor Leander, Ventzislav Nikov, Christof Paar, Christian Rechberger, Peter Rombouts, Sren S. Thomsen, Tolga Yalin
2012CARDISImproving Side-Channel Analysis with Optimal Linear Transforms.David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2012ESORICSEvaluation of Standardized Password-Based Key Derivation against Parallel Processing Platforms.Markus Drmuth, Tim Gneysu, Markus Kasper, Christof Paar, Tolga Yalin, Ralf Zimmermann
2012FSELapin: An Efficient Authentication Protocol Based on Ring-LPN.Stefan Heyse, Eike Kiltz, Vadim Lyubashevsky, Christof Paar, Krzysztof Pietrzak
2012SPDon't Trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone Standards.Benedikt Driessen, Ralf Hund, Carsten Willems, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz
2012WAIFISolving Binary Linear Equation Systems over the Rationals and Binaries.Benedikt Driessen, Christof Paar
2011ASIACRYPTAn Experimentally Verified Attack on Full Grain-128 Using Dedicated Reconfigurable Hardware.Itai Dinur, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Adi Shamir, Ralf Zimmermann
2011CCSOn 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
2011CHESOn 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
2011CHESBreaking Mifare DESFire MF3ICD40: Power Analysis and Templates in the Real World.David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2011EuroCryptPushing the Limits: A Very Compact and a Threshold Implementation of AES.Amir Moradi, Axel Poschmann, San Ling, Christof Paar, Huaxiong Wang
2011ICISCAn Efficient Method for Eliminating Random Delays in Power Traces of Embedded Software.Daehyun Strobel, Christof Paar
2011INDOCRYPTThe Yin and Yang Sides of Embedded Security.Christof Paar
2011SOFTCOMWireless security threats: Eavesdropping and detecting of active RFIDs and remote controls in the wild.Timo Kasper, David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2010DBSECSecure Location Verification - A Security Analysis of GPS Signal Authentication.Georg T. Becker, Sherman C. Lo, David S. De Lorenzo, Per K. Enge, Christof Paar
2010FCAll You Can Eat or Breaking a Real-World Contactless Payment System.Timo Kasper, Michael Silbermann, Christof Paar
2010FPLBreaking Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems Using Reconfigurable Hardware.Junfeng Fan, Daniel V. Bailey, Lejla Batina, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Ingrid Verbauwhede
2010FPLHigh-Performance Integer Factoring with Reconfigurable Devices.Ralf Zimmermann, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar
2010ICISCChameleon: A Versatile Emulator for Contactless Smartcards.Timo Kasper, Ingo von Maurich, David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2010PQCryptoPractical Power Analysis Attacks on Software Implementations of McEliece.Stefan Heyse, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar
2009CHESMicroEliece: McEliece for Embedded Devices.Thomas Eisenbarth, Tim Gneysu, Stefan Heyse, Christof Paar
2009CHESTrojan Side-Channels: Lightweight Hardware Trojans through Side-Channel Engineering.Lang Lin, Markus Kasper, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Wayne P. Burleson
2009CHESCrypto Engineering: Some History and Some Case Studies.Christof Paar
2009FDTCKeeLoq and Side-Channel Analysis-Evolution of an Attack.Christof Paar, Thomas Eisenbarth, Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi
2009ICCADMOLES: Malicious off-chip leakage enabled by side-channels.Lang Lin, Wayne P. Burleson, Christof Paar
2009ICISCPower Analysis of Single-Rail Storage Elements as Used in MDPL.Amir Moradi, Thomas Eisenbarth, Axel Poschmann, Christof Paar
2009ICISCLightweight Cryptography and RFID: Tackling the Hidden Overheads.Axel Poschmann, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Frank Vater, Christof Paar
2009SECRYPTOne-touch Financial Transaction Authentication.Daniel V. Bailey, John G. Brainard, Sebastian Rohde, Christof Paar
2009WISAEM Side-Channel Attacks on Commercial Contactless Smartcards Using Low-Cost Equipment.Timo Kasper, David F. Oswald, Christof Paar
2009WISAA Comparative Study of Mutual Information Analysis under a Gaussian Assumption.Amir Moradi, Nima Mousavi, Christof Paar, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh
2008CARDISFast Hash-Based Signatures on Constrained Devices.Sebastian Rohde, Thomas Eisenbarth, Erik Dahmen, Johannes Buchmann, Christof Paar
2008CARDISUltra-Lightweight Implementations for Smart Devices - Security for 1000 Gate Equivalents.Carsten Rolfes, Axel Poschmann, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar
2008CHESHash Functions and RFID Tags: Mind the Gap.Andrey Bogdanov, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Yannick Seurin
2008CHESUltra High Performance ECC over NIST Primes on Commercial FPGAs.Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar
2008CRYPTOOn the Power of Power Analysis in the Real World: A Complete Break of the KeeLoqCode Hopping Scheme.Thomas Eisenbarth, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh, Mohammad T. Manzuri Shalmani
2008FCBreaking Legacy Banking Standards with Special-Purpose Hardware.Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar
2008FCCMDSPs, BRAMs and a Pinch of Logic: New Recipes for AES on FPGAs.Saar Drimer, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar
2008FPLEnhancing COPACOBANA for advanced applications in cryptography and cryptanalysis.Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Gerd Pfeiffer, Manfred Schimmler
2007CCSReconfigurable trusted computing in hardware.Thomas Eisenbarth, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Dries Schellekens, Marko Wolf
2007CHESPRESENT: An Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher.Andrey Bogdanov, Lars R. Knudsen, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Yannick Seurin, C. Vikkelsoe
2007CHESGaussian Mixture Models for Higher-Order Side Channel Analysis.Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2007ESORICSAnalyzing Side Channel Leakage of Masked Implementations with Stochastic Methods.Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2007FCCMEstablishing Chain of Trust in Reconfigurable Hardware.Thomas Eisenbarth, Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Marko Wolf, Russell Tessier
2007FCCMNew Protection Mechanisms for Intellectual Property in Reconfigurable Logic.Tim Gneysu, Bodo Mller, Christof Paar
2007FPGAAttacking elliptic curve cryptosystems with special-purpose hardware.Tim Gneysu, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl
2007FSENew Lightweight DES Variants.Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Kai Schramm
2007GIHardware Optimierte Leichtgewichtige Blockchiffren fr RFID- und Sensor-Systeme.Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann
2007ISCASNew Light-Weight Crypto Algorithms for RFID.Axel Poschmann, Gregor Leander, Kai Schramm, Christof Paar
2007WISTPAn Embedded System for Practical Security Analysis of Contactless Smartcards.Timo Kasper, Dario Carluccio, Christof Paar
2006ACNSPhysical Security Bounds Against Tampering.Kerstin Lemke, Christof Paar, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
2006CHESTemplates vs. Stochastic Methods.Benedikt Gierlichs, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2006CHESBreaking Ciphers with COPACOBANA - A Cost-Optimized Parallel Code Breaker.Sandeep S. Kumar, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Gerd Pfeiffer, Manfred Schimmler
2006FCCMA Parallel Hardware Architecture for fast Gaussian Elimination over GF(2).Andrey Bogdanov, M. C. Mertens, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Andy Rupp
2006FCCMCOPACOBANA A Cost-Optimized Special-Purpose Hardware for Code-Breaking.Sandeep S. Kumar, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Gerd Pfeiffer, Manfred Schimmler
2006FDTCAn Adversarial Model for Fault Analysis Against Low-Cost Cryptographic Devices.Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
2006ICCSAPerformance of HECC Coprocessors Using Inversion-Free Formulae.Thomas J. Wollinger, Guido Bertoni, Luca Breveglieri, Christof Paar
2006WISAE-Passport: The Global Traceability Or How to Feel Like a UPS Package.Dario Carluccio, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
2005CHESSHARK: A Realizable Special Hardware Sieving Device for Factoring 1024-Bit Integers.Jens Franke, Thorsten Kleinjung, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Christine Priplata, Colin Stahlke
2005CHESA Stochastic Model for Differential Side Channel Cryptanalysis.Werner Schindler, Kerstin Lemke, Christof Paar
2005FPLEfficient Hardware Architectures for Modular Multiplication on FPGAs.David Narh Amanor, Viktor Bunimov, Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Manfred Schimmler
2004CHESDPA on n-Bit Sized Boolean and Arithmetic Operations and Its Application to IDEA, RC6, and the HMAC-Construction.Kerstin Lemke, Kai Schramm, Christof Paar
2004CHESA Collision-Attack on AES: Combining Side Channel- and Differential-Attack.Kai Schramm, Gregor Leander, Patrick Felke, Christof Paar
2004FPLReconfigurable Instruction Set Extension for Enabling ECC on an 8-Bit Processor.Sandeep S. Kumar, Christof Paar
2004WISAHyperelliptic Curve Coprocessors on a FPGA.Howon Kim, Thomas J. Wollinger, YongJe Choi, Kyoil Chung, Christof Paar
2003CHESHyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems: Closing the Performance Gap to Elliptic Curves.Jan Pelzl, Thomas J. Wollinger, Jorge Guajardo, Christof Paar
2003FPLHow Secure Are FPGAs in Cryptographic Applications?Thomas J. Wollinger, Christof Paar
2003FSEA New Class of Collision Attacks and Its Application to DES.Kai Schramm, Thomas J. Wollinger, Christof Paar
2003GIEingebettete Sicherheit und Kryptographie im Automobil: Eine Einfhrung.Christof Paar, Thomas J. Wollinger
2001ACISPElliptic Curve Cryptography on a Palm OS Device.Andr Weimerskirch, Christof Paar, Sheueling Chang Shantz
2001CHESA Scalable GF(p) Elliptic Curve Processor Architecture for Programmable Hardware.Gerardo Orlando, Christof Paar
2001PKCEfficient Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on the TI MSP 430x33x Family of Microcontrollers.Jorge Guajardo, Rainer Blmel, Uwe Krieger, Christof Paar
2000CARDISElliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cards without Coprocessors.Adam D. Woodbury, Daniel V. Bailey, Christof Paar
2000CHESA High Performance Reconfigurable Elliptic Curve Processor for GF(2Gerardo Orlando, Christof Paar
2000FPGAAn FPGA implementation and performance evaluation of the Serpent block cipher.Adam J. Elbirt, Christof Paar
1999FCCMA Super-Serial Galois Fields Multiplier for FPGAs and its Application to Public-Key Algorithms.Gerardo Orlando, Christof Paar
1998CRYPTOOptimal Extension Fields for Fast Arithmetic in Public-Key Algorithms.Daniel V. Bailey, Christof Paar
1997CRYPTOEfficient Algorithms for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems.Jorge Guajardo, Christof Paar
1997EuroCryptFast Arithmetic Architectures for Public-Key Algorithms over Galois Fields GF((2Christof Paar, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez
1997FCCMComparison of arithmetic architectures for Reed-Solomon decoders in reconfigurable hardware.Christof Paar, Martin Rosner