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Winter term lectures 11/12:
During winter term 11/12, the ICS Lab doesn't offer lectures.

Do your bachelor or master thesis at ISS:
Design und Implementierung einer plattformunabhängigen software-basierten IPTV Set-Top-Box Analyse der CI+ Sicherheitsprotokolle Konzipierung und Entwicklung einer Web-basierten Umgebung zur Visualisierung und Animation von Algorithmen für den Computer-gestützten Entwurf digitaler Systeme Side Channel Attacks on Methods and its Countermeasures Implementation of a small VHDL-Parser for Side-Channel Modeling Development of a Meta-Model for the Information Leakage of AES Zapping Acceleration for IPTV

Do your bachelor or master thesis at ISS:

The institute "Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICS)" is dedicated to research and teaching in the area of embedded systems design and non-standard computer architectures. Originally oriented towards the investigation of design methods of digital hardware components, the area of interest has shifted over the years to issues related to the cooperation of software for programmable standard processors and application specific hardware components, which now make today's efficient systems in information processing possible. Particular emphasis is placed upon embedded systems, which provide the information processing in superordinated interdisciplinary systems (e.g., robots, automotive and avionic transportation means, or cellular phone systems). In contrast to standard applications on off-the-shelf computers (e.g., Windows/Intel personal computers) such tasks must be realized under strict restrictions with respect to execution time as in real time systems, to dependability and safety, and under stringent non-functional constraints regarding, e. g., memory requirements or power consumption, as present in control units for the powertrain in automobiles. (more about research...)

News

ICS Lab successful on the HOST 2012

At the IEEE Int. Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, the ICS Lab was able to place two contributions:

Mohamed Saied Emam Mohamed, Stanislav Bulygin, Michael Zohner, Annelie Heuser, Michael Walter, and Johannes Buchmann
Improved Algebraic Side Channel Attack on AES
Michael Zohner, Marc Stoettinger, Sorin A. Huss, and Oliver Stein
An Adaptable, Modular, and Autonomous Side-Channel Vulnerability Evaluator

ICS Lab successful on the DATE'12

At the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe 2012 (DATE'12), the ICS Lab was able to place several contributions:

Annelie Heuser, Werner Schindler, and Marc Stöttinger
Revealing Side-Channel Issues of Complex Circuits by Enhanced Leakage Models
Michael Zohner, Michael Kasper, and Marc Stöttinger
Concluding the Side Channel Analysis of the SHA-3 Finalists
Alexander Biedermann and Sorin A. Huss
Scalable Multi-Core Virtualization for Embedded System-on-Chip Architectures
DATE Friday Workshop: Quo Vadis, Virtual Platforms?
Alexander Biedermann and Sorin A. Huss
FripGa: A Prototypical Design Tool for Embedded Multi-Core System-on-Chip Architectures
DATE University Booth
Marc Stöttinger, H. Gregor Molter, and Sorin A. Huss
Acceleration of Hypotheses Matrix Generation for DPA Attacks
DATE University Booth

The acceptance rate of papers at the DATE is around 25%.

CASED successful on the FPT' 11

All three submissions of our research group were accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'11):

Sunil Malipatlolla, Thomas Feller, Abdulhadi Shoufan, Tolga Arul, and Sorin A. Huss:
A Novel Architecture for a Secure Update of Cryptographic Engines on Trusted Platform Modules
Marc Stoettinger, Thomas Feller, and Sorin A. Huss:
A Side-Channel aware IP-Protection Scheme for FPGA-based Platforms
André Seffrin and Sorin A. Huss:
Hardware-Accelerated Execution of Pi-Calculus Reconfiguration Schedules

The acceptance rate of FPT'11 was only 27%.

Spotlight Paper in IEEE Transactions on Computers

The journal paper "A Novel Cryptoprocessor Architecture for the McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem" of Abdulhadi Shoufan, Thorsten Wink, H. Gregor Molter, Sorin A. Huss, and Eike Kohnert was featured as spotlight paper on the IEEE Transactions on Computers website in November 2010.

Book "Design Methodologies for Secure Embedded Systems"

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Sorin A. Huss, a Festschrift named "Design Methodologies for Secure Embedded Systems" (ISBN 978-3-642-16766-9) is published by Springer in their "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering" series.

Outstanding Paper Award

Hagen Stübing, Attila Jaeger, Norbert Bißmeyer, Christoph Schmidt, and Sorin A. Huss were awarded with an Outstanding Paper Award on the 17th ITS World Congress (2010) for their contribution "Verifying Mobility Data under Privacy Considerations in Car-to-X Communication". The ITS World Congress is one of the largest academic conferences in Intelligent Transport Systems field.

Diploma Examination

The diploma examination will take place on October, 13th. Dates can be seen at our lab in A3.

Best Support-In-Exercises Award

On 17.12.2009 the student council awarded Alexander Biedermann and H. Gregor Molter for the best student support in the excercises of the lecture "Technical Principles of Computer Science I (WS2008/2009)". Thank you very much!

CAST Förderpreis-Award

In the scope of CAST Förderpreis-Award on 20/11/2009, Nico Huber came in third in the category "Bachelor Thesis".

In his thesis, which he did in the Integrated and Circuits Lab, Nico designed and implemented the complex CMSS signature scheme on an FPGA platform. With this solution he achieved a speedup of up to 70 compared with software solution.

Congratulations!

Book Publication - Cryptographic Coprocessor for Server

In august 2008 the german book Kryptographischer Coprozessor für Server: Effiziente und flexible Multi-Core-Architektur für Server als System-on-a-Chip (ISBN: 978-3-63-905437-8) by H. Gregor Molter has been published at VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Best Paper Award

Dr. Abdulhadi Shoufan and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sorin A. Huss were awarded one of three Best Paper Awards on the conference "Sicherheit 2008" for their contribution "Schlüsselverwaltung im sicheren Multicast" engl.: Group Key Management in Secure Multicast. This conference, which is organized by the "Gesellschaft für Informatik GI" presents the most renowned security congress in the german-speaking contries.