-HGI News- Inaugural Lecture With Amir Moradi on December 14, 2022

[English Newsletter of the Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security]

Bochum, November 28, 2022

 

Inaugural Lecture With Amir Moradi on December 14, 2022

He will give a lecture on "Simply Secure: Tools for Automated Generation and
Evaluation of Protected Hardware".

 

The Faculty of Computer Science cordially invites all interested parties to
attend Prof. Amir Moradi's inaugural lecture "Simply Secure: Tools for
Automated Generation and Evaluation of Protected Hardware". Moradi is a
newly appointed Professor of Implementation Security since August 2022, and
his research is primarily focused on automated fabrication of protected
hardware and software designs. His research topics include Implementation
Security, Side-Channel Analysis and Countermeasures, Fault-Injection Attacks
and Countermeasures, Efficient Implementation of Cryptographic Primitives
and Applied Cryptography.

 

Amir Moradi is a Principle Investigator (PI) in the Cluster of Excellence
CASA "Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries" since 2019. He
studied Computer Engineering in Tehran, where he received his PhD from
Sharif University of Technology in 2008. In 2009, he joined RUB as a
postdoctoral researcher in embedded security, where he completed his
habilitation in 2015. In April 2021, he started an adjunct professorship at
RUB; in October of the same year, he accepted an offer for an professorship
at the University of Cologne. Amir Moradi's publications have been honored
with numerous best paper awards. In 2021, he set a record at the prestigious
Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES): He was
involved in ten of the papers accepted there. In 2022, he contributed to
eight papers.

 

In November 2022, he won the
<https://hgi.rub.de/en/news/newsarchiv/hgi/hgi-team-wins-1st-place-in-the-9t
h-german-it-security-award> German IT Security Award, endowed with 100,000
euros, together with David Knichel, Nicolai Müller and Pascal Sasdrich for
the project "Simply Secure".

 

"Simply Secure: Tools for Automated Generation and Evaluation of Protected
Hardware"

 

When? December 14, 2022, 2:00-3:00 p.m., followed by a get-together with
drinks and finger food.

 

Where? Open Space, MC building

 

Abstract

Implementing cryptographic functions securely in the presence of physical
adversaries is still a challenge although a lion's share of research in the
physical security domain has been put in development of countermeasures.
Among several protection schemes, masking has absorbed the most attention of
researchers in both academic and industrial communities. This is due to its
theoretical foundation allowing to provide proofs, and model the achieved
security level. In return, masking schemes are difficult to realize as the
implementation process often is manual, complex, and error-prone, and
requires a high level of expertise. This motivated the need for tools that
allow the designers and engineers to evaluate as well as generate masked
(protected) implementations through an automated fashion.

In this talk, in addition to the basics of hardware masking, a set of tools
are presented, which supports developers in the process of designing secure
hardware circuits. The toolbox enables (1) fully automated protection of
insecure circuits against side-channel analysis attacks and (2) efficient
verification of their SCA resistance. As a result, circuits dealing with
sensitive data can be reliably protected against such implementation attacks
even by inexperienced engineers and developers.

 

We look forward to a high participation and kindly ask for registration:
<https://informatik.rub.de/news/antrittsvorlesung-moradi/>
https://informatik.rub.de/news/antrittsvorlesung-moradi/ 

 

 

 

Kind regards

 

Christina Scholten

 

RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM

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