Marvin Saß

Hardware security researcher, TU Berlin

Publications

2026

The σ₀ Side Channel: Practical Single-Trace Attack on NIST SP 800-90A Hash-DRBG
Xhani Marvin Saß and Jean-Pierre Seifert
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Reverse to Reveal: Reversibility as a Fault Defense
Xhani Marvin Saß, Meng Yuan and Jean-Pierre Seifert
Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC)
Do MCUs Dream of Electric Earth? Revisiting Voltage Fault Injection Through Ground Manipulation
Xhani Marvin Saß, Ran Zhang and Jean-Pierre Seifert
Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC)
Secure SD Cards: A Threat Model and Security Analysis
Xhani Marvin Saß and Jean-Pierre Seifert
International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) · Best Paper Award
The Glitch for Majorities: Breaking Spatial Redundancy Countermeasures
Xhani Marvin Saß, Orr Dunkelman and Jean-Pierre Seifert
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

2025

From NOP to ADD and Beyond: A Novel Fault-Model Comprising Variable-Length Instruction Sets
Xhani Marvin Saß, Thomas Martin Johannes Lehrach and Jean-Pierre Seifert
Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC)

2024

Through the Looking-Glass: Sensitive Data Extraction by Optical Probing of Scan Chains
Tuba Kiyan, Lars Renkes, Marvin Sass, Antonio Saavedra, Norbert Herfurth, Elham Amini and Jean-Pierre Seifert
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Whispering Pixels: Exploiting Uninitialized Register Accesses in Modern GPUs
Frederik Dermot Pustelnik, Xhani Marvin Saß and Jean-Pierre Seifert
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)

2023

Modulation to the Rescue: Identifying Sub-Circuitry in the Transistor Morass for Targeted Analysis
Xhani Marvin Saß, Thilo Krachenfels, Frederik Dermot Pustelnik, Jean-Pierre Seifert and Frank Altmann
Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES)
Oops..! I Glitched It Again! How to Multi-Glitch the Glitching-Protections on ARM TrustZone-M
Xhani Marvin Saß, Richard Mitev and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)