Hardware Security
A course giving students a broad overview of hardware security, before narrowing to fault injection and side-channel attacks in depth.
The practical half ran as two accompanying labs, one full week each, built on hardware designed specifically for the course — so students worked against real measurements and real glitches rather than simulations.
Supervised theses
2026
Power Analysis on x86: From MUL to AES
E. Rygiel
Master's thesis
Do Androids Dream of Stable Voltage? GND Bias Fault Injection Attacks
R. Zhang
Master's thesis
Hardware Reverse Engineering and FPGA-Based Reimplementation of a PMOS Microprocessor
S. Bürstenbinder
Bachelor's thesis
2025
Security Evaluation of the RP2350 Microcontroller
L. M. Selinka
Master's thesis
Side-Channel Analysis of a Kyber KEM Implementation using Deep Learning and Statistical Methods
C. Bender
Master's thesis
Design and Realization of a Measurement Circuit Module for Optical Beam Induced Current Applications
T. Phillipps
Bachelor's thesis
Developing and Evaluating an Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) HAT for the Arduino Uno Platform
J. Tao
Master's thesis
Side-Channel Analysis: Enhancing Trace Alignment via Deep Learning
N. L. Schilling
Bachelor's thesis
When LEDs Leak Confidential Data: Investigating Light-Driven Side-Channels in Modern Cryptographic Devices
K. L. Hamann
Master's thesis
Bit by Bit: Analysis of the Feasibility of Laser Fault Injection Attacks against Dynamic Random Access Memory
O. J. Karge
Bachelor's thesis
Optimizing Experimental Data Workflow for Hardware-Based Attacks: A Scalable Approach
M. Biedermann
Bachelor's thesis
Machine Learning Based Autofocus for Near-Infrared Microscopy in Integrated Circuits
N. P. Michaelsen
Bachelor's thesis
2024
Extensible Hardware Triggering Framework for Synchronization of Physical Attacks under Real-World Conditions
M. Khwies
Master's thesis
Open-XYZ: An Open-Source Positioning System for Physical Attacks Exhibiting Spatial Resolution
J. Froembgen and O. Durban
Bachelor's thesis
OpenSPD: An Open-Source, InGaAs-Based Single Photon Detector for Photonic Side-Channel Attacks
J. Lehleiter
Master's thesis
2023
Evaluating Intel's Universal Time-To-Digital-Converter Based Fault Injection Countermeasure
N. Sopiha
Master's thesis