Hardware Security

Migrating a Silicon Root of Trust to Post-Quantum Crypto
Our talk will present the story of how we built hardware-accelerated post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA, ML-KEM, and SLH-DSA) on the …
Mar 1, 2026 12:00 AM
Amin Abdulrahman, Andrew Huang, Evan Apinis, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Ruben Niederhagen, Felix Oberhansl, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham, Jade Philipoom, Dominic Rizzo, Robert Schilling, Peter Schwabe, Tobias Stelzer, Augustine Tang, Andreas Zankl
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FAULTLESS: Flexible and Transparent Fault Protection for Superscalar RISC-V Processors
Fault injection (FI) attacks pose a significant threat to the reliability and security of devices. They can cause data or control-flow …
Moritz Waser, David Schrammel, Robert Schilling, Stefan Mangard
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OpenTitan Integrated: A RISC-V Open-Source Silicon Root-of-Trust for Large SoCs
Modern System-on-Chips (SoCs) rely on a secure Root of Trust (RoT) as the foundation for all security services. Compromise of the RoT …
Jan 1, 2025 12:00 AM
Robert Schilling, Samuel Ortiz, Ravi Sahita, Andreas Kurth
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Hardware Extensions and Compiler Support for Protection Against Fault Attacks
Software is ubiquitous in all applications of modern lives. The correct execution of software is essential for the functionality and …
Robert Schilling
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Multi-Tag: A Hardware-Software Co-Design for Memory Safety based on Multi-Granular Memory Tagging
Memory safety vulnerabilities are a severe threat to modern computer systems allowing adversaries to leak or modify security-critical …
Martin Unterguggenberger, David Schrammel, Pascal Nasahl, Robert Schilling, Lukas Lamster, Stefan Mangard
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SCFI: State Machine Control-Flow Hardening Against Fault Attacks
Fault injection (FI) is a powerful attack methodology allowing an adversary to entirely break the security of a target device. As …
Pascal Nasahl, Martin Unterguggenberger, Rishub Nagpal, Robert Schilling, David Schrammel, Stefan Mangard
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SFP: Providing System Call Flow Protection against Software and Fault Attacks
With the improvements in computing technologies, edge devices in the Internet-of-Things or the automotive area have become more …
Robert Schilling, Pascal Nasahl, Martin Unterguggenberger, Stefan Mangard
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FIPAC: Thwarting Fault- and Software-Induced Control-Flow Attacks with ARM Pointer Authentication
With improvements in computing technology, more and more applications in the Internet-of-Things, mobile devices, or automotive area …
Robert Schilling, Pascal Nasahl, Stefan Mangard
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Protecting Indirect Branches Against Fault Attacks Using ARM Pointer Authentication
With the growing number of embedded devices deployed in safety- and privacy-sensitive applications, such as in the automotive area or …
Pascal Nasahl, Robert Schilling, Stefan Mangard
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SecWalk: Protecting Page Table Walks Against Fault Attacks
The correct execution of a memory load and store is essential for the flawless execution of a program. However, as soon as devices are …
Robert Schilling, Pascal Nasahl, Stefan Weiglhofer, Stefan Mangard
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