Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Eisenbarth

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Institutsdirektor


Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, 1. OG, Raum 043

Email: thomas.eisenbarth(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 6600
Fax: +49 451 3101 6604

About Me

I am a Professor of IT Security at the University of Lübeck.  I received my Ph.D. in ECE from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, where I was a member of the Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security (HGI). Starting in 2010, I spent two years at the Center for Cryptology and Information Security (CCIS) at Florida Atlantic University. In 2012, I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI. Since August 2017 I am the Director of the Institute of IT Security at the University of Lübeck.
Since October 2024, I am the head of the STEM sections (the non-medical departments) of University of Lübeck.

My research interests are in:

  • Systems security, software security and code analysis
  • Applied Cryptology
  • Secure virtualization, computer architecture and trusted execution environments
  • Side channel analysis, physical attacks and their prevention

Conference and Workshop Organization

Steering Committees

Program Committee Memberships

Publications

2016

Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Cross Processor Cache Attacks, in Proceedings of the 11th ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. pp. 353--364.
DOI:10.1145/2897845.2897867
ISBN:978-1-4503-4233-9
File: 2897845.2897867
Berk Gulmezoglu, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Cross-VM Cache Attacks on AES, IEEE Trans. Multi-Scale Computing Systems , vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 211--222, 2016.
File: TMSCS.2016.2550438
Mehmet Sinan Inci, Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Efficient, Adversarial Neighbor Discovery Using Logical Channels on Microsoft Azure, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. pp. 436--447.
DOI:10.1145/2991079.2991113
ISBN:978-1-4503-4771-6
File: NeighborDiscoveryAzure%20ACSAC2016.pdf
Cong Chen, Thomas Eisenbarth, Ingo Maurich, and Rainer Steinwandt,
Horizontal and Vertical Side Channel Analysis of a McEliece Cryptosystem, IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security , vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1093--1105, 2016.
File: TIFS.2015.2509944
A. Adam Ding, Cong Chen, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Simpler, Faster, and More Robust T-Test Based Leakage Detection, Standaert, Francois-Xavier and Oswald, Elisabeth, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 163--183.
ISBN:978-3-319-43283-0
File: 978-3-319-43283-0_10
Cong Chen, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Mostafa Taha, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
SpecTre: A Tiny Side-Channel Resistant Speck Core for FPGAs, in Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - 15th International Conference, CARDIS 2016, Cannes, France, November 7-9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers , 2016. pp. 73--88.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-54669-8_5
File: 978-3-319-54669-8_5

2015

Thomas Eisenbarth, Yunsi Fei, and Dimitrios Serpanos,
Guest Editorial: Special Section on Embedded System Security, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-2, Mar. 2015.
File: LES.2015.2404940
Berk Gulmezoglu, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
A Faster and More Realistic Flush+Reload Attack on AES, in Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design - 6th International Workshop, COSADE 2015, Berlin, Germany, April 13-14, 2015. Revised Selected Papers , 2015. pp. 111--126.
File: 978-3-319-21476-4_8
Cong Chen, Thomas Eisenbarth, Ingo Maurich, and Rainer Steinwandt,
Differential Power Analysis of a McEliece Cryptosystem, in Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 13th International Conference, ACNS 2015, New York, NY, USA, June 2-5, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , 2015. pp. 538--556.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-28166-7_26
File: 534
Xin Ye, Mostafa Taha, Cong Chen, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Faster Leakage Detection and Exploitation, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices, TrustED 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 16, 2015 , 2015. pp. 21--29.
DOI:10.1145/2808414.2808419
File: 301419853_Faster_Leakage_Detection_and_Exploitation
Gorka Irazoqui, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Know Thy Neighbor: Crypto Library Detection in Cloud, PoPETs , vol. 2015, no. 1, pp. 25--40, 2015.
File: popets-2015-0003.xml
Gorka Irazoqui, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Lucky 13 Strikes Back, in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS '15, Singapore, April 14-17, 2015 , 2015. pp. 85--96.
File: 2714576.2714625
Cong Chen, Thomas Eisenbarth, Ingo Maurich, and Rainer Steinwandt,
Masking Large Keys in Hardware: A Masked Implementation of McEliece, in Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2015 - 22nd International Conference, Sackville, NB, Canada, August 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , 2015. pp. 293--309.
File: 978-3-319-31301-6_18
Baris Ege, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Lejla Batina,
Near Collision Side Channel Attacks, in Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2015 - 22nd International Conference, Sackville, NB, Canada, August 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , 2015. pp. 277--292.
File: 978-3-319-31301-6_17
Thomas Eisenbarth, Aaron Meyerowitz, and Rainer Steinwandt,
On the security margin of MAC striping, Inf. Process. Lett. , vol. 115, no. 11, pp. 899--902, 2015.
File: j.ipl.2015.05.009
Zachary N. Goddard, Nicholas LaJeunesse, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Power analysis of the t-private logic style for FPGAs, in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2015, Washington, DC, USA, 5-7 May, 2015 , 2015. pp. 68--71.
File: HST.2015.7140239
Aria Shahverdi, Mostafa Taha, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Silent Simon: A threshold implementation under 100 slices, in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2015, Washington, DC, USA, 5-7 May, 2015 , 2015. pp. 1--6.
File: HST.2015.7140227
Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
SSA: A Shared Cache Attack That Works across Cores and Defies VM Sandboxing -- and Its Application to AES, in 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2015, San Jose, CA, USA, May 17-21, 2015 , 2015. pp. 591--604.
File: SP.2015.42
Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Systematic Reverse Engineering of Cache Slice Selection in Intel Processors, in 2015 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2015, Madeira, Portugal, August 26-28, 2015 , 2015. pp. 629--636.
File: DSD.2015.56

2014

Cong Cong Chen, Thomas Eisenbarth, Aria Shahverdi, and Xin Ye,
Balanced Encoding to Mitigate Power Analysis: A Case Study, IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive , vol. 2014, pp. 952, 2014.
File: 952
Xin Ye, Thomas Eisenbarth, and William Martin,
Bounded, yet Sufficient? How to Determine Whether Limited Side Channel Information Enables Key Recovery, in Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - 13th International Conference, CARDIS 2014, Paris, France, November 5-7, 2014. Revised Selected Papers , 2014. pp. 215--232.
File: 978-3-319-16763-3_13
Gorka Irazoqui, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Fine Grain Cross-VM Attacks on Xen and VMware, in 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 3-5, 2014 , 2014. pp. 737--744.
DOI:10.1109/BDCloud.2014.102
File: 248
Xin Ye, Cong Chen, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Non-Linear Collision Analysis, in Radio Frequency Identification: Security and Privacy Issues - 10th International Workshop, RFIDSec 2014, Oxford, UK, July 21-23, 2014, Revised Selected Papers , 2014. pp. 198--214.
File: 978-3-319-13066-8_13
Yarkin Doröz, Aria Shahverdi, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Toward Practical Homomorphic Evaluation of Block Ciphers Using Prince, in Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2014 Workshops, BITCOIN and WAHC 2014, Christ Church, Barbados, March 7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers , 2014. pp. 208--220.
File: 978-3-662-44774-1_17
Gorka Irazoqui, Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Wait a minute! A fast, Cross-VM attack on AES, IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive , vol. 2014, pp. 435, 2014.
File: 435