Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Eisenbarth

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:

Secure systems, software security and code analysis
Applied cryptology & side channels
Trustworthy AI

Conference and Workshop Organization

CHES 2022 Program Co-Chair
CARDIS 2021 General Chair
CARDIS 2020 General Chair
SPACE 2017 TPC Co-chair
CARDIS 2017 TPC Co-chair
LightSEC 2014 TPC Co-chair
CHES 2013 General Co-Chair
WESS 2013 TPC Co-chair

Steering Committees

CHES: 2013-2016, 2022-2025
CARDIS: 2017-2024
uAsc: 2025 -

Program Committee Memberships

2026: ACM CCS, USENIX Security
2025: EuroS&P, CHES, ACM CCS, USENIX Security
2024: SysTEX, ACM CCS, USENIX Security
2023: ACM CCS, USENIX Security, CRYPTO
2022: USENIX Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, RWC
2021: EuroCRYPT, USENIX Security
2020: CRYPTO, EuroCRYPT
2019: CARDIS, CHES, PQCrypto, DATE
2018: Kangacrypt, CHES, PQCrypto
2017: AsiaCRYPT, CHES, VLSISoC, COSADE, SEMS
2016: RFIDsec, AsiaCRYPT, CARDIS, TrustED, COSADE, TRUDEVICE
2015: CARDIS, CHES, Latincrypt, RFIDsec, COSADE, TrustED
2014: CHES, ReConFig, CARDIS, M2MSec, WESS, RFIDsec
2013: RFIDsec, ICICS
2012: CHES
2010: ISC

Publications

2020

Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger,
TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, in 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20) , Boston, MA: USENIX Association, Aug.2020. pp. 2057-2073.

ISBN:	978-1-939133-17-5
Weblink:	https://tpm.fail/
File:	moghimi-tpm

Zane Weissman, Thore Tiemann, Daniel Moghimi, Evan Custodio, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
JackHammer: Efficient Rowhammer on Heterogeneous FPGA-CPU Platforms, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems , vol. 2020, no. 3, pp. 169-195, Jun. 2020.

DOI:

10.13154/tches.v2020.i3.169-195

File:

Dateilink

Bibtex:

@article{weissman2020jackhammer,
  author       = {Zane Weissman and
                  Thore Tiemann and
                  Daniel Moghimi and
                  Evan Custodio and
                  Thomas Eisenbarth and
                  Berk Sunar},
  title        = {JackHammer: Efficient Rowhammer on Heterogeneous {FPGA-CPU} Platforms},
  journal      = {{IACR} Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst.},
  volume       = {2020},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {169--195},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.13154/tches.v2020.i3.169-195},
  doi          = {10.13154/TCHES.V2020.I3.169-195}
}

Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Mathias Morbitzer, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
SEVurity: No Security Without Integrity - Breaking Integrity-Free Memory Encryption with Minimal Assumptions, in 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) , Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, May2020. pp. 1431-1444.

DOI:	10.1109/SP40000.2020.00080
Weblink:	https://uzl-its.github.io/SEVurity/
Weblink:	https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP40000.2020.00080

Samira Briongos, Pedro Malag'on, Jose Manuel Moya, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Microarchitectural Isolation Guarantees Through Execution Based Signatures, in XXXV Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, DCIS, 2020, Segovia, Spain, November 18-20, 2020 , IEEE, 2020. pp. 1-6.

DOI:	10.1109/DCIS51330.2020.9268660
File:	DCIS51330.2020.9268660

Okan Seker, Sebastian Berndt, Luca Wilke, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
SNI-in-the-head: Protecting MPC-in-the-head Protocols against Side-channel Analysis, in CCS '20: 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security , Jay Ligatti and Xinming Ou and Jonathan Katz and Giovanni Vigna, Eds. ACM, 2020. pp. 1033-1049.

DOI:	10.1145/3372297.3417889
File:	3372297.3417889

2019

Berk Gulmezoglu, Ahmad Moghimi, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
FortuneTeller: Predicting Microarchitectural Attacks via Unsupervised Deep Learning, arXiv e-prints , 2019.

File:

2019arXiv190703651G

Saad Islam, Ahmad Moghimi, Ida Bruhns, Moritz Krebbel, Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
SPOILER: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks, in 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19) , Santa Clara, CA: USENIX Association, 2019. pp. 621-637.

ISBN:	978-1-939133-06-9
File:	islam

Berk Gulmezoglu, Andreas Zankl, M. Caner Tol, Saad Islam, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Undermining User Privacy on Mobile Devices Using AI, in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. pp. 214-227.

DOI:	10.1145/3321705.3329804
File:	3321705.3329804

2018

Ahmad Moghimi, Jan Wichelmann, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
MemJam: A False Dependency Attack Against Constant-Time Crypto Implementations, International Journal of Parallel Programming , Nov. 2018.

File:

s10766-018-0611-9

Marc Stelzner, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
IT Security in Lübeck - The design of a modern and future-proof security curriculum, in 2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME) , Sep.2018. pp. 79-82.

DOI:	10.1109/EWME.2018.8629494
File:	8629494

Okan Seker, Abraham Fernandez-Rubio, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Rainer Steinwandt,
Extending Glitch-Free Multiparty Protocols to Resist Fault Injection Attacks, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems , vol. 2018, no. 3, pp. 394-430, Aug. 2018.

DOI:	10.13154/tches.v2018.i3.394-430
File:	7281

Elke De Mulder, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Patrick Schaumont,
Identifying and Eliminating Side-Channel Leaks in Programmable Systems, IEEE Design Test , vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 74-89, Feb. 2018.

DOI:	10.1109/MDAT.2017.2766166

Fergus Dall, Gabrielle De Micheli, Thomas Eisenbarth, Daniel Genkin, Nadia Heninger, Ahmad Moghimi, and Yuval Yarom,
CacheQuote: Efficiently Recovering Long-term Secrets of SGX EPID via Cache Attacks, IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. , vol. 2018, no. 2, pp. 171--191, 2018.

DOI:	10.13154/tches.v2018.i2.171-191
File:	tches.v2018.i2.171-191

Samira Briongos, Gorka Irazoqui, Pedro Malagon, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
CacheShield: Detecting Cache Attacks through Self-Observation, in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, CODASPY 2018, Tempe, AZ, USA, March 19-21, 2018 , 2018. pp. 224--235.

DOI:	10.1145/3176258.3176320
File:	3176258.3176320

Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
DeepCloak: Adversarial Crafting As a Defensive Measure to Cloak Processes, 2018.

Weblink:	https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/journals/corr/abs-1808-01352.html?view=bibtex
File:	1808.01352

Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
MASCAT: Preventing Microarchitectural Attacks Before Distribution, in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, CODASPY 2018, Tempe, AZ, USA, March 19-21, 2018 , 2018. pp. 377--388.

DOI:	10.1145/3176258.3176316
File:	3176258.3176316

Jan Wichelmann, Ahmad Moghimi, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
MicroWalk: A Framework for Finding Side Channels in Binaries, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. pp. 161--173.

DOI:	10.1145/3274694.3274741
File:	3274694.3274741

2017

Samira Briongos, Gorka Irazoqui, Pedro Malagon, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
CacheShield: Protecting Legacy Processes Against Cache Attacks, Sep. 2017.

File:

1709.01795v1

Michael Moukarzel, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
uLeech: A side-channel evaluation platform for IoT, in 2017 IEEE 60th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) , Aug.2017. pp. 25-28.

DOI:	10.1109/MWSCAS.2017.8052851
File:	8052851

Marc Green, Leandro Rodrigues-Lima, Andreas Zankl, Gorka Irazoqui, Johann Heyszl, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
AutoLock: Why Cache Attacks on ARM Are Harder Than You Think, in 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 17) , Vancouver, BC: USENIX Association, 2017. pp. 1075--1091.

ISBN:	978-1-931971-40-9
File:	green

Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Cache-Based Application Detection in the Cloud Using Machine Learning, in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. pp. 288--300.

ISBN:	978-1-4503-4944-4
File:	3052973.3053036

Ahmad Moghimi, Gorka Irazoqui, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
CacheZoom: How SGX Amplifies the Power of Cache Attacks, in Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2017 - 19th International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, September 25-28, 2017, Proceedings , 2017. pp. 69--90.

File:

978-3-319-66787-4_4

Gorka Irazoqui, Kai Cong, Xiaofei Guo, Hareesh Khattri, Arun Kanuparthi, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Did we learn from LLC Side Channel Attacks? A Cache Leakage Detection Tool for Crypto Libraries, CoRR , vol. abs/1709.01552, 2017.

File:

1709.01552

Mehmet Sinan Inci, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Hit by the Bus: QoS Degradation Attack on Android, in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. pp. 716--727.

ISBN:	978-1-4503-4944-4
File:	3052973.3053028

A. Shahverdi, M. Taha, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Lightweight Side Channel Resistance: Threshold Implementations of Simon, IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 661-671, 2017.

File:

TC.2016.2614504