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

Kurzbiographie

Thomas Eisenbarth ist Professor für IT Sicherheit an der Universität zu Lübeck. Er studierte bis 2006 Elektro- und Informationstechnik an der Ruhr Universität Bochum, wo er bis 2009 am Horst Görtz Institut für IT-Sicherheit promovierte. Ab 2010 forschte er als Assistant Professor am Center for Cryptography and Information Security (CCIS) an der Florida Atlantic University. 2012 wechselte er an das Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Seit August 2017 ist er als Direktor des Instituts für IT Sicherheit an der Universität zu Lübeck.

Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen:

  • Systemsicherheit und Sichere Mikroarchitekturen
  • Angewandte Kryptografie
  • Seitenkanalangriffe, physische Sicherheit und Gegenmaßnahmen
  • Sicherheit von Cloud und virtualisierten Systemen

Publikationen

2024

Luca Wilke, Florian Sieck, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
TDXdown: Single-Stepping and Instruction Counting Attacks against Intel TDX, in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security , ACM, Okt.2024.
DOI:10.1145/3658644.3690230
Weblink: https://uzl-its.github.io/tdxdown/
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{tdxdownCCS24,
  author    = {Luca Wilke and Florian Sieck and Thomas Eisenbarth},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference
                on Computer and Communications Security, {CCS} 2024,
                Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14--18, 2024},
  title     = {{TDXdown}: Single-Stepping and Instruction Counting Attacks
                against Intel {TDX}},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1145/3658644.3690230}
}
Debopriya Roy Dipta, Thore Tiemann, Berk Gulmezoglu, Eduard Marin, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Dynamic Frequency-Based Fingerprinting Attacks against Modern Sandbox Environments, in 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2024 , IEEE, 2024. pp. 327-344.
DOI:10.1109/EUROSP60621.2024.00025
Weblink: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EuroSP60621.2024.00025
Weblink: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.10715
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/eurosp/DiptaTGME24,
  author       = {Debopriya Roy Dipta and
                  Thore Tiemann and
                  Berk G{\"{u}}lmezoglu and
                  Eduard Marin and
                  Thomas Eisenbarth},
  title        = {Dynamic Frequency-Based Fingerprinting Attacks against Modern Sandbox
                  Environments},
  booktitle    = {9th {IEEE} European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS{\&}P
                  2024, Vienna, Austria, July 8-12, 2024},
  pages        = {327--344},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP60621.2024.00025},
  doi          = {10.1109/EUROSP60621.2024.00025}
}
Jan Wichelmann, Anja Rabich, Anna Pätschke, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Obelix: Mitigating Side-Channels Through Dynamic Obfuscation, in 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) , San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE, 2024. pp. 4182-4199.
DOI:10.1109/SP54263.2024.00261
Weblink: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP54263.2024.00261
Paula Arnold, Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Maximilian Orlt,
Polynomial sharings on two secrets: Buy one, get one free, in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) , 2024. pp. 671-706.
DOI:10.46586/tches.v2024.i3.671-706
Datei: 11691
Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Anja Rabich, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
SEV-Step: A Single-Stepping Framework for AMD-SEV, in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) , 2024. pp. 180-206.
DOI:10.46586/tches.v2024.i1.180-206
Datei: 10792
Nils Loose, Felix Mächtle, Florian Sieck, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
SWAT: Modular Dynamic Symbolic Execution for Java Applications using Dynamic Instrumentation (Competition Contribution), in Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 30th International Conference, TACAS 2024, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, April 6-11, 2024, Proceedings, Part III , Bernd Finkbeiner and Laura Kovács, Eds. Springer, 2024. pp. 399-405.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-57256-2_28
Datei: 978-3-031-57256-2_28
Thore Tiemann, Zane Weissman, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities Introduced, Exploited, and Accelerated by Heterogeneous FPGA-CPU Platforms, in Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing Environments , Szefer, Jakub and Tessier, Russell, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024, pp. 203-237.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-45395-3_8
ISBN:978-3-031-45395-3
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inbook{tiemann2024fpgaplatform,
  author      = {Tiemann, Thore
                  and Weissman, Zane
                  and Eisenbarth, Thomas
                  and Sunar, Berk},
  editor      = {Szefer, Jakub
                  and Tessier, Russell},
  title       = {Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities Introduced, 
                  Exploited, and Accelerated by Heterogeneous 
                  {FPGA-CPU} Platforms},
  bookTitle   = {Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing 
                  Environments},
  year        = {2024},
  publisher   = {Springer International Publishing},
  pages       = {203--237},
  isbn        = {978-3-031-45395-3},
  doi         = {10.1007/978-3-031-45395-3_8},
  url         = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45395-3_8},
}

2023

Florian Sieck, Zhiyuan Zhang, Sebastian Berndt, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Yuval Yarom,
TeeJam: Sub-Cache-Line Leakages Strike Back, in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) , Dez.2023. pp. 457-500.
DOI:10.46586/tches.v2024.i1.457-500
Weblink: https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/11259
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{Sieck_Zhang_Berndt_Chuengsatiansup_Eisenbarth_Yarom_2023, 
title={TeeJam: Sub-Cache-Line Leakages Strike Back}, 
volume={2024}, 
url={https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/11259}, 
DOI={10.46586/tches.v2024.i1.457-500}, 
number={1}, 
journal={IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems}, 
author={Sieck, Florian and Zhang, Zhiyuan and Berndt, Sebastian and Chuengsatiansup, Chitchanok and Eisenbarth, Thomas and Yarom, Yuval}, 
year={2023}, 
month={Dec.}, 
pages={457–500} 
}
Andrija Neskovic, Saleh Mulhem, Alexander Treff, Rainer Buchty, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Mladen Berekovic,
SystemC Model of Power Side-Channel Attacks Against AI Accelerators: Superstition or not?, in 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) , IEEE/ACM, Nov.2023. pp. 1-8.
DOI:10.1109/ICCAD57390.2023.10323687
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13387
Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, Sebastian Faust, Marc Gourjon, Maximilian Orlt, and Okan Seker,
Combined Fault and Leakage Resilience: Composability, Constructions and Compiler, in Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 20-24, 2023, Proceedings, Part III , Helena Handschuh and Anna Lysyanskaya, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2023. pp. 377-409.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-38548-3_13
ISBN:978-3-031-38548-3
Datei: 978-3-031-38548-3_13
Nils Loose, Felix Mächtle, Claudius Pott, Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Madvex: Instrumentation-based Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning Malware Detection, in Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) - 20th International Conference , Daniel Gruss and Federico Maggi and Mathias Fischer and Michele Carminati, Eds. Springer, 2023. pp. 69-88.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-35504-2_4
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02559
Jan Wichelmann, Christopher Peredy, Florian Sieck, Anna Pätschke, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
MAMBO-V: Dynamic Side-Channel Leakage Analysis on RISC-V, in Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) - 20th International Conference , Daniel Gruss and Federico Maggi and Mathias Fischer and Michele Carminati, Eds. Springer, 2023. pp. 3-23.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-35504-2_1
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00584
Philipp Schmitz, Tobias Jauch, Alex Wezel, Mohammad R. Fadiheh, Thore Tiemann, Jonah Heller, Thomas Eisenbarth, Dominik Stoffel, and Wolfgang Kunz,
Okapi: A Lightweight Architecture for Secure Speculation Exploiting Locality of Memory Accesses, 2023.
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08156
Bibtex: BibTeX
@misc{schmitz2023okapi,
  author        = {Philipp Schmitz and
                   Tobias Jauch and
                   Alex Wezel and
                   Mohammad R. Fadiheh and
                   Thore Tiemann and
                   Jonah Heller and
                   Thomas Eisenbarth and
                   Dominik Stoffel and
                   Wolfgang Kunz},
  title         = {Okapi: A Lightweight Architecture for Secure
                   Speculation Exploiting Locality of Memory Accesses}, 
  year          = {2023},
  eprint        = {2312.08156},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CR},
  url           = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.08156},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2312.08156},
}
Claudius Pott, Berk Gulmezoglu, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Overcoming the Pitfalls of HPC-based Cryptojacking Detection in Presence of GPUs, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, CODASPY 2023, Charlotte, NC, USA, April 24-26, 2023 , Mohamed Shehab and Maribel Fernandez and Ninghui Li, Eds. ACM, 2023. pp. 177-188.
DOI:10.1145/3577923.3583655
Datei: 3577923.3583655
Pascal Bemmann, Sebastian Berndt, Denis Diemert, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Tibor Jager,
Subversion-Resilient Authenticated Encryption Without Random Oracles, in Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 21st International Conference, ACNS 2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-22, 2023, Proceedings, Part II , Mehdi Tibouchi and Xiaofeng Wang, Eds. Springer, 2023. pp. 460-483.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-33491-7_17
Datei: 978-3-031-33491-7_17
Thore Tiemann, Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Maciej Liskiewicz,
"Act natural!": Exchanging Private Messages on Public Blockchains, in 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2023 , IEEE, 2023. pp. 292-308.
DOI:10.1109/EuroSP57164.2023.00026
Weblink: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EuroSP57164.2023.00026
Weblink: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1073
Datei: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{tiemann2023actnatural,
  author       = {Thore Tiemann and
                  Sebastian Berndt and
                  Thomas Eisenbarth and
                  Maciej Liskiewicz},
  title        = {"Act natural!": Exchanging Private Messages on Public Blockchains},
  booktitle    = {8th {IEEE} European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS{\&}P
                  2023, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023},
  pages        = {292--308},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP57164.2023.00026},
  doi          = {10.1109/EUROSP57164.2023.00026}
}
Jan Wichelmann, Anna Pätschke, Luca Wilke, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Cipherfix: Mitigating Ciphertext Side-Channel Attacks in Software, in 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023 , Joseph A. Calandrino and Carmela Troncoso, Eds. USENIX Association, 2023. pp. 6789-6806.
DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2210.13124
Datei: wichelmann
Thore Tiemann, Zane Weissman, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar,
IOTLB-SC: An Accelerator-Independent Leakage Source in Modern Cloud Systems, in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2023 , Joseph K. Liu and Yang Xiang and Surya Nepal and Gene Tsudik, Eds. ACM, 2023. pp. 827-840.
DOI:10.1145/3579856.3582838
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11623
Datei: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{tiemann2023iotlbsc,
  author       = {Thore Tiemann and
                  Zane Weissman and
                  Thomas Eisenbarth and
                  Berk Sunar},
  editor       = {Joseph K. Liu and
                  Yang Xiang and
                  Surya Nepal and
                  Gene Tsudik},
  title        = {{IOTLB-SC:} An Accelerator-Independent Leakage Source in Modern Cloud
                  Systems},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 2023 {ACM} Asia Conference on Computer and Communications
                  Security, {ASIA} {CCS} 2023, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 10-14,
                  2023},
  pages        = {827--840},
  publisher    = {{ACM}},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579856.3582838},
  doi          = {10.1145/3579856.3582838}
}

2022

Mengyuan Li, Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Thomas Eisenbarth, Radu Teodorescu, and Yinqian Zhang,
A Systematic Look at Ciphertext Side Channels on AMD SEV-SNP, in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) , San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE, 2022. pp. 337-351.
DOI:10.1109/SP46214.2022.9833768
Weblink: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP46214.2022.9833768
Sebastian Berndt, Jan Wichelmann, Claudius Pott, Tim-Henrik Traving, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
ASAP: Algorithm Substitution Attacks on Cryptographic Protocols, in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , ACM, 2022. pp. 712-726.
DOI:10.1145/3488932.3517387
ISBN:9781450391405
Datei: 3488932.3517387
Jan Wichelmann, Florian Sieck, Anna Pätschke, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Microwalk-CI: Practical Side-Channel Analysis for JavaScript Applications, in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2022 , Heng Yin and Angelos Stavrou and Cas Cremers and Elaine Shi, Eds. ACM, 2022. pp. 2915-2929.
DOI:10.1145/3548606.3560654
Datei: 3548606.3560654

2021

Ilia Polian, Frank Altmann, Tolga Arul, Christian Boit, Ralf Brederlow, Lucas Davi, Rolf Drechsler, Nan Du, Thomas Eisenbarth, Tim Güneysu, Sascha Hermann, Matthias Hiller, Rainer Leupers, Farhad Merchant, Thomas Mussenbrock, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Akash Kumar, Wolfgang Kunz, Thomas Mikolajick, Vivek Pachauri, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Frank Sill Torres, and Jens Trommer,
Nano Security: From Nano-Electronics to Secure Systems, in Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, DATE 2021, Grenoble, France, February 1-5, 2021 , IEEE, 2021. pp. 1334-1339.
DOI:10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474187
Florian Sieck, Sebastian Berndt, Jan Wichelmann, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
Util: : Lookup: Exploiting Key Decoding in Cryptographic Libraries, in CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security , Yongdae Kim and Jong Kim and Giovanni Vigna and Elaine Shi, Eds. ACM, 2021. pp. 2456-2473.
DOI:10.1145/3460120.3484783
Datei: 3460120.3484783
Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Florian Sieck, and Thomas Eisenbarth,
undeSErVed trust: Exploiting Permutation-Agnostic Remote Attestation, in 2021 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW) , 2021. pp. 456-466.
DOI:10.1109/SPW53761.2021.00064
Datei:
Diego F. Aranha, Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, Okan Seker, Akira Takahashi, Luca Wilke, and Greg Zaverucha,
Side-Channel Protections for Picnic Signatures, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems , vol. 2021, no. 4, pp. 239-282, 2021.
DOI:10.46586/tches.v2021.i4.239-282
Datei: 9066