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Although not anymore directly involved with IAIK, our alumni definitely deserve credit. They all have moved on with their career and went for other challenges. We are grateful for their contribution to IAIK's success.

Christoph Herbst (ALUMNI)

Curriculum vitae

Research Areas

Implementation Attacks
VLSI Design

Personal data

Date and Place of Birth	May 23, 1975, Salzburg, Austria
Citizenship	Austrian
Private email	chris.herbst@gmx.at
Languages	German(native), English

Education

Year	Activity
1981 - 1985	Primary school in Unken, Salzburg
1985 - 1989	Secondary school in Lofer, Salzburg
1989 - 1994	Technical College for Communication Engineering and Electronics in Braunau
1994 - 2003	Telematik at Graz University of Technology , Austria
2005 - 2009	Ph.D. studies (Dr. techn.) at Graz University of Technology, Austria (Graduation with Distinction)

Practical Experience

Year	Activity
2003 - Mar 2010	Member of IAIK VLSI and Security Group
2002	Students project at IAIK: DPA of a Software AES on a Smartcard
2001	Students project at IAIK: Performance optimised software implementation of the AES on a 8051 based microcontroler

Publications

Proceedings
2010	Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Thomas Plos, Mario Kirschbaum, Michael Hutter, Marcel Medwed, Christoph Herbst - *"Side-Channel Leakage Across Borders"* - Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010
2010	Marcel Medwed, Christoph Herbst - *"Randomizing the Montgomery Multiplication to Repel Template Attacks on Multiplicative Masking"* - COSADE 2010 Workshop Proceedings
2009	Christoph Herbst, Marcel Medwed - *"Using Templates to Attack Masked Montgomery Ladder Implementations of Modular Exponentiation"* - 9th International Workshop, WISA 2008, Jeju Island, Korea, September 23-25, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
2008	Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Christoph Herbst - *"A Practical Fault Attack on Square and Multiply"* - 5th Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2008
2008	Stefan Tillich, Christoph Herbst - *"Attacking State-of-the-Art Software Countermeasures–A Case Study for AES"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems -- CHES 2008, 10th International Workshop, Washington DC, USA, August 10-13, 2008, Proceedings
2008	Thomas Plos, Michael Hutter, Christoph Herbst - *"Enhancing Side-Channel Analysis with Low-Cost Shielding Techniques"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2008, Linz, Austria, October 8, 2008, Proceedings
2008	Stefan Tillich, Christoph Herbst - *"Boosting AES Performance on a Tiny Processor Core"* - Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2008, The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2008, Proceedings
2007	Robert Könighofer, Stefan Berger, Christoph Herbst - *"Eine 8-bit Highspeed Softwareimplementierung von Whirlpool"* - DACH Security 2007
2007	Stefan Tillich, Christoph Herbst, Stefan Mangard - *"Protecting AES Software Implementations on 32-bit Processors against Power Analysis"* - Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 5th International Conference, ACNS 2007, Zhuhai, China, June 2007, Proceedings
2006	Maria Elisabeth Oswald, Stefan Mangard, Christoph Herbst, Stefan Tillich - *"Practical Second-Order DPA Attacks for Masked Smart Card Implementations of Block Ciphers"* - Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2006
2006	Christoph Herbst, Maria Elisabeth Oswald, Stefan Mangard - *"An AES Smart Card Implementation resitant to Power Analysis Attacks"* - Applied cryptography and Network security

Dissertation
2009	Christoph Herbst - *"Side-Channel Analysis Attacks and Countermeasures - An Embedded-Software Developers View"*

Master thesis
2003	Christoph Herbst - *"Smart Cards and their DPA Resistance"*

Tech report
2009	Mario Kirschbaum, Stefan Tillich, Alexander Szekely, Christoph Herbst, Holger Bock, Josef Haid - *"POWER-TRUST D2.2 Specification of countermeasures selected for Implementation"*
2003	Manfred Aigner, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Sandra Dominikus, Stefan Mangard, Christoph Herbst, Norbert Pramstaller - *"USB-Crypt: D4 Crypto Cores Development - Final report"*

Presentation
2006	Christoph Herbst - *"An AES Smart Card Implementation resitant to Power Analysis Attacks"* (International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Singapur, 06.06.06)