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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.

Stefan Tillich (ALUMNI)

Curriculum vitae

Birthdate: October 7, 1977
Birthplace: St. Pölten, Austria
Citizenship: Austria
Languages: German, English

Functions

VLSI and security in project ISEC (Austrian FWF)
Security implementation (WP 5.1) technical lead in project SMEPP (EC IST FP6 STREP)
Member of POWER-TRUST project team (Austrian FIT-IT)
Member of the Implementation Attacks (IMPA) Lab

Academic Activities

VAM2 virtual lab (hardware implementations) leader in European Network of Excellence in Cryptology (ECRYPT)
VAM2 virtual lab (physical security) co-leader in European Network of Excellence in Cryptology II (ECRYPT II)
Program committee member of FDTC 2009
Program committee member of FutureTech 2010

Experience

2001: Student project (design of AES coprocessor) at IAIK/TU Graz
2002: System-on-chip project (embedded firewall) at IAIK/TU Graz
2003: Master's thesis: "Evaluation of Side-Channel Attack Resistivity with Rapid Prototyping"
January 2004 - October 2006: Member of ISEC project group at IAIK/TU Graz
2004-2006: Member of SCARD project group at IAIK/TU Graz
since October 2006: Member of SMEPP project group at IAIK/TU Graz
2008: PhD thesis: "Instruction Set Extensions for Support of Cryptography on Embedded Systems"
since March 2008: Member of POWER-TRUST project group at IAIK/TU Graz

Research Interests

Efficient software and hardware implementations of cryptography
Instruction set extensions and microarchitectural processor enhancements for cryptography
Implementation attacks (especially side-channel attacks) and countermeasures
Secure processor platforms

Education

Year	Activity
1984 - 1988	Primary school in Krems-Stein, Austria.
1988 - 1992	Comprehensive secondary school (BRG) Ringstrasse in Krems, Austria.
1992 - 1997	Commercial academy (BHAK) Krems, Austria.
1998 - 2003	Study of Telematics (5-year Master's course) at Graz University of Technology, Austria.
2004 - 2008	PhD study at Graz University of Technology, Austria.
2008 - Mar 2010	Post-doc work as project senior scientist at IAIK/TU Graz.

Publications

Proceedings
2010	Stefan Tillich, Martin Feldhofer, Mario Kirschbaum, Thomas Plos, Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Alexander Szekely - *"Uniform Evaluation of Hardware Implementations of the Round-Two SHA-3 Candidates"* - The Second SHA-3 Candidate Conference, Santa Barbara, USA, August 23-24, 2010 (Note: to appear)
2010	Stefan Tillich, Martin Feldhofer, Mario Kirschbaum, Thomas Plos, Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Alexander Szekely - *"Hardware Implementations of the Round-Two SHA-3 Candidates: Comparison on a Common Ground"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2010, Villach, Austria, October 6, 2010, Proceedings
2010	Stefan Tillich, Alexander Szekely, Mario Kirschbaum - *"SCA-Resistant Embedded Processors - The Next Generation"* - Twenty-Sixth Annual COMPUTER SECURITY APPLICATIONS Conference
2010	Jean-Francois Gallais, Johann Großschädl, Neil Hanley, Markus Kasper, Marcel Medwed, Francesco Regazzoni, Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Stefan Tillich, Marcin Wojcik - *"Hardware Trojans for Inducing or Amplifying Side-Channel Leakage of Cryptographic Software"* - Trusted Systems. Second International Conference, INTRUST 2010, Beijing, China, December 13th-15th, 2010. Proceedings
2009	Gernot Robert Bauer, Philipp Potisk, Stefan Tillich - *"Comparing Block Cipher Modes of Operation on MICAz Sensor Nodes"* - Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing
2009	Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Stefan Tillich - *"On the Security of Untrusted Memory"* - ARES 2009 – The International Dependability Conference, Proceedings
2009	Stefan Tillich, Martin Feldhofer, Wolfgang Issovits, Thomas Kern, Hermann Kureck, Michael Mühlberghuber, Georg Neubauer, Andreas Reiter, Armin Köfler, Mathias Mayrhofer - *"Compact Hardware Implemenations of the SHA-3 Candidates ARIRANG, BLAKE, Grøstl, and Skein"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2009, October 7, 2009, Graz, Austria
2009	Christian Lederer, Roland Mader, Manuel Koschuch, Johann Großschädl, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich - *"Energy-Efficient Implementation of ECDH Key Exchange for Wireless Sensor Networks"* - Information Security Theory and Practices --- WISTP 2009
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	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
2008	Stefan Kraxberger, Stefan Tillich, Udo Payer - *"General Security Concept for Embedded Peer-to-Peer Systems"* - Mobiquitous '08: Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
2007	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"Power-Analysis Resistant AES Implementation with Instruction Set Extensions"* - Cryptographic Hardware and embedded Systems - CHES 2007, 9th International Workshop, Vienna, Austria, September 2007, Proceedings
2007	Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich, Alexander Szekely - *"Performance Evaluation of Instruction Set Extensions for Long Integer Modular Arithmetic on a SPARC V8 Processor"* - Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2007)
2007	Johann Großschädl, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich - *"The Energy Cost of Cryptographic Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks"* - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2007)
2007	Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich, Christian Rechberger, Michael Hofmann, Marcel Medwed - *"Energy Evaluation of Software Implementations of Block Ciphers under Memory Constraints"* - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 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
2007	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"VLSI Implementation of a Functional Unit to Accelerate ECC and AES on 32-bit Processors"* - Arithmetic of Finite Fields, First International Workshop, WAIFI 2007, Madrid, Spain, June 2007, Proceedings
2006	Klaus Schgaguler, Stefan Tillich, Holger Bock - *"A Dual-FPGA Approach for Evaluation of Countermeasures against Power Analysis"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2006
2006	Manuel Koschuch, Joachim Lechner, Andreas Weitzer, Johann Großschädl, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Hardware/Software Co-design of Elliptic Curve Cryptography on an 8051 Microcontroller"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2006
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	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"Instruction Set Extensions for Efficient AES Implementation on 32-bit Processors"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2006
2006	Johann Großschädl, Paolo Ienne, Laura Pozzi, Stefan Tillich, Ajay K. Verma - *"Combining Algorithm Exploration with Instruction Set Design: A Case Study in Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* - Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2006)
2006	Stefan Tillich, Martin Feldhofer, Johann Großschädl - *"Area, Delay, and Power Characteristics of Standard-Cell Implementations of the AES S-Box"* - Embedded computer systems: architectures, modeling, and simulation
2005	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"Accelerating AES Using Instruction Set Extensions for Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* - Computational Science and Its Applications / Pt. 2
2005	Johann Großschädl, Roberto M. Avanzi, Erkay Savas, Stefan Tillich - *"Energy-Efficient Software Implementation of Long Integer Modular Arithmetic"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2005
2005	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl, Alexander Szekely - *"An Instructions Set Extension for Fast and Memory-Efficient AES Implementation"* - Communications and Multimedia Security
2005	Christian Pühringer, Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"A Java Processor with Hardware Acceleration for the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2005
2005	Johann Großschädl, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich - *"Algorithm Exploration for Long Integer Modular Arithmetic on a SPARC V8 Processor with Cryptography Extensions"* - ICESS 2005: The Second International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems
2005	Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich, Paolo Ienne, Laura Pozzi, Ajay K. Verma - *"When Instruction Set Extensions Change Algorithm Design: A Study in Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* - WASP '05: 4th Workshop on Application Specific Processors, New York, 22nd September 2005
2005	Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich - *"Design of Instruction Set Extensions and Functional Units for Energy-Efficient Public-Key Cryptography"* - ECRYPT Workshop on RFID and Lightweight Crypto, July 13-15, 2005, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
2004	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"A Survey of Public-Key Cryptography on J2ME-Enabled Mobile Devices"* - Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004
2004	Johann Großschädl, Karl-Christian Posch, Stefan Tillich - *"Architectural Enhancements to Support Digital Signature Processing and Public-Key Cryptography"* - Proceeding of the Second Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems
2004	Stefan Tillich, Johann Großschädl - *"A Simple Architectural Enhancement for Fast and Flexible Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Binary Finite Fields GF(2^m)"* - Advances in Computer Systems Architecture
2003	Martin Feldhofer, Michael Groß, Johann Großschädl, Thomas Popp, Norbert Pramstaller, Christian Pühringer, Karl Scheibelhofer, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich, Karl-Christian Posch - *"Rapid Prototyping of a SPARC-V8-based Firewall-on-Chip"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2003, October 3, 2003, Linz, Austria
2002	Christian Rechberger, Thomas Popp, Stefan Tillich - *"Low-cost AES"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2002, October 4, 2002, Graz, Austria

Part of a book
2008	Manfred Josef Aigner, Martin Feldhofer, Stefan Tillich - *"Symmetric Primitives book title: Wireless Sensor Network Security"*

Article
2008	Stefan Tillich, Martin Feldhofer, Thomas Popp, Johann Großschädl - *"Area, Delay, and Power Characteristics of Standard-Cell Implementations of the AES S-Box"* - Journal of signal processing systems (Volume: 50 2)
2004	Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich, Karl-Christian Posch - *"Architectural Enhancements to Support Digital Signal Processing and Public-Key Cryptography"* - Telematik (Volume: 10 3-4)

Dissertation
2008	Stefan Tillich - *"Instruction Set Extensions for Support of Cryptography on Embedded Systems"*

Master thesis
2003	Stefan Tillich - *"Evaluation of Side-Channel Attack Resistivity with Rapid Prototyping"*

Tech report
2010	Mario Kirschbaum, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich - *"POWER-TRUST D3.4 Specification of hardware structures of test-chip 2"*
2010	Mario Kirschbaum, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich - *"POWER-TRUST D4.1 Analysis Report of Test Chip 2 (IAIK)"*
2009	Mario Kirschbaum, Stefan Tillich, Alexander Szekely - *"POWER-TRUST D3.3 Description of Power-Efficient Software Countermeasures Including Hardware Support"*
2009	Tan Han Chiang, Erwin Hess, Stefan Tillich, Jianying Zhou - *"SMEPP D5.1.3 Design and Implementation of Symmetric and Asymmetric Algorithms"*
2009	Mario Kirschbaum, Stefan Tillich, Alexander Szekely, Christoph Herbst, Holger Bock, Josef Haid - *"POWER-TRUST D2.2 Specification of countermeasures selected for Implementation"*
2008	Joonsang Baek, Anton Kargl, Mario Kirschbaum, Hermann Seuschek, Han Chiang Tan, Stefan Tillich, Jun Wen Wong, Jianying Zhou - *"SMEPP D4.4 Power Estimation Methodology for Secure Algorithms and Protocols in Embedded Networks"*
2008	François-Xavier Standaert, Lejla Batina, Thomas Eisenbarth, Benedikt Gierlichs, Timo Kasper, François Koeune, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, François Macé, Elisabeth Oswald, Petit Christophe, Stefan Tillich - *"ECRYPT D.VAM.15 Theoretical Models for Side-Channel Attacks"*
2007	Cristina Alcaraz, Ernest Foo, Jannis Georgiades, Erwin Hess, Anton Kargl, Javier Lopez, Ying Qiu, Rodrigo Roman, Pascale Serf, Stefan Tillich, Jianying Zhou - *"SMEPP D4.2 Security services and primitives for EP2P systems"*
2007	Stefan Tillich - *"SMEPP D5.1.1 Specification of Secure Instruction Sets for EP2P Devices"*
2007	Stefan Kraxberger, Stefan Tillich - *"Concrete architecture of secure EP2P middleware services"*
2007	Stefan Kraxberger, Stefan Tillich - *"Conceptual architecture of secure EP2P middleware"*
2007	Stefan Kraxberger, Udo Payer, Stefan Tillich - *"Threat Models for EP2P Networks"*
2007	Stefan Kraxberger, Udo Payer, Stefan Tillich - *"Security Requirements of EP2P Applications"*
2005	Manfred Roth, Stefan Tillich, Manfred Josef Aigner, Thomas Popp, Stefan Mangard - *"SCARD D7.1 Specification SCARD Chip"*

Presentation
2009	Stefan Tillich - *"Comparing Block Cipher Modes of Operation on MICAz Sensor Nodes"* (17th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, 18.02.09)
2008	Stefan Tillich, Großschädl Johann - *"Instruction Set Extensions for Cryptography"* (ECRYPT: Challenges and Perspectives for Academia and Industry, Antwerp, 28.05.08)
2008	Stefan Tillich - *"Boosting AES Performance on a Tiny Processor Core"* (Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2008, The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2008, CA, 09.04.08)
2008	Stefan Tillich - *"Attacking State-of-the-Art Software Countermeasures–A Case Study for AES"* (10th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2008), DC, 12.08.08)
2007	Stefan Tillich - *"Power-Analysis Resistant AES Implementation with Instruction Set Extensions"* (9th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2007, Vienna, 12.09.07)
2007	Stefan Tillich - *"VLSI Implementation of a Functional Unit to Accelerate ECC and AES on 32-bit Processors"* (1st International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI 2007), Madrid, 21.06.07)
2007	Stefan Tillich - *"Energy Evaluation of Software Implementations of Block Ciphers under Memory Constraints"* (10th Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2007), Nice, 19.04.07)
2007	Stefan Tillich - *"Protecting AES Software Implementations on 32-bit Processors against Power Analysis"* (5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2007), Zhuhai, 05.06.07)
2006	Stefan Tillich - *"Instruction Set Extensions for Efficient AES Implementation on 32-bit Processors"* (8th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2006, Yokohama, 12.10.06)
2006	Stefan Tillich - *"Area, Delay, and Power Characteristics of Standard-Cell Implementations of the AES S-Box"* (6th International Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation - SAMOS 2006, Samos, 19.07.06)
2005	Stefan Tillich - *"An Instructions Set Extension for Fast and Memory-Efficient AES Implementation"* (9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 International Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security - CMS 2005, Salzburg, 19.09.05)
2005	Stefan Tillich - *"Accelerating AES Using Instruction Set Extensions for Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* (International Conference on Computational Science & its Applications - ICCSA 2005, Singapore, 11.05.05)
2004	Stefan Tillich - *"A Survey of Public-Key Cryptography on J2ME-Enabled Mobile Devices"* (19th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004, Kemer-Antalya, 28.10.04)
2004	Stefan Tillich - *"A Simple Architectural Enhancement for Fast and Flexible Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Binary Extension Fields GF(2^m)"* (9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Advances in Computer Systems Architecture - ACSAC 2004, Beijing, 08.09.04)

Miscellaneous
2006	Stefan Tillich - *"Instruction Set Extensions for Secret-Key Cryptography"*
2002	Thomas Popp, Stefan Tillich - *"Low-cost AES"*