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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.

Johannes Wolkerstorfer (ALUMNI)

Curriculum vitae

Johannes Wolkerstorfer (born Jan. 1973) is post-doctoral researcher at TU Graz IAIK. His research activities center on the efficient imlementation of cryptographic hardware. Of special interest is Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (ECC) for constrained systems like RFID devices. Besides research, he teaches VLSI design, System-on-Chip design and holds a entry-level course for computer architecture and networks.

Education

Year	Activity
2004–2009	Postdoc at Graz University of Technology, Austria
2000–2004	PhD student at Graz University of Technology, Austria
1991–1999	Telematik at Graz University of Technology, Austria
1983–1991	Grammar school in Salzburg
1979–1983	Primary school in Salzburg

Experience and Projects

Year	Activity
2005 - 2008	Quantum Cryptography on Chip QCC
2006 - 2007	Coordinator of the Programme for Advanced Contactless Technology PROACT
2004	Authentication for long-range RFID Technology ART
2002 - 2004	Elliptic Curve Crypto Unit ECCU
2002	PCI-Card for Accelerating ECC over GF(2^m) FASTGF2
2001	AES - submodule design for smart card AES.
2000	High speed VLSI controller including CRT for RSAj
1998 - 2000	High speed VLSI triple-DES-module for SCAN
1999	Master Thesis "High Speed VLSI Triple-DES-Module"
1996	Students project at IAIK: DES and TRIPLE DES on XILINX FPGAs
1991-1996	Software development for Siemens PSE

Committee's work

Conference	Role
CHES	Program committee member of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems CHES 2008, 2009
CARDIS	Program committee member of Cardis 2008
CSNDSP	Local committee of Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP 2008
Austrochip	General chair of Austrochip Workshop on Microelectronics 2007
Austrochip	Program committee member of Austrochip Workshop on Microelectronics 2001-2009
RFID	Program committee member of 1st International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology RFID 2007
RFIDsec	Program committee member of Workshop on RFID Security 2006
CHES	External referee of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems CHES 2002

Teaching record

Year	Title
Lectures and Courses
2007-2008	System-on-Chip Architectures and Modelling (SOC), Graz University of Technology, Austria
2001-2009	VLSI Design (VLSI), Graz University of Technology, Austria
2006-2009	Rechnernetze und Organisation (RNO), Graz University of Technology, Austria
2008	"Introduction to RFID Security" at PROACT Springschool on RFID 2008, Graz, Austria
2007	Organization of "PROACT Springschool on RFID 2007", 18-20 April 2007, Graz.
2006	Organization of "PROACT Summerschool on RFID 2006", 10-12 July 2006, Graz.
2006	"Secret Key Building Blocks", Summer School on Cryptographic Hardware, Side-Channel and Fault Attacks (EcryptSS06), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, June 2006.
2004	"Authentication with RFID Tags", Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security: Secure Embedded Systems - IPICS 2004, Graz, July 2004.
Master theses: assessor
prog.	Johann Ertl, "Low-Power Secure Circuits for RFID Tag"
prog.	Andreas Auer, "A Low-Power Elliptic-Curve Processor"
prog.	Michael Hofmann, "Erweiterung eines bestehendes Chipkarten-Testinterface um ein Multi-IO-Interface mittels FPGA"
2008	Daniel Hein, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography ASIC for Radio Frequency Authentication"
2008	Georg Hofferek, "Exploring the Design Space of the GPS Authentication Scheme"
2007	Stefan Lemsitzer,"Multi-Gigabit AES-Core for Reconfigurable Platforms"
2007	Johannes Loinig, "Gigabit Packet Filtering on Configurable Hardware", .
Master theses: advisor (assessor: KC Posch)
2007	Christoph Bouvier, "Evaluation of Distributed Management Approaches for Embedded Systems"
2006	Franz Fürbass, "ECC Processor with Low Die Size for RFID Applications"
2006	Christian Pühringer, "High-Speed Elliptic-Curve Processor"
2005	Thomas Wöckinger, "High-Speed RSA Implementation for FPGA Platforms"
2003	Harald Aigner, "Parallelized Co-processor for Elliptic Curve Cryptography and its Embedding in a System on Chip"
2003	Martin Feldhofer, "Controlling Smart Tags"
2002	Stefan Stampler, "Timing Verification of a Modular Hardware Design"
Master projects
2007	Stefan Lemsitzer, "Performance Measurement of a GCM-AES ASIC"
2007	Daniel Raggam, Manfred Weissensteiner, "8-Bit Controller Tailored for RFID Applications"
2006	Johann Heyzl, "ISO 14443A FPGA DemoTag"
2006	Kurt Prenner, "High-Speed AES for FPGAs"
2005	Gert Marnaus, "RFID ISO 18000-3 Digital Controller Using PIC Controller"
2004	Franz Fürbass, Christoph Bouvier (Projektsemester), "PCI interface and Linux driver for the Gaisler GR-PCI-XC2V FPGA-card"
2004	Johannes Loinig, Michael Steinkogler (Projektsemester), "Scan-chain testing for standard-cell circuits"
2004	KU VLSI-Design SS2004, "Digital RFID front-end for embedded microcontrollers"
2003	Andreas Haller,"Parameterized Layout with Skill und P-Cells"
2003	Martin Kobencic, "Low-Power Synthesis / Clock Gating"
2003	KU VLSI-Design SS2003, "Digit-Serial Multiplication Using the Montgomery Algorithm"
2002	Dana Belicova, Matthias Grumer, Michael Jaindl, Manuel Wendt (Projektsemester), "CECC: Cadence Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
2002	KU VLSI-Design SS 2002, "High Speed Arithmetic Unit for Elliptic Curve Cryptography over GF(2^m)"
2001	Thomas Popp, Christian Rechberger, Stefan Tillich (Projektsemester), "Least-cost AES"
2001	Martin Feldhofer, Bernd Schnitzer, Thomas Thratnigg (Projektsemester), "A Self-Timed Arithmetic Unit for Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
Bakk projects
2007	Paul Rouschal, "Long Integer Addition on Xilinx FPGAs"
2006	Johannes Winter, "USB Interrupt Transfer"
2006	Andreas Auer, Bernd Bauer, "USB Bulk Transfer"
2005	Günther Langmann, "Comparison of CSA-Adder trees on Xilinx FPGAs"
2005	Armin Krieg, "Test environment for an AES chip on an FPGA card"
2005	Markus Pucher, Emanuel Reiterer, "PCI driver for the Cesys XC2S200 FPGA card"
2004	Edmund Ehrlich, "Synchronisation von Clock-Domains"
2004	Johann Heyszl, "High-Speed Optimisation of Digital Hardware - A Microcontroller Case Study"
2004	Christian Mühlbacher, "Anbindung von Peripheriekomponenten an einen Mikrokontrollerkern"

Publications

Proceedings
2009	Michael Hutter, Marcel Medwed, Daniel Hein, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Attacking ECDSA-Enabled RFID Devices"* - Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2009, 7th International Conference, Paris-Rocquencourt, France, June 2-5, 2009, Proceedings
2009	Michael Hutter, Alexander Szekely, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Embedded System Management using WBEM"* - Integrated Network Management - IM 2009, 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium, New York, USA, June 1-5, 2009, Proceedings
2009	Daniel Hein, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Norbert Felber - *"ECC is Ready for RFID - A Proof in Silicon"* - Selected Areas in Cryptography
2008	Daniel Hein, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Norbert Felber - *"ECC is Ready for RFID – A Proof in Silicon"* - Informal Proceedings
2008	Georg Hofferek, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Coupon Recalculation for the GPS Authentication Scheme"* - Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications-CARDIS 2008
2008	Thomas Lorünser, Edwin Querasser, Thomas Matyus, Momtchil Peev, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Michael Hutter, Alexander Szekely, Ilse Wimberger, Christian Pfaffel-Janser, Andreas Neppach - *"Security Processor with Quantum Key Distribution"* - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors
2008	Andreas Neppach, Christian Pfaffel-Janser, Ilse Wimberger, Thomas Lorünser, Michael Meyenburg, Alexander Szekely, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Key Management of Quantum Generated Keys in IPsec"* - Proceedings of Secrypt 2008
2008	Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Alexander Szekely, Thomas Lorünser - *"IPsec Security Gateway for Gigabit Ethernet"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2008
2008	Daniel Hein, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Norbert Felber - *"ECC is Ready for RFID – A Proof in Silicon"* - Proceedings of SAC 2008 (Note: to appear)
2007	Franz Fürbass, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"ECC Processor with Small Footprint for RFID Applications"*
2007	Martin Feldhofer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Strong Crypto for RFID Tags - a Comparison of Low-Power Hardware Implementations"*
2007	Johannes Loinig, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Alexander Szekely - *"Packet Filtering in Gigabit Networks Using FPGAs"* - Austrochip 2007 - Proceedings of the 15th Austrian Workshop on Microelectronics
2007	Stefan Lemsitzer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Norbert Felber, Matthias Brändli - *"Multi-Gigabit GCM-AES Architecture Optimized for FPGAs"* - Proceedings of Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2007
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
2005	Martin Feldhofer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Low-power Design Methodologies for an AES Implementation in RFID Systems"* - Workshop on Cryptographic Advances in Secure Hardware
2005	Norbert Pramstaller, Stefan Mangard, Sandra Dominikus, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Efficient AES Implementations on ASICs and FPGAs"* - Proceedings of Fourth Conference on the Advanced Encryption Standard AES4
2005	Christian Pühringer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"High Speed Elliptic Curve Cryptography Processor for GF(p)"* - Austrochip 2005 Mikroelektronik Tagung
2005	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Scaling ECC Hardware to a Minimum"* - Austrochip 2005 Mikroelektronik Tagung
2004	Norbert Pramstaller, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"A Universal and Efficient AES Co-processor for Field Programmable Logic Arrays"* - Proceedings of Field-Programmable Logic and Applications - FPL 2004, LNCS 3203
2004	Martin Feldhofer, Sandra Dominikus, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Strong Authentication for RFID Systems using the AES Algorithm"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2004
2004	Harald Aigner, Holger Bock, Markus Hütter, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"A Low-Cost ECC Coprocessor for Smartcards"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2004
2003	Norbert Pramstaller, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"An Efficient AES Implementation for Re-configurable Devices"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2003
2003	Wolfgang Bauer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Hochleistungs-ECC mit Standardkomponenten"* - IT-Sicherheit im verteilten Chaos - Tagungsband des 8. BSI-Kongress für IT-Sicherheit
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Dual-Field Arithmetic Unit for GF(p) and GF(2^m)"* - Proceedings of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2002, LNCS 2523, Springer Verlag, Aug. 2002.
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer, E. Oswald, M. Lamberger - *"An ASIC implementation of the AES SBoxes"* - Proceedings of the Cryptographer's Track at the RSA Conference 2002, LNCS 2271, Springer Verlag, Feb. 2002.
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer, W. Bauer - *"A PCI-Card for Accelerating Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2002, Graz, Austria, October 4, 2002.
2001	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"An ASIC implementation of the AES-MixColumn operation"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 2001
2000	R. Ingruber, H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"ISDN Channel Security Demonstration Board"* - Proc. of 2nd International Network Conference, INC 2000, 3-6 July 2000, Plymouth, UK. ed. Stephen Furnell, pp. 297-304, ISBN: 1-84102-066-4.
2000	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"A 155 Mbps triple-DES network encryptor"* - Proceedings of CHES 2000, LNCS 1965, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-41455-X, pp. 163–173.
2000	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Robusteness-Agile Encryptor for ATM Networks"* - Proceedings of IFIP SEC 2000, 21-25 August 2000, Bejing, PR China. ISBN 0-7923-7914-4, pp. 231-240.
1999	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Single Chip Key-Agile ATM Encryptor"* - Proceedings of Austrochip 1999, Villach, Austria, 31 September - 1 October 1999, pp. 109-116.

Part of a book
2008	Martin Feldhofer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Hardware Implementation of Symmetric Algorithms for RFID Security book title: RFID Security: Techniques, Protocols and System-On-Chip Design"*

Book
2007	Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Karl-Christian Posch - *"Austrochip 2007"* (Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz Graz - ISBN: 978-3-902465-87-0)

Article
2007	Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Karl Hollaus - *"PROACT: RFID-Impulse an der TU Graz"* - e&i - Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume: )
2005	Martin Feldhofer, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Vincent Rijmen - *"AES Implementation on a Grain of Sand"* - IEE proceedings / information security (Volume: 152)

Dissertation
2004	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Hardware Aspects of Elliptic Curve Cryptography"*

Master thesis
1999	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"High Speed VLSI Triple-DES-Module"*

Tech report
2006	Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Thomas Lorünser, Michael Meyenburg, Ilse Wimberger, Andreas Neppach - *"WP01 - Requirements Specification"*
2005	Martin Feldhofer, Maria Elisabeth Oswald, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Lemke Kerstin, Wollinger Thomas, Standaert Francois-Xavier - *"ECRYPT D.VAM2 State of the Art in Hardware Architectures"*
2003	Manfred Aigner, Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Sandra Dominikus, Stefan Mangard, Christoph Herbst, Norbert Pramstaller - *"USB-Crypt: D4 Crypto Cores Development - Final report"*
1999	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Design of the DES/TripleDES Encryptor"*
1999	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, S. Obermoser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Prototype Integration"*
1999	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Verification and Test"*
1999	H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Implementation of key/data queuing"*
1998	H. Bock, H. Bratko, H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Models of the encryption unit"*

Presentation
2008	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"IPsec Security Gateway for Gigabit Ethernet"* (Austrochip 2008 Workshop on Micrcoelectronics, Schloss Pöstlingberg, 08.10.08)
2008	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Requirements, Algorithms, Architectures -- The design space of ECC hardware"* (BCRYPT ECC-Day 2008, 20.03.08)
2007	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"mCoupons - An Application for Near-Field Communication (NFC)"* (The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07), Niagara Falls, 22.05.07)
2007	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Strong Crypto for RFID - A Comparison of Low-Power Hardware Implementations"* (ISCAS 2007 - Special Session on Novel Cryptographic Architectures for Low-Cost RFID, New Orleans, 29.05.07)
2006	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Secret Key Building Blocks"* (Summer School on Cryptographic Hardware, Side-Channel and Fault Attacks (EcryptSS06), Louvain-la-Neuve, 12.06.06)
2006	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"PROACT - Goals of the first phase"* (PROACT KickOff, 19.01.06)
2006	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"RFID Security - Challenges and Current Research"* (CE RFID Workshop, Gratkorn, 07.12.06)
2006	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Fundamentals of RFID Technology"* (Workshop on Data Protection in e-Government and RFID Technology, 05.10.06)
2005	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Invited Talk: Scaling ECC Hardware to a Minimum"* (Workshop on Cryptographic Advances in Secure Hardware - Crash05, Belgium, 06.09.05)
2005	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Is Elliptic-Curve Cryptography Suitable to Secure RFID Tags?"* (Workshop on RFID and Light-weight Cryptography, Austria, 13.07.05)
2005	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Introductory talk to RFID and Light-Weight Cryptography"* (Workshop on RFID and Light-weight Cryptography, Austria, 13.07.05)
2005	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Scaling ECC Hardware to a Minimum"* (Austrochip 2005, Wien, 06.10.05)
2003	Johannes Wolkerstorfer - *"Hochleistungs-ECC mit Standardkomponenten"* (8. Deutscher IT-Sicherheitskongress des BSI 2003, Bonn - Bad Godersberg, 07.05.03)
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer, W. Bauer - *"A PCI-Card for Accelerating Elliptic Curve Cryptography"* (Präsentation bei Austrochip 2002, Graz, Austria,, October 4, 2002.)
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Dual-Field Arithmetic Unit for GF(p) and GF(2^m)"* (Presentation at CHES 2002)
2002	J. Wolkerstorfer, E. Oswald, M. Lamberger - *"An ASIC implementation of the AES SBoxes"* (Presentation at the Cryptographer's Track at the RSA Conference 2002.)
2000	J. Wolkerstorfer - *"A 155 Mbps triple-DES network encryptor"* (Presentation at CHES'2000, 17-18 August 2000,, Worcester, Massachusetts.)
1999	J. Wolkerstorfer - *"Single Chip Key-Agile ATM Encryptor"* (Presentation at Austrochip 1999, Villach,, Austria, 31 September - 1 October 1999.)