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Thomas Plos

Personal data

Citizenship	Austrian
Languages	German, English

Education

Year	Activity
1986 - 1990	Primary school in Köflach, Austria
1990 - 1994	Secondary modern school in Köflach, Austria
1994 - 1999	Technical college for electrical engineering in Graz, Austria
2001 - 2007	Telematics at Graz University of Technology, Austria
2007 - 2011	Doctoral programme in Telematics at Graz University of Technology, Austria

Experience

Year	Activity
2003 - 2007	Working student at NXP (former Philips Semiconductors) in Gratkorn, Austria
2007 - 2009	Member of BRIDGE project group at IAIK
2009 - 2011	Member of CRYPTA project group at IAIK
2011 - now	Teaching assistant at IAIK

Teaching Record

Year	Activity
Courses
2011	VLSI design VO + KU, SS 2011
Master Theses
2011	Thomas Korak, "Evaluation of a Security-enabled NFC Tag with AES and ECDSA "
prog.	Raphael Spreitzer, "Practical Cache Attacks on Smartphones "
Master Projects
2008	Johannes Ertl, "UHF Gen2 Digital Controller" (supervision together with Martin Feldhofer)
Bacc. Projects
2009	Christian Pendl, "ISO18000-6B Protocol on the IAIK UHF DemoTag"
2010	Hannes Groß, "Cryptography on a Low-End Microcontroller for RFID Applications"
2010	Benjamin Hofer, "Pre-Processing Circuit for SCA-Measurements on RFID Tags"
2010	Hannes Mock, "Passive UHF RFID Tag Prototype for a Cryptographic Chip with an AES Coprocessor"
2011	Michael Hraschan, "Building an RFID Tag with a Synthesizable 8-Bit Microcontroller"
2011	Matthias Viertler, "Building an RFID Tag with a Synthesizable 8-Bit Microcontroller"
2011	Christian Maierhofer, "Side-Channel Analysis of UHF RFID Tags"

Publications

Proceedings
2011	Michael Hutter, Mario Kirschbaum, Thomas Plos, Jörn-Marc Schmidt - *"Test Apparatus for Side-Channel Resistance Compliance Testing"* - Non-Invasive Attack Testing Workshop - NIAT 2011, International Workshop, Nara, Japan, September 26-27, 2011.
2011	Thomas Plos, Martin Feldhofer - *"Analyzing the Hardware Costs of Different Security-Layer Variants for a Low-Cost RFID Tag"* - Security and Privacy in Communication Networks - 7th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2011, London, UK, September 7-9, 2011, Proceedings (Note: to appear)
2011	Thomas Plos, Martin Feldhofer - *"Hardware Implementation of a Flexible Tag Platform for Passive RFID Devices"* - Proceedings of the 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2011), Oulu, Finland, August, 2011, Proceedings
2011	Thomas Eisenbarth, Tim Güneysu, Stefan Heyse, Sebastiaan Indesteege, Stephanie Kerckhof, Francois Koeune, Tomislav Nad, Thomas Plos, Francesco Reggazoni, Francois-Xavier Standaert, Loic van Oldeneel tot Oldenzeel5 - *"Compact Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Block Ciphers in ATtiny Devices"* - ECRYPT Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 28-29, 2011 (Note: to appear)
2010	Thomas Plos, Hannes Groß, Martin Feldhofer - *"Implementation of Symmetric Algorithms on a Synthesizable 8-Bit Microcontroller Targeting Passive RFID Tags"* - 17th Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2010, Waterloo, Canada, August 12-13, 2010, Proceedings
2010	Michael Hutter, Martin Feldhofer, Thomas Plos - *"An ECDSA Processor for RFID Authentication"* - Workshop on RFID Security - RFIDsec 2010, 6th Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, June 7-9, 2010, 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	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	Martin Feldhofer, Manfred Josef Aigner, Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos, Erich Wenger, Thomas Baier - *"Semi-Passive RFID Development Platform for Implementing and Attacking Security Tags"* - Workshop on RFID / USN Security and Cryptography
2009	Thomas Plos, Michael Hutter, Martin Feldhofer - *"On Comparing Side-Channel Preprocessing Techniques for Attacking RFID Devices"* - Workshop on Information Security Applications - WISA 2009, Busan, Korea, August 25-27, 2009, Proceedings
2009	Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos, Jörn-Marc Schmidt - *"Contact-Based Fault Injections and Power Analysis on RFID Tags"* - European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design - ECCTD 2009, 19th IEEE European Conference, Antalya, Turkey, August 23-27, 2009, Proceedings
2009	Thomas Plos - *"Evaluation of the Detached Power Supply as Side-Channel Analysis Countermeasure for Passive UHF RFID Tags"* - Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2009, San Francisco, USA, April 20-24, 2009, Proceedings
2009	Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos - *"Optical Fault Attacks on AES: A Threat in Violet"* - 6th Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2009
2008	Michael Hutter, Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Thomas Plos - *"RFID and Its Vulnerability to Faults"* - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2008, 10th International Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA, August 10-13, 2008, Proceedings
2008	Thomas Plos - *"Susceptibility of UHF RFID Tags to Electromagnetic Analysis"* - Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2008, San Francisco, USA, April 7-11, 2008, Proceedings
2008	Thomas Plos, Michael Hutter, Martin Feldhofer - *"Evaluation of Side-Channel Preprocessing Techniques on Cryptographic-Enabled HF and UHF RFID-Tag Prototypes"* - Workshop on RFID Security 2008, Budapest, Hungary, July 9-11, 2008
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

Article
2010	Michael Hutter, Thomas Plos, Martin Feldhofer - *"On the Security of RFID Devices against Implementation Attacks"* - International journal of security and networks (Volume: 5 2/3)

Dissertation
2011	Thomas Plos - *"Security Aspects of Low-Cost RFID Tags - From Evaluation to Hardware Implementation"*

Master thesis
2007	Thomas Plos - *"Implementation of a Security-Enhanced Semi-Passive UHF RFID Tag"*

Tech report
2009	Thomas Plos, Manfred Josef Aigner, Antti Ruhanen, Trevor Burbridge - *"D4.3.2 – Anti-Cloning Demonstrator"*
2008	Manfred Josef Aigner, Martin Feldhofer, Thomas Plos, Christian Tutsch, Ruhanen Antti, Yan Na, Stefano Calucci, Matti Tavlampi - *"D4.2.1-report on first part of the security WP: Tag Security"*
2008	Manfred Josef Aigner, Thomas Plos - *"D4.2.2 – Secure Semi-Passive RFID Tags – Prototype and Analysis"*
2008	Manfred Josef Aigner, Thomas Plos, Martin Feldhofer, Chris Flörkemeier, Yan Na, Ruhanen Antti, Stefano Calucci, Trevor Burbridge - *"D4.2.1-Report on first part of the security WP: Anti-Cloning Tag"*
2008	Manfred Josef Aigner, Thomas Plos, Stefano Coluccini, Antti Ruhanen - *"D4.2.2 Secure Semi-Passive RFID Tags – Prototype and Analysis"*

Presentation
2011	Thomas Plos - *"Hardware Implementation of a Flexible Tag Platform for Passive RFID Devices"* (14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2011), Oulu, 31.08.11)
2011	Thomas Plos - *"Analyzing the Hardware Costs of Different Security-Layer Variants for a Low-Cost RFID Tag"* (Security and Privacy in Communication Networks - 7th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2011, London, 07.09.11)
2011	Thomas Plos - *"Security & RFID"* (RFID Hotspot #2, Graz, 23.11.11)
2010	Thomas Plos - *"Implementation of Symmetric Algorithms on a Synthesizable 8-Bit Microcontroller Targeting Passive RFID Tags"* (Joint Workshop on Security in the Internet of Things, Nantou, 15.09.10)
2010	Thomas Plos - *"Hardware Implementations of the Round-Two SHA-3 Candidates: Comparison on a Common Ground"* (Austrochip 2010, Villach, 06.10.10)
2010	Thomas Plos - *"Implementation of Symmetric Algorithms on a Synthesizable 8-Bit Microcontroller Targeting Passive RFID Tags"* (17th Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2010, Waterloo, 12.08.10)
2009	Thomas Plos, Marcel Medwed - *"Coding Schemes for Arithmetic and Logic Operations - How Robust Are They?"* (WISA - Workshop on Informations Security Applications, Busan, 25.08.09)
2009	Thomas Plos - *"On Comparing Side-Channel Preprocessing Techniques for Attacking RFID Devices"* (WISA - Workshop on Informations Security Applications, Busan, 25.08.09)
2009	Thomas Plos - *"Integrating Crypto on Passive UHF RFID Tags"* (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 7/ Ad Hoc Meeting, Leuven, 17.11.09)
2009	Thomas Plos - *"Evaluation of the Detached Power Supply as Side-Channel Analysis Countermeasure for Passive UHF RFID Tags"* (Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2009, San Francisco, 20.04.09)
2009	Thomas Plos - *"RFID-Tag Development Platforms"* (Protection of RFID/EPC Systems, Leuven, 03.07.09)
2008	Thomas Plos - *"Susceptibility of UHF RFID Tags to Electromagnetic Analysis"* (Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2008, San Francisco, 07.04.08)
2008	Martin Feldhofer, Thomas Plos, Manfred Josef Aigner - *"Encoding of Security Functionality in ISO18000-6C"* (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4/SG3 Meeting, Wien, 08.04.08)
2008	Thomas Plos - *"Evaluation of Side-Channel Preprocessing Techniques on Cryptographic-Enabled HF and UHF RFID-Tag Prototypes"* (Workshop on RFID Security 2008, Budapest, 09.07.08)
2008	Thomas Plos, Manfred Josef Aigner - *"Integrating Cryptographic Security to the EPC Gen2 Standard"* (AG 01.31 Meeting, Gratkorn, 06.03.08)
2008	Thomas Plos - *"RFID Security: Faults and Side-Channels"* (PROACT Meeting, Graz, 08.05.08)
2008	Thomas Plos - *"Side-Channel Attacks on RFID Tags"* (PROACT Spring School 2008, Graz, 02.04.08)