Below, all dissertations of the chair are available as full texts.
Habilitations
- Amir Moradi, “Advances in Side-Channel Security“, Habilitationsschrift, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2014.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Stefan Mangard (Technische Universität Graz, Österreich), Prof. Patrick Schaumont (Virginia Tech, USA)
Dissertations
- Max Hoffmann, “Security and Subvertability of Modern Hardware – A Journey Through Selected Layers of Hardware Security“, Dissertation, Ruhr-University Bochum, Juni 2020.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Samaneh Ghandali, “Stealthy parametric hardware Trojans in VLSI Circuits“, Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, August 2019.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Wayne P. Burleson, Prof. Daniel Holcomb (University of Massachusetts) - Falk Schellenberg, “Novel Methods of Passive and Active Side-Channels Attacks“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, November 2018.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Daniel Holcomb (University of Massachusetts, USA) - Christian Kison, “Advanced Methods for Hardware Reverse Engineering“, Dissertation, Ruhr-University Bochum, Mai 2018.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Seifert (TU Berlin) - Marc Fyrbiak, “Constructive and Destructive Reverse Engineering Aspects of Digital Systems“, Dissertation, Ruhr-University Bochum, Mai 2018.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Russell Tessier (University of Massachusetts, USA) - Pawel Swierczynski, “Bitstream-based Attacks against Reconfigurable Hardware“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2017.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Russell Tessier (University of Massachusetts, USA) - Christian Zenger, “Physical-Layer Security for the Internet of Things“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Januar 2017.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Holger Boche (Technische Universität München) - Timo Bartkewitz, “Towards Efficient Practical Side-Channel Cryptanalysis: Improved Implementations, Novel Methods, Applications, and Real-world Attacks“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2016.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Lemke-Rust (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg) und Prof. Schwenk - Gesine Hinterwälder, “Privacy-preserving Payments for Transportation Systems“, Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2015.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Wayne P. Burleson, Prof. Brian N. Levine (University of Massachusetts) - Ralf Zimmermann, “Cryptanalysis using Reconfigurable Hardware Clusters for High-Performance Computing“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Juni 2015.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Niederlande) - Elif Bilge Kavun, “Resource-efficient Cryptography for Ubiquitous Computing“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Februar 2015.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Christian Rechberger (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Dänemark) - Daehyun Strobel, “Novel Applications for Side-Channel Analyses of Embedded Microcontrollers“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Oktober 2014.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Elisabeth Oswald (University of Bristol, Großbritannien) - Georg T. Becker, “Intentional and Unintentional Side-Channels in Embedded Systems“, Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dezember 2013.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Wayne Burleson (University of Massachusetts), Prof. Kevin Fu (University of Michigan) - Stefan Heyse, “Post Quantum Cryptography: Implementing Alternative Public Key Schemes on Embedded Devices“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, November 2013.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Paulo Barreto (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Prof. Tim Güneysu (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) - David Oswald, “Implementation Attacks: From Theory to Practice“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2013.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. David Naccache (Université Paris II / ENS, Frankreich) - Benedikt Driessen, “Practical Cryptanalysis of Real-World Systems“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Juli 2013.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar und Prof. Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge, England) - Timo Kasper, “Security Analysis of Pervasive Wireless Devices – Physical and Protocol Attacks in Practice“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany, September 2011.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Dr. Srdjan Čapkun (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) - Andrey Bogdanov, “Analysis and Design of Block Cipher Constructions“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany, Juli 2009.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Vincent Rijmen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium and TU Graz, Austria) - Thomas Eisenbarth, “Cryptography and Cryptanalysis for Embedded Systems“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany, Juli 2009.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Pr. François-Xavier Standaert (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Martin Novotný, “Time-Area Efficient Hardware Architectures For Cryptography and Cryptanalysis“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Februar 2009.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Jan Schmidt (Czech Technical University in Prague) - Tim Güneysu, “Cryptography and Cryptanalysis on Reconfigurable Devices“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Februar 2009.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago) - Axel Poschmann, “LIGHTWEIGHT CRYPTOGRAPHY – Cryptographic Engineering for a PervasiveWorld” Dissertation, Ruhr-University Bochum, Deutschland, Februar 2009.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Dr. Matthew J.B. Robshaw (Orange Labs, France Telekom) - Andy Rupp, “Computational Aspects of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, November 2008.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Ivan Damgard (Arhus University)
[bibtex] [pdf abstract] [html abstract] - Marko Wolf, “Security Engineering for Vehicular Systems — Improving Trustworthiness and Dependability of Automotive IT Applications“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, April 2008.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Wilhelm Schäfer (University Paderborn) - Kerstin Lemke-Rust, “Models and Algorithms for Physical Cryptanalysis“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juni 2007.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. David Naccache (École Normale Supérieure Paris) - Kai Schramm, “Advanced Methods in Side Channel Cryptanalysis“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juli 2006.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. David Naccache (École Normale Supérieure Paris) - Sandeep S. Kumar, “Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Constrained Devices“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juni 2006.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Jan Pelzl, “Practical Aspects of Curve-Based Cryptography and Cryptanalysis“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juni 2006.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Yusuf Leblebici (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) - Jorge Guajardo Merchan, “Arithmetic Architectures for Finite Fields GF(p^m) with Cryptographic Applications“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juli 2004.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Colin Walter (Manchester University) - André Weimerskirch, “Authentication in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks“, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Deutschland, Juli 2004.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) - Thomas Wollinger, “Software and Hardware Implementation of Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems“, (gzziped postscript) Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland, Juli 2004.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Gerhard Frey (University Duisburg-Essen) - Adam J. Elbirt, “Reconfigurable Computing for Symmetric-Key Algorithms“, Ph.D. Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mai 2003.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar - Gerardo Orlando, “Efficient Elliptic Curve Processor Architectures for Field Programmable Logic“, Ph.D. Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, März 2002.
Gutachter: Prof. Christof Paar - Christof Paar, “Efficient VLSI Architectures for Bit-Parallel Computation in Galois Fields“, Dissertation, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Universität Essen, Deutschland, 1994.
Gutachter: Prof. Han Vinck (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Richard Blahut (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Henk van Tilborg (TU Eindhoven)