Dr.-Ing. David Kni­chel

Implementaion Security

Research Assistant

Address:
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Computer Science
Implementaion Security
Universitätsstr. 150
--D-44801 Bochum

Room: ID 2/619

Telephone: (+49)(0)234 / 32 - 27815

Office Hours: By arrangement

E-Mail: David.​Knichel@​rub.​de

Vita

  • 05/2019 – 07/2023: Re­se­arch As­sis­tant / PhD Stu­dent
    Implementation Security Group, Ruhr Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny
  • 05/2016 – 10/2018: Study of Mas­ter of Sci­ence in IT-Se­cu­ri­ty
    RuhrUni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny
  • 10/2012 – 02/2016: Study of Ba­che­lor of Sci­ence in IT-Se­cu­ri­ty
    Ruhr Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny

Re­se­arch

Awards/Ho­nors

Publications

  • 2022
    • Transitional Leakage in Theory and Practice Unveiling Security Flaws in Masked Circuits
      Nicolai Müller, David Knichel, Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vol. 2022, No. 2, pp. 266-288.
    • Composable Gadgets with Reused Fresh Masks First-Order Probing-Secure Hardware Circuits with only 6 Fresh Masks
      David Knichel, Amir Moradi, IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vo. 2022, No. 3, pp. 114-140.
    • Randomness Optimization for Gadget Compositions in Higher-Order Masking
      Jakob Feldtkeller, David Knichel, Pascal Sasdrich, Amir Moradi, Tim Güneysu, IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vol. 2022, No. 4, pp. 188-227.
    • Low-Latency Hardware Private Circuits
      David Knichel, Amir Moradi, ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1799-1812, 2022.
    • Au­to­ma­ted Ge­ne­ra­ti­on of Mas­ked Hard­ware
      David Kni­chel, Amir Mo­ra­di, Ni­co­lai Mül­ler, Pas­cal Sas­d­rich – IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vol. 2022, No. 1, pp. 589-629.
    • Ge­ne­ric Hard­ware Pri­va­te Cir­cuits – Towards Au­to­ma­ted Ge­ne­ra­ti­on of Com­po­sa­ble Se­cu­re Gad­gets
      David Kni­chel, Pas­cal Sas­d­rich, Amir Mo­ra­di – IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vol. 2022, No. 1, pp. 323-344.
  • 2021
    • Let’s Take it Off­line: Boos­ting Bru­te-Force At­tacks on iPho­ne’s User Au­then­ti­ca­ti­on through SCA
      Olek­siy Li­so­vets, David Kni­chel, Thor­ben Moos, Amir Mo­ra­di – IACR Tran­sac­tions on Cryp­to­gra­phic Hard­ware and Em­bed­ded Sys­tems, Vol. 2021, No. 3, pp. 496-519.
  • 2020
    • SIL­VER – Sta­tis­ti­cal In­de­pen­dence and Le­a­ka­ge Ve­ri­fi­ca­ti­on
      David Kni­chel, Pas­cal Sas­d­rich, Amir Mo­ra­di – 26th An­nual In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on the Theo­ry and Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on of Cryp­to­lo­gy and In­for­ma­ti­on Se­cu­ri­ty, ASI­A­CRYPT 2020, De­cem­ber 6-10, 2020.
    • The Risk of Out­sour­cing: Hi­d­den SCA Tro­jans in Third-Par­ty IP-Cores Threa­ten Cryp­to­gra­phic ICs
      David Kni­chel, Thor­ben Moos, Amir Mo­ra­di – 25th IEEE Eu­ropean Test Sym­po­si­um, Tal­lin, Es­to­nia, May 25-29, 2020.
  • 2019
    • A Com­pa­ri­son of χ²-Test and Mu­tu­al In­for­ma­ti­on as Dis­tin­gu­is­her for Si­de-Chan­nel Ana­ly­sis
      Bas­ti­an Rich­ter, David Kni­chel, Amir Mo­ra­di – 18th Smart Card Re­se­arch and Ad­van­ced Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on Con­fe­rence, CAR­DIS 2019, Pra­gue, Czech Re­pu­blic, No­vem­ber 11-13, 2019.