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Alexander Hepp
Technical University of Munich
Place of employment
Chair of Security in Information Technology (Prof. Sigl)
Theresienstr. 90(0101)/1.ZG
80333 München
Research Interests
- Hardware trojan design/identification
- Netlist reverse engineering
- Neuro engineering
Teaching
Winter term 2024/25
| Title | Course no. | Lecturer (assistant) |
|---|---|---|
| C++ Lab Course | 0000004100 | |
| C++ Lab Course | 0000004097 | |
| Embedded Systems and Security | 0000001918 | |
| Embedded Systems and Security | 0000004160 | |
| Strategic Management for Engineers | 0000004208 |
Open positions for students
Current Publications
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2024
- Hardware Honeypot: Setting Sequential Reverse Engineering on a Wrong Track. 2024 27th International Symposium on Design & Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS), 2024Kielce, Poland more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Trojan Assets and Attack Vectors in Processors. 2024 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2024 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- RISC-V Triplet: Tapeouts for Security Applications. 2024 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS), 2024Lund / Sweden more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
2022
- Hardware Obfuscation of Digital FIR Filters. 25th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, IEEE, 2022Prague, Czech Republic, 68-73 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Open Source Hardware Design and Hardware Reverse Engineering: A Security Analysis. Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design DSD, 2022Maspalomas, Gran Canarias, Spain more… BibTeX
- Toward a Human-Readable State Machine Extraction. ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst. 27 (6), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Golden Model-Free Hardware Trojan Detection by Classification of Netlist Module Graphs. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, IEEE, 2022Antwerp, Belgium, 1317-1322 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- A Pragmatic Methodology for Blind Hardware Trojan Insertion in Finalized Layouts. Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design ICCAD (ICCAD '22), Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Physical and Functional Reverse Engineering Challenges for Advanced Semiconductor Solutions. 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition DATE, IEEE, 2022Antwerp, Belgium more… BibTeX
- Analysis of Graph-based Partitioning Algorithms and Partitioning Metrics for Hardware Reverse Engineering. 11th International Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS), 2022Leuven, Belgium more… BibTeX
2021
- Tapeout of a RISC-V Crypto Chip with Hardware Trojans: A Case-Study on Trojan Design and Pre-Silicon Detectability. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF '21), Association for Computing Machinery, 2021Virtual: Catania, Italy more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- CRESS: Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Attack Scenarios in Hardware Reverse Engineering. 2021 IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), 2021Washington DC, US more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Free fulltexts for my publications
| 10.1145/3457388.3458869 | Tapeout of a RISC-V crypto chip with hardware trojans |
| 10.1109/PAINE54418.2021.9707695 | CRESS: Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Attack Scenarios in Hardware Reverse Engineering |
| 10.1145/3513086 | Towards a Human-readable State Machine Extraction |
| DDECS 2022 (to be published) | Hardware Obfuscation of Digital FIR Filters (Best Paper Award) |