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Alexander Hepp

Technical University of Munich

Place of employment

Chair of Security in Information Technology (Prof. Sigl)

Work:
Theresienstr. 90(0101)/1.ZG
80333 München

Room: N1007ZG

 

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Research Interests

  • Hardware trojan design/identification
  • Netlist reverse engineering
  • Neuro engineering

Teaching

Winter term 2024/25

TitleCourse no.Lecturer (assistant)
C++ Lab Course0000004100
C++ Lab Course0000004097
Embedded Systems and Security0000001918
Embedded Systems and Security0000004160
Strategic Management for Engineers0000004208

Open positions for students

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Current Publications

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2024

  • Brunner, Michaela and Lee, Hye Hyun and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: 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 )
  • Chuah, Czea Sie and Hepp, Alexander and Appold, Christian and Leinmueller, Tim: Trojan Assets and Attack Vectors in Processors. 2024 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2024 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2022

  • Aksoy, Levent and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Pagliarini, Samuel: 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 )
  • Baehr, Johanna and Hepp, Alexander and Brunner, Michaela and Malenko, Maja and Sigl, Georg: Open Source Hardware Design and Hardware Reverse Engineering: A Security Analysis. Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design DSD, 2022Maspalomas, Gran Canarias, Spain more… BibTeX
  • Brunner, Michaela and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: Toward a Human-Readable State Machine Extraction. ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst. 27 (6), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: 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 )
  • Hepp, Alexander and Perez, Tiago and Pagliarini, Samuel and Sigl, Georg: 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 )
  • Lippmann, Bernhard and Ludwig, Matthias and Mutter, Johannes and Bette, Ann-Christin and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Rasche, Martin and Kellermann, Oliver and Gieser, Horst and Zweifel, Tobias and Kovac, Nicola: Physical and Functional Reverse Engineering Challenges for Advanced Semiconductor Solutions. 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition DATE, IEEE, 2022Antwerp, Belgium more… BibTeX
  • Weber, Selina and Baehr, Johanna and Hepp, Alexander and Sigl, Georg: 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

  • Hepp, Alexander and Sigl, Georg: 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 )
  • Ludwig, Matthias and Hepp, Alexander and Brunner, Michaela and Baehr, Johanna: 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

You can find my publications for downlod in this table
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)
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