Wir erforschen die Sicherheit digitaler Systeme – von klassischen Rechnern über Geräte des Internets der Dinge (IoT) bis hin zu eingebetteten Systemen, in denen zunehmend auch Künstliche Intelligenz zum Einsatz kommt. Unser Ziel ist es, sowohl konventionelle als auch intelligente Systeme widerstandsfähig gegenüber realen Angriffen zu machen.
Unsere Forschung befasst sich mit Schwachstellen in diesen Technologien. Solche Schwachstellen reichen von physikalischen Informationslecks, also der unbeabsichtigten Preisgabe sensibler Daten über beobachtbare physikalische Signale wie Stromverbrauch, bis hin zu Fehlern in der Implementierung. Um die Zuverlässigkeit und Vertrauenswürdigkeit digitaler Systeme zu erhöhen, entwickeln wir ein breites Spektrum an Lösungen – von kryptografischen Algorithmen bis zu sicheren Hardwarearchitekturen.
Durch die Analyse von Angriffsvektoren und Fehlerszenarien entwickeln wir Abwehrmechanismen, die auch unter kritischen Bedingungen einen sicheren Betrieb ermöglichen. Dabei untersuchen wir, wie sowohl etablierte als auch neue Systeme aktuellen und künftigen Bedrohungen standhalten können, ohne ihre Grundfunktionen zu verlieren. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Umsetzung von wirksamen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen über alle Systemebenen hinweg.
Unsere Mission ist es, praxisnahe, integrierte Sicherheitslösungen bereitzustellen, die sowohl in bestehenden als auch in zukünftigen Systemen einsetzbar sind. So tragen wir zur Entwicklung sicherer, vertrauenswürdiger digitaler Architekturen bei, die Angriffen und Ausfällen standhalten.
Geleitet wird die Gruppe von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elif Bilge Kavun, die zugleich den Lehrstuhl für Secure Digital Systems an der Fakultät für Informatik der TU Dresden innehat. In beiden Rollen erforscht sie, wie sich bewährte Sicherheitstechniken an die Anforderungen neuer Technologien anpassen und weiterentwickeln lassen.
Who we are
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elif Bilge KavunResearch Group Leader
George Attia, Martin Schmid, Elif Kavun,
A Multi-head CNN-based Side-channel Attack on the Energy-efficient DIZY Stream Cipher,
2026 Constructive Approaches for Security analysis and Design of Embedded Systems Conference,
2026
@inproceedings{
attiaCASCADE26,
title = "A Multi-head CNN-based Side-channel Attack on the Energy-efficient DIZY Stream Cipher",
author = "George Attia, Martin Schmid, Elif Kavun",
year = "2026",
booktitle = "2026 Constructive Approaches for Security analysis and Design of Embedded Systems Conference",
month = "March"
}
Ali Sakar, Elif Kavun,
TRACEFORMER: Trace-Efficient and Robust Transformer-Based Late-Fusion Side-Channel Analysis of Masked AES,
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
2026
@inproceedings{
sakarISCAS26,
title = "TRACEFORMER: Trace-Efficient and Robust Transformer-Based Late-Fusion Side-Channel Analysis of Masked AES",
author = "Ali Sakar, Elif Kavun",
year = "2026",
booktitle = "2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems",
month = "May"
}
Deborah Abugah, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Tolga Arul, Stavros Stavrinides, Elif Kavun, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos,
Post-Quantum Secure Real-Time Temperature Monitoring for Smart IoT Irrigation,
IEEE 44th International Conference on Consumer Electronics,
2026
@inproceedings{
abugahICCE26,
title = "Post-Quantum Secure Real-Time Temperature Monitoring for Smart IoT Irrigation",
author = "Deborah Abugah, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Tolga Arul, Stavros Stavrinides, Elif Kavun, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos",
year = "2026",
booktitle = "IEEE 44th International Conference on Consumer Electronics",
month = "February"
}
Martin Schmid, Giuseppe Manzoni, Aydin Aysu, Elif Kavun,
The Fellowship of the Leak: Power Analysis of a Masked FrodoKEM Hardware Accelerator,
2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD),
2025
@inproceedings{
schmidICCAD25,
title = "The Fellowship of the Leak: Power Analysis of a Masked FrodoKEM Hardware Accelerator",
author = "Martin Schmid, Giuseppe Manzoni, Aydin Aysu, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)",
month = "October",
pages = "1-8",
doi = "10.1109/ICCAD66269.2025.11240695"
}
Ethan Cornett, Rahul Magesh, Sharath Pendyala, Elif Kavun, Aydin Aysu,
Deus Ex LLMs: AI vs Humans in Post-Quantum Cryptographic Hardware Code Generation,
2025 IFIP/IEEE 33rd International Conference On Very Large Scale Integration (VLSISoC),
2025
@inproceedings{
cornettVLSISoC25,
title = "Deus Ex LLMs: AI vs Humans in Post-Quantum Cryptographic Hardware Code Generation",
author = "Ethan Cornett, Rahul Magesh, Sharath Pendyala, Elif Kavun, Aydin Aysu",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "2025 IFIP/IEEE 33rd International Conference On Very Large Scale Integration (VLSISoC)",
month = "October"
}
Martin Schmid, Simon Böttger, Martin Ernst, Martin Hartmann, Sascha Hermann, Elif Kavun, Stefan Katzenbeisser,
Towards the FPGA Platform Integration of Carbon-Nanotubes in Physical Unclonable Functions,
CPS Summer School PHD Workshop (CPSWS'25),
2025
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@inproceedings{
schmidCPSWS25,
title = "Towards the FPGA Platform Integration of Carbon-Nanotubes in Physical Unclonable Functions",
author = "Martin Schmid, Simon Böttger, Martin Ernst, Martin Hartmann, Sascha Hermann, Elif Kavun, Stefan Katzenbeisser",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "CPS Summer School PHD Workshop (CPSWS'25)",
month = "September"
}
Anila Hoxha, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Talaya Farasat, Joachim Posegga, Elif Kavun,
FPGA-Accelerated Neural Networks for Real-Time Anomaly Detection using High-Level Synthesis,
CPS Summer School PHD Workshop (CPSWS'25),
2025
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@inproceedings{
hoxhaCPSWS25,
title = "FPGA-Accelerated Neural Networks for Real-Time Anomaly Detection using High-Level Synthesis",
author = "Anila Hoxha, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Talaya Farasat, Joachim Posegga, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "CPS Summer School PHD Workshop (CPSWS'25)",
month = "September"
}
Giuseppe Manzoni, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun,
An Optimized FrodoKEM Implementation on Reconfigurable Hardware,
6th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security & Privacy (LightSec),
2025
@inproceedings{
manzoniLightSec25,
title = "An Optimized FrodoKEM Implementation on Reconfigurable Hardware",
author = "Giuseppe Manzoni, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "6th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security & Privacy (LightSec)",
month = "September",
pages = "97-113",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-032-15541-2_6"
}
Martin Schmid, Elif Kavun,
Differential Power Analysis on Low-Energy Keystream Generating Hardware: Full-State Recovery in DIZY Implementation,
IEEE 36th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP),
2025
@inproceedings{
schmidASAP25,
title = "Differential Power Analysis on Low-Energy Keystream Generating Hardware: Full-State Recovery in DIZY Implementation",
author = "Martin Schmid, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "IEEE 36th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP)",
month = "July",
pages = "147-154",
doi = "10.1109/ASAP65064.2025.00032"
}
Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun,
MT-TMVP: Modular Tiled TMVP-based Polynomial Multiplication for Post-Quantum Cryptography on FPGAs,
25th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS),
2025
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@inproceedings{
neisarianSAMOS25,
title = "MT-TMVP: Modular Tiled TMVP-based Polynomial Multiplication for Post-Quantum Cryptography on FPGAs",
author = "Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "25th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS)",
month = "June"
}
Joseph Chang, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Nico Mexis, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Tolga Arul, Elif Kavun,
Ternary PUF-based Secure Mutual Authentication Using RNNs for Sequence Learning in Response Classification,
21st International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD),
2025
@inproceedings{
changSMACD25,
title = "Ternary PUF-based Secure Mutual Authentication Using RNNs for Sequence Learning in Response Classification",
author = "Joseph Chang, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Nico Mexis, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Tolga Arul, Elif Kavun",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "21st International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)",
month = "July",
pages = "1-4",
doi = "10.1109/SMACD65553.2025.11091973"
}
Selma Brimah, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Tolga Arul, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos,
An Evaluation of LM35 Temperature Sensors as Physical Unclonable Functions,
2025 IEEE Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies Conference (ZINC),
2025
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@inproceedings{
brimahZINC25,
title = "An Evaluation of LM35 Temperature Sensors as Physical Unclonable Functions",
author = "Selma Brimah, Shekoufeh Neisarian, Elif Kavun, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Tolga Arul, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "2025 IEEE Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies Conference (ZINC)",
month = "May",
pages = "86-91",
doi = "10.1109/ZINC65316.2025.11103559"
}
