M. Sc. Maik Ender

  • Research Assistant - Chair Embedded Security
Ender, Maik

Address

Max Planck Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy
Universitätsstr. 140
44799 Bochum
Germany

Due to restricted access to the office building meetings are only possible by appointment.

Room
extern
Email:
maik.ender@rub.de PGP key

Vita

  • Since 01/2017: Re­se­arch As­sis­tant/PhD Po­si­ti­on at the Chair for Em­bed­ded Se­cu­ri­ty, Horst Görtz In­sti­tu­te for IT-Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny
  • 10/2014 - 11/2016: Study of Mas­ter of Sci­ence in IT-Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny
  • 10/2011 - 09/2014: Study of Ba­che­lor of Sci­ence in IT-Se­cu­ri­ty, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bo­chum, Ger­ma­ny

Research

  • Hardware Trojans
  • Hardware Obfuscation
  • Security Aspects of FPGAs
  • FPGA Internals

Courses

Publications

2020
The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Chris­tof Paar - 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20), Boston, MA, USA, August 12-14, 2020. **Distinguished Paper Award**

2019
Highway to HAL

Sebastian Wallat, Nils Albartus, Steffen Becker, Max Hoffmann, Maik Ender, Marc Fyrbiak, Adrian Drees, Sebastian Maaßen, Chris­tof Paar - CF'19 Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers Pages 392-397

Insights into the mind of a trojan designer: the challenge to integrate a trojan into the bitstream

Maik Ender, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallat, Matthias Wilhelm, Paul Knopp, Chris­tof Paar - In Proceedings of the 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 112-119.

2018
Hardware Masking, Revisited

Thomas De Cnudde, Maik Ender, Amir Moradi - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2018, No. 2, pp 123-148, 2018. (presentation at CHES 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 9 – 12, 2018)

2017
The First Thorough Side-Channel Hardware Trojan

Maik Ender, Samaneh Ghandali, Amir Moradi, Chris­tof Paar - In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on the Theo­ry and Ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons of Cryp­to­lo­gy and In­for­ma­ti­on Se­cu­ri­ty, ASI­A­CRYPT 2017, Hong Kong, China, De­cem­ber 3 - 7, 2017.

SafeDRP: Yet Another Way Toward Power-Equalized Designs in FPGA

Maik Ender, Alexander Wild, Amir Moradi - In­ter­na­tio­nal Work­shop on Con­struc­tive Si­de-Chan­nel Ana­ly­sis and Se­cu­re De­sign, COSA­DE 2017, Paris, France, April 13-14, 2017.

2014
A Hardware-Assisted Proof-of-Concept for Secure VoIP Clients on Untrusted Operating Systems

Maik Ender, Düppmann, Gerd, Alexander Wild, Thomas Pöppelmann, Tim Güneysu - 2014 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2014), Cancun, Mexico, December 8-10, 2014