Dr.-Ing. Timo Kasper

Former Assistant - Chair Embedded Security

Address

Dept. of Electr. Eng. and Information Technology
Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Germany

Email:: timo.kasper@ruhr-uni-bochum.de PGP key

Vita

Since Oct. 2006: Researcher at the Chair for Embedded Security
2004: Semester abroad at the University of Sheffield, UK
1999: Studies of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum

Besides regular lectures at the Ruhr-University Bochum Timo has been teaching at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Czech Technical University (CVUT) in Prague.

Research

Timo is interested in all kinds of Embedded Security Devices, with a focus on

Security of Real-World Embedded Systems
RFID and Wireless Communication
Fault Injection and Side-Channel Analysis
Microcontrollers, Smartcards and FPGAs

Timo's Diploma Thesis Embedded Security Analysis of RFID Devices was decorated with the 1st place of the Award for IT Security 2006 (CAST, Darmstadt). His dissertation Security Analysis of Pervasive Wireless Devices - Physical and Protocol Attacks in Practice obtained the 1st place of the award for the most outstanding PhD Thesis in IT Security 2012 (CAST, Darmstadt).

Projects

EMSEC Projects

Projects supported by the Government

Open-Source Projects

Videos

Security of Wireless Devices in the Real World, including playing the Mafia game (from 1982) Milking the Digital Cash Cow
All details about KeeLoq, including live-demo, together with Thomas Eisenbarth: Messing around with garage doors

Publications

Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Security in the Internet of Things

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Information Security Theory and Practice. Securing the Internet of Things - 8th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 30 - July 2, 2014.

Fuming Acid and Cryptanalysis: Handy Tools for Overcoming a Digital Locking and Access Control System

Daehyun Strobel, Benedikt Driessen, Gregor Leander, Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar - Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2013 - 33rd Annual Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 18-22, 2013

When Reverse-Engineering Meets Side-Channel Analysis–Digital Lockpicking in Practice

David Oswald, Daehyun Strobel, Falk Schellenberg, Timo Kasper, Christof Paar - Selected Areas in Cryptography -- SAC 2013, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, 571-588

Rights Management with NFC Smartphones and Electronic ID Cards: A Proof of Concept for Modern Car Sharing

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christian Zenger, Christof Paar - 9th Workshop on RFID Security, RFIDsec 2013, July 9-11, 2013, Graz, Austria

Wireless Devices and Cryptography: About Digital Pickpocketing, Open Sesame and Tracking Paranoia

Timo Kasper - it - Information Technology: Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 123-128

High-Performance Cryptanalysis on RIVYERA and COPACOBANA Computing Systems

Tim Güneysu, Timo Kasper, Martin Novotný, Christof Paar, Lars Wienbrandt, Ralf Zimmermann - "High-Performance Computing Using FPGAs", Vanderbauwhede, Benkrid (Eds.), p. 335-366, February 2013, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-4614-1790-3

Security of Wireless Embedded Devices in the Real World

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Information Security Solutions (ISSE) 2011 - Securing Electronic Business Processes (November 22-23 2011, Prague, Czech Republic)

Wireless security threats: Eavesdropping and detecting of active RFIDs and remote controls in the wild

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - 19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM)

Praktische Angriffe auf die Bitstromverschlüsselung von Xilinx FPGAs

Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD - Ausgabe 11/2011 - http://www.dud.de/Ausgabe/2011-11.html

Seitenkanalanalyse kontaktloser SmartCards

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD - Ausgabe 11/2011 - http://www.dud.de/Ausgabe/2011-11.html

On the Vulnerability of FPGA Bitstream Encryption against Power Analysis Attacks – Extracting Keys from Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs

Amir Moradi, Alessandro Barenghi, Timo Kasper, Christof Paar - 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17-21, 2011, pages 111-124.

Side-Channel Analysis of Cryptographic RFIDs with Analog Demodulation

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - 7th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy 2011, RFIDSec 2011, Amherst, USA, June 26–28, 2011

A Versatile Framework for Implementation Attacks on Cryptographic and Embedded Devices

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010

Cloning Cryptographic RFID Cards for 25$

Timo Kasper, Ingo von Maurich, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Presented at the 5th Benelux Workshop on Information and System Security, WisSec 2010, November 29-30, 2010, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Chameleon: A Versatile Emulator for Contactless Smartcards

Timo Kasper, Ingo von Maurich, David Oswald, Christof Paar - 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2010, Seoul, Korea, December 1-3, 2010, volume 6829 of LNCS, pages 189-206, Springer.

Combined Implementation Attack Resistant Exponentiation

Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Michael Tunstall, Roberto Maria Avanzi, Ilya Kizhvatov, Timo Kasper, David Oswald - Springer LNCS 6112, LATINCRYPT 2010, Puebla, Mexico.

All You Can Eat or Breaking a Real-World Contactless Payment System

Timo Kasper, Michael Silbermann, Christof Paar - Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 10 January 25-28, 2010, to be published in Springer LNCS.

A New Remote Keyless Entry System Resistant to Power Analysis Attacks

Amir Moradi, Timo Kasper - 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS 2009, Macau, China, Dezember 7-10, 2009.

Cryptanalysis of KeeLoq with COPACOBANA

Martin Novotny, Timo Kasper - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems 2009, SHARCS 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland. September 9-10, 2009.

KeeLoq and Side-Channel Analysis --- Evolution of an Attack

Christof Paar, Thomas Eisenbarth, Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi - 6th IEEE Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2009.Lausanne, Switzerland, September 6, 2009.

EM Side-Channel Attacks on Commercial Contactless Smartcards using Low-Cost Equipment

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - 10th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2009, Busan, Korea. August 25-27, 2009.

New Methods for Cost-Effective Side-Channel Attacks on Cryptographic RFIDs

Timo Kasper, David Oswald, Christof Paar - Workshop on RFID Security 2009, RFIDSec 2009, Leuven, Belgium, 30. Juni - 2.Juli, 2009.

Breaking KeeLoq in a Flash: On Extracting Keys at Lightning Speed

Markus Kasper, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar - 2nd International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2009, Gammarth, Tunisia, 21-25 Juni, 2009.

On the Power of Power Analysis in the Real World: A Complete Break of the KeeLoq Code Hopping Scheme

Thomas Eisenbarth, Timo Kasper, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh, Mohammad T. Manzuri Shalmani - 28th International Cryptology Conference -- CRYPTO 2008. Santa Barbara, California, USA. August 17-21, 2008.

Sicherheit moderner Funktüröffnersysteme

Thomas Eisenbarth, Timo Kasper, Christof Paar - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD Volume 32 Ausgabe 8 - August 2008 - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1614-0702/32/8/ - http://www.dud.de/

Susceptibility of eSTREAM Candidates towards Side Channel Analysis

Benedikt Gierlichs, Lejla Batina, Christophe Clavier, Thomas Eisenbarth, Aline Gouget, Helena Handschuh, Timo Kasper, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Stefan Mangard, Amir Moradi, Elisabeth Oswald - The State of the Art of Stream Ciphers, SASC 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland. Februar, 13-14 2008.

Cryptanalysis with COPACOBANA

Tim Güneysu, Timo Kasper, Martin Novotny, Christof Paar, Andy Rupp - IEEE Transactions on Computers, November 2008, vol. 57, no. 11, 2008.

E-Passport: Cracking Basic Access Control Keys

Yifei Liu, Timo Kasper, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar - On the move, OTM2007, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007.

Collision Attacks on AES-based MAC: Alpha-MAC

A. Biryukov, Andrey Bogdanov, D. Khovratovich, Timo Kasper - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2007, 9. International Workshop, Vienna, Austria, Proceedings. LNCS, Springer-Verlag, September 10 - 13, 2007.

E-Passport: Cracking Basic Access Control Keys with Copacobana

Yifei Liu, Timo Kasper, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems, SHARCS Workshop 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 9-10, 2007.

A Lightweight Hardware Implementation of the Stream Cipher VEST-4

Timo Grendrullis, Timo Kasper, Christof Paar - Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology, WeWORC Workshop 2007, Bochum, Germany, July 4-6, 2007.

An Embedded System for Practical Security Analysis of Contactless Smartcards

Timo Kasper, Dario Carluccio, Christof Paar - Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2007, Springer LNCS 4462, pp. 150-160, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Mai 2007.

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