Wir laden herzlich zur CASA Distinguished Lecture am Donnerstag, 03. Juli 2025, ein. Diese Lecture ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung von CASA und des Max-Planck-Institut für Sicherheit und Privatsphäre.
Wann: 03.07.2025, 11:00 Uhr
Wo: MB1 Seminarraum (S-MO-104)
Online-Teilnahme: Zoom-Webinar (Meeting-ID: 680 8850 3529; Passwort: 364724)
Abstract. Hardware was once perceived as inherently secure. However, this notion of security by obscurity has steadily and surely eroded. Over the past few decades, a relentless stream of attacks -- including timing and power side channels, fault injection, Rowhammer, and microarchitectural leakage -- have demonstrated hardware's inherent vulnerabilities.
This talk touches upon ongoing hardware security research in the Kastner Research Group. I will discuss hardware security verification tools based on information flow tracking, a hyperflow analysis framework to generate insights about hardware weaknesses, techniques to automate the generation of hardware security properties, and a new class of side channels based on bias temperature instability.
The alternative title for this talk is "Ryan spouts a bunch of ideas so that he can say I told you so in 5 years (and conveniently ignore those that were wrong)."
Bio. Ryan Kastner is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, where he holds the William Nachbar endowed chair. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science (2002) at UCLA, a Master’s degree in engineering (2000), and Bachelor’s degrees (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (1999) from Northwestern University. Professor Kastner leads the Kastner Research Group, whose current research interests are broad but generally fall into three areas: hardware acceleration, hardware security, and remote sensing. He is the co-director of the Wireless Embedded Systems Graduate Program – a specialized Master’s degree targeting individuals working in local industries. He co-founded and co-directs the Engineers for Exploration (E4E) program, which partners with archaeologists, biologists, ecologists, and marine scientists to create unique embedded computing systems to further their scientific research. Technologies developed by E4E were featured in the 2020 National Geographic Docuseries “Ancient China from Above.” E4E has involved hundreds of undergraduates over the past decade and has operated as a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate site since 2013. Prof. Kastner has been working in the hardware security space for over 15 years, including projects on FPGA security, 3D integrated circuit security, and hardware information flow tracking. He is the co-founder of Cycuity, which develops hardware security verification solutions. He is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the design and security of reconfigurable systems.”
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