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Research Interests:
Physical Unclonable Functions
Error Correction for PUFs
Publications:
2016
Matthias Hiller, Michael Pehl, Gerhard Kramer and Georg Sigl, Algebraic Security Analysis of Key Generation with Physical Unclonable Functions, to appear at PROOFS 2016.
Matthias Hiller, Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu and Georg Sigl, Cherry-Picking Reliable PUF Bits with Differential Sequence Coding, to appear at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2016.
Jeroen Delvaux, Dawu Gu, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Matthias Hiller and Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu, Efficient Fuzzy Extraction of PUF-Induced Secrets: Theory and Applications, Benedikt Gierlichs and Axel Poschmann, editors, to appear at Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2016.
Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu, Matthias Hiller, Jeroen Delvaux, Richard Sowell, Srinivas Devadas and Ingrid Verbauwhede, A Lockdown Technique to Prevent Machine Learning on PUFs for Lightweight Authentication, to appear at IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, 2016.
Michael Pehl, Matthias Hiller and Helmut Graeb, Efficient Evaluation of Physical Unclonable Functions Using Entropy Measures, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, World Scientific Publishing Company, 1640001, Vol. 25 (1), 2016.
2015
Jeroen Delvaux, Dawu Gu, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Matthias Hiller and Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu, Secure Sketch Metamorphosis: Tight Unifed Bounds, IACR ePrint Archive, Report 2015/854.
Stephan Kleber, Florian Unterstein, Matthias Matousek, Frank Kargl, Frank Slomka and Matthias Hiller, Design of the Secure Execution PUF-based Processor (SEPP), TRUDEVICE Workshop on Secure Hardware and Security Evaluation, September 2015.
Stephan Kleber, Florian Unterstein, Matthias Matousek, Frank Kargl, Frank Slomka and Matthias Hiller, Secure Execution Architecture based on PUF-driven Instruction Level Code Encryption, IACR ePrint Archive, Report 2015/651.
Matthias Hiller, Ludwig Kürzinger, Georg Sigl, Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert, Low-Area Reed Decoding in a Generalized Concatenated Code Construction for PUF, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), July 2015 - Best Poster Award.
Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu, Matthias Hiller and Srinivas Devadas, Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Device-Specific Multi-Bit Symbols for Reliable Key Generation, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), May 2015.
Matthias Hiller, Michael Pehl and Georg Sigl, Fehlerkorrekturverfahren zur sicheren Schlüsselerzeugung mit Physical Unclonable Functions, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, Springer, vol. 39 (4), pp. 229-233, 2015.
Matthias Hiller, Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu and Michael Pehl, Systematic Low Leakage Coding for Physical Unclonable Functions, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), pp. 155-166, April 2015.
Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Martin Bossert, Matthias Hiller and Georg Sigl, On Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions, International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC), IEEE, February 2015.
2014
Michael Pehl, Akshara Ranjit Punnakkal, Matthias Hiller and Helmut Graeb, Advanced Performance Metrics for Physical Unclonable Functions, International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), IEEE, December 2014.
Florian Wilde, Matthias Hiller and Michael Pehl, Statistic-Based Security Analysis of Ring Oscillator PUFs, International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), IEEE, December 2014.
Bernhard Jungk, Leandro Rodrigues Lima and Matthias Hiller, A Systematic Study of Lightweight Hash Function Implementations on FPGAs, International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), IEEE, December 2014.
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, Martin Bossert, Matthias Hiller and Georg Sigl, Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions Using Generalized Concatenated Codes, International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding (ACCT), September 2014.
Matthias Hiller, Leandro Rodrigues Lima and Georg Sigl, Seesaw: An Area-Optimized FPGA Viterbi Decoder for PUFs, Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), IEEE, pp. 387-393, August 2014.
Matthias Hiller and Georg Sigl, Increasing the Efficiency of Syndrome Coding for PUFs with Helper Data Compression, Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) Conference & Exhibition, ACM/IEEE, March 2014.
2013
Matthias Hiller, Michael Weiner, Leandro Rodrigues Lima, Maximilian Birkner and Georg Sigl, Breaking through Fixed PUF Block Limitations with Differential Sequence Coding and Convolutional Codes, International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices (TrustED), ACM, pp. 43-54, November 2013.
Matthias Hiller, Georg Sigl and Michael Pehl, A New Model for Estimating Bit Error Probabilities of Ring-Oscillator PUFs, International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC), IEEE, July 2013.
2012
Matthias Hiller, Fabrizio De Santis, Dominik Merli and Georg Sigl, Reliability Bound and Channel Capacity of IBS-based Fuzzy Embedders, NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), IEEE, pp. 213-220, June 2012.
Matthias Hiller, Dominik Merli, Frederic Stumpf and Georg Sigl, Complementary IBS: Application Specific Error Correction for PUFs, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), pp. 1-6, June 2012.
2010
Donald D. Duncan, Paul Lemaillet, Mohamed Ibrahim, Quan Dong Nguyen, Matthias Hiller and Jessica Ramella-Roman, Absolute Blood Velocity Measured with a Modified Fundus Camera, Journal of Biomedical Optics, SPIE, Vol. 15, 056014, 2010.
Patent:
Matthias Hiller, Michael Weiner and Georg Sigl, A method and an apparatus for deriving secret information from a series of response values and a method and an apparatus for providing helper data allowing to derive a secret information, EP 2773061B1, assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, issued 2015.
Theses:
Diploma Thesis: Optimized Fuzzy Extractor for PUFs on FPGAs, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, carried out at Fraunhofer AISEC, October 2011.
Student Project: Automated Tracing of Blood Vessels in the Eye, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, carried out at Portland State University (USA), June 2010.
Teaching:
Cryptography Lab in the Praktikum Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
Setup of the Security Experiment for the upcoming Industry 4.0 Lab Course
Open Thesis Topics:
Topics for theses, Hauptseminar, Forschungspraxis, Ingenieurspraxis and other projects are available upon request.
Supervised Theses:
Jason Bouroutis, Implementation of a Hardware Abstraction Layer for an Industry 4.0 Model, Bachelor's Thesis, April 2016.
Julian Leyh, Lightweight BCH Decoder Architectures for PUF-Based Key Generation, Bachelor's Thesis, October 2015.
Tobias Fuchs, Attack Schemes on DSC Helper Data, Bachelor's Thesis, July 2015.
Benjamin Nolet, Differential Sequence Coding with multi-rate encoding for PUFs, Master's Thesis, January 2015.
Ludwig Kürzinger, Analysis and Efficient Implementation of GC RM Error Correction Codes for PUFs, Diploma Thesis, December 2014.
Leow Chee Yew Justine, Security Analysis of PUF Data, Bachelor's Thesis, December 2013.
Rainer Kaiser, Design and Implementation of a PUF + TRNG Circuit, Bachelor's Thesis, November 2013.
Maximilian Birkner, Implementation of a Lightweight Hash Function, Bachelor's Thesis, March 2013.
Xiaoqing Wan, Design of a Hardware Efficient Fuzzy Embedder for PUFs on FPGAs, Master's Thesis, September 2012.