New Research Training Group in IT Security The German Research Foundation (DFG) will support research in future IT systems with more than €4m. Examples for applications considered are the new German citizencard or intelligent traffic management and their interconnection via the "cloud".

Bitstream Encyption Our team has developed a successful attack to bypass the encryption mechanisms protecting the configuration of modern FPGAs. The attack allows to clone a protected FPGA configuration (similar to copying sof­ware) and is the basis for advanced attacks such as reverseengineering and the introduction of hardware Trojans. (more...)

• Courses
  This sommer term the chair for Embedded Security offers the following courses:
  • Introduction to Cryptography and Datasecurity II
  • Implementation of Cryptographic Schemes II
  • Physical Attacks and Countermeasures
  • Ad­van­ced Di­gi­tal Sys­tem De­sign
  
  
• Practical Training Courses
  • FPGA-Praktikum
  
  
• Seminars
  • Bachelor- und Masterseminar Embedded Security
  • Mas­ter-Se­mi­nar Smart Tech­no­lo­gies for Ve­hi­cu­lar Sys­tems
  
  

More training courses and bachelor and master projects are available
at the webpage of the Hardware Security Group.

	Das Labor offers space for experimentation, discussions and project realizations in a comfortable ambiance. The club, recently founded in Bochum, invites all interested people to free lectures, workshops or discussions about the human-technology-society relationship.