Innstr. 43
94032 Passau
Room: ITZ/IH 121
Phone: +49(0)851/509-3214
E-Mail: Martin.Schmid@uni-passau.de
Currently, I am a research assistant at the chair of computer engineering and the professorship for secure intelligent systems at the University of Passau under the direction of Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser and Prof. Dr. Elif Bilge Kavun. I am employed under the research project NANOSEC, which analyzes the usage of an array of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) as a PUF. I further implement cryptographic schemes on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and evaluate them regarding performance, efficiency and robustness against side-channel attacks.
If you are interested in a thesis in the domain of hardware security or Physical Unclonable Functions please write me an e-mail on
There exists a detailed task description for each of the below mentioned theses. Just send me a message to request a full description.
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) generate unique digital fingerprints from manufacturing variations and are used for secure key generation and device authentication. Despite their promise, PUFs are vulnerable to a variety of physical attacks targeting their cells, readout circuitry, or error-correction logic. This thesis surveys existing and emerging attack methods, with a special focus on PUFs based on carbon-nanotube transistors (CNTFETs). Finally, selected attacks should be reproduced experimentally on available PUFs to validate the theoretical analysis.
