I am a Security Architect at Infineon Technologies, Munich. Before that, I was a PhD student and Postdoc in the
Secure Systems
group at the
Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications
at
Graz University of Technology
.
There, I performed research on implementation attacks (side channels and faults) and respective countermeasures for cryptographic primitives. In particular, I focused on implementation security of lattice-based cryptography and other quantum-secure schemes.
Interests
Implementation Security
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Efficient Implementations
Education
PhD in Computer Science, 2018
Graz University of Technology
MSc in Information and Computer Engineering, 2014
Graz University of Technology
BSc in Information and Computer Engineering, 2011
Graz University of Technology
Publications
Elisabeth Krahmer, Peter Pessl, Georg Land, Tim Güneysu.
Correction Fault Attacks on Randomized CRYSTALS-Dilithium.IACR TCHES
2024.
Jan-Pieter D’Anvers, Daniel Heinz, Peter Pessl, Michiel Van Beirendonck, Ingrid Verbauwhede.
Higher-Order Masked Ciphertext Comparison for Lattice-Based Cryptography.IACR TCHES
2022.
Peter Pessl, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Yuval Yarom.
To BLISS-B or not to be: Attacking strongSwan's Implementation of Post-Quantum Signatures.ACM CCS
2017.
Peter Pessl, Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Michael Schwarz, Stefan Mangard.
DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU Attacks.USENIX Security Symposium
2016.
At Graz University of Technology, I taught the following courses.
Introduction to Information Security (practicals
2015
,
2016
,
2017
,
2018
)
Undergraduate course, programming exercises teaching the basics of information security.
Information Security (practicals
2019
)
Undergraduate course, programming exercises teaching the basics of information security.
Embedded Security (lecture and practicals
2017
,
2018
)
Graduate course on physical implementation attacks (power analysis, fault attacks) and countermeasures.
I also supervised several master and bachelor theses on side-channel attacks and efficient implementations of cryptography.
Besides, I held tutorials on side-channel attacks at the
Graz Security Week
(2017, 2018, 2019).
