Recent publications
Article
Jackson, J, Jiang, M & Oswald, D 2025, 'CHERI-Crypt: Transparent Memory Encryption on Capability Architectures', IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2025, no. 2, pp. 268-292. https://doi.org/10.46586/tches.v2025.i2.268-292
Chen, Z & Oswald, D 2023, 'PMFault: Faulting and Bricking Server CPUs through Management Interfaces: Or: A Modern Example of Halt and Catch Fire', IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2023, no. 2, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.46586/tches.v2023.i2.1-23
Conference contribution
De Meulemeester, J, Wilke, L, Oswald, D, Eisenbarth , T, Verbauwhede, I & Van Bulck, J 2025, BadRAM: Practical Memory Aliasing Attacks on Trusted Execution Environments. in 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP): San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025. 1 edn, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, pp. 104-104, 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, California, United States, 12/05/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP61157.2025.00104.
Zhang, C, Yang, X, Oswald, D, Ryan, M & Jovanovic, P 2025, Eva: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Proof of Authenticity for Lossily Encoded Videos. in 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, California, United States, 12/05/25.
Henes, J, Muench, M, Oswald, D & Ragab, H 2025, Talk: Transient-execution attacks on the CHERI Morello platform. in 2025: Proceedings of the Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC '25). Proceedings of the Microarchitecture Security Conference, vol. 1, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, 1st Microarchitecture Security Conference, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 19/02/25. https://doi.org/10.46586/uasc.2025.104
Murdock, K, Thompson, M & Oswald, D 2024, FaultFinder: lightning-fast, multi-architectural fault injection simulation. in ASHES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 8th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 18/10/24.
Zhang, M, Marin, E, Ryan, M, Kostakos, V, Murray, T, Tag, B & Oswald, D 2024, OOBKey: Key Exchange with Implantable Medical Devices Using Out-Of-Band Channels. in 2024 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST). Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, IEEE.
Bowden, M, Chothia, T, Clee, A, Collins, S, Henes, J & Oswald, D 2024, Teaching Adversarial Thinking by Having Students Circumvent Exam Rules. in P Legg, N Coull & C Clarke (eds), Advances in Teaching and Learning for Cyber Security Education. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1213, Springer, pp. 75–95, The 4th Annual Advances in Cyber Security Education, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2/07/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77524-6_5
Pemberton, O & Oswald, D 2023, BioLeak: Exploiting Cache Timing to Recover Fingerprint Minutiae Coordinates. in ASHES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security. CCS: Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 61–72, 2023 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES ’23), Copenhagen, Denmark, 30/11/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3605769.3623994
Van Strydonck , T, Noorman , J, Jackson, J, Dias, L, Vanderstraeten , R, Oswald, D, Piessens, F & Devriese , D 2023, CHERI-TrEE: Flexible enclaves on capability machines. in EuroS&P - 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, pp. 1143-1159, 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Delft, Netherlands, 3/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP57164.2023.00070.
Alder, F, Daniel, L-A, Oswald, D, Piessens, F & Van Bulck, J 2023, Pandora: Principled Symbolic Validation of Intel SGX Enclave Runtimes. in 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , IEEE, 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, California, United States, 20/05/24.
Xu, Z, Pemberton, O, Oswald, D & Zheng, Z 2023, Reveal the invisible secret: chosen-ciphertext side-channel attacks on NTRU. in International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: CARDIS 2022: Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13820, Springer, pp. 227–247, 21st Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 7/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25319-5_12
Preprint
Spielman, J, Oswald, D, Ryan, M & Van Bulck, J 2025 'Activation Functions Considered Harmful: Recovering Neural Network Weights through Controlled Channels'. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19142>
Wang, Q & Oswald, D 2024 'Confidential Computing on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems: Survey and Future Directions' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.11601
Zhang, C, Yang, X, Oswald, D, Ryan, M & Jovanovic, P 2024 'Eva: Efficient IVC-Based Authentication of Lossy-Encoded Videos' Cryptology ePrint Archive. <https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1436>
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