Hi list,

as I announced, for the next reading group (March 11th) I prepared security related papers. Please vote which one you'd like to see presented by Monday evening. I've already read two of them and they are very cool :)

[ ] Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces. Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno. USENIX Security, August 10–12, 2011. http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

[ ] On the Vulnerability of FPGA Bitstream Encryption against Power Analysis Attacks – Extracting Keys from Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs. Amir Moradi and Alessandro Barenghi and Timo Kasper and Christof Paar, 2011 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/390.pdf

[ ] Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip. Sergei Skorobogatov, Christopher Woods, 2012 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf

-Michal