Publications

Academic journal papers

• Markus G. Kuhn: Cipher Instruction Search Attack on the Bus-Encryption Security Microcontroller DS5002FP. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 47, No. 10, October 1998, pp. 1153-1157, ISSN 0018-9340.
• Fabien A.P. Petitcolas, Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn: Information Hiding—A Survey, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 87, No. 7, July 1999, pp. 1062-1078, ISSN 0018-9219, DOI 10.1109/5.771065.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp 564–570, June 2013.
• Marios O. Choudary, Markus G. Kuhn: Efficient, portable template attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol 13, No 2, February 2018, pp 490–501, DOI 10.1109/TIFS.2017.2757440. (data set)
• Shih-Chun You, Markus G. Kuhn, Sumanta Sarkar, Feng Hao: Low trace-count template attacks on 32-bit implementations of ASCON AEAD. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Vol. 2023, No 4, pp 344–366, August 2023. (data set and code)
• Eric Chun-Yu Peng, Markus G. Kuhn: Adaptive Template Attacks on the Kyber Binomial Sampler. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Vol. 2025, No 3, pp 470–492. June 2025. (data set and code)

Conference and workshop contributions, refereed

• Markus G. Kuhn, Markus Prosch: Vorschlag für ein Dateiformat für die Verarbeitung, die Archivierung und den Austausch von Biosignal-Daten, in: R.G. Müller, J. Erb: Medizinische Physik 1993, 24. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik e.V., Tagungsband, S. 116f, Erlangen, Oktober 1993.
• Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn: Tamper Resistance — a Cautionary Note, The Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Proceedings, Oakland, California, November 18-21, 1996, pp. 1-11, ISBN 1-880446-83-9.
• Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn: Low Cost Attacks on Tamper Resistant Devices, in M. Lomas et al. (ed.): Security Protocols, 5th International Workshop, Paris, France, April 7-9, 1997, Proceedings, LNCS 1361, Springer-Verlag, pp. 125-136, ISBN 3-540-64040-1, DOI 10.1007/BFb0028165.
• Christoph Schuba, Ivan Krsul, Markus G. Kuhn, Eugene Spafford, Aurobindo Sundaram, Diego Zamboni: Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP, in Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 5-7, 1997. DOI: 10.1109/SECPRI.1997.601338
• M.A. Bashar, G. Krishnan, Markus G. Kuhn, Eugene H. Spafford, Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.: Low-threat security patches and tools, Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance, Bari, Italy, 1-3 October 1997, IEEE Computer Society, 1997, pp. 306-313, ISBN 0-8186-8013-X. (my Erdős number 2 link!)
• Markus G. Kuhn, Ross J. Anderson: Soft Tempest: Hidden Data Transmission Using Electromagnetic Emanations, in David Aucsmith (Ed.): Information Hiding, Second International Workshop, IH’98, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 15-17, 1998, Proceedings, LNCS 1525, Springer-Verlag, pp. 124-142, ISBN 3-540-65386-4, DOI 10.1007/3-540-49380-8_10.
• Fabien A.P. Petitcolas, Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn: Attacks on copyright marking systems, in David Aucsmith (Ed.): Information Hiding, Second International Workshop, IH’98, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 15-17, 1998, Proceedings, LNCS 1525, Springer-Verlag, pp. 219-239, ISBN 3-540-65386-4. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49380-8_16
• Oliver Kömmerling, Markus G. Kuhn: Design Principles for Tamper-Resistant Smartcard Processors, Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Smartcard Technology (Smartcard ’99), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 10-11, 1999, USENIX Association, pp. 9-20, ISBN 1-880446-34-0.
• Andrew D. McDonald, Markus G. Kuhn: StegFS: A Steganographic File System for Linux, in Andreas Pfitzmann (Ed.): Information Hiding, Third International Workshop, IH’99, Dresden, Germany, Sep. 29-Oct. 1, 1999, Proceedings, LNCS 1768, Springer-Verlag, pp. 463-477, ISBN 3-540-67182-X. DOI: 10.1007/10719724_32
• Markus G. Kuhn: Probabilistic Counting of Large Digital Signature Collections, Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, Colorado, USA, August 14-17, 2000, USENIX Association, pp. 73-83, ISBN 1-880446-18-9.
• Richard Clayton, George Danezis, Markus G. Kuhn: Real World Patterns of Failure in Anonymity Systems, in Ira S. Moskowitz (ed.): Information Hiding, 4th International Workshop, IHW 2001, Pittsburgh, USA, April 25-17, 2001, Proceedings, LNCS 2137, Springer-Verlag, pp. 230-245, ISBN 3-540-42733-3. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45496-9_17
• Markus G. Kuhn: Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays, Proceedings 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Berkeley, California, 12-15 May 2002, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 3-18, ISBN 0-7695-1543-6.
• Markus G. Kuhn: An Asymmetric Security Mechanism for Navigation Signals, 6th Information Hiding Workshop, 23-25 May 2004, Toronto, Canada, Proceedings, LNCS 3200, pp. 239–252, Springer-Verlag. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30114-1_17
• Markus G. Kuhn: Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Risks of Flat-Panel Displays, 4th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 26-28 May 2004, Toronto, Canada, Proceedings, LNCS 3424, pp. 88–105, Springer-Verlag. DOI: 10.1007/11423409_7
• Markus G. Kuhn: Security Limits for Compromising Emanations. J.R. Rao, B. Sundar (Eds.): Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2005), 29 August–1 September 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, LNCS 3659, pp. 265–279. DOI: 10.1007/11545262_20
• Gerhard P. Hancke, Markus G. Kuhn: An RFID Distance Bounding Protocol. IEEE SecureComm 2005, Athens, Greece, 5–9 September 2005, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 67–73, ISBN 0-7695-2369-2.
• Jolyon Clulow, Gerhard P. Hancke, Markus G. Kuhn, Tyler Moore: So Near and Yet So Far: Distance-Bounding Attacks in Wireless Networks. European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), Hamburg, Germany, 20–21 September 2006, LNCS 4357.
• Gerhard P. Hancke, Markus G. Kuhn: Attacks on Time-of-Flight Distance Bounding Channels. ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), March 31–April 2, 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
• Saar Drimer, Markus G. Kuhn: A Protocol for Secure Remote Updates of FPGA Configurations. In J. Becker et al. (Eds.): ARC 2009, LNCS 5453, pp. 50–61, 2009.
• Andrew B. Lewis, Markus G. Kuhn: Towards copy-evident JPEG images. Digitale Multimedia-Forensik, 39. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik 2009, Lübeck, Germany, GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics, Volume P154, pp 171;1582–91.
• Andrew B. Lewis, Markus G. Kuhn: Exact JPEG recompression. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 17–21 January 2010, San Jose, California, USA, Proc. SPIE 7543, 75430V. DOI: 10.1117/12.838878
• Markus G. Kuhn: Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets. IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC 2011), Long Beach, California, August 14–19, 2011, pp. 931–936, ISBN 978-1-4577-0811-4.
• Omar Choudary, Markus G. Kuhn: Efficient template attacks. CARDIS 2013, LNCS 8419, pp. 253–270, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08302-5_17 (data set)
• Omar Choudary, Markus G. Kuhn: Template attacks on different devices. COSADE 2014, LNCS 8622, pp. 179–198, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10175-0_13
• Marios O. Choudary, Markus G. Kuhn: Efficient stochastic methods: profiled attacks beyond 8 bits. CARDIS 2014, LNCS 8968, pp. 85–103, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16763-3_6
• Khaled Baqer, Johann Bezuidenhoudt, Ross Anderson, Markus Kuhn: SMAPs: Short Message Authentication Protocols. Security Protocols XXIV, LNCS 10368, pp 119-132, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62033-6_15
• Shih-Chun You, Markus G. Kuhn: A template attack to reconstruct the input of SHA-3 on an 8-bit device. Presented at COSADE 2020, 5–7 October 2020, Springer, LNCS 12244, pp 25-42. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68773-1_2
• Shih-Chun You, Markus G. Kuhn: Single-trace fragment template attack on a 32-bit implementation of Keccak. CARDIS 2021, 11–12 November 2021, Lübeck, Springer, LNCS 13173, pp 3–23, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97348-3_1
• Dimitrije Erdeljan, Markus G. Kuhn: Benefits of coherent demodulation for eavesdropping on HDMI emissions. EMC Europe 2024, 2–5 September 2024, Bruges, Belgium. (slides)
• Dimitrije Erdeljan, Markus G. Kuhn: Multiband pixel colour classification from HDMI emissions. EMC Europe 2025, 1–5 September 2025, Paris, France.

Invited papers

• Markus G. Kuhn: Eavesdropping attacks on computer displays. Information Security Summit, Prague, 24–25 May 2006.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Technical perspective: Backdoor engineering. Communications of the ACM, Volume 61, Issue 11, November 2018, Page 147.

Book contributions

• Markus G. Kuhn: “Compromizing emanations”, “Data remanence”, “Smartcard tamper resistance”, “TEMPEST”. Entries in Henk C.A. van Tilborg (ed.): Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Security, Springer, 2005, ISBN 0-387-23473-X.
• Markus G. Kuhn: “Signal authentication in trusted satellite navigation receivers”. In Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, David Naccache (Eds.): Towards Hardware-Intrinsic Security, Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14451-6. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14452-3_15

Technical reports

• Markus G. Kuhn: Specification of the EBS File Format for Bio-Signals, Technical Report, Institut für Physiologie und Biokybernetik, Erlangen, Oktober 1993.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-577, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, December 2003. DOI: 10.48456/tr-577
• Ballot printer – performance of eavesdropping protection – radio-frequency emissions. Specificaties voor stemprinter en stemmenteller. Bijlage 2016D17983: Methode voor het bepalen van effectiviteit van maatregelen tegen compromitterende straling. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (House of Representatives, Netherlands), kamerstuk, 28 April 2016.
• Ballot printer – protection against eavesdropping attacks – guidance for system designers. Specificaties voor stemprinter en stemmenteller. Bijlage 2016D17984: Richtlijnen ter voorkoming van compromitterende straling. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (House of Representatives, Netherlands), kamerstuk, 28 April 2016.
• Markus Kuhn: Unicode interpretation of SOFT HYPHEN breaks ISO 8859-1 compatibility. Unicode Technical Committee, document L2/03-155R, 2003-06-04.

Posters

• Markus G. Kuhn, Steven J. Murdoch, Piotr Zieliński: Compounds: a next-generation hierarchical data model. Poster, Microsoft Research Academic Days, Dublin, 13-16 April 2004.
• Shih-Chun You, Markus G. Kuhn, Sumanta Sarkar, Feng Hao: A Template Attack on ASCON AEAD. CHES 2022, Leuven, Belgium.

Patents

• Markus Günther Kuhn, Ross John Anderson: Low cost countermeasure against compromising electromagnetic computer emanations. UK Patent GB2333883, granted 2002-09-17, filed 1998-01-28, (application number GB9801745.2)
• Markus Günther Kuhn, Ross John Anderson: Software piracy detector sensing electromagnetic computer emanations. UK Patent GB2330924, granted 2003-08-06, filed 1997-10-29, (application number GB9722799.5)
• Ross John Anderson, Markus Günther Kuhn: Low cost countermeasures against compromising electromagnetic computer emanations. US Patent US6721423, granted 2004-04-13, filed 1999-01-28.
• Christoph L. Schuba, Ivan V. Krsul, Diego Zamboni, Eugene H. Spafford, Aurobindo M. Sundaram, Markus G. Kuhn: Network protection for denial of service attacks. US Patent US6725378, granted 2004-04-20, filed 1999-04-15.
• Markus Guenther Kuhn: Positioning system. UK Patent GB2413448, granted 2007-03-07, filed 2004-04-19 (application number GB0408683.1)

Other publications with my name on

• Gunther Hellmann, Markus G. Kuhn, Markus Prosch, Manfred Spreng, H. Stefan: Entscheidungen zur EEG/MEG-Datenspeicherung: Untersuchungen zu Kosten, Kompression und Langzeitarchivierung, Epilepsie-Blätter, Gemeinsame Tagung der Deutschen, Italienischen und Österreichischen Sektion der Internationalen Liga gegen Epilepsie, Meran, 1993.
• Manfred Spreng, Gunther Hellmann, Markus G. Kuhn, K.-D. Reinartz, H. Stefan: Bearbeitung von evozierten Potentialen und Epilepsie-EEG/MEG mit unüberwacht lernenden Klassifikatoren, Biomedizinische Technik, Graz, 1993.
• Manfred Spreng, Gunther Hellmann, Markus G. Kuhn, K.-D. Reinartz, H. Stefan: Unsupervised EEG/ECoG/MEG Classification in Epilepsy Using Array Processors, in: M. Eiselt, U. Zwiener, H. Witte (ed.): Quantitative and topological EEG and MEG analysis, Universitätsverlag Druckhaus Mayer, Jena, 1995, pp. 133-136, ISBN 3-925978-45-3.
• Gunther Hellman, Markus G. Kuhn, Markus Prosch, Manfred Spreng: Extensible biosignal (EBS) file format: simple method for EEG data exchange, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 99, No. 5, November 1996, Elsevier Science, pp. 426-431.
• Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn: Soft Tempest – An Opportunity for NATO, in Information Systems Technology (IST) Symposium "Protecting NATO Information Systems in the 21^st Century", Washington, DC, USA, 25-27 October 1999, RTO-MP-27, AC/323(IST)TP/3, chapter 5, NATO Research and Technology Organization (RTO), May 2000.
• Simon W. Moore, Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn, Improving Smartcard Security using Self-timed Circuit Technology, Fourth ACiD-WG Workshop, Grenoble, ISBN 2-913329-44-6, 2000.
• Andreas Pfitzmann, Hannes Federrath, Markus Kuhn: Anforderungen an die gesetzliche Regulierung zum Schutz digitaler Inhalte unter Berücksichtigung der Effektivität technischer Schutzmechanismen (Technischer Teil). A study commissioned by Deutscher Multimedia Verband (dmmv) e.V. and Verband Privater Rundfunk & Telekommunikation (VPRT) e.V., 2002-03-13.

Popular-science or trade-press articles, reprints

• Markus Kuhn: Am Anschlag : V.34: der neue Modemstandard für 28 000 Bit/s, iX 2/1995, pp. 144-153, Verlag Heinz Heise, Germany, ISSN 0935-9680.
• Markus Kuhn: In die Röhre geguckt : Unerwünschte Abstrahlung erlaubt Lauschangriffe, c’t 24/1998, pp. 90-97, Verlag Heinz Heise, Germany, ISSN 0724-8679.
• Markus Kuhn, Oliver Kömmerling: Physical Security of Smartcards, Information Security Technical Report, Vol. 4, No. 2, Elsevier Advanced Technology, 1999, pp. 28-41, ISSN 1363-4127.
• Markus Kuhn: An extra second on the clock: why moving from astronomic to atomic time is a tricky business. The Conversation, 8 January 2015.
• Markus Kuhn: Time to disconnect: why the SIM card has had its day. The Conversation, 5 March 2015.

Talks

• Markus G. Kuhn: Probability Theory for Pickpockets, DREI’97 workshop talk, Ruttgers University, New Jersey, USA, 1997-08-14.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Attacks on Pay-TV Access Control Systems, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Security Seminar talk, 1997-12-09.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Hardware Security – Smartcards and other Tamper-Resistant Modules, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Departmental Seminar talk, 1998-02-04.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Hardware Sicherheit – Chipkarten und andere Sicherheitsprozessoren, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Regionales Rechenzentrum Kolloquium, 1998-02-17.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Electromagnetic eavesdropping on computers, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Departmental Seminar talk, 2002-06-12.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Leap-second considerations in distributed computer systems, ITU-R SRG 7A Colloquium on the UTC timescale, Torino, Italy, 2003-05-29.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Positioning Security – from electronic warfare to cheating RFID and road-tax systems. escar – Embedded Security in Cars, 4th Workshop, 14–15 November 2006, Berlin.
• Markus G. Kuhn: Trojan hardware – some strategies and defenses. Security Hardware in Theory and Practice – A Marriage of Convenience, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 19 June 2008.
• Markus G. Kuhn: GNSS signal authentication methods. Foundations for Forgery-Resilient Cryptographic Hardware, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 5–8 July 2009.
• Simon Schwarz, Markus Kuhn: Modelling cryptographic side-channels with Julia types, JuliaCon 2021, online event, 28–30 July 2021.
• Dimitrije Erdeljan, Markus G. Kuhn: Synchronizing IQ-downconverted video signals using complex-valued cross-correlation. EMC Europe 2024, 2–5 September 2024, Bruges, Belgium.
• Markus G. Kuhn, Dimitrije Erdeljan: Side-channel security requirements for electronic voting equipment. EMC Europe 2024, 2–5 September 2024, Bruges, Belgium.

Software packages

• JBIG-KIT
• OTPW
• UCS-Fonts
• Ucampas

Google scholar citations, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Apollo, Microsoft Academic Search, ScholarGPS

ResearcherID A-3593-2009, orcid.org/0000-0003-3902-5435, ISIN 0000 0003 5285 4289, Scopus 55629274500