Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology (the former “Computer Laboratory”) and a Fellow of Wolfson College.

• PhD, University of Cambridge (2002),
  Marie Curie scholarship
• MSc, Purdue University (1997),
  Fulbright scholarship
• Diplom-Informatiker, University of Erlangen (1996),
  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Research interests: computer security, in particular hardware and signal-processing aspects, including in particular compromising emanations, RFID security, and the security of positioning systems (distance-bounding protocols, authentication of navigation signals), hardware tamper resistance, smartcards, network security, intellectual-property protection technology and software-defined radio applications.

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• Information for local students: project ideas, supervisions
• Consulting services
• Security Group web pages

Contact information

Dr Markus Kuhn
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

Reachability status: Back in Cambridge, catching up with email.

Internships and visits: Since I quite regularly get email applications for internships: please note that I do not usually have any funding available for interships.

Publications

• Dimitrije Erdeljan, Markus G. Kuhn: Benefits of coherent demodulation for eavesdropping on HDMI emissions. EMC Europe 2024, 2–5 September 2024, Bruges, Belgium. (slides)
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Markus G. Kuhn: Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp 564–570, June 2013.

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Teaching

This academic year, I'm teaching third-year undergraduate courses in the Computer Science Tripos on Cryptography and Digital Signal Processing. A variant of the latter is also offered as module L314 for Masters students. I also prepared online tutorial lectures on Unix Tools and give brief introductions to LaTeX and Julia (formerly LaTeX and MATLAB). In previous years, I also taught a second-year undergraduate course Security and for Masters students a Hardware Security Practicals module or a reading class on Forensic Signal Analysis.

Course materials pages: 2025/26, 2024/25, 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14, 2012/13, 2011/12, 2010/11, 2009/10.

PhD students: Eric Chun-Yu Peng. Former PhD students of mine that have already graduated: Piotr Zieliński, Steven Murdoch, Gerhard Hancke, Saar Drimer, Andrew Lewis, Marios Omar Choudary, Christian O'Connell, Shih-Chun You, Dimitrije Erdeljan.

We organize a Security Seminar Series, which is open to the public.