Adapting Kerckhoffs's Principle: CPU Attacks Leading a Path from Cryptography to Open-Source Hardware
The work
| Authors | Thorsten Knoll |
|---|---|
| Editors | |
| Type | inproceedings |
| Year | 2018 |
| Citekey | knoll2018adapting |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Fourth Wiesbaden Workshop on Advanced Microkernel Operating Systems (WAMOS 2018) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences |
| Volume | 93 |
Abstract
Kerckhoffs principle (KP) took cryptography to new levels of openness, even beeing published 135 years ago . Actual CPUs are very closed systems and since the beginning of 2018 more and more attacks on mainstream CPUs come up. The only short term solutions are mitigations. In this work a modern interpretation of KP is used to draw a picture of how attacks move secrets to public and mitigations close this security gap. Further the need of Open Source Hardware (OSH) is fomulated based on this observations. An overview of actual work contributing to OSH is listed and a path for future development towards OSH is proposed.
A copy is held
pdf, 6.2 MB. Not published — it may be under copyright. The facts and links here are.
How it got here
| How it got here | import via bibtex |
|---|---|
| Added | 2026-08-04 00:00 UTC |
| Approved by | a person 2026-08-16 16:06 UTC |
Cite it as
@inproceedings{knoll2018adapting,
title = {Adapting Kerckhoffs's Principle: CPU Attacks Leading a Path from Cryptography to Open-Source Hardware},
author = {Thorsten Knoll},
year = {2018},
booktitle = {Fourth Wiesbaden Workshop on Advanced Microkernel Operating Systems (WAMOS 2018)},
publisher = {RheinMain University of Applied Sciences},
volume = {93},
}
This record lives at https://refs.drheap.org/knoll2018adapting/ and will keep doing so.