publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2023

  1. TCHES
    PMFault: Faulting and Bricking Server CPUs through Management Interfaces: Or: A Modern Example of Halt and Catch Fire
    Zitai Chen, and David Oswald
    IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Mar 2023
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2022

  1. CCS
    MetaEmu: An Architecture Agnostic Rehosting Framework for Automotive Firmware
    Zitai Chen, Sam L. Thomas, and Flavio D. Garcia
    In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Mar 2022
    DOI

2021

  1. USENIX Security
    VoltPillager: Hardware-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX Enclaves using the SVID voltage scaling interface
    Zitai Chen, Georgios Vasilakis, Kit Murdock, and 3 more authors
    In 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21), Aug 2021
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  2. TCHES
    Cutting Through the Complexity of Reverse Engineering Embedded Devices
    Sam L. Thomas, Jan Herrewegen, Georgios Vasilakis, and 3 more authors
    IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Jul 2021
    DOI HTML PDF

Talks

2021

  1. hardware.io
    Stealing secrets from Intel vaults, with side channels and voltage faults
    David Oswald, and Zitai Chen
    2021
    Hardware.io Webiner
  2. FOSDEM
    Hardwared Based CPU Undervolting on The Cheap: Stealing Your Secrets for $30
    Zitai Chen
    2021
    FOSDEM 2021

2023

  1. BlackHat
    PMFault: Voltage Fault Injection on Server Platforms Through the PMBus
    Zitai Chen, and David Oswald
    2023
    BlackHat ASIA 2023