Chester Rebeiro Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras chester[at]cse.iitm.ac.in www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~chester

Research Interests

Select Recent Publications

Books

• Timing Channels in Cryptography (Springer) [link]

Journals

• TESLA: Trusted Execution Support for Legacy Applications (IACR TCHES, 2025) [link]
• Systematic Analysis of Moving Target Defenses for Branch Prediction Attacks (IEEE TDSC 2025) [link]
• SUNDEW: A Case-Sensitive Detection Engine to Counter Malware Diversity (IEEE TDSC 2024) [link]
• PROMISE: A Programmable Hardware Monitor for Secure Execution in Zero Trust Networks (IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2024) [link]
• FaultMeter: Quantitative Fault Attack Assessment of Block Cipher Software (IACR TCHES, 2023) [link]
• SIGNED: A Challenge-Response Scheme for Electronic Hardware Watermarking (IEEE TComp, 2022) [link]
• A Formal Analysis of Prefetching in Profiled Cache-Timing Attacks on Block Ciphers (Journal of Cryptology, 2021) [link]
• PERI: a Posit enabled RISC-V core (ACM TACO, 2021) [link]
• FEDS: Comprehensive Fault Attack Exploitability Detection for Software Implementations of Block Ciphers (IACR TCHES, 2020) [link]
• BRUTUS: Refuting the Security Claims of the Cache Timing Randomization Countermeasure proposed in CEASER (IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2020) [link]

Conferences

• Anchors that Dont Lift: Understanding Supply Chain Driven Kernel Lock-In and Governance-Mediated Mitigation Strategies in SOHO (Usenix Security 2026)
• microSCALE: Static Analysis for Microarchitectural Side-channel Leakage Evaluation (Usenix Security 2026)
• KingsGuard: Enclave Data Protection Under Real-World TEE Vulnerabilities (CCS, 2026)
• FIDES: End-to-end Compartments for Mixed-language Systems (AsiaCCS, 2026)
• Athena: Analytical Timing-Aware Pre-Silicon Estimation of Side-Channel Leakage (DAC, 2026)
• Valkyrie: A Response Framework to Augment Runtime Detection of Time-Progressive Attacks (DSN, 2025) [link]
• GLiTCH : GLiTCH induced Transitions for Secure Crypto-Hardware (DAC, 2025) [link]
• WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors (USENIX Security, 2024) [link] (Distinguished Paper Award)
• Kryptonite: Worst-Case Program Interference Estimation on Multi-Core Embedded Systems (EMSOFT, 2023) [link]
• Timed Speculative Attacks exploiting Store to Load Forwarding bypassing Cache-based Countermeasures [link] (DAC, 2022)
• PARAM: A Microprocessor Hardened for Power Side-Channel Attack Resistance (IEEE HOST, 2020) [link] (Best Paper Award)
• SOLOMON: An Automated Framework for Detecting Fault Attack Vulnerabilities in Hardware (DATE, 2020) [link]
• Karna: A Gate-Sizing based Security aware EDA Flow for Improved Power Side-Channel Attack Protection (ICCAD 2019) [link]

Teaching

• Secure Processor Microarchitecture (CS6630) (Jan-Apr 2026)

Students

PostDocs

• Deepanjali S.
• Annapurna Valiveti
• Aditi Roy

PhD

• Reetwik Das
• Sai Venkata Krishnan (co-guided Dr. KC Sivaramakrishnan)
• Saltanat Firdous
• Pallavi Borkar
• Raghavendra Patil (External) (co-guided with Dr. Santanu Sarkar)
• Abdun Nihaal (co-guided by Dr. Madhu Mutyam)
• Rohin Menon (co-guided by Dr. Janakiraman V)
• Akshay Kumar
• Shailesh Tiwary
  

MS by Research

• Mahesh G
• Ritwik Badola
• Samyuktha M.
• Rohit Srinivas R G
• Meishty Pande
• Karthikeyan R.
• Arpit Goyal
• Naveen Babu
• Ankita Das

Professional Activities

Editorial

• Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HASS), Springer (Associate Editor 2021-2024)

Conferences/Workshops Conducted

• ATS 2024 (Program CoChair)
• SPACE 2024 (General CoChair)
• INDOCRYPT 2023 (Program CoChair)
• Organizer e-CTF Embedded Capture The Flag
• NPTEL+ Online Workshop[, Theory and Practice of Side Channel Attacks in Cryptography, July 2022

Invited Talks, Posters, and Workshops

Downloads

• AES SBox Composite Field Implementations for FPGAs [code]
• Tools for Automated Fault Attack Evaluation
• Aleph One's Stack Smashing for Fun and Profit code for Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) (download)
• Elliptic Curve Crypto Processor for FPGA Platforms
• PSEC-KEM in Hardware and Software Platforms

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