[Last update: 17 August 2026]

Who Am I?

I am currently assistant professor (Maitre de conference) in computer science at University of Rennes. I am member of the Capsule team, inside the IRISA laboratory. My research focus on side-channel analysis.

I am involved in the ANR project IDROMEL: Improving the Design of secure systems by a Reduction Of Micro-architectural Effects on side-channeL Attacks (IRISA, LAAS-CNRS, LIP6, CEA-list, ARM, DGA). I am also involved in PQ-TLS.

I was previously:

• postdoc in Emsec team on the ANR project AHMA: Automated Hardware Malware Analysis,
• Postdoc in the MAIS team, inside TU-Darmstadt. I was supervised by Heiko Mantel, involved in the DFG collaborative research center CROSSING and created the side-channel lab.

I completed my PhD at Secure-IC and COMELEC supervised by Sylvain Guilley:

1. Multidimensionality of the models and the data in the side-channel domain. (Multidimensionnalité des modèles et des données dans le domaine des canaux auxiliaires)

   Damien Marion - PhD thesis - Télécom Paris, France

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Newest Publications

1. Avengers assemble! Supervised learning meets lattice reduction: A single power trace attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber Key Generation

   Pierre-Alain Fouque, Damien Marion, Quyen Nguyen, and Alexandre Wallet - IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2025, September 14-18, 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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2. IoT Malware and RootkitDetections Using Electromagnetic Insights: Unveiling the Unseen

   Duy-Phuc Pham, Damien Marion, and Annelie Heuser - The Journal on Cybercrime and Digital Investigations - Botconf 2024, Nice, 23-26 April

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Conferences and Workshops

1. When Side-channel Meets Malware (short paper)

   Damien Marion, Duy-Phuc Pham, and Annelie Heuser - Proceedings of the 30th Computer & Electronics Security Application Rendezvous Conference (C&ESAR 2023) co-located with the 8th European Cyber Week (ECW 2023), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023

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2. ULTRA: Ultimate Rootkit Detection over the Air

   Duy-Phuc Pham, Damien Marion, and Annelie Heuser - 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, RAID 2022, Limassol, Cyprus, October 26-28, 2022

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3. Obfuscation Revealed: Leveraging Electromagnetic Signals for Obfuscated Malware Classification

   Duy-Phuc Pham, Damien Marion, Matthieu Mastio, and Annelie Heuser - ACSAC ’21: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual Event, USA, December 6 - 10, 2021

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4. Poster: Obfuscation Revealed - Using Electromagnetic Emanation to Identify and Classify Malware

   Duy-Phuc Pham, Damien Marion, and Annelie Heuser - IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2021, Vienna, Austria, September 6-10, 2021

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5. Experiment on Side-Channel Key-Recovery using a Real LPWA End-device

   Kazuhide Fukushima, Damien Marion, Yuto Nakano, Adrien Facon, Shinsaku Kiyomoto, and Sylvain Guilley - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, February 23-25, 2019

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6. Binary Data Analysis for Source Code Leakage Assessment

   Adrien Facon, Sylvain Guilley, Matthieu Lec’Hvien, Damien Marion, and Thomas Perianin - Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications - 11th International Conference, SecITC 2018, Bucharest, Romania, November 8-9, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

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7. Give me your binary, I’ll tell you if it leaks

   Antoine Bouvet, Nicolas Bruneau, Adrien Facon, Sylvain Guilley, and Damien Marion - 13th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems In Nanoscale Era, DTIS 2018, Taormina, Italy, April 9-12, 2018

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8. Less is More - Dimensionality Reduction from a Theoretical Perspective

   Nicolas Bruneau, Sylvain Guilley, Annelie Heuser, Damien Marion, and Olivier Rioul - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2015 - 17th International Workshop, Saint-Malo, France, September 13-16, 2015, Proceedings

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9. Simple Power Analysis on AES Key Expansion Revisited

   Christophe Clavier, Damien Marion, and Antoine Wurcker - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2014 - 16th International Workshop, Busan, South Korea, September 23-26, 2014. Proceedings

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10. Software Camouflage

    Sylvain Guilley, Damien Marion, Zakaria Najm, Youssef Souissi, and Antoine Wurcker - Foundations and Practice of Security - 6th International Symposium, FPS 2013, La Rochelle, France, October 21-22, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

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Journal Articles

1. Optimal side-channel attacks for multivariate leakages and multiple models

   Nicolas Bruneau, Sylvain Guilley, Annelie Heuser, Damien Marion, and Olivier Rioul - J. Cryptogr. Eng.

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2. Complete reverse-engineering of AES-like block ciphers by SCARE and FIRE attacks

   Christophe Clavier, Quentin Isorez, Damien Marion, and Antoine Wurcker - Cryptogr. Commun.

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Talks

1. Feedback on Building Reproducible Artifacts for End-to-end Side Channel Attack [short talk]

   Alexandre Wallet, and Damien Marion OPTIMIST Workshop ’25 (September 14, 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - CHES-2025 affiliated event)

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2. Side-channel (data) analysis for embedded security

   Intelligent Security: Is "AI for Cybersecurity" a Blessing or a Curse, Dagstuhl (Germany - October, 9 - 13, 2022)

3. Obfuscation Revealed: Leveraging Electromagnetic Emanations for IoT Malware Classification

   hardwear.io’22 USA (Santa Clara, CA - June, 9, 2022)

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4. Monitoring and Analysis of Electromagnetic Emanation from Malware Execution

   PHISIC’22 (Gardanne, France - May, 18 - 20, 2022)

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5. Malwares revealed through EM

   DUC (European Digital UniverCity) - Session III: AI & Security (Online - November, 24)

6. When Electromagnetic Signals Reveal Obfuscated Malware: Deep and Machine Learning Use cases (Feat. Duy-Phuc Pham)

   SemSecuElec (Rennes, France - October, 2021)

7. Binary Data Analysis for Source Code Leakage Assessment

   CIDRE Research Team (Rennes, France - April, 27, 2021)

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PhD Students:

• Gaël CLAUDEL (2024 - ): “Side-channel analysis of Post-Quantum signature schemes: combined approaches”, with Aurore GILLEVIC and Benoît GERARD
• Aymeric HILTENBRAND (2023 - ): “Side-Channel Attack for post-quantum cryptography”, with Guenael RENAULT, Pierre-Alain FOUQUE and Romain POUSSIER

Projects

I am currently involve in the following projects:

• IDROMEL
• PQ-TLS

I have been involved in the following projects:

• AHMA

Media Coverage

Podcasts

• Leveraging electromagnetic emanations for IoT malware classification. electronicspecifier, Series 9 – Episode 4, September 16th, 2022.

Articles

• Cryptographie : les algorithmes du futur. Sciences Ouest, october, 2025 (in french)
• Detecting evasive malware on IOT devices using electromagnetic emanations. The Hacker News, January 3rd, 2022.
• Using EM Waves to Detect Malware. Schneier on Security, January 14, 2022.
• Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware Using Electromagnetic Waves, Say Researchers. Indian Times, January 16th, 2022.
• On peut détecter des malwares avec précision grâce… aux ondes électromagnétiques . 01 net, January 16th, 2022 (in french).
• Identifying Malware By Sniffing Its EM Signature. harckday, January 20th, 2022.
• Detect malware with electromagnetic waves and Raspberry Pi. RasperryPi, February 1st, 2022.