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Damien Marion

Assistant professor

Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA, Rennes, France.

  • damien.marion{at}irisa.fr
  • damien.marion{at}gmail.com

                   

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About Me

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:

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
    Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @phdthesis{M18,
  author = {Marion, Damien},
  title = {Multidimensionality of the models and the data in the side-channel
                 domain. (Multidimensionnalit{\'{e}} des mod{\`{e}}les et des
                 donn{\'{e}}es dans le domaine des canaux auxiliaires)},
  school = {T{\'{e}}l{\'{e}}com Paris, France},
  year = {2018},
  month = dec,
  url = {https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02294004},
  timestamp = {Wed, 5 December 2018},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/phd/hal/Marion18.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

PhD Students

Research

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
    DOI Publisher PDF Code Slides
    BibTeX 
    @articleFMNW25,
  author = Pierre-Alain Fouque and Damien Marion and Quyen Nguyen and Alexandre Wallet,
  title = Avengers assemble! Supervised learning meets lattice reduction: A single power trace attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber Key Generation,
  journal = IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems,
  volume = 2025,
  number = 4,
  pages = 409–436,
  year = 2025,
  doi = 10.46586/tches.v2025.i4.409-436,
  url = https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/12416

Conferences and Workshops

  1. 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
    DOI Publisher PDF Video
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedingsMPH24,
  author = Duy-Phuc Pham and Damien Marion and Annelie Heuser,
  title = IoT Malware and Rootkit Detections Using Electromagnetic Insights: Unveiling the Unseen,
  booktitle = The Journal on Cybercrime and Digital Investigations - Botconf 2024,
  volume = 9,
  pages = 20–27,
  year = 2024,
  doi = 10.18464/cybin.v9i1.51,
  url = https://cyberjournal.cecyf.fr/index.php/cybin/article/view/51/33

  2. 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
    Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{MPH23,
  author = {Marion, Damien and Pham, Duy{-}Phuc and Heuser, Annelie},
  editor = {Guernic, Gurvan Le},
  title = {When Side-channel Meets Malware (short paper)},
  booktitle = {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},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3610},
  pages = {71--77},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3610/short-01.pdf},
  timestamp = {Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:57:52 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cesar/0001PH23.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  3. 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
    DOI Publisher Code
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{PMH22,
  author = {Pham, Duy{-}Phuc and Marion, Damien and Heuser, Annelie},
  title = {{ULTRA:} Ultimate Rootkit Detection over the Air},
  booktitle = {25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and
                 Defenses, {RAID} 2022, Limassol, Cyprus, October 26-28, 2022},
  pages = {232--251},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2022},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-03713584v1/file/raid2002_camera_ready.pdf},
  doi = {10.1145/3545948.3545962},
  timestamp = {Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:02:16 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/raid/Pham0H22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  code = {https://gitlab.com/anon-ultra/ultra},
  status = {published}
}

  4. 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
    DOI Publisher Code
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{PMMH21,
  author = {Pham, Duy{-}Phuc and Marion, Damien and Mastio, Matthieu and Heuser, Annelie},
  title = {Obfuscation Revealed: Leveraging Electromagnetic Signals for Obfuscated
                 Malware Classification},
  booktitle = {{ACSAC} '21: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual
                 Event, USA, December 6 - 10, 2021},
  pages = {706--719},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2021},
  month = dec,
  url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03374399/document},
  doi = {10.1145/3485832.3485894},
  timestamp = {Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:41:59 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/acsac/Pham0MH21.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  code = {https://github.com/ahma-hub},
  status = {published}
}

  5. 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
    DOI Publisher Code
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{PMH21,
  author = {Pham, Duy{-}Phuc and Marion, Damien and Heuser, Annelie},
  title = {Poster: Obfuscation Revealed - Using Electromagnetic Emanation to
                 Identify and Classify Malware},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS{\&}P
                 2021, Vienna, Austria, September 6-10, 2021},
  pages = {710--712},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2021},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP51992.2021.00055},
  doi = {10.1109/EuroSP51992.2021.00055},
  timestamp = {Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:11:58 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/eurosp/PhamMH21.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  code = {https://github.com/ahma-hub},
  status = {published}
}

  6. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{FMM+19,
  author = {Fukushima, Kazuhide and Marion, Damien and Nakano, Yuto and Facon, Adrien and Kiyomoto, Shinsaku and Guilley, Sylvain},
  editor = {Mori, Paolo and Furnell, Steven and Camp, Olivier},
  title = {Experiment on Side-Channel Key-Recovery using a Real {LPWA} End-device},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems
                 Security and Privacy, {ICISSP} 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, February
                 23-25, 2019},
  pages = {67--74},
  publisher = {SciTePress},
  year = {2019},
  month = feb,
  url = {https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2019/72595/72595.pdf},
  doi = {10.5220/0007259500670074},
  timestamp = {Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:04:21 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icissp/Fukushima0NFKG19.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  7. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{FGL+18,
  author = {Facon, Adrien and Guilley, Sylvain and Lec'Hvien, Matthieu and Marion, Damien and Perianin, Thomas},
  editor = {Lanet, Jean{-}Louis and Toma, Cristian},
  title = {Binary Data Analysis for Source Code Leakage Assessment},
  booktitle = {Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications
                 - 11th International Conference, SecITC 2018, Bucharest, Romania,
                 November 8-9, 2018, Revised Selected Papers},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {11359},
  pages = {391--409},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2018},
  month = nov,
  url = {assets/pdf/FGL+18.pdf},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-12942-2\_30},
  timestamp = {Tue, 14 May 2019 10:00:39 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/secitc/FaconGLMP18.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  8. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{BBF+18,
  author = {Bouvet, Antoine and Bruneau, Nicolas and Facon, Adrien and Guilley, Sylvain and Marion, Damien},
  title = {Give me your binary, I'll tell you if it leaks},
  booktitle = {13th International Conference on Design {\&} Technology of Integrated
                 Systems In Nanoscale Era, {DTIS} 2018, Taormina, Italy, April 9-12,
                 2018},
  pages = {1--4},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2018},
  month = apr,
  url = {assets/pdf/BBF+18.pdf},
  doi = {10.1109/DTIS.2018.8368582},
  timestamp = {Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:59:08 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/dtis/BouvetBFGM18.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  9. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{BGH+15,
  author = {Bruneau, Nicolas and Guilley, Sylvain and Heuser, Annelie and Marion, Damien and Rioul, Olivier},
  editor = {G{\"{u}}neysu, Tim and Handschuh, Helena},
  title = {Less is More - Dimensionality Reduction from a Theoretical Perspective},
  booktitle = {Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - {CHES} 2015 - 17th International
                 Workshop, Saint-Malo, France, September 13-16, 2015, Proceedings},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {9293},
  pages = {22--41},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2015},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/359},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-48324-4\_2},
  timestamp = {Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:50:49 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ches/BruneauGHMR15.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  10. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{CMW14,
  author = {Clavier, Christophe and Marion, Damien and Wurcker, Antoine},
  editor = {Batina, Lejla and Robshaw, Matthew},
  title = {Simple Power Analysis on {AES} Key Expansion Revisited},
  booktitle = {Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - {CHES} 2014 - 16th International
                 Workshop, Busan, South Korea, September 23-26, 2014. Proceedings},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {8731},
  pages = {279--297},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2014},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://www.iacr.org/archive/ches2014/87310220/87310220.pdf},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-44709-3\_16},
  timestamp = {Tue, 14 May 2019 10:00:47 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ches/ClavierMW14.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  11. 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
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{GMN+13,
  author = {Guilley, Sylvain and Marion, Damien and Najm, Zakaria and Souissi, Youssef and Wurcker, Antoine},
  editor = {Danger, Jean{-}Luc and Debbabi, Mourad and Marion, Jean{-}Yves and Garc{\'{\i}}a{-}Alfaro, Joaqu{\'{\i}}n and Zincir{-}Heywood, A. Nur},
  title = {Software Camouflage},
  booktitle = {Foundations and Practice of Security - 6th International Symposium,
                 {FPS} 2013, La Rochelle, France, October 21-22, 2013, Revised Selected
                 Papers},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {8352},
  pages = {122--139},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  url = {assets/pdf/GMN+13.pdf},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-05302-8\_8},
  timestamp = {Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:23:06 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/fps/GuilleyMNSW13.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

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.
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @article{BGH+17,
  author = {Bruneau, Nicolas and Guilley, Sylvain and Heuser, Annelie and Marion, Damien and Rioul, Olivier},
  title = {Optimal side-channel attacks for multivariate leakages and multiple models},
  journal = {J. Cryptogr. Eng.},
  volume = {7},
  number = {4},
  pages = {331--341},
  year = {2017},
  month = jul,
  url = {assets/pdf/BGH+17.pdf},
  doi = {10.1007/s13389-017-0170-9},
  timestamp = {Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:00:33 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/jce/BruneauGHMR17.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

  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.
    DOI Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @article{CIM+15,
  author = {Clavier, Christophe and Isorez, Quentin and Marion, Damien and Wurcker, Antoine},
  title = {Complete reverse-engineering of AES-like block ciphers by {SCARE}
                 and {FIRE} attacks},
  journal = {Cryptogr. Commun.},
  volume = {7},
  number = {1},
  pages = {121--162},
  year = {2015},
  month = apr,
  url = {assets/pdf/CIM+15.pdf},
  doi = {10.1007/s12095-014-0112-7},
  timestamp = {Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:00:46 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/ccds/ClavierIMW15.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  status = {published}
}

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)
    Slides
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{OPTIMIST-talk,
  title = {Feedback on Building Reproducible Artifacts for End-to-end Side Channel Attack [short talk]},
  booktitle = {OPTIMIST Workshop '25 (September 14, 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - CHES-2025 affiliated event)},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  author = {Wallet, Alexandre and Marion, Damien},
  slides = {assets/pdf/slides_OPTIMIST-2025.pdf},
  status = {talk}
}

  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)
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{dagsthul-talk,
  title = {Side-channel (data) analysis for embedded security},
  booktitle = {Intelligent Security: Is "AI for Cybersecurity" a Blessing or a Curse, Dagstuhl (Germany - October, 9 - 13, 2022)},
  note = {\href{https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=22412}},
  year = {2022},
  month = oct,
  timestamp = {Sun, 9 October 2022},
  status = {talk}
}

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

    hardwear.io’22 USA (Santa Clara, CA - June, 9, 2022)
    Video
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{hw-io,
  title = {Obfuscation Revealed: Leveraging Electromagnetic Emanations for IoT Malware Classification},
  booktitle = {hardwear.io'22 USA (Santa Clara, CA - June, 9, 2022)},
  year = {2022},
  month = jun,
  timestamp = {Tue, 9 June 2022},
  status = {talk},
  video = {https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oCohqwfUpsQ&feature=youtu.be}
}

  4. Monitoring and Analysis of Electromagnetic Emanation from Malware Execution

    PHISIC’22 (Gardanne, France - May, 18 - 20, 2022)
    Publisher
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{phisic,
  title = {Monitoring and Analysis of Electromagnetic Emanation from Malware Execution },
  booktitle = {PHISIC'22 (Gardanne, France - May, 18 - 20, 2022)},
  year = {2022},
  month = jun,
  timestamp = {Tue, 18 June 2022},
  status = {talk},
  url = {https://partage.imt.fr/index.php/s/TYdL9TLn87m9obJ}
}

  5. Malwares revealed through EM

    DUC (European Digital UniverCity) - Session III: AI & Security (Online - November, 24)
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{EDUC-talk,
  title = {Malwares revealed through EM},
  booktitle = {DUC (European Digital UniverCity) - Session III: AI & Security (Online - November, 24)},
  year = {2021},
  month = nov,
  status = {talk}
}

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

    SemSecuElec (Rennes, France - October, 2021)
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{semsecu-talk,
  title = {When Electromagnetic Signals Reveal Obfuscated Malware: Deep and Machine Learning Use cases (Feat. Duy-Phuc Pham)},
  booktitle = {SemSecuElec (Rennes, France - October, 2021)},
  year = {2021},
  month = oct,
  timestamp = {Tue, 22 October 2021},
  status = {talk}
}

  7. Binary Data Analysis for Source Code Leakage Assessment

    CIDRE Research Team (Rennes, France - April, 27, 2021)
    Video
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{cidre-talk,
  title = {Binary Data Analysis for Source Code Leakage Assessment},
  booktitle = {CIDRE Research Team (Rennes, France - April, 27, 2021)},
  year = {2021},
  month = apr,
  timestamp = {Tue, 27 April 2021},
  status = {talk},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZ_IvzYjJw&ab_channel=CIDREResearchTeam}
}

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