Lukas Gerlach

Lukas Gerlach

PhD Student

Hello, there. Im a PhD at the RootSec lab doing research on a wide range of topics related to microarchitecture.

Publications


2025
Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Email and Browser Fingerprinting

Leon Trampert, Daniel Weber, Lukas Gerlach, Christian Rossow, Michael Schwarz

NDSS

San

Diego,

California,

USA,

February 23-28

2025


2024
No Leakage Without State Change: Repurposing Configurable CPU Exceptions to Prevent Microarchitectural Attacks

Daniel Weber, Leonard Niemann, Lukas Gerlach, Jan Reineke, Michael Schwarz

ACSAC

Waikiki,

Hawaii,

USA,

December 9-13

2024

CacheWarp: Software-based Fault Injection using Selective State Reset

Ruiyi Zhang, Lukas Gerlach, Daniel Weber, Lorenz Hetterich, Youheng Lü, Andreas Kogler, Michael Schwarz

USENIX Security

Philadelphia,

PA,

USA,

August 14-16

2024

Efficient and Generic Microarchitectural Hash-Function Recovery

Lukas Gerlach, Simon Schwarz, Nicolas Faroß, Michael Schwarz

S&P

San

Francisco,

California,

USA,

May 20-23

2024


2023
Indirect Meltdown: Building Novel Side-Channel Attacks from Transient Execution Attacks

Daniel Weber, Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

Reviving Meltdown 3a

Daniel Weber, Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

A Rowhammer Reproduction Study Using the Blacksmith Fuzzer

Lukas Gerlach, Fabian Thomas, Robert Pietsch, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

PDFCITE
Collide+Power: Leaking Inaccessible Data with Software-based Power Side Channels

Andreas Kogler, Jonas Juffinger, Lukas Giner, Lukas Gerlach, Martin Schwarzl, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard

USENIX Security

Anaheim,

California,

USA,

August 9-11

2023

Hammulator: Simulate Now - Exploit Later

Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Michael Schwarz

DRAMSec

Virtual,

June 17

2023

A Security RISC: Microarchitectural Attacks on Hardware RISC-V CPUs

Lukas Gerlach, Daniel Weber, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

S&P

San

Francisco,

California,

USA,

May 22-25

2023

Talks


2024
From Rowhammer to GhostWrite: Advanced Exploitation and Discovery of Hardware Bugs

Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach

hardwear.io

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

October 25

2024

CITEINFO

2023
A Security RISC? The State of Microarchitectural Attacks on RISC-V

Lukas Gerlach, Daniel Weber, Michael Schwarz

BlackHat Europe

London,

United

Kingdom,

December 7

2023

CITE
Rowhammer Revisited: From Exploration to Exploitation and Mitigation

Lukas Gerlach, Daniel Weber

m0leCon

Torino,

Italy,

December 2

2023

CITE