Roland Czerny

about me.

I’m a PhD student in the CoreSec group led by Daniel Gruss at ISEC, Graz University of Technology. My interest lies at the boundary between software and hardware, with a focus on microarchitectural security, side-channel attacks, and practical defenses.

Alongside my research, I teach the Side-Channel Security master’s course and organise a mentoring programme for first-semester students.

Roland Czerny

publications.

2026

2026-02
Continuous User Behavior Monitoring using DNS Cache Timing Attacks
Hannes Weissteiner, Roland Czerny, Simone Franza, Stefan Gast, Johanna Ullrich, Daniel Gruss
NDSS 2026
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2025

2025-08
Fast and Efficient Secure L1 Caches for SMT
Lukas Giner, Roland Czerny, Simon Lammer, Aaron Giner, Paul Gollob, Jonas Juffinger, Daniel Gruss
ARES 2025
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2024

2024-08
SnailLoad: Exploiting Remote Network Latency Measurements without JavaScript
Stefan Gast, Roland Czerny, Jonas Juffinger, Fabian Rauscher, Simone Franza, Daniel Gruss
USENIX Security 2024
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2024-07
Generic and Automated Drive-by GPU Cache Attacks from the Browser
Lukas Giner, Roland Czerny, Christof Gruber, Fabian Rauscher, Andreas Kogler, Daniel De Almeida Braga, Daniel Gruss
AsiaCCS 2024
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2024-06
Exploiting GPU Caches from the Browser with WebGPU
Roland Czerny
Master's Thesis
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2023

2023-07
A Security-Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border e-Government Solutions
Thomas Zefferer, Bernd Prünster, Christian Kollmann, Andreea Ancuta Corici, Lukas Alber, Roland Czerny, Blaž Podgorelec
DG.O 2023
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2023-07
Towards a Mobile-First Cross-Border eID Framework
Roland Czerny, Christian Paul Kollmann, Blaž Podgorelec, Bernd Prünster, Thomas Zefferer
DG.O 2023
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2023-07
Smoothing the Ride: Providing a Seamless Upgrade Path from Established Cross-Border eID Workflows Towards eID Wallet Systems
Roland Czerny, Christian Paul Kollmann, Blaž Podgorelec, Bernd Prünster, Thomas Zefferer
SECRYPT 2023
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2023-05
CustomProcessingUnit: Reverse Engineering and Customization of Intel Microcode
Pietro Borello, Catherine Easdon, Martin Schwarzl, Roland Czerny, Michael Schwarz
WOOT 2023
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