Physical Attack Protection Techniques for IC Chip Level Hardware Security

Empowering Hardware Security using IC Testing Principles

Today’s System on Chip (SoC) is being incorporated with digital, analog, radio frequency, photonic and other devices [1]. More recently, sensors, actuators, and biochips are also being integrated into these already powerful SoCs. On one hand, SoC integration has been enabled by advances in mixed system integration and the increase in the wafer sizes (currently about 300 mm and projected to be 4...

Hardware Attack Mitigation Techniques Analysis

The goal of a hardware attack is to physically access a digital system to obtain secret information or modify the system behavior. These attacks can be classified as covert or overt based on the awareness of the attack. Each hardware attack has capabilities as well as objectives. Some employ hardware trojans, which are inserted during, manufacture, while others monitor system emissions. Once a ...

Consistency - based Hardware Security Techniques

Integrated circuits (ICs) are the fundamental building blocks of essentially all computer or electronic systems. While outsourcing has become a trend in the IC industry to reduce the manufacturing cost, an untrusted foundry that has full access to the hardware may easily compromise the security of the manufactured ICs, such as embedding hardware Trojans. Due to the presence of process variation...

Cryptographic Techniques for Physical Security (seminar Notes) Cryptographic Techniques for Physical Security (seminar Notes)

Preface The goal of this course is to familiarize participating students with the most important cryptographic techniques and design principles in the context of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) security. Unlike most courses and texts on cryptography, our primary focus is not the most traditional application of cryptography — enciphering of (possibly very large) textual messages. Instead, ...

Cyber Physical Security for Power Grid Protection