Hardware Security of FPGAs

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Jungmin Park

چکیده

Modern electronic devices expose themselves to danger from adversaries who try to extract secrete information. Security has become a major issue in the embedded system since several years. Even though the devices are protected by modern cryptographic algorithms, such as AES or RSA, the security is limited. Specially, hardware attack like differential power analysis (DPA) is very powerful method in order to obtain secrete key. Reconfigurable architectures like FPGA are selected as an efficient target for secure embedded systems. In this report, we surveyed an overview of existing attacks and countermeasures against FPGAs.

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