FPGA platforms have been widely used in many modern digital applications due to their low prototyping cost, short time-to-market and flexibility. Field-programmability of FPGA bitstream has made it as a flexible and easy-to-use platform. However, access to bitstream degraded the security of FPGA IPs because there is no efficient method to authenticate the originality of bitstream by the FPGA pr...

fab-less business model in semiconductor industry has led to serious concerns about trustworthy hardware. in untrusted foundries and manufacturing companies, submitted layout may be analyzed and reverse engineered to steal the information of a design or insert malicious trojans. understanding the netlist topology is the ultimate goal of the reverse engineering process. in this paper, we propose...

With the globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design flow and the outsourcing of chip fabrication service, intellectual property (IP) piracy and malicious logic insertion become main security threats to tamper hardware infrastructures. While most of the protection methods are dedicated for digital circuits, we try to protect radio-frequency (RF) designs which are more likely to be IP piracy...

Taking account of defections existed in general methods of implementing IP security (IPsec) in broadband routers, a secure scheme based on fast path and slow path of routers was put forward. The scheme implements IPsec with Encryption chip and IPsec software combined, and adopts Encryption adaptive board to support multi-encryption chips. No requirement for change in original hardware architect...

A risk of covert insertion of circuitry into reconfigurable computing (RC) systems exists. This paper reviews risks of hardware attack on field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based RC systems and proposes a method for secure system credentials generation (unique, random and partially anonymous) and trusted self-reconfiguration, using a secure reconfiguration controller (SeReCon) and partial rec...

Master's thesis submitted for approval Septemper 17, 1996 for the degree of Master of Science. Current Internet Protocol (IP) implementations provide no protection against eavesdropping of connections , spoofing of IP datagrams and TCP connection hijacking. Rapid advances in communication technology and expanding use of the Internet have accentuated the need for security in the Internet. Intern...

The idea to publish a special issue on hardware and embedded security stems from workshop with the same name where previously published conference journal papers were presented. here present extended adjusted versions of these works fit under this common umbrella. My thanks goes Prof. Ramesh Karri NYU who had discussed me back in 2019. Thanks his continued efforts ideas, became reality. I also ...

In recent years, IP protection of FPGA hardware designs has become a requirement for many IP vendors. To this end solutions have been proposed based on the idea of bitstream encryption, symmetric-key primitives, and the use of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). In this paper, we propose new protocols for the IP protection problem on FPGAs based on public-key (PK) cryptography, analyze the ad...