Hardware Security

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Visible to the public TWC: Small: Understanding and Mitigating the Threat of a Malicious Network-on-Chip

Submitted by Koushik Chakraborty on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 2:45pm

One of the key challenges in trustworthy computing is establishing trust in the hardware layer, which is the execution platform of all software applications. Modern multiprocessor system-on-chips employ many specialized components, and scalable network-on-chips (NoC) are often deployed to efficiently connect these components. In the light of these trends, this project investigates secure and reliable computation, when the underlying NoC is compromised.

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Visible to the public STARSS: Small: Design of Light-weight RRAM based Hardware Security Primitives for IoT devices

Submitted by Shimeng Yu on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 11:22am

Our society has become increasingly dependent on electronic information exchange between personal devices and the cloud. Unfortunately, the number of identity and secure information leaks is on the rise. Many of the security breaches are due to insecure access channels to the cloud. The security problem is likely to be exacerbated in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era where billions of devices in our homes, offices and cars are digitally connected.

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Visible to the public CRII: SaTC: Hardware based Authentication and Trusted Platform Module functions (HAT) for IoTs

Submitted by Fareena Saqib on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 4:50pm

Crucial and critical needs of security and trust requirements are growing in all classes of applications such as in automobiles and for wearable devices. Traditional cryptographic primitives are computation-intensive and rely on secrecy of shared or session keys, applicable on large systems like servers and secure databases. This is unsuitable for embedded devices with fewer resources for realizing sufficiently strong security. This research addresses new hardware-oriented capabilities and mechanisms for protecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.