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Secret keys that are stored and used within physical devices can be extracted by adversaries. The attacks involve measuring the power consumption or electromagnetic radiation emanating from the chip as it carries out encryption, and then analyzing them to deduce the secret key. This project investigates techniques that self-mutate the hardware at runtime as a means of significantly reducing and ideally eliminating signal information leveraged by the adversary.

opular Internet servers and web sites may serve thousands of users simultaneously. To handle this volume of activity, these servers share resources, such as processors, memory, and hard disk space. These shared resources provide an avenue for an attacker to affect other users connected to the server if the attacker successfully exploits a vulnerability in the server. This research project aims to eliminate this risk by creating an individual, customized server instance for each user that runs within an isolated single-use container.

Popular Internet servers and web sites may serve thousands of users simultaneously. To handle this volume of activity, these servers share resources, such as processors, memory, and hard disk space. These shared resources provide an avenue for an attacker to affect other users connected to the server if the attacker successfully exploits a vulnerability in the server. This research project aims to eliminate this risk by creating an individual, customized server instance for each user that runs within an isolated single-use container.

This research concerns how groups of people can cooperate to protect their privacy. The researchers will study how people can help one another to manage their digital privacy and security. Offline, people support each other informally to make privacy and security decisions, by sharing stories or exchanging advice, but technology designs for privacy do not reflect these social processes.

The integration of computation, communication and sensing technologies into our transportation, power grid, healthcare, and manufacturing systems presents unprecedented challenges in ensuring the security and safety of these systems. Cyber attacks on such systems cross from the cyber realm into the physical world, and we must deal with new attack trends that may cause vehicles to veer off the road, manipulate devices responsible for power generation, distribution and consumption, and exploit robotic/drone systems for malicious activities.