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Intro to Hardware Security & Trust Certificate

September 7, 2023 by Limor Herb

Course details

3 part certificate program

A certificate will be offered, on behalf of MEST Center, to attendees who complete all three sessions.


Who can attend

Government and DIB Employees ONLY

Course Objectives

This course will cover a number of important topics in hardware security: Basics of cryptography, physical and invasive attacks, side-channel attacks, physically unclonable functions, hardware-based true random number generators, watermarking of Intellectual Property (IP) blocks, FPGA security, passive and active metering for prevention of piracy, logic locking, hardware Trojan detection and prevention, and more.

The course is largely self-contained. Background on digital design would be sufficient. Introductory lectures will cover basic background on cryptography, authentication, secret sharing, VLSI design, test and verification. The main goals for this course are: (1) Learning the state-of-the-art security methods and primitives; (2) Integration of security as a design metric, not as an afterthought; and (3) Better understanding of attacks and providing countermeasures against them.


Course Instructors

Mark Tehranipoor

Farimah Farahmandi

Fahim Rahman


Course Outline

Cryptographic Hardware:

Vulnerabilities, processing overhead


Hardware Trojan detection and prevention

Attacks:

Physical, invasive, non-invasive/side-channel


Counterfeit detection and avoidance

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs)


Side Channel Attacks

True random number generation (TRNG)


Anti-piracy:

Watermarking, passive and active hardware metering

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