Intro to Hardware Security & Trust Certificate

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.