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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Hardware security"”.
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Hardware Security with Electromagnetic Side Channels
… has focused on power, performance, and area, hardware security is rapidly gaining prominence as a major consideration during the design process. Particularly, physical side channels that allow reverse engineering of inputs, operation states, and private information must be characterized and …
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Flash Memory For Ubiquitous Hardware Security Functions
… Flash memory can provide three important security functions: true random number generation, digital fingerprinting and information hiding. Use of random telegraph noise (a type of quantum noise source in highly scaled Flash memory cells) enables high quality true random number generation …
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Hardware security design from circuits to systems
The security of hardware implementations is of considerable importance, as even the most secure and carefully analyzed algorithms and protocols can be vulnerable in their hardware realization. For instance, numerous successful attacks have been presented against the Advanced Encryption Standard, …
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Verifying Hardware Security Modules With True Random NumberGenerators
Hardware security modules (HSMs) are powerful tools in building secure computer systems, allowing developers to factor out security-critical code to separate devices. Because HSMs usually work with sensitive data, it is crucial that we are able to verify that they are secure. Many HSMs today also …
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Hardware Security for Wireless Communications Systems using Antenna-based Radio Frequency Fingerprint Engineering
… design and application of novel physical-layer security techniques have been increasing in the last decades as means to enhance the security that more traditional techniques provide to wireless communications systems. Well-known hardware security techniques, such as radio frequency …
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Energy-Efficient Neural Network Hardware Design and Circuit Techniques to Enhance Hardware Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and hardware are being developed at a rapid pace for emerging applications such as self-driving cars, speech/image/video recognition, deep learning, etc. Today’s AI tasks are mostly performed at remote datacenters, while in the future, more AI workloads are …
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A truly embedded test structure for design-for-manufacturability, hardware security and VLSI testing
… techniques can be used to improve model-to-hardware correlation. Furthermore, these techniques can also be used in several contexts including defect detection, post-silicon debug and hardware-security. In this dissertation, I propose a high-precision and low-overhead embedded test structure, …
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BlueVeri: Formal Security Verification for Bluespec Processor Designs
There are numerous hardware security defense mechanisms designed to mitigate sidechannel attacks. However, ensuring that a defense can comprehensively protect against an entire class of attacks, while avoiding the introduction of new vulnerabilities that could lead to additional attack surfaces, …
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Practical Mitigations Against Memory Corruption and Transient Execution Attacks
… either practicality or effectiveness issues, and security researchers need to balance out their compromises. Recently, many hardware vendors, such as Intel and ARM, have realized the extent of the issue of memory corruption attacks and have developed hardware security mechanisms that can be …
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Superparamagnetic Tunnel Junctions for Reliable True Randomness and Efficient Probabilistic Machine Learning
… accelerate machine learning tasks, and enhance hardware security. Recently, superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (sMTJs) have been widely explored for such purposes, leading to the development of limited-scale sMTJ-based systems. Existing sMTJs face significant scalability and reliability issues, …
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A Secure Adaptive Network Processor
… a predominant feature in the field of network hardware. As new network protocols emerge and data speeds increase, contemporary general-purpose network processors are entering their second generation and academic research is being actively conducted into new techniques for the design and …
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Intrinsic PUFs for commodity devices
… with critical areas means that practical security solutions are more essential than ever, but many conventional security solutions are not well suited to low resource embedded systems because of power usage, time, hardware resource, or computational constraints.<br/><br/>One solution that …
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Hardware Trojan Detection via Golden Reference Library Matching
<p>Due to the proliferation of hardware Trojans in third party Intellectual Property (IP) designs, the issue of hardware security has risen to the forefront of computer engineering. Because of the miniscule size yet devastating effects of hardware Trojans, few detection methods have been presented …
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Automated analysis of security APIs
Attacks on security systems within the past decade have revealed that security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) expose a large and real attack surface but remain to be a relatively unexplored problem. In 2000, Bond et al. discovered API- chaining and type-confusion attacks on hardware …
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Transforming leaky COTS binaries into data-oblivious binaries
… attacks has significantly impacted the realm of hardware security today, and has left sensitive applications vulnerable to a wide set of attack vectors. It is crucial to develop effective and comprehensive mitigation strategies to protect vulnerable applications against these attack vectors. …
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Software and Hardware Techniques for Masking Security Vulnerabilities
Security problems in computer systems are caused by a variety of design deficiencies, implementation defects and, as this thesis shows, by transient errors. The thesis first studies real world security vulnerabilities via an analysis of available security data and experimentation. Results of the …
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Secure analog-to-digital conversion against power side-channel attack
… digital processor, an ADC can create a critical hardware security loophole. By exploiting the power side-channel leakage of the ADC, an attacker can expose the private signal chain data. Having recognized the security threat, this thesis explores both aspects of the SAR ADC power side-channel …
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PACTIGHT: Tightly Seal Sensitive Pointers with Pointer Authentication
… data centers. This opens a new realm in terms of security attacks against ARM, increasing the importance of having an effective and efficient defense mechanism for ARM. ARM has released Pointer Authentication, a new hardware security feature that is intended to ensure pointer integrity with …
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Formally Verifying Secure and Leakage-Free Systems: From Application Specification to Circuit-Level Implementation
Hardware and software systems are susceptible to bugs and timing side-channel vulnerabilities. Timing leakage is particularly hard to eliminate because leakage is an emergent property that can arise from subtle behaviors or interactions between hardware and software components in the entire system, …
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