Secure Hardware
University
Course
VPM
Sponsor
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Intel Corporation.
Goals
To design digital hardware which is highly resistant to i. reverse engineering, and ii. attack by malicious hardware insertions, hardware Trojans.
Issues
Redesign of the logic structure of hardware to resist reverse engineering; hardware Trojan impact at run-time; design of block cyphers for encryption and decryption; duplication of digital logic in a non-obvious manner; mathematical proofs of algorithmic complexity
Tools and Methods
Digital design
FPGA Programming
Encryption
VLSI Design
Digital Systems Test
Complexity Theory
Lattice Theory and Hardware/Software Codesign
Desired Majors
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Sponsor
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Intel Corporation.