Course

Syllabus

Preliminaries: Algebra of Finite Fields, Mathematics of Cryptography, Fundamentals of DigitalSystems,Application-SpecificIntegratedCircuits(ASIC),FieldProgrammableGateArrays(FPGA).

CryptographyImplementation:SymmetricCryptography-DES,AES;AsymmetricCryptography-RSA, ECC; Cryptographic Hardware and their Implementation, Optimization ofCryptographicHardwareonFPGA

Attacks against Cryptographic Algorithms: Fault Injection & Side-channel Attacks – Basic Idea,Methodologies, Algorithms and Case Studies, Design Techniques for resilience against FaultInjection andSide-channelAttacks

Hardware Security Primitives: Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), PUF Implementations,PUF Quality Evaluation, Design Techniques to Increase PUF Response Quality, Attacks againstPUFs

Hardware Trojans: Trojan Nomenclature and Classification, Countermeasures to prevent/detecthardwaretrojans,Logictestingandside-channelanalysisfor Trojandetection.

MicroarchitecturalAttacks:Cache-basedattacks,AttacksagainstBranchPrediction,RowhammerAttacks

Text Books / References

1. Tehranipoor and C. Wang, “Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust”, Springer.
2. DebdeepMukhopadhyay and Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, “Hardware Security: Design, Threats, and Safeguards”, CRC Press
3. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and David Naccache (eds.): Towards Hardware-intrinsic Security: Theory and Practice, Springer

• Provide a strong foundation in cryptographic hardware design and implementation, including the optimization of symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms using ASIC and FPGA platforms.
• Develop the ability to analyze and mitigate hardware-based attacks, including fault injection, side-channel attacks, and microarchitectural vulnerabilities affecting modern computing systems.
• Introduce hardware security primitives and trust mechanisms, such as Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and evaluate their effectiveness against various attack models.
• Equip students with knowledge of hardware Trojan threats, detection techniques, and countermeasures to design secure and trustworthy hardware systems.