Hardware Security

Course outline

• Theoretical Background and Basic Principles: Security and Trust on Hardware Devices, Current and Future Applications, New Challenges,
• Basic Terms: Cryptography and Security,
• Digital Systems Design, Principles and Methodologies,
• Hardware Performance,
• Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs),
• Random and Pseudo-Random Number Generators,
• Watermarking and Hardware IPs,
• Attacks: Fault Injections,
• Physical, Tamper Resistance,
• Side Channels Attacks: Models and Countermeasures,
• Security of Embedded Systems,
• Crypto-Processors,
• FPGAs Secure Designs,
• RFID Tags Security,
• Trojans Horses: Circuits and Systems,
• Secure JTAG.