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Hardware Security – Threats and Countermeasures at the Circuit and Logic Levels

A special issue of Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (ISSN 2079-9268).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2016) | Viewed by 36747

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Osnat Keren

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Interests: reliable and secure circuits; security oriented codes
Prof. Dr. Ilia Polian

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Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, D-94030, Passau, Germany
Interests: design and analysis of complex micro and nano-electronic circuits and systems
Dr. Sanu Mathew

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Circuit Research Laboratory, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA
Interests: security circuits and cryptographic hardware accelerators

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, we witness the transition of our society into its new, post-industrial state, characterized by a variety of electronic devices, non-limited access to various information resources, and intensive use of information technologies. Consequently, knowledge and information security have become a major concern. Along the security chain, hardware security is considered as the weakest link; the hardware leaks information, which can be used by an invasive or passive attacker to deduce details of the algorithms and cryptographic keys. The scope of this Special Issue is on all views of circuit and logic level hardware security.  This Special Issue intends to present state-of-the-art research works on area and power efficient and high performance implementations of cryptography systems, side channel threats on them, and circuit level and logic level countermeasures.

We encourage scientists and engineers, either in academic or industrial environments, to submit their original papers in order to enhance the knowledge, expertise, and experience of the whole community in information security, cryptography, hardware implementations and VLSI design. 

The topics of interests for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Side-channel attacks and defenses
  • Fault attacks and countermeasures
  • Hardware tampering and tamper-resistance
  • Hardware Trojans and Backdoors
  • Reverse engineering and countermeasures
  • Anti-overbuilding, anti-counterfeiting schemes
  • Security in reconfigurable hardware
  • Hardware-based security primitives (PUFs, RNGs)
  • Emerging hardware authentication primitives
  • Area efficient and low power implementation of cryptographic primitives
  • Lightweight ciphers for IoT and wearables
  • Secure on chip memories
  • Automatic identification of security-critical parts
  • Relationship between security and testability
  • Security-aware architectures and system-level optimization

Dr. Osnat Keren
Prof. Dr. Ilia Polian
Dr. Sanu Mathew
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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A Novel Design Flow for a Security-Driven Synthesis of Side-Channel Hardened Cryptographic Modules
by Sorin A. Huss and Oliver Stein
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2017, 7(1), 4; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jlpea7010004 - 08 Feb 2017
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Over the last few decades, computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools have been developed and improved in order to ensure a short time-to-market in the chip design business. Up to now, these design tools do not yet support an integrated design strategy for the development [...] Read more.
Over the last few decades, computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools have been developed and improved in order to ensure a short time-to-market in the chip design business. Up to now, these design tools do not yet support an integrated design strategy for the development of side-channel-resistant hardware implementations. In order to close this gap, a novel framework named AMASIVE (Adaptable Modular Autonomous SIde-Channel Vulnerability Evaluator) was developed. It supports the designer in implementing devices hardened against power attacks by exploiting novel security-driven synthesis methods. The article at hand can be seen as the second of the two contributions that address the AMASIVE framework. While the first one describes how the framework automatically detects vulnerabilities against power attacks, the second one explains how a design can be hardened in an automatic way by means of appropriate countermeasures, which are tailored to the identified weaknesses. In addition to the theoretical introduction of the fundamental concepts, we demonstrate an application to the hardening of a complete hardware implementation of the block cipher PRESENT. Full article
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Completing the Complete ECC Formulae with Countermeasures
by Łukasz Chmielewski, Pedro Maat Costa Massolino, Jo Vliegen, Lejla Batina and Nele Mentens
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2017, 7(1), 3; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jlpea7010003 - 01 Feb 2017
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This work implements and evaluates the recent complete addition formulae for the prime order elliptic curves of Renes, Costello and Batina on an FPGA platform. We implement three different versions:(1) an unprotected architecture; (2) an architecture protected through coordinate randomization; and (3) an [...] Read more.
This work implements and evaluates the recent complete addition formulae for the prime order elliptic curves of Renes, Costello and Batina on an FPGA platform. We implement three different versions:(1) an unprotected architecture; (2) an architecture protected through coordinate randomization; and (3) an architecture with both coordinate randomization and scalar splitting in place. The evaluation is done through timing analysis and test vector leakage assessment (TVLA). The results show that applying an increasing level of countermeasures leads to an increasing resistance against side-channel attacks. This is the first work looking into side-channel security issues of hardware implementations of the complete formulae. Full article
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On Improving Reliability of SRAM-Based Physically Unclonable Functions
by Arunkumar Vijayakumar, Vinay C. Patil and Sandip Kundu
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2017, 7(1), 2; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jlpea7010002 - 12 Jan 2017
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Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) have been touted for their inherent resistance to invasive attacks and low cost in providing a hardware root of trust for various security applications. SRAM PUFs in particular are popular in industry for key/ID generation. Due to intrinsic process [...] Read more.
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) have been touted for their inherent resistance to invasive attacks and low cost in providing a hardware root of trust for various security applications. SRAM PUFs in particular are popular in industry for key/ID generation. Due to intrinsic process variations, SRAM cells, ideally, tend to have the same start-up behavior. SRAM PUFs exploit this start-up behavior. Unfortunately, not all SRAM cells exhibit reliable start-up behavior due to noise susceptibility. Hence, design enhancements are needed for improving reliability. Some of the proposed enhancements in literature include fuzzy extraction, error-correcting codes and voting mechanisms. All enhancements involve a trade-off between area/power/performance overhead and PUF reliability. This paper presents a design enhancement technique for reliability that improves upon previous solutions. We present simulation results to quantify improvement in SRAM PUF reliability and efficiency. The proposed technique is shown to generate a 128-bit key in ≤0.2 μ s at an area estimate of 4538 μ m 2 with error rate as low as 10 − 6 for intrinsic error probability of 15%. Full article
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Sizing of SRAM Cell with Voltage Biasing Techniques for Reliability Enhancement of Memory and PUF Functions
by Chip-Hong Chang, Chao Qun Liu, Le Zhang and Zhi Hui Kong
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2016, 6(3), 16; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jlpea6030016 - 24 Aug 2016
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Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) has recently been developed into a physical unclonable function (PUF) for generating chip-unique signatures for hardware cryptography. The most compelling issue in designing a good SRAM-based PUF (SPUF) is that while maximizing the mismatches between the transistors in [...] Read more.
Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) has recently been developed into a physical unclonable function (PUF) for generating chip-unique signatures for hardware cryptography. The most compelling issue in designing a good SRAM-based PUF (SPUF) is that while maximizing the mismatches between the transistors in the cross-coupled inverters improves the quality of the SPUF, this ironically also gives rise to increased memory read/write failures. For this reason, the memory cells of existing SPUFs cannot be reused as storage elements, which increases the overheads of cryptographic system where long signatures and high-density storage are both required. This paper presents a novel design methodology for dual-mode SRAM cell optimization. The design conflicts are resolved by using word-line voltage modulation, dynamic voltage scaling, negative bit-line and adaptive body bias techniques to compensate for reliability degradation due to transistor downsizing. The augmented circuit-level techniques expand the design space to achieve a good solution to fulfill several otherwise contradicting key design qualities for both modes of operation, as evinced by our statistical analysis and simulation results based on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) 45 nm bulk Predictive Technology Model. Full article
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