Hardware Security Mechanisms for Authentication and Trust

Description: Explore novel lightweight hardware-based mechanisms for ensuring security, intellectual property (IP) protection and trust of integrated circuits (ICs) and systems with Farinaz Koushanfar of Rice University. New security methods are in demand due to the proliferation of the fabless semiconductor business model, increase of third-party IP reuse, emergence of personal security devices and the high overhead of traditional cryptographic protocols for embedded systems. Active hardware metering is a first system of security mechanisms and protocols that enable the design house to gain active post-fabrication control of each produced IC, their properties and terms of use or by run-time disabling of ICs in case of tamper detection. Koushanfar also shares his ongoing work in security analysis, safeguarding, implementation and the fabrication of new families of physical unclonable functions, and their use in secure system design. He also discusses attacks and countermeasures.