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CSC 545 Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security
Establishing trust in hardware. Methods and practices to secure digital devices and demonstrate how they can fail at the hardware layer. Review of cryptographic systems and primitives deployed in existing cyberinfrastructure. Information leaks from a wide array of hardware vulnerabilities. Hands-on experiments for attacks and countermeasures. Trusted computing bases and emerging attacks on modern computer architectures.
Restriction: Graduate Standing. A solid background in hardware design including digital design basics, RTL design, and computer architectures is useful. A background in cryptography is not required.
Typically offered in Fall only