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Ștefan-Dan Ciocîrlan

- UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

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Secure cryptographic implementations in System-on-Chip platforms Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-2245 2021 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://gitlab.cs.pub.ro/marios.choudary/securesocs

Abstract:

Emerging and security critical markets, like IoT and automotive, base their

designs on medium to large scale, yet cost driven, System on Chip (SoC)

platforms. Such platforms are often exposed to physical attacks, such as the

power and electromagnetic emission based side-channel attacks, which are very

well known in the context of smartcards and secure ICs. However, in contrast

with these secure ICs and smartacrds, existing SoC platforms offer very little

protection against physical side-channel attacks, which can lead to the

undesired disclosure of confidential information.

In the past few years several publications have shown that side-channel leakage

from SoC platforms can indeed be exploited in order to attack either sensitive

data or cryptographic implementations. The PI of this project application has

also explored this leakage, showing how to extract sensitive data from several

components of a SoC platform and has also proposed some methods to evaluate the

security of these devices more efficiently.

The goal of this project, SECURESOCS, is to develop secure cryptographic

implementations (such as symmetric and asymmetric ciphers) for SoC platforms,

by combining the theoretical and practical knowledge of protection mechanisms

(e.g. masking schemes that are typically found in secure ICs and smartcards)

with the experimentally observed knowledge regarding the actual leakage on

these platforms. Such secure cryptographic implementations are of great

relevance for many industries nowadays (IoT, automotive, banking) and most

likely they will become mandatory in security critical applications, as the

security certifications extend their scope from the traditional secure ICs and

smartcards to SoC platforms.

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