tag: hardware security

State of the Art And Future Directions of Rowhammer (ETH Zurich)
By Technical Paper Link - 18 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract "We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which are used in almost all computing systems as main memory. RowHammer is the phenomenon in... » read more

Hybrid Hardware Fuzzer, Combining Capabilities of Formal Verification Methods And Fuzzing Tools
By Technical Paper Link - 11 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "HyPFuzz: Formal-Assisted Processor Fuzzing" was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and Technische Universität Darmstadt. Abstract: "Recent research has shown that hardware fuzzers can effectively detect security vulnerabilities in modern processors. However, existing hardware fuzzers do not fuzz well the hard-to-reach design spaces. Consequently,... » read more

Overview of Machine Learning Algorithms Used In Hardware Security (TU Delft)
By Technical Paper Link - 09 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "A Survey on Machine Learning in Hardware Security" was published by researchers at TU Delft. Abstract "Hardware security is currently a very influential domain, where each year countless works are published concerning attacks against hardware and countermeasures. A significant number of them use machine learning, which is proven to be very effective in ... » read more

Covert Channel Between the CPU and An FPGA By Modulating The Usage of the Power Distribution Network
By Technical Paper Link - 30 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "CPU to FPGA Power Covert Channel in FPGA-SoCs" was published by researchers at TU Munich and Fraunhofer Research Institution AISEC. Abstract: "FPGA-SoCs are a popular platform for accelerating a wide range of applications due to their performance and flexibility. From a security point of view, these systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various attacks... » read more

Logic Locking at the RTL, Leveraging The Behavioral State Transition Coding For Obfuscation (University of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 25 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "ReTrustFSM: Toward RTL Hardware Obfuscation-A Hybrid FSM Approach" was published by researchers at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Abstract: "Hardware obfuscating is a proactive design-for-trust technique against IC supply chain threats, i.e., IP piracy and overproduction. Many studies have evaluated numerous techniques for obfuscation purposes. Neverth... » read more

Hardware-Based Confidential Computing (NIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

NIST has published a draft report, titled “Hardware Enabled Security: Hardware-Based Confidential Computing,” which presents an approach for managing machine identities for protection against malware and other security vulnerabilities. Comments are due April 10, 2023. Abstract "Organizations employ a growing volume of machine identities, often numbering in the thousands or millions per ... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Linda Christensen - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Rambus will begin selling Arm's CryptoCell embedded security platform and CryptoIsland root-of-trust cores, setting the stage for a much broader push by Rambus into security for a wide range of connected devices, and ultimately into security as a service. Under the terms of the deal, Rambus' customers will be able to license Arm IP directly from Rambus. For Arm's existing customers, there will ... » read more

Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks And Defenses On Non-Volatile RAM
By Technical Paper Link - 04 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems" was written (preprint) by researchers at UC San Diego, UT Austin, and Purdue University. Abstract "We study microarchitectural side-channel attacks and defenses on non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) DIMMs. In this study, we first perform reverse-engineering of NVRAMs as implemented by the Intel Optane... » read more

Review of Methods to Design Secure Memristor Computing Systems
By Technical Paper Link - 27 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Review of security techniques for memristor computing systems" was published by researchers at Israel Institute of Technology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), and Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT). Abstract "Neural network (NN) algorithms have become the dominant tool in visual object recognition, natural language processing, and robotic... » read more

Formal Processor Model Providing Secure Speculation For The Constant-Time Policy
By Technical Paper Link - 24 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "ProSpeCT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy (Extended version)" was published by researchers at imec-DistriNet at KU Leuven, CEA, List, Université Paris Saclay and INRIA. Abstract: "We propose ProSpeCT, a generic formal processor model providing provably secure speculation for the constant-time policy. For constant-time programs under a no... » read more

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