Course

Preliminaries: Algebra of Finite Fields, Mathematics of Cryptography, Fundamentals of Digital Systems, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).Cryptography Implementation: Symmetric Cryptography- DES, AES; Asymmetric Cryptography-RSA, ECC; Cryptographic Hardware and their Implementation, Optimization of Cryptographic Hardware on FPGA

Attacks against Cryptographic Algorithms: Fault Injection & Side-channel Attacks – Basic Idea, Methodologies, Algorithms and Case Studies, Design Techniques for resilience against Fault Injection and Side-channel Attacks

Hardware Security Primitives: Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), PUF Implementations,

PUF Quality Evaluation, Design Techniques to Increase PUF Response Quality, Attacks against PUFs

Hardware Trojans: Trojan Nomenclature and Classification, Countermeasures to prevent/detect hardware trojans, Logic testing and side-channel analysis for Trojan detection

Microarchitectural Attacks: Cache-based attacks, Attacks against Branch Prediction, Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer Attacks

• CO1: Understand and optimize the process of implementing cryptographic algorithms onhardware
• CO2: Learn the different kinds of attacks that can be mounted against cryptographic algorithms
• CO3: Learn the process of building Physical Unclonable Functions and make them resilient to attacks
• CO4: Understand the different kinds of Trojans, their impact and learn the effective countermeasures for defending against them
• CO5: Learn the different kinds of threats at the microarchitectural level and their corresponding countermeasures.