A29- Hardware and System Security Course
| Year | Expected: April 2025 |
| Location | |
| Registration |
ECTS 4
| Course content |
| Security is one of the most fundamental extra-functional requirements that a systems has to provide and guarantee. For this reason, it is crucial that system designers and software developers are fully aware of the challenges that need to be addressed to ensure the secure operation of their devices and systems.
Security is however a quite broad and multifaceted problem, that very often has to be embedded into systems in a transparent way. Nevertheless, a naive design and implementation of cryptographic primitives can simply make them not effective, since weaknesses introduced in the implementation have been demonstrated to be easily exploitable by adversaries. This course focuses on the design and efficient implementation of security primitives and is divided in two parts. The first part, in addition to the main design and optimization techniques used for designing secure hardware and software, covers also threats caused by side channels, techniques to mitigate them and the use of machine learning for improving security. The second parts covers advanced topics of security, such as security of machine learning algorithms, roots of trust, and aspects of system security. Objectives: the course aims to provide a broad overview of embedded and cyber-physical systems security and to engage students via hands-on exercises. Organization: the teaching approach will combine lectures with hands-on work. |
| Course objectives |
| The course aims to provide a broad overview of embedded and cyber-physical systems security and to engage students via hands-on exercises. |
Final Schedule
| Tuesday April 19: |
| 14:00-14:15: Welcome |
| 14:15-17:30 (incl. break): Intro to cryptographic primitives and their design (lecture + hands-on), Joan Daemen |
| 18:00-19:00: Welcome reception + student poster session |
| 19:00: Dinner |
| Wednesday April 20: |
| 9:15-12:30 (incl. break): Efficient implementation of cryptographic primitives in hardware (lecture + hands-on), Nele Mentens and Francesco Regazzoni |
| 12:30-14:00: Lunch |
| 14:00-17:15 (incl. break): Efficient implementation of cryptographic primitives in software (lecture + hands-on), Roberto Avanzi |
| 19:00: Dinner |
| Thursday April 21: |
| 8:30-12:30 (incl. breaks): Side-channel analysis attacks and countermeasures (lecture + hands-on), Lejla Batina and Kostas Papagiannopoulos |
| 12:30-14:00: Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30: System security (lecture), Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi |
| 15:30-17:30: Free time |
| 17:30-20:30: Social event + dinner |
| Friday April 22: |
| 9:30-11:00: Security of machine learning (lecture), Stjepan Picek |
| 11:00-11:15: Break |
| 11:15-12:45: Hardware roots of trust (lecture), Ingrid Verbauwhede |
| Assignment |
| The course has an assignment which is evaluated following the examination procedure. Examination: Literature study or small project on the concepts of the course. Submission of a report about the literature study or the project by a specific deadline followed by and evaluation. |
