Hardware Security ((3))

Catalog description

This course will study the principles of computer systems security from the hardware perspective, especially as it crosses layers of abstraction. Students will learn about the vulnerabilities in current digital system design flow and the challenges of building secure hardware for each layer of abstraction. Cutting edge research on these challenges will be discussed and hands-on experiences with performing attacks, developing countermeasures, and implementing secure hardware building blocks will be required. By the end of the course, students will be able to reason about security in terms of adversarial models, hardware vulnerabilities, and attacks. Each week lecture meets for 150 minutes.