Side-Channel Security. 3 credits

Catalog description

Side-channel attacks (SCAs) are a class of attacks that target the physical implementation of a secure system by measuring artifacts of the computation or by influencing the computation in order to retrieve secret information. SCAs pose a serious threat to smart devices, Internet of Things, cars, mobile devices, etc. This course explores side-channel attack techniques as well as countermeasures for hardware and software implementations of cryptographic algorithms. Topics include timing and cache attacks, power and electromagnetic analysis, machine learning-based attacks, side-channel leakage evaluation, and hiding and masking countermeasures. This course provides a comprehensive team-based research and development experience through in-class labs, projects, and presentations. Offered by Electrical & Comp. Engineering . May not be repeated for credit.