Hardware-based Network Security

Catalog description

This course will cover networking protocols, cryptography, and network security from the hardware implementation perspective. Topics include security of ND, NAT, IPSEC and other specialized IPv6 protocols in support of IoT functionality. The focus will be on implementation of security policy enforcement mechanisms in IPv6 network protocols in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform to protect an IoT application against sophisticated adversaries. Lab exercises using a FPGA platform will enable investigation of hardware-based security technologies such as the use of Physically Unclonable Functions that are not otherwise accessible from software.