Embedded Security

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Department of Digital Design

Synopsis:

Students gain basic knowledge in selected topics of cryptography and cryptanalysis. The course focuses particularly on efficient implementations of cryptographic primitives in hardware and software (in embedded systems). Students gain a good overview of functionality of (hardware) cryptographic accelerators, smart cards, and resources for securing internal functions of computer systems.

Requirements:

Basic fundamentals of cryptography.

Basic fundamentals of digital design.

Knowledge of VHDL or C.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Embedded Systems with Cryptographic Features, SmartCards.

2. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems I: Differential Power Analysis.

3. Introduction to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).

4. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(p), Montgomery Domain.

5. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(2^m) with Polynomial Basis Representation.

6. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(2^m) with Normal Basis Representation.

7. (Pseudo)Random Number Generators in Embedded Systems.

8. Efficient Exponentiation.

9.Efficient Implementation of RSA, Efficient Multiplication.

10. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems II: Time-Memory Trade-Off (TMTO) Tables Attacks.

11. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems III: Guess-and-Determine Attack.

12. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems iV: Side-Channel and Fault-Injection Attacks.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Implementation of a symmetric cipher in an FPGA or a microcontroller.

2. Differential Power Analysis

3. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Point addition over elliptic curve; its implementation in the FPGA or the microcontroller.

4. Diffie-Hellman key exchange over elliptic curve (ECDH); its implementation in the FPGA or the microcontroller.

5. RSA.

Study Objective:

The module introduces students into the area of security of computer systems using hardware and provides knowledge needed for analysis and design of computer system security.

Study materials:

1. Menezes, A., Oorschot, P., Vanstone, S. ''Handbook of Applied Cryptography''. CRC Press, 1996. ISBN 0849385237.

2. Paar, C., Pelzl, J. „Understanding Cryptography“. Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-04100-6

3. Rankl, W., Effing W. ''Smart Card Handbook''. Third Edition, Wiley, ISBN 047085668-8.

4. Ross J. Anderson, ''Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems'', Second Edition, Wiley, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-06852-6.

5. John R. Vacca, ''Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems'', Elsevier, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-7506-7967.

6. Ecks, M., ''Smartcard development with JavaCard and the OpenCard Framework: A feasibility study'', VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008, ISBN: 3836499894.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2018-2019 (elective course)
• Master specialization Computer Security, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization Design and Programming of Embedded Systems, in Czech, 2020 (PS)
• Master specialization Computer Systems and Networks, in Czech, 202 (elective course)
• Master specialization Management Informatics, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization Software Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization System Programming, in Czech, version from 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization Web Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization Knowledge Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
• Mgr. programme, for the phase of study without specialisation, ver. for 2020 and higher (PS, VO)
• Master Specialization Digital Business Engineering, 2023 (VO)
• Master specialization System Programming, in Czech, version from 2023 (elective course)
• Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2023 (elective course)