Emerging Issues in Hardware and IC System Security
A special issue of Chips (ISSN 2674-0729).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 121
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, there has been a significant increase in attacks targeting hardware and its supply chains. These threats have revealed shortcomings in our current solutions. Despite decades of threat analysis, modeling, and prevention efforts, we continue to face challenges in defending against innovative adversaries. This Special Issue aims to solicit novel contributions from the fields of hardware and systems security that expose emerging threats, investigate practical threat models, explore novel hardware defenses, or automate the analysis of solutions.
We welcome papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:
- Side-channel and fault injection attacks, as well as their countermeasures;
- Cryptographic hardware and reconfigurable-based obfuscation;
- Hardware security primitives;
- Security of heterogeneous chiplets;
- Secure CAD tools and zero root-of-trust;
- Hardware fuzzing;
- Security-oriented hardware design;
- Security for CPS (Cyber–Physical Systems) and IoT (Internet of Things) devices;
- AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) hardware security.
Dr. Zain Ul Abideen
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- side-channel and fault injection attacks
- cryptographic hardware and reconfigurable-based obfuscation
- hardware security
- security of heterogeneous chiplets
- secure CAD tools and zero root-of-trust
- hardware fuzzing
- security-oriented hardware design
- security for CPS and IoT devices
- artificial intelligence/machine learning
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