Secure Hardware Architecture and Attack Resilience
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hardware security; security architecture; vehicle security
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advancement of digital systems and the increasing reliance on embedded devices in critical applications—such as IoT, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation—have made hardware security a cornerstone of system integrity, confidentiality, and resilience. Cryptographic hardware and accelerators and secure microarchitecture designs play pivotal roles in safeguarding sensitive data against evolving threats. However, emerging challenges—including post-quantum cryptography (PQC), RISC-V security vulnerabilities, and advanced physical attacks—demand innovative solutions to protect next-generation computing systems.
This Special Issue seeks high-quality research contributions that advance secure hardware architectures and attack-resilient designs, bridging theoretical security principles with practical, real-world implementations. We invite original research articles on topics including (but not limited to) the following:
- Hardware root of trust (PUF, TRNG, secure boot, measured boot, etc.);
- Cryptographic accelerators (ASIC/FPGA/GPU-based designs and implementations);
- Post-quantum cryptographic hardware;
- Fault injection (FI) and side-channel attack (SCA) and mitigation;
- Advances in micro-architecture attack and defense;
- RISC-V security;
- Trusted execution environments (TEEs) and confidential computing;
- Secure elements (SEs) and hardware security modules (HSMs) for IoT, automotive, and industrial control systems;
- Advances in FPGA-based security mechanisms, including reconfigurable cryptographic solutions and dynamic attestation.
We welcome submissions that address both theoretical and applied aspects of hardware security, with a focus on real-world applicability and robustness.
Prof. Dr. Kun Yang
Dr. Shuwen Deng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- secure hardware architecture
- hardware root of trust
- cryptographic hardware and accelerator
- post-quantum cryptographic hardware
- fault injection and side-channel attack and defense
- micro-architecture attack and defense
- RISC-V security
- trusted execution environment
- secure element and hardware security module
- FPGA security
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