Hardware Security and Trust, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Security and Privacy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 974
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hardware security; physical attacks; RTL countermeasures; secure test
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Dear Colleagues,
The presence of security functions at every level is becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of society due the growing number of connected devices and heavy data processing. Moreover, advances in processing power and computing paradigms also promote research into novel schemes and protocols, which pose new challenges in terms of implementation. The search for new cryptographic schemes (to find strong successors to the existing standards) and novel computing approaches requires continuous effort from the engineering community in order to achieve the best results.
In many domains, the need for adequate performance will require recurring hardware acceleration, at least partially: the presence of cryptographic functions in embedded processors as software or hardware implementations is now established, and the trend shows that all sorts of devices will soon be equipped with security features to guarantee confidentiality and authenticity. On the other hand, the possibilities available to attackers aiming to bypass the security of a system have also increased. Microarchitectural vulnerabilities found in modern CPUs (e.g., Spectre, Meltdown, Spoiler, and RowHammer) are very recent, proving that possible breaches may be discovered at any time. “Traditional” implementation attacks (side channel analysis and fault attacks) are still a major concern, which necessitates continuous efforts from the research community in both directions (attacks and countermeasures), from the lowest to the highest level of abstraction.
This Special Issue seeks novel contributions to improve the current state-of-the-art literature on methodologies, tools, and results on architectures, experimental attacks, and countermeasures for embedded systems in the field of hardware security and trust. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Embedded implementation of cryptographic algorithms;
- Physical attacks against embedded implementations and related countermeasures;
- Security of test infrastructures;
- Hardware Trojans and detection techniques;
- Hardware security primitives;
- Secure processors and architectures;
- Microarchitectural attacks: characterization, exploitation, and protections;
- Post-quantum cryptographic implementations;
- Lightweight cryptographic implementations;
- Secure implementation in constrained environments.
Dr. Paolo Maistri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- secure hardware
- physical attacks
- IC trust
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