The security of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems is a challenge that needs to be addressed immediately, as the increasing use of new communication paradigms and the abundant use of sensors opens up new opportunities to compromise these ty...
This paper presents a hardware-assisted security primitive that integrates the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) into IoT devices for authentication in smart grids. Data and device security plays a pivotal role in smart grids since they are vulnerable to...
Modern cryptographic systems increasingly depend on certified hardware modules to guarantee trustworthy key management, tamper resistance, and secure execution across Internet of Things (IoT), embedded, and cloud infrastructures. Although numerous FI...
Microservice architectures exploit container-based virtualized services, which rarely use hardware-based cryptography. A trusted platform module (TPM) offers a hardware root for trust in services that makes use of cryptographic operations. The virtua...
The importance of vehicle security has increased in recent years in the automotive field, drawing the attention of both the industry and academia. This is due to the rise in cybersecurity threats caused by (1) the increase in vehicle connectivity sch...
The use of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) linked to the manufacturing process of the electronic devices supporting applications that exchange critical data over the Internet has made these elements essential to guarantee the authenticity of sai...
The accurate tracking of every production step and related outcome in a supply chain is a stringent requirement in safety-critical sectors such as civil aviation. In such a framework, trusted traceability and accountability can be reliably and secure...
In a world where digitization is rapidly advancing, the security and privacy of intra-domain communication within organizations are of critical concern. The imperative to secure communication channels among physical systems has led to the deployment...
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) over prime fields relies on scalar point multiplication realized by point addition and point doubling. Point addition and point doubling operations consist of many modular multiplications of large operands (256 bits...
This paper presents a conceptual architecture for an AI-Driven Adaptive Encryption Device (AI-AED), a tri-modular hardware platform embodied in a registered industrial design. The device integrates a Secure Input Module, an AI-Enhanced Central Proces...
In this paper, we propose a bus-independent hardware (HW)-based approach to secure long protocol data units (PDUs) in Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR)-based automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Our approach is based on extending p...
Conventional electronic voting systems use a centralized scheme. A central administration of these systems manages the entire voting process and has partial or total control over the database and the system itself. This creates some problems, acciden...
This paper presents a review of module ring learning with errors-based (MLWE-based) public-key encryption and key-establishment algorithms. In particular, we introduce the preliminaries of public key cryptography, MLWE-based algorithms, and arithmeti...
With the proliferation of electronic devices, third-party intellectual property (3PIP) integration in the supply chain of the semiconductor industry and untrusted actors/fields have raised hardware security concerns that enable potential attacks, suc...
Polynomial multiplication is the most computationally expensive part of the lattice-based cryptography algorithm. However, the existing acceleration schemes have problems, such as low performance and high hardware resource overhead. Based on the poly...
The introduction of various networks into automotive cyber-physical systems (ACPS) brings great challenges on security protection of ACPS functions, the auto industry recommends to adopt the hardware security module (HSM)-based multicore ECU to secur...
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has a security problem that has become increasingly significant. New architecture of SM3 which can be implemented in loT devices is proposed in this paper. The software/hardware co-design approach is put forward to implem...
Pseudorandom sequence generation is used in many industries, including cryptographic information security devices, measurement technology, and communication systems. The purpose of the present work is to research additive Fibonacci generators (AFG) a...
Reconfigurable computing is becoming ubiquitous in the form of consumer-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Reconfigurable computing architectures have found their place in safety-critical infrastructures such as the automotive industry. As the t...
In this paper, we present a sensing device with the optical temperature sensors-based quad receiver (Quad-RX) module and a security module. In addition, in order to prevent cyberattacks on critical national infrastructures and key facilities, we impl...
A biometric recognition system is one of the leading candidates for the current and the next generation of smart visual systems. The visual system is the engine of the surveillance cameras that have great importance for intelligence and security purp...
Over the last two decades, hardware security has gained increasing attention in academia and industry. Flash memory has been given a spotlight in recent years, with the question of whether or not it can prove useful in a security role. Because of inh...
Sensor devices that act in the IoT architecture perception layer are characterized by low data processing and storage capacity. These reduced capabilities make the system ubiquitous and lightweight, but considerably reduce its security. The IoT-based...
Although hardware trojans impose a relevant threat to the hardware security of RISC-V and Web3 applications, existing datasets have a limited set of examples, as the most famous hardware trojan dataset TrustHub has 106 different trojans. RISC-V speci...
With the widespread application of big data, the amount of data transmitted through optical networks has been increasing dramatically. Correlated random bit generation (CRBG) is one of the key technologies in secure communication systems to ensure se...
The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) caused new application needs to emerge as rapid response ability is missing in the current IoT end-devices. Therefore, Fog Computing has been proposed to be an edge component for the IoT networks as a...
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is widely used for secure communications, because it can provide the same level of security as RSA with a much smaller key size. In constrained environments, it is important to consider efficiency, in terms of execut...
The OS kernel is typically preassumed as a trusted computing base in most computing systems. However, it also implies that once an attacker takes control of the OS kernel, the attacker can seize the entire system. Because of such security importance...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), as an important branch of artificial intelligence, have a wide range of applications in security-critical scenarios, and their hardware accelerators are also constantly evolving. However, hardware failures can ca...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are redefining both civilian and defense operations, with swarm-based architectures unlocking unprecedented scalability and autonomy. However, these advancements introduce critical security challenges, particularly in...
Physical layer encryption (PLE) is a new research trend for securing data in communication systems. However, conventional procedures in works on PLE are of high complexity and degrade the packet error rate (PER) performance of the system. They are th...
Information security is the foundation for building trust between the Internet of Things (IoT) and its users. Due to the sharp increase of information quantity and the limitation of hardware resources, it is difficult to maintain the high performance...
Nowadays, there is an increasing number of cameras placed on mobile devices connected to the Internet. Since these cameras acquire and process sensitive and vulnerable data in applications such as surveillance or monitoring, security is essential to...
Physical Unclonable Functions are security primitives that exploit the variation in integrated circuits’ manufacturing process, and, as a result, each instance processes applied stimuli differently. This feature can be used to provide a unique...
Cloud computing, as the most widely applied and prominent domain of distributed systems, has brought numerous advantages to users, including high resource sharing efficiency, strong availability, and excellent scalability. However, the complexity of...
The rapid growth of Internet-connected devices integrating into our everyday lives has no end in sight. As more devices and sensor networks are manufactured, security tends to be a low priority. However, the security of these devices is critical, and...
This paper presents TALOS, a unified reusable 6G CryptoProcessor architecture for high-assurance symmetric security services under a 256-bit private-key baseline. The design addresses a core hardware challenge in future mobile systems: supporting het...
Environmental monitoring is essential for safeguarding the health of our planet and protecting human health and well-being. Without trust, the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and the ability to address environmental challenges are significa...
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Medication safety administration is a complicated process involving the information of patients, drugs, and data storage. The sensitive data transmitted through wireless sensor networks (WSNs) from Internet of things (IoT) over an insecure channel is...
The proliferation of massive antenna arrays and the consequent intensification of near-field effects with 6G necessitate addressing critical security challenges in near-field communication environments. This paper presents a novel artificial noise-ai...
During the last few years, a wide variety of Internet of Drones (IoD) applications have emerged with numerous heterogeneous aerial and ground network elements interconnected and equipped with advanced sensors, computation resources, and communication...
As a result of the increased use of contract foundries, intellectual property (IP) theft, excess production and reverse engineering are major concerns for the electronics and defense industries. Hardware obfuscation and IP locking can be used to make...
Collaborative manufacturing is a key enabler of Industry 4.0 that requires secure data sharing among multiple parties. However, intercompany data-sharing raises important privacy and security concerns, particularly given intellectual property and bus...
Improving the security of electronic devices that support innovative critical services (digital administrative services, e-health, e-shopping, and on-line banking) is essential to lay the foundations of a secure digital society. Security schemes base...
Information is pivotal in contemporary society, highlighting the necessity for a secure cryptographic system. The emergence of quantum algorithms and the swift advancement of specialized quantum computers will render traditional cryptography suscepti...
Currently, cryptographic algorithms are widely applied to communications systems to guarantee data security. For instance, in an emerging automotive environment where connectivity is a core part of autonomous and connected cars, it is essential to gu...
Chaos-based communications are a promising application of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics. Their key features include concealed transmission, high security, and native broadband signals. Many studies have recently been published devoted to this t...
The automotive industry is fully shifting towards autonomous connected vehicles. By advancing vehicles’ intelligence and connectivity, the industry has enabled innovative functions such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in the direct...
Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPMs) are widely adopted in commercial cloud platforms such as VMware Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS. However, as software-based components, vTPMs do not provide the same security guarantees as...
As technology evolves, embedded systems access more networks and devices, which means more security threats. Existing security-monitoring methods with a single parameter (data or control flow) are not effective in detecting attackers tampering with t...
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