ECE 4156/6156 HARDWARE-ORIENTED SECURITY AND TRUST

This directory contains information regarding general lecture material for ECE 4156/6156 taught at Georgia Tech.

The course textbooks are Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Katz and Lindell, second edition, CRC Press, 2015, and Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes et al., CRC Press, 1996.

Lecture notes explained in class will be the primary source of material for homeworks, labs and tests. Please note that important parts of the explanations may not be on the slides initially, and thus alone the slides will typically be insufficient to learn the material. In a few cases, new material may be written by hand and described in class with no associated preprepared lecture notes. The expectation is that you will write down and learn all explanations given in class. Pdf versions of lecture slides, plus any supplementary electronic material prepared by the instructor of this course (ECE 4156/6156, taught at Georgia Tech by Assoc. Prof. Vincent Mooney), will appear below week by week as the class progresses (the links will begin to appear after the first day of class in January, 2024). Please note that some of the lecture topics below are quite large and may be broken into multiple lectures during the semester as the slides are prepared for class.

• Introduction
  • Introduction to ECE 4156/6156 with a focus on security and trust in digital design of VLSI circuits
• Cryptography Part I (original slides)
  • A brief introduction to cryptography including the shift cipher.
• Introduction to SHA-2 (original slides)
  • A brief introduction to one-way hash functions and SHA-2
• Introduction to Authentication Terminology
  • A brief introduction to authentication and associated terminology
• The Merkle-Damgard Construction
  • Use of the Merkle-Damgard Construction in Collision Resistant Hashes.
• Cryptography Part II (original and marked up slides)
  • One time pad.
• Cryptography Part III (original and marked up slides)
  • Indistiguishability.
• Cryptography Part IV (original and marked up slides)
  • CPA-secure encryption and encryption modes.
• Labs Overview
  • Introduction to the first lab in ECE 4156/6156
• Cryptography Part V (original and marked up slides)
  • Introduction to secret sharing.
• Cryptography Part VI (original and marked up slides)
  • A brief introduction to Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.
• Cryptography Part VII (original and marked up slides)
  • CCA, HMAC and Unforgeability.
• RSA (original and marked up slides)
  • Asymmetric cryptography using RSA.
• Authentication Part II (Lecture 13 original and marked up slides)
  • More on entity authentication.
  • Needham Schroeder paper
  • Lowe paper
• Advanced Encryption Standard (Lecture 14 original and marked up slides)
  • Intro to AES.
  • NIST paper
  • video
• Cryptography Part VIII (Lecture 15 original and marked up slides)
  • Theory of Block Ciphers.
• Cryptography Part IX (Lecture 16 original and marked up slides)
  • Digital signatures.
• Testing for Randomness (Lecture 17 original and marked up slides)
  • NIST Test Suite for Random Number Generation
• Physically hard for yoU to clone Functions (PUFs) Part I (Lecture 18 original and marked up slides)
  • A brief introduction to PUF notation
  • PUF construction classes
  • Intra- vs. inter-chip Hamming Distance
  • Samsung PUF
  • ICTK PUF
• PUFs Part II (Lecture 19 original and marked up slides)
  • PUF types and physics
  • PUF entropy sources
• Random Access Memory (Lecture 20 original slides)
  • Some notes by Professor Mooney (and Prof. David Schimmel) on random access memory from ECE 6130
• PUFs Part III (Lecture 21 original and marked up slides)
  • SRAM PUFs
  • Guajardo Kumar Schrijen Tuyls paper
• PUFs Part IV (Lecture 22 original and marked up slides)
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• PUFs Part V (Lecture 23 original, marked up, 1st set of markings, 2nd set of markings and last set of markings slides)
  • More lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Hazards (Lecture 24 original and marked up slides)
  • Some notes by Professor Mooney (and Prof. David Schimmel) on logic hazards from ECE 3150 (formerly ECE 3060)
• Sequential Systems (Lecture 25 original and marked up slides)
  • Some notes by Professor Mooney (and Prof. David Schimmel) on clock based systems and metastability from ECE 3150 (formerly ECE 3060)
• PUFs Part VI (Lecture 26 original slides, paper and marked up slides )
  • Lecture notes and associated paper borrowed again from other universities.
• PUFs Part VII (Lecture 27 original and marked up slides)
  • Lecture notes borrowed yet again from other universities.
• Hardware Trojans I (Lecture 28 original and marked up slides)
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Hardware Trojans II (Lecture 29 original slides)
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Midterm II Review/ Comments on Topics Covered and Relationships (Lecture 30)
  • Readings and syllabus topics since Midterm I
• Final Exam Grading
  • Comments on the final exam
• PUFs Part VIII
  • A brief introduction to PUF scenarios, motivation and benefits.
  • PUF metrics & attacks including machine learning
  • Practical considerations including current status
• Architecture Flaws Part I
• Advanced Authentication
  • Message Authentication Code (MAC) design
  • Entropy & randomness
  • Multi-party authentication
• Modern Cryptography
  • Data privacy
  • Secret sharing
  • VLSI design of cryptographic hardware
  • AES, ECC and Keccak SHA
• Architecture Flaws Part II
• Authentication Part III
  • A brief introduction to PUF scenarios, motivation and benefits.
• FPGA Logic Design
  • Some notes from another class project taught by Professor Mooney. These FPGA notes are meant to help understand HELP.
• PUF-based Authentication (PUFs Part V)
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Differential Power Attacks
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Countermeasures to Side Channel Analysis
  • Lecture notes borrowed from other universities.
• Hardware and Software Vulnerabilities
  • Common weakness enumerations
  • Secure boot
  • Timing attacks
  • Countermeasures in hardware
• Hardware Attacks
  • Hardware Trojans (HTs)
  • Reverse engineering

This web page is http://mooney.gatech.edu/Courses/ECE4156/lectures/