ECE 3170 CHES Final Examination

• Where: the same classroom as lecture
• When: Tuesday, December 9, 2:40pm--5:30pm
• Books allowed: Schneier, Applied Cryptography, Second Edition, Wiley, 1996, ISBN # 9781119096726; Katz & Lindell, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, second edition, CRC Press, 2015, ISBN # 9781466570269; Menezes et al., Handbook of Applied Cryptography, 5th printing, CRC Press, 1996, ISBN # 9781119096726; Mangard et al., Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards, Springer, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-387-30857-9, ISBN-10: 0-387-30857-1, e-ISBN-10: 0-387-38162-7.
• Papers allowed: The five papers covered in lectures are allowed, namely, the WDDL paper, DES DPA paper, MDPL paper, Messerges paper and Plusquellic paper. The formal reference format for these papers are as follows: K. Tiri and I. Verbauwhede, "A Logic Level Design Methodology for DPA Resistant ASIC or FPGA Implementation," Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE?04), Vol. I, February 2004; L. Goubin and J. Patarin, "DES and Differential Power Analysis: The Duplication Method," Cryptographic Hardware for Embedded Systems (CHES) conference, 1999; T. Popp and S. Mangard, "Masked Dual-Rail Pre-charge Logic: Differential Power Analysis Resistance Without Routing Constraints," Cryptographic Hardware for Embedded Systems (CHES) conference, 2005; "Using Second-Order Power Analysis to Attack DPA Resistant Software," by T.S. Messerges, CHES 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) vol. 1965, pp. 238-251; and "Power Supply Signal Calibration Techniques for Improving Detection Resolution to Hardware Trojans," R. M. Rad, W. Xiaoxiao, M. Tehranipoor and J. Plusquellic, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2008, pp. 632-639.
• Policy:
  1. Open book (required plus the optional textbooks); published papers listed above; open book chapter printouts and printouts of lecture notes, homeworks, labs and solutions (including Midterm I as well as Midterm II solutions); any handwritten or typewritten notes you have taken including on an electronic device such as a laptop or tablet (but no phones!); no other book or other printouts/materials without your handwriting (or typewriting) are allowed
  2. You may bring one calculator, but you are on the honor code to NOT use ANY programmable features whatsoever
  3. Please note that Prof. Mooney follows a "trust but verify" approach -- for example, you may be asked in class to show your laptop wireless is turned off
• Covered material: all lecture material presented
• Review session: Tuesday, December 2, in class