The use of FPGAs for cryptographic applications is highly attractive for a variety of reasons but at the same time there are many open issues related to the general security of FPGAs. This contribution attempts to provide a state-of-the-art description of this topic. First, the advantages of reconfigurable hardware for cryptographic applications are discussed from a systems perspective. Second, potential security problems of FPGAs are described in detail, followed by a proposal of a some countermeasure. Third, a list of open research problems is provided. EVEN though there have been many contributions dealing with the algorithmic
aspects of cryptographic schemes implemented on FPGAs, this contribution appears to be the first comprehensive treatment of system and security aspects.
Click is a modular router toolkit. To use it you ll need to know how to
compile and install the software, how to write router configurations, and
how to write new elements. Our ACM Transactions on Computer Systems paper,
available from the Web site, will give you a feeling for what Click can
do. Using the optimization tools under CLICKDIR/tools, you can get EVEN
better performance than that paper describes.
Memory allocation in C
Dynamic memory allocation and the structures that implement it in C are so universal that they re sometimes treated as a black box. In the real world of embedded systems, that may not be desirable or EVEN possible.
PhD research, you have already
made a decision that will have a major impact on the success of your
project, and perhaps EVEN on your future career. You have chosen to
work in a particular research group, under the guidance of a particular
thesis advisor or supervisor.
Finally, after a great deal of effort and hard work, you have obtained
the results you were trying to get for such a long time. You may be
so busy (and tired) that you don’t EVEN realize that you have indeed
achieved a certain measure of success. Perhaps it will take a fewmore
months before you can present your work at a conference or submit it
to a scientific journal.
What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!
* How networks and the Internet work
* How to build coherent, cost-effective network infrastructures
* How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability
* What you need to know about data center and application networking
* How to secure networks against today?s threats and attacks
* How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies
* How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments EVEN further
* How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture
A major societal challenge for the decades to come will be the delivery of effective
medical services while at the same time curbing the growing cost of healthcare.
It is expected that new concepts-particularly electronically assisted healthcare will
provide an answer. This will include new devices, new medical services as well
as networking. On the device side, impressive innovation has been made possible
by micro- and nanoelectronics or CMOS Integrated Circuits. EVEN higher accuracy
and smaller form factor combined with reduced cost and increased convenience
of use are enabled by incorporation of CMOS IC design in the realization of biomedical
systems. The compact hearing aid devices and current pacemakers are
good examples of how CMOS ICs bring about these new functionalities and services
in the medical field. Apart from these existing applications, many researchers
are trying to develop new bio-medical solutions such as Artificial Retina, Deep
Brain Stimulation, and Wearable Healthcare Systems. These are possible by combining
the recent advances of bio-medical technology with low power CMOS IC
technology.
The Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a software for investigating unknown wireless protocols. Features include
* __hardware interfaces__ for common Software Defined Radios
* __easy demodulation__ of signals
* __assigning participants__ to keep overview of your data
* __customizable decodings__ to crack EVEN sophisticated encodings like CC1101 data whitening
* __assign labels__ to reveal the logic of the protocol
* __fuzzing component__ to find security leaks
* __modulation support__ to inject the data back into the system
* __simulation environment__ to perform stateful attacks
Abstract—In the future communication applications, users
may obtain their messages that have different importance levels
distributively from several available sources, such as distributed
storage or EVEN devices belonging to other users. This
scenario is the best modeled by the multilevel diversity coding
systems (MDCS). To achieve perfect (information-theoretic)
secrecy against wiretap channels, this paper investigates the
fundamental limits on the secure rate region of the asymmetric
MDCS (AMDCS), which include the symmetric case as a special
case. Threshold perfect secrecy is added to the AMDCS model.
The eavesdropper may have access to any one but not more than
one subset of the channels but know nothing about the sources,
as long as the size of the subset is not above the security level.
The question of whether superposition (source separation) coding
is optimal for such an AMDCS with threshold perfect secrecy
is answered. A class of secure AMDCS (S-AMDCS) with an
arbitrary number of encoders is solved, and it is shown that linear
codes are optimal for this class of instances. However, in contrast
with the secure symmetric MDCS, superposition is shown to
be not optimal for S-AMDCS in general. In addition, necessary
conditions on the existence of a secrecy key are determined as a
design guideline.