Probe attempt detectors are sensors designed to protect buses of secure chips against the physical contact of probes. The operation principle of these detectors relies on the comparison of the delay propagation times ...

In this paper, a low cost, Low Area Probing Detector (LAPD) is presented. Probing or microprobing is an attack technique against integrated circuits implementing security functions, such as OTP tokens or smartcards. It ...

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a technology for public-key cryptography that is becoming increasingly popular because it provides greater speed and implementation compactness than other public-key technologies. ...

A wide range of attacks that target cache memories in secure systems have been reported in the last half decade. Cold-boot attacks can be thwarted through the recently proposed Interleaved Scrambling Technique (IST). ...

Some algorithms running with compromised data select cache memory as a type of secure memory where data is confined and not transferred to main memory. However, cold-boot attacks that target cache memories exploit the data ...

Security is acknowledged as one of the main challenges in the design and deployment of embedded circuits. Devices need to operate on-the-field safely and correctly, even when at physical reach of potential adversaries. One ...

In this letter, the serial configuration of two RRAMs is used as a basic cell to generate an unpredictable bit. The basis of the operation considers starting from the Low Resistive State (LRS) in both devices (initialization ...

The last decade has recorded an increase in security protocols for integrated circuits and memory systems, because of device specific attacks such as side-channel monitoring and cold boot and also because sensitive information ...