ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
- Objectives and issues of physical security
- Symmetric encryption (DES, AES) and associated microelectronic architectures
- Modular calculation and multiplication of large numbers
- Asymmetric encryption (RSA) and associated microelectronic architectures
- Authentication principle
- Generation of random numbers
- Backchannel attacks
- Attacks in faults
Objectives
Acquire the basics for understanding the notions of cryptography and attacks on hardware systems implementing these algorithms.
Necessary pre-requisites
Digital electronics
Recommended prerequisites*:
Programming and hardware description language
Syllabus
Book : "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" - http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
Additional information
CM: 1:30 pm
TP : 3h