This three-year, $483,326 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Florida to develop countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits. Side-channel attacks extract secret keys and data from chips using probing techniques, compromising systems in critical infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, aerospace and defense. The researchers will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization and tamper response mechanisms to avert such attacks. Eradicator revisits traditional protection philosophies and draws on multiple disciplines including physics, chip design and cryptography. The layers will apply to both application-specific integrated circuits and field programmable gate arrays. Additionally, the project explores an open-source simulator for pre-silicon security assessment of designs against laser attacks. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, this research aims to systematically develop novel defenses for electronic systems in important application domains.
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