This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $526,968 will fund the development of countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits and electronic systems from 2022 to 2025. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization techniques, and tamper response mechanisms to avert such attacks. Eradicator is a novel approach that draws on multiple disciplines to build comprehensive and unbreakable protection for application-specific integrated circuits and field programmable gate arrays. The project also explores an open-source simulator for pre-silicon assessment of designs' security against laser probing attacks. This work aims to systematically develop new countermeasures that can strengthen critical infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and defense technologies against intellectual property theft and data breaches involving laser-assisted side-channel analysis.
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