Project Grant N000142612231

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $173,000 to the Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University to investigate secure embedded field-programmable gate array (EFPGA) redaction solutions and dynamic key schemes for hardware security and reliability from March 2023 to February 2025. The project aims to develop a comprehensive...

This National Science Foundation project grant provides $100,000 to support research into integrated circuit cloaking against reverse engineering through adversarial machine learning techniques. The University of California, Irvine will utilize the funding over a two-year period ending April 2024 to develop novel integrated circuit cell layouts that cannot be identified through scanning electron microscope images obtained via reverse engineering attempts. Researchers will introduce adversarial...

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....

This $174,705 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop a design space modeling framework for logic obfuscation configuration in integrated circuits. The goal is to automate identification of effective allocations of obfuscation resources that maximize system-wide security with minimal design overhead. Key products include quantifiable security...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 to Florida International University (FIU) to develop new techniques for predicting and suppressing electromagnetic interference in high-density semiconductor device packaging. The research aims to address challenges in future electronics manufacturing, including mitigating signal interference and ensuring electromagnetic compatibility within integrated packages. Key innovations...

The University of Illinois was awarded a $420,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop electromagnetic physically-unclonable functions generated by graphene radio-frequency circuits. This three-year award, made on June 15, 2023 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to exploit imperfections in wireless device circuitry to generate encryption keys for authentication. The university...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $731,838 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to develop algorithms and techniques for learning the hidden structure of digital and analog circuits from side-channel measurements. This work aims to advance hardware security and integrity checking by allowing adaptive interaction with circuits to intelligently model arbitrary analog circuit side-channels and utilize non-linear solvers and...

This $199,780 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of new hardware designs for high-precision discrete Gaussian sampling to enable post-quantum cryptographic systems and homomorphic encryption applications. The awardee, North Carolina State University, will first explore novel algorithmic approaches to simplify Gaussian sampling techniques' random search processes and approximation techniques to...

This two-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at Washington University in City, Missouri to develop a quantum tunneling-based framework for zero side-channel key generation and distribution. The Engineering Directorate program seeks to advance engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using an array of self-powered, phase-locked timers that operate via Fowler-Nordheim quantum tunneling to emulate...