Category: Publications

Davood Shahrjerdi, B. Nasri, D. Armstrong, A. Alharbi, and Ramesh Karri Proliferation of electronics and their increasing connectivity pose formidable challenges for information security. At the most fundamental level, nanostructures and nanomaterials offer an unprecedented opportunity to introduce new approaches to securing electronic devices. First, we discuss engineering nanomaterials, (e.g., carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, and layered...

Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy, Lois Anne Delong and Justin Cappos Software update systems for automobiles can deliver significant benefits, but, if not implemented carefully, they could potentially incur serious security vulnerabilities. Previous solutions for securing software updates consider standard attacks and deploy widely understood security mechanisms, such as digital signatures for the software updates, and hardware...

Davood Shahrjerdi, Bayan Nasri, Darren Armstrong, Abduallah Alharbi, Ramesh Karri Proliferation of electronics and their increasing connectivity pose formidable challenges for information security. At the most fundamental level, nanostructures and nanomaterials offer an unprecedented opportunity to introduce new approaches to securing electronic devices. First, we discuss engineering nanomaterials, (e.g., carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, and layered transition...

Muhammad Yasin, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran This paper presents CamoPerturb, a countermeasure to thwart the decamouflaging attack by integrating logic perturbation with IC camouflaging. CamoPerturb, contrary to all the existing camouflaging schemes, perturbs the functionality of the given design minimally, i.e., adds/removes one minterm, rather than camouflaging the design.

Quanyan Zhu, Tansu Alpcan, Emmanouil Panaousis, Milind Tambe, and William Casey This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2016, held in New York, NY, USA, in November 2016.

Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Sk. Subidh Ali, and Ozgur Sinanoglu In this article, the authors present a compact implementation of the Salsa20 stream cipher that is targeted towards lightweight cryptographic devices such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags.

Tao Zhang and Quanyan Zhu In this paper, the authors develop a privacy-preserving method to a class of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) machine learning problems.

Xiaotong Cui, Kaijie Wu, Siddharth Garg and Ramesh Karri Fab-less design houses are outsourcing fabrication to third-party foundries to reduce costs. However, this has security consequences including intellectual property (IP) theft and piracy. Obfuscation techniques have been proposed to increase resistance to reverse engineering, IP recovery, IP theft and piracy.

Chandra K.H. Suresh, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Sk Subidh Ali, and Ozgur Sinanoglu In this article, the authors offer a security analysis of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and carbon nanotube (CNT). They highlight the key technology-specific features of these post-CMOS technologies that can inform the design of secure systems.

Chandra K. H. Suresh, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Sk Subidh Ali and Ozgur Sinanoglu Continuous scaling of CMOS technology beyond sub-nanometer region has aggravated short-channel effects, resulting in increased leakage current and high power densities. Furthermore, elevated leakage current and power density render CMOS based security-critical applications vulnerable to power-side-channel attacks. Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) is a promising alternative to CMOS technology.