Hardware Security (CY-801) - Important Questions

Discuss different types of hardware security best practices.

Prove that $\varphi(n) \ge 1$ for all $n \ge 1$ in a finite field.

Explain about various components of public-key cryptosystem.

Define hardware security and explain its significance in detail.

Define a finite field and prove that $m \cdot 0 = 0$ for any $m \in F$.

Construct the finite field with $4$ elements using $f(x)=x^2+x+1 \in \mathbb{F}_2[x]$.

Explain about accuracy issues and precision enhancement in FGPA.

Discuss the various steps involved in cryptographic hardware implementation.

What is a physical unclonable function (PUF) and what are its advantages?

What is a PUF and what is its taxonomy with diagram?

Define arithmetic circuit and explain its important parameters in detail.

Explain about design techniques to increase PUF response quality.

Develop a domain-specific implementation for finite field multipliers.

What are side-channel attacks? Explain the different types / vulnerabilities and use cases with examples.

Countermeasures for preventing side-channel attacks

Explain acoustic cryptanalysis as a type of side-channel attack in detail.

Explain about improved side-channel attack by using DES algorithm.

Explain fault tolerance in cryptography including its architecture, load balancing and failover

Explain the verification formulation for finite field multipliers with suitable examples.

Check whether the polynomial computed by a given arithmetic circuit over a field is identically zero.

Write short notes on SVMs, PUF quality evaluation, template attack, and SVM modeling of arbiter PUFs.

Explain various types of design techniques to prevent IP and IC piracy.

What is genetic programming and how is it used for modeling of ring oscillator PUFs?

Discuss different types of PUF attacks including model-building attacks with examples.

Describe about various procedures involved to prevent hardware piracy using PUFs.

Write a short note on any two of the following: