Hardware Security (CY-801) - Important Questions

Discuss different types of hardware security best practices.

Prove that phi(n) >= 1 for all n >= 1 in a finite field.

Explain about various components of public-key cryptosystem.

Discuss the various steps involved in cryptographic hardware implementation.

What is a physical unclonable function (PUF)? Explain its advantages.

What is a PUF? Demonstrate taxonomy of PUF with a neat sketch.

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

What are the countermeasures for preventing side-channel attacks? Explain in detail with an example.

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

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

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

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?

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

Write short notes on any two of the following: (i) SVMs (ii) PUF quality evaluation (iii) Template attack (iv) SVM modeling of arbiter PUFs.