Courses

Course Objective:

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1. Developing efficient finite field architecture

2. Block cipher and stream cipher accelerators

3. Accelerating Public Key Cryptography: Elliptic curve scalar multiplication and isogeny based cryptosystem

4. Power-based side-channel attack

5. Fault Attacks

6. Countermeasures

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Course Contents

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•Module 1: Finite Field Arithmetic Hardware

 

• Module 2: Secure Constructions of Block Cipher: AES

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• Module 3: Secure Constructions of Stream Cipher: Grain

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• Module 4: Efficient Implementation of Elliptic Curve Architectures

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• Module 5: Elliptic curve isogeny based cryptosystem for post quantum computing

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Books:

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1. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Rajat Subhra Chakraborty,“Hardware Security: Design, Threats, and Safeguards”,

CRC Press, 2014.

2. Doug Stinson, Cryptography Theory and Practice, CRC Press, 2005.

3. Samir Palnitkar, “Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis”, Prentice Hall, 1996.

4. Michael D. Ciletti, “Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog HDL”, Pearson, 1996 .

5. Ted Huffmire et al: “Handbook of FPGA Design Security”, Springer, 2014.

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More details regarding the course can be found at https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/pages/CS798A.html