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Tamper Resistance Mechanisms for Secure, Embedded Systems (2004)
| Venue: | Proc. 17th Int‟l Conf. Very Large Scale Integration Design (VLSI Design ‟04 |
| Citations: | 40 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ravi04tamperresistance,
author = {Srivaths Ravi and Srimat Chakradhar},
title = {Tamper Resistance Mechanisms for Secure, Embedded Systems},
booktitle = {Proc. 17th Int‟l Conf. Very Large Scale Integration Design (VLSI Design ‟04},
year = {2004}
}
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Abstract
Security is a concern in the design of a wide range of embedded sys-tems. Extensive research has been devoted to the development of cryptographic algorithms that provide the theoretical underpinnings of information security. Functional security mechanisms, such as se-curity protocols, suitably employ these mathematical primitives in order to achieve the desired security objectives. However, functional security mechanisms alone cannot ensure security, since most em-bedded systems present attackers with an abundance of opportunities to observe or interfere with their implementation, and hence to com-promise their theoretical strength. This paper surveys various tamper or attack techniques, and ex-plains how they can be used to undermine or weaken security func-tions in embedded systems. Tamper-resistant design refers to the pro-cess of designing a system architecture and implementation that is resistant to such attacks. We outline approaches that have been pro-posed to design tamper-resistant embedded systems, with examples drawn from recent commercial products. 1
Keyphrases
tamper resistance mechanism theoretical underpinnings functional security wide range functional security mechanism recent commercial product tamper-resistant embedded system desired security objective extensive research security func-tions information security tamper-resistant design refers se-curity protocol various tamper cryptographic algorithm embedded sys-tems theoretical strength attack technique mathematical primitive system architecture embedded system em-bedded system present attacker
