Teaching FPGA Security

Lilian Bossuet (1)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien

Teaching FPGA security to electrical engineering students is new at graduate level. It requires a wide field of knowledge and a lot of time. This paper describes a compact course on FPGA security that is available to electrical engineering master's students at the Saint-Etienne Institute of Telecom, University of Lyon, France. It is intended for instructors who wish to design a new course on this topic. The paper reviews the motivation for the course, the pedagogical issues involved, the curriculum, the lab materials and tools used, and the results. Details are provided on two original lab sessions, in particular, a compact lab that requires students to perform differential power analysis of FPGA implementation of the AES symmetric cipher. The paper gives numerous relevant references to allow the reader to prepare a similar curriculum.

Mots clés: FPGA security; data security; cryptography; education; digital system design; embedded system security

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Education

Lilian Bossuet. Teaching FPGA Security. International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, Dec 2013, Kyoto, Japan. 4 p. ⟨hal-00866365⟩