Security adds an extra design dimension

IOT devices, including medical implants, sensor nodes, wearables, smart devices, and more, are typically extremely resource constraint. They operate from batteries or scavenge energy from the environment: thus optimizing for energy and/or power consumption is of utmost importance. Adding cryptographic functionality and protecting secrets adds an extra design dimension. These functions need to be compact and energy efficient. But at the same time, they should resist physical attacks and sensitive information should not leak from the device. Counter measures add to the overall cost and energy budget. Hardware entangled crypto and security, based on PUFs and TRNGs, is part of the solution.

While for the past 20 years, optimizing for power was the main goal, for the next 20 years we will be optimizing for security.

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About the panel speaker:

Ingrid Verbauwhede is a professor in the research group COSIC of the EE Department of the KU Leuven in Belgium. At COSIC, she leads the embedded systems and hardware group. She is also adjunct professor at the EE department at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. She is a member of IACR and she was elected as member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2011. Her main interest is in the design and design methods for secure embedded circuits and systems. She is a fellow of IEEE and received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2016.