Low POWer & Energy Relevant techniques Targetting Robust Universal Security in deep sub-micron Technologies- POWER TRUST

When talking about IT-Security, resistance against attacks is the basis of Trust in ITSystems. The development of countermeasures against various attacks, such as SPA/DPA, SEMA/DEMA or DFA, has become a challenging topic for academia as well as industry over the last decade. Recent improvements in attack techniques (e.g. early propagation weakness in case of DPA) and findings about incompleteness of proposed countermeasures (e.g. MDPL ) have brought up new approaches towards attack resistance.

In the project POWER TRUST we research towards protected design of next generation microprocessors for security relevant applications. We will implement a prototype microcontroller with countermeasures against SCA and DFA.

The project POWER TRUST started in March 2008 and is funded by the Austrian research programme FIT-IT. The project ends in December 2010. Partners are Infineon Technologies Austria and the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications from Graz University of Technology.