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SUMMARY:Hardware security: trends and pitfalls of the past decade - Sergei
  Skorobogatov - Computer Laboratory\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20090120T161500Z
DTEND:20090120T171500Z
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CONTACT:Joseph Bonneau
DESCRIPTION:It has been a long time since the hardware security problems i
 n semiconductor\nchips were brought to light by Ross Anderson and Markus K
 uhn in the late\nnineties\, followed shortly by Markus Kuhn and Oliver Kom
 merling paper on the\nforefront attack technologies used for breaking smar
 tcards. Now it seems quite\nlogical to look at the progress made in this a
 rea as a whole decade has passed\nsince that time. The defence technology 
 has been significantly improved\, but\nthe attackers did not sit idle and 
 made some progress as well. The question is\nwhether the lessons were lear
 ned and whether we have significantly better\nhardware security protection
  in semiconductor devices around us today.\n\nThe purpose of this talk is 
 not only in summarising achievements at both the\nattack and defence ends.
  I will raise some concerns about certain security\nfailures\, point out c
 ommon mistakes made by chip manufacturers and discuss\npossible roots of s
 uch problems. Finally\, I will try to project the trend of\nhardware secur
 ity area into the nearest future.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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