Phase I IUCRC University of Cincinnati: Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST)

硬件和嵌入式系统安全与信任中心（CHEST）协调基于大学的研究与工业和政府合作伙伴的需求，以推进电子硬件和嵌入式系统的安全、保证和信任方面的知识。CHEST的兴趣包括识别、检测、监控、缓解和消除影响硬件和嵌入式系统的漏洞。CHEST中心处理一系列攻击向量，包括设计、操作、制造、供应链，以及各种系统的硬件、软件和固件的集成。该中心正在发明并向利益相关者传播技术、实践和指导方针，并培养下一代专家。NSF CHEST中心在多个层面上解决安全、保证和信任问题：大型系统、嵌入式系统、设计和操作、需求、标准、制造、供应链以及集成电路和电路板。在这些大学中，辛辛那提大学将领导CHEST在硬件和嵌入式系统安全性以及电路级信任方面的工作。主题包括设计、检测、避免、减轻和防止恶意攻击的方法：(i)避免和减轻侧信道攻击；（ii）分离制造和附加组件，用于硬件完整性监控；（iii）用于增强加密/混淆、伪装、分裂制造、木马检测、逆向工程和水印应用的硬件加速。综合信息物理系统的安全、保证和信任能够满足人类的基本需求，同时支持国家更广泛的社会、环境和经济进步。系统吸收破坏性冲击并以最小损失恢复的能力是保护人类生命和财产的关键。NSF CHEST中心影响着工业、政府和军队在设计、保护以及与硬件和嵌入式系统相关的漏洞恢复方面的实践。提高保证和信任有助于减少不良事件的频率和严重程度，同时关注系统任务、性能、进度和成本。NSF CHEST中心网站www.nsfchest.org是所有可公开访问的数据、代码、结果等的存储库。这些页面将至少在CHEST中心活动期间保持。此外，辛辛那提大学（UC）领导的所有项目都将以数字格式永久存档在UC文件服务器上，并为设备故障时的备份和恢复提供足够的保障。所有存档UC计算机和服务器定期备份。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST) coordinates university-based research with needs of industry and government partners to advance knowledge of security, assurance, and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems. Interests of CHEST include identification, detection, monitoring, mitigation, and elimination of vulnerabilities that affect hardware and embedded systems. The CHEST Center addresses a range of attack vectors across design, operation, manufacturing, supply chains, and integration of the hardware, software, and firmware to a variety of systems. The Center is inventing and disseminating technologies, practices, and guidelines to stakeholders and educating a next generation of experts.The NSF CHEST Center addresses security, assurance, and trust across several levels: Large-scale systems, embedded systems, design and operations, requirements, standards, manufacturing, supply chains, and integrated circuits and boards. Among the universities, the University of Cincinnati will lead CHEST efforts for hardware and embedded system security and trust at the circuit level. Topics include methods for designing, detecting, avoiding, mitigating, and protecting against malicious attacks: (i) side channel attack avoidance and mitigation; (ii) split manufacturing and additive components for HW integrity monitoring; and (iii) hardware acceleration for enhancing encryption/obfuscation, camouflaging, split manufacturing, Trojan detection, reverse engineering, and watermarking applications.Security, assurance, and trust of integrated cyber-physical systems enable meeting fundamental human needs, along with supporting broader social, environmental, and economic progress of the nation. The ability of systems to absorb disruptive shocks and recover with minimal loss is key to protecting human lives and property. The NSF CHEST Center influences the practices of industry, government, and the military in design, protection, and resilience to vulnerabilities associated with hardware and embedded systems. Improving assurance and trust contributes to the reducing the frequencies and severities of adverse events with attention to system missions, performance, schedule, and cost.The NSF CHEST Center website, www.nsfchest.org, is the repository for all publicly accessible data, code, results, etc. These pages will be maintained for at least as long as the CHEST Center is active. In addition, all projects led by the University of Cincinnati (UC) will be permanently archived in digital format on the UC file servers with sufficient provisions for backup and recovery in case of equipment failure. All archival UC computers and servers are backed up on a regular basis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.