CAREER: Utilizing Principles of Energy Recovery Computing for Low-Energy and DPA-Resistant IoT Devices

该项目将开发能量回收电路的电路设计技术和此类设计单元库，以促进移动物联网(IoT)设备的分组密码的低功耗实施，其中降低功耗至关重要。设计的挑战是生产低能耗、轻量级和安全的设备，这些设备还可以抵御恶意攻击，这些恶意攻击使用功耗跟踪来提取私人或敏感信息。该项目将为低能耗和抗差分功耗分析(DPA)的物联网设备提供一套能量回收(ER)原则。研究的目标是：(I)研究电流变电路中的信息泄漏并提出缓解方法；(Ii)研究和开发低能量和抗DPA的ER标准单元库和轻量级密码电路的半定制设计流程；以及(Iii)研究和开发功率时钟产生和分布以及硅原型以评估基于ER的密码电路的能量消耗和抗DPA能力。该项目的结果和结果应该为行业采用ER计算来设计低能耗和安全的物联网设备提供强有力的理由。该项目的另一个不可或缺的目标是扩大研究生、本科生以及少数族裔和代表性不足的人在网络和硬件安全研究和教育方面的参与。该项目将为本科生和研究生开发新的硬件安全课程，并举办研讨会。硬件安全方面的实习将提供给阿巴拉契亚的高中生和历史上代表性不足的少数民族，以及第一代学生。项目库将以电子方式存储，并通过肯塔基大学工程学院(http://hthapliyal.engineering.uky.edu/).)托管的网站提供这些数据将在获奖期限后至少保留三年。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will develop circuit design techniques for energy-recovery circuits and a library of such design cells to facilitate low-power implementation of block cipher for mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, where reducing power consumption is critical. The design challenge is to produce low-energy, lightweight, and secure devices, which are also resistant against malicious attacks that use power consumption traces to extract private or sensitive information. This project will provide a set of energy recovery (ER) principles for low-energy and differential power analysis (DPA)-resistant IoT devices. The research objectives are: (i) to investigate information leakage in ER circuits and propose mitigation methodologies; (ii) to investigate and develop a low-energy and DPA-resistant ER standard cell library and semi-custom design flow for lightweight cryptographic circuits; and (iii) to investigate and develop power clock generation and distribution, and silicon prototyping to evaluate energy dissipation and the DPA-resistance of ER-based crypto circuits. Outcomes and results from this project should make a strong case for industry adoption of ER computing for the design of low-energy and secure IoT devices. Another integral goal of this project is to broaden graduate, undergraduate, and minority and underrepresented participation in cyber and hardware security research and education. The project will develop new courses in hardware security for undergraduate and graduate students, and conduct workshops. Internships on hardware security will be offered to Appalachian high-school students and historically underrepresented minorities, and first-generation students. The project repository will be stored electronically and made available through the website hosted by University of Kentucky, College of Engineering (http://hthapliyal.engineering.uky.edu/). The data will be retained for at least three years beyond the duration of the award.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.