SaTC: Collaborative: Exploiting Spintronics for Security, Trust and Authentication

基于互补金属氧化物半导体（CMOS）的安全基元通常遭受面积/功率开销、对环境波动的敏感性以及由硅衬底提供的有限随机性和熵。自旋电子电路可以补充现有的基于CMOS的安全和信任基础设施。本项目旨在探索如何揭示磁性纳米线的安全特性，并将其捕获到详细的电路模型中。本项目研究了磁性纳米线中存在的噪声源和随机性，并设计了新的技术来获取熵。研究人员将非线性磁动力学的电路和模型结合起来，以实现硬件安全原语和引擎，并在恶劣条件和攻击场景下通过实验验证模型和设计思想。该项目开发的技术将提高未来电路和系统的安全性和能效。

The Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) based security primitives typically suffer from area/power overhead, sensitivity to environmental fluctuations and limited randomness and entropy offered by Silicon substrate. Spintronic circuits can complement the existing CMOS based security and trust infrastructures. This project explores ways to uncover the security specific properties of the magnetic nanowire and capture them in detailed circuit model.This project investigates noise sources and randomness present in the magnetic nanowire, and engineers new techniques to harvest the entropy. The investigators combine the circuits and models of non-linear magnetic dynamics to realize hardware security primitives and engines and experimentally validating the models and design ideas under harsh conditions and attack scenarios. The techniques developed in this project will improve the security and energy-efficiency of future circuits and systems.