Phase I IUCRC University of Texas at Dallas: 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（ic）和电路板。在这些大学中，德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UTD）将领导研究工作，以解决模拟和射频（RF） ic和系统以及微处理器架构级别的硬件安全和信任问题。这将包括以下研究主题：(i)符合标准的无线网络中的隐蔽通道攻击检测和缓解；（ii）保护模拟/射频ic免受假冒和知识产权（IP）盗版的设计混淆技术；（iii）用于设计混淆的晶体管级可重构硬件解决方案；（iv）用于硬件木马检测、来源认证和基于硬件的工作负载执行取证的基于统计和机器学习的方法。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，所有由UTD领导的项目都将以数字格式永久存档在UTD文件服务器上，以便在设备发生故障时进行备份和恢复。定期备份所有存档UTD计算机和服务器。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 (ICs) and boards. Among the universities, The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) will lead the research efforts for addressing hardware security and trust aspects of analog and Radio Frequency (RF) ICs and systems, as well as at the microprocessor architecture level. This will include research topics embodying (i) covert channel attack detection and mitigation in standards-compliant wireless networks, (ii) design obfuscation techniques to protect analog/RF ICs against counterfeiting and Intellectual Property (IP) piracy, (iii) transistor-level reconfigurable hardware solutions for design obfuscation, and (iv) statistical and machine learning-based methods for hardware Trojan detection, provenance attestation, and hardware-based workload execution forensics.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 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 UTD will be permanently archived in digital format on the UTD file servers with sufficient provisions for backup and recovery in case of equipment failure. All archival UTD 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.