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Special session on architectures and design tools for secure embedded systems

The pervasive diffusion of embedded and cyberphysical systems connected to form the internet of things brings new security challenges. These devices are usually deployed in a hostile environment, where an attacker could easily have physical access, and their life span can be pretty long, thus posing the problem of long term security. Yet, security functionalities should fit the tight area and energy budget available in these devices. To address these challenges, researchers are investigating several research directions, including novel constructions withstanding future attacks carried out by quantum computational power, novel and more powerful physical attacks and new approaches to defeat them. It is thus of crucial importance that designers of embedded systems are aware of the most important security challenges which need to be addressed during design and that they have the proper basic blocks and tools to solve them in a correct and effective way. This special session covers challenges and opportunities related with design and deployment of secure embedded systems in several platforms. Talks in the session will present more targeted side channel attacks, more efficient architectures for implementing elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and number theoretic transform (NTT), a crucial block for implementing quantum resistant algorithms, and will summarize current research effort in secure processors design and in the use of reconfigurable architectures for secure applications.