Auto-Erasable RRAM Architecture Secured Against Physical and Firmware Attacks
| Autor: | Fernando Garcia-Redondo, Marisa Lopez-Vallejo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Single process business.industry Firmware Computer science 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Encryption computer.software_genre Computer security 01 natural sciences Resistive random-access memory Information sensitivity Embedded system 0103 physical sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering Architecture 0210 nano-technology business Electronic systems computer |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 65:1581-1590 |
| ISSN: | 1558-0806 1549-8328 |
| Popis: | Every year, smarter and more complex attacks compromise electronic systems. Unauthorized access to the secure keys stored within nonvolatile memories is a concerning problem affecting secure applications. This paper presents an RRAM architecture secured against firmware and physical attacks. If a hack attempt occurs, and taking advantage of the threshold behavior of fast RRAM devices, this solution erases the whole memory in a single process preventing the sensitive information to be accessed while avoiding the circuit destruction. Complementing encryption solutions, our architecture provides extra-protection mechanisms that, even deprived from the main power supply, prevent the most sensitive information to be leaked. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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