11/04/2008, 16:30 — 17:30 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Ricardo Chaves, INESC-ID
Secure computing on reconfigurable systems
In this talk a Secure Computing Module (SCM) for reconfigurable
computing systems will be presented. The SCM provides a protected
and reliable computational environment, where data security and
protection against malicious attacks to the system is assured.
Secure Computing (SC) is strongly based on encryption algorithms
and on the attestation of the executed functions. The use of SC on
reconfigurable devices has the advantage of being highly adaptable
to the application and the user requirements, while providing high
performances. Moreover, it is adaptable to new algorithms,
protocols, and threats. Experimental results obtained by
implementing the proposed SCM on a reconfigurable device FPGA
suggest speedups up to 750 times, compared with software
implemented algorithms, achieving throughputs above 1Gbit/s at low
area cost. A novel method to attest dynamically reconfigured
hardware structures is also presented. The overall results
demonstrate the applicability the advantages of implementing SC on
reconfigurable systems.
This seminar will be held in the Alameda campus!
