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Giorgio Di Natale

Hardwear.io Webinar

Hardware Security Primitives (PUFs and TRNGs) exploiting Randomness in Emerging Memory Devices

By Giorgio Di Natale

Director of Research for CNRS

Date & Time: 31st of May 2021, 5:00 PM CEST







Talk Title:

Hardware Security Primitives (PUFs and TRNGs) exploiting Randomness in Emerging Memory Devices

Abstract:

Magnetic and Resistive Memories have emerged as a promising choice for embedded memories. Inner properties of such memories (i.e., stochastic behavior and variability, both cycle-to-cycle and device-to-device) make them suitable for the implementation of basic security primitives such Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and True Random Number Generators (TRNGs).

In this talk, we will show how it is possible to exploit intrinsic variability to build robust, unclonable and unpredictable PUFs, and stochasticity to generate randomly distributed unpredictable numbers.


Speaker Bio:

Giorgio Di Natale received the PhD in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 2003. He works as Director of Research for the French National Research Center (CNRS), and he is the director of the TIMA laboratory in Grenoble. His research interests include hardware security and trust, secure circuits design and test, reliability evaluation and fault tolerance, software implemented hardware fault tolerance, and VLSI testing. He serves as chair of the IEEE Computer Society TTTC from 2020, he is Golden Core member of the Computer Society and Senior member of the IEEE.