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Security, Reliability and Backdoors
Security Group, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 13 May 2014
Talk Outline
• Based on research work presented at CHES2012
– S. Skorobogatov, C. Woods: Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers
backdoor in military chip. Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Workshop (CHES), Leuven, Belgium, LNCS 7428, Springer, 2012, pp 23-40
• Extended with latest research
– Backdoors in industrial Test and Measurement equipment
– Backdoors in smartcard chip
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Is it easy to find a backdoor?
How can backdoors affect security and reliability?
What can we learn from the backdoors?
Is there any countermeasures against backdoors?
Slides
– http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/SG_talk_SRB.pdf