227-0579-00L Hardware Security
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2024 |
| Lecturers | K. Razavi |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Abstract | This course covers the security of commodity computer hardware (e.g., CPU, DRAM, etc.) with a special focus on cutting-edge hands-on research. The aim of the course is familiarizing the students with hardware security and more specifically microarchitectural and circuit-level attacks and defenses through lectures and implementing some of these advanced attacks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | By the end of the course, the students will be familiar with the state of the art in commodity computer hardware attacks and defenses. More specifically, the students will learn about: - security problems of commodity hardware that we use everyday and how you can defend against them. - relevant computer architecture and operating system aspects of these issues. - hands-on techniques for performing hardware attacks. This is the course where you get credit points by building some of the most advanced exploits on the planet! The luckiest team will collect a Best Demo Award at the end of the course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Slides, relevant literature and manuals will be made available during the course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Experience with Linux, low-level systems programming and computer architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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