EECE 5699 — Computer Hardware and System Security
4 semester hours Graduate Lecture usually offered: fall typical days: F Boston Online Traditional Video Streaming
Introduces computer hardware and system security. Covers state-of-the-art hardware security and trust issues, including a hands-on lab session to implement various hardware security attacks. Topics include applied cryptography, side-channel attacks, differential power analysis, fault injection and analysis, cache side-channel attacks (Meltdown and Spectre), acoustic analysis, and hardware security primitives (physical unclonable function and random number generator).
Prerequisites one of: EECE 3324 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) CS 3650 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) CS 5600 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) graduate program admission Offering history Term Sections Enrolled Capacity Full Open seats/section Fall 2023 2 32 147 22% 57.5 Fall 2024 1 19 48 40% 29.0 Fall 2025 2 31 131 24% 50.0
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