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ANI-BVS Embedded Security Extent of teaching: 2P+2C Instructor: Novotný M. Completion: Z,ZK Department: 18103 Credits: 5 Semester: L Annotation:
Students gain basic knowledge in selected topics of cryptography and cryptanalysis. The course focuses particularly on efficient implementations of cryptographic primitives in hardware and software (in embedded systems). Students gain a good overview of functionality of (hardware) cryptographic accelerators, smart cards, and resources for securing internal functions of computer systems.
Lecture syllabus:
1. Embedded Systems with Cryptographic Features, SmartCards. 2. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems I: Correlation Power Analysis. 3. Introduction to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). 4. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(p), Montgomery Domain. 5. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(2^m) with Polynomial Basis Representation. 6. ECC, Arithmetics over GF(2^m) with Normal Basis Representation. 7. (Pseudo)Random Number Generators in Embedded Systems. 8. Efficient Exponentiation. 9. Efficient Implementation of RSA, Efficient Multiplication. 10. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems II: Brute-Force attacks, Meet-in-the-Middle Attack. 11. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems II: Time-Memory Trade-Off (TMTO) Tables Attacks. 12. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems III: Guess-and-Determine Attack. 13. Attacks on Cryptographic Systems IV: Side-Channel and Fault-Injection Attacks. Seminar syllabus:
1. Implementation of a symmetric cipher in an FPGA or a microcontroller. 2. Differential Power Analysis 3. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Point addition over elliptic curve; its implementation in the FPGA or the microcontroller. 4. Diffie-Hellman key exchange over elliptic curve (ECDH); its implementation in the FPGA or the microcontroller. 5. RSA. Literature:
1. Paar, C.: Implementation of Cryptographic Schemes 1. Ruhr-University Bochum, 2015. ISBN xxxx. 2. Paar, C.: Implementation of Cryptographic Schemes 2. Ruhr-University Bochum, 2012. ISBN xxxx. 3. Deschamps, J. P. - Imana, J. L. - Sutter, G. D.: Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic. McGraw Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0-0715-4581-5. 4. Brooks, C.J. - Grow, C. - Craig, P. - Short, D.: Cybersecurity Essentials, 1st Edition. Sybex, 2018. ISBN 978-1119362395. 5. Menezes, A.J. - van Oorschot, P.C. - Vanstone, S.A.: Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC press, 2018. ISBN 9780429466335. Requirements:
Výukové materiály na https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/NI-BVS/index.html The course is also part of the following Study plans:
Study Plan Study Branch Role Recommended semester QNI Unspecified Specialisation of Study V 2 ANI-WI Web Engineering VO 2 ANI-SI Software Engineering (in Czech) VO 2 NI-PB.2026 Computer Security V 2 NI-SPOL.2026 Unspecified Specialisation of Study V 2 NI-UI.2026 Artificial Intelligence V 2 NI-PJ.2026 Programming Languages V 2 NI-TI.2026 Computer Science V 2 NI-PSS.2026 Computer Systems and Networks V 2 ANI-MI Business Informatics VO 2 ANI-VG Visual computing and Game design VO 2 ANI-SPOL Unspecified Specialisation of Study VO 2 ANI-ES Embedded systems PS 2
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