Defensa de tesi de Sadiel de la Fé Siverio

Doctorand: Sadiel de la Fé Siverio.

Títol: ECC-based Authentication in Constrained Devices: A Secure and Efficient Hardware Implementation.

Director/a: Carles Ferrer Ramis.

Data i hora lectura: 31/01/2022, 11 hores.

Lloc lectura: Sala de Graus de l’Escola d’Enginyeria – Edifici Q.

Programa de Doctorat: Enginyeria Electrònica i de Telecomunicació.

Departament on està inscrita la tesi: Departament de Microelectrònica i Sistemes Electrònics.

 

Abstract

The proliferation of connected devices has increased in the last few years in the form of wearable personal gadgets or sensors. Into the Smart city and IoT concepts the sensors are intended to acquire measurements from different sources to provide an improved management. These facts imply that many connected devices today can manipulate critical or sensitive data from infrastructures or persons.

This thesis aims at providing a hardware implementation of an authentication scheme suitable to fit in low-power devices. The work focuses on the optimization and hardening of the critical cryptographic operations involved in the authentication. The theoretical and experimental implementation provided show that an efficient authentication scheme can be embedded in low-power connected devices, where some of the more hazardous physical attacks are also prevented.