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to the right direction and providing a starting point for the thesis as well as valuable resources. I’d also like to thank Dr. Craig Lorie for the time he provided, valuable comments and for understanding when I did not fulfill my duties as his TA on time during my thesis work. Finally, a special thanks to my

Printed in Germany. This thesis is dedicated to Sindy for her love and support throughout the course of this thesis. In loving memory of my parents. Author’s contact information:

We are now in the post-PC era, yet our mobile devices are insecure. We consider the different stake-holders in today’s mobile device ecosystem, and analyze why widely-deployed hardware security primitives on mobile device platforms are inaccessible to application developers and end-users. We

and the United States Postal Service. The views and conclusions in this document are my own and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any supporting organization or the U.S. Government.

A reconfigurable and interoperable hardware architecture for elliptic curve cryptography

algorithm, called PRESENT, where we could build upon the results of the first step. A variety of implementation results of PRESENT---both in software and hardware---using different design strategies and different platforms is presented. Our serialized ASIC implementation (1,000 GE) is the smallest published

With reconfigurable devices fast becoming complete systems in their own right, interest in their security properties has increased. While research on “FPGA sec-urity ” has been active since the early 2000s, few have treated the field as a whole, or framed its challenges in the context of the unique

Remote attestation is the process of securely verifying internal state of a remote hardware platform. It can be achieved either statically (at boot time) or dynamically, at run-time in order to establish a dynamic root of trust. The latter allows full isolation of a code region from preexisting

transmissions between DECT telephones and their base stations, it even entered the living rooms through digital Pay TV channels which use cryptographic methods to make sure that only their subscribers can watch their transmissions – and only what they have payed for. Similarly, each DVD player contains