Secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs

2010/01/01 by Nele Mentens, Mentens, Nele, Jo Vliegen +9
Computer Science · #Cryptographic Implementations and Security #FPGA #Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security #Security and Verification in Computing #cryptography #remote configuration #security

paper · doi:10.4230/dagsemproc.10281.11

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Abstract

This paper presents a solution for secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs. Communicating the bitstream has to be done in a secure manner to prevent an attacker from reading or altering the bitstream. We propose a setup in which the FPGA is the single device in the system's zone-of-trust. The result is an FPGA architecture that is divided into a static and a dynamic region. The static region holds the communication, security and reconfiguration facilities, while the dynamic region contains the targeted application.

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