In addition to the core team of the Chair of Wireless Systems, the research area Hardware Security is affiliated with the chair. It complements the chair’s research by addressing secure, tamper-resistant and trustworthy hardware development.

The research area focuses on physical attacks against cryptographic and embedded systems, in particular side-channel attacks, fault-injection and manipulation attacks, as well as suitable countermeasures. The aim is to design hardware that is more resistant against a broad spectrum of physical attacks.

In this way, the Hardware Security research area connects fundamental research on cryptographic implementations, hardware architectures and physical attacks with the overarching goal of developing secure and resilient cyber-physical systems.

The Hardware Security research area investigates methods, architectures and design processes for tamper-resistant and side-channel-resistant hardware. This includes efficient cryptographic hardware implementations, countermeasures against side-channel attacks and fault injections, as well as approaches for automated security-oriented circuit optimisation.