Hardware security

Our research group is one of the few in Poland engaged in research in the area of hardware security and trust. For more than 10 years, we have been conducting research on Hardware Trojans as a form of attacks on hardware random number generators that use chaos phenomenon. The results of this research were described in a doctoral dissertation awarded by the Prime Minister of Poland. Currently, we are the first in the world to do research on evaluating the exposure of quantum random number generators to attacks by hardware Trojans. We are also involved in social engineering research in the context of microelectronic system design.

Topics of our projects:

  • Chaos generators
  • Hardware random number generators
  • Hardware Trojans
  • Quantum random number generators
  • Quantum Applications
  • Self-destructive systems
  • Hardware cryptography
  • Social engineering

Funding

Statutory Activities for Young Staff No 09/94DSMK/0057/

Statutory Activities for Young Staff No 09/94DSMK/0065/

Publications

Cryptographically Secure PseudoRandom Bit Generator for Wearable Technology / M Melosik, M Galan, M Naumowicz, P Tylczyński, S Koziol // Entropy 25 (7), 976

Strengthening quality of chaotic bit sequences / M Melosik, W Marszalek // Electronics 11 (2), 272

Trojan attack on the initialization of pseudo-random bit generators using synchronization of chaotic input sources / M Melosik, W Marszalek // IEEE Access 9, 161846-161853

Hardware Trojans detection in chaos-based cryptography / M Melosik, P Sniatala, W Marszalek // Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences, 725-732-725-732

Using the 0‐1 test for chaos to detect hardware trojans in chaotic bit generators / M Melosik, W Marszalek // Electronics Letters 52 (11), 919-921

A hybrid chaos-based pseudo-random bit generator in VHDL-AMS / M Melosik, W Marszalek // 2014 IEEE 57th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems