Secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs

Nele Mentens; Jo Vliegen; An Braeken; Abdellah Touhafi; Karel Wouters; Ingrid Verbauwhede

Abstract

This paper presents a solution for secure remote recon¯gura-
tion 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 recon¯guration facilities, while the dynamic region contains
the targeted application.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	In Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings
Editors	P. M. Athanas, J. Becker, J. Teich, I. Verbauwhede
Number of pages	4
Volume	10281
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2010
Event	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 21 Sept 2009 → 25 Sept 2009

Conference

Conference	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	21/09/09 → 25/09/09

Bibliographical note

P. M. Athanas, J. Becker, J. Teich, I. Verbauwhede

Keywords

FPGA
security
remote configuration
cryptography

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Touhafi, A. (Administrative Promotor), Braeken, A. (Collaborator) & Kubera, S. (Collaborator)
1/12/08 → 30/11/10
Project: Fundamental

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