Operating Systems and Hardware Security
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 399
Special Issue Editors
Interests: security; cryptography; side-channel attacks
Interests: low-power embedded multi-cores; coherence protocols; on-chip interconnect and hardware-level side-channel countermeasures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit the results of your research to the Special Issue on "Operating Systems and Hardware Security", with a focus on embedded systems' security.
Protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an embedded system is a vast and complex research field. Embedded systems are ever increasingly characterized by new threats to security, privacy, and availability; attacks might come in many forms from both hardware (side-channel, fault-injection) and software (covert-channel, timing, row-hammer) and we believe security as a full-system property can be improved only by examining and leveraging the synergy of hardware and system software.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present novel approaches, novel attacks or state-of-the-art surveys related to analyzing or otherwise ensuring security through a holistic hardware and software approach. The papers should emphasize the role of the operating system, the instruction set architecture and its underlying implementation.
Research areas covered by the Special Issue may include (but are not restricted to) the following:
- Trusted execution environments;
- Root of trust;
- Hardware-enforced isolation;
- Software integrity protection;
- Remote attestation;
- Capabilities;
- Secure enclaves;
- Side-channel attacks;
- Covert-channel attacks;
- Fault injection attacks;
- Secure boot;
- Secure storage;
- Secure firmware development;
- Hardware security primitives: PUFs and TRNGs;
- Instruction set extensions/accelerators for cryptography.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Vittorio Zaccaria
Dr. Davide Zoni
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- operating systems
- processors
- multi-processors
- security
- confidentiality
- integrity
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