Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Title : | Cellular Automata based High Quality Pseudo Random Number Generation for Hardware Security |
Area of research : | Computer Sciences and Information Technology |
Principal Investigator : | Dr. Kamalika Bhattacharjee, National Institute Of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, Tamil nadu |
Timeline Start Year : | 2022 |
Timeline End Year : | 2024 |
Contact info : | kamalika.it@gmail.com |
Equipments : | Laser Color Printer
Laptop |
Details
Executive Summary : | This project aims to carry on fundamental research on automata theory by exploring two global properties of Cellular Automata – reversibility and randomness and to introduce an unconventional design approach for developing high-quality PRNG which can be used to implement secured hardware design. In automata theory, Cellular Automaton (CA) is a nature-inspired model of computation. The study of CA as modelling tool has received considerable attention of researchers from diverse fields. The first target of this project is to establish the relation between reversibility, surjectivity and randomness, which can help in developing a robust model of Pseudo-random Number Generator (PRNG). A special class of reversible CA on finite lattice will be explored for designing secure systems. This design also enables reduction in cost of computation. Our target is to explore non-uniform non-linear binary CA which can have maximality in cycle length. As binary CAs are efficiently implementable in hardware, those CAs have an inherent promise to be a good tool for hardware security, and can be considered to propose solutions for addressing Hardware Trojan attacks. This project also targets to develop CA theory for modelling computing units, to ensure secured design against unknown source of hardware attacks, and to identify optimal implementation architectures for explored system concepts. This can open up a new design methodology for secured hardware and safeguard by using the high quality PRNGs developed by characterizing reversibility and randomness in CAs. |
Total Budget (INR): | 6,76,280 |
Organizations involved