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Information Security | 25 October | From Hardware to Applications
Secure non-volatile memory: is it a new trend for the security of embedded systems?
Guido Marco Bertoni, ST Microelectronics, Italy
Abstract
Security has become widely necessary in electronic devices to support network security protocols or to protect multimedia content, software IPs and end-user privacy.
Although modern System on Chips (SoC) are integrating more and more security features, integrating non-volatile programmable memory technology in complex SoC can be costly and not always convenient nor feasible.
Non-volatile flash memory with security features is an alternative for reducing SoC costs.
This new device can be seen as a short term solution, but it could be even the sign of two trends.
One trend is the evolution of the SoC for centralizing the security in a single chip. The alternative trend is the distributed solution, where the non volatile memory can be seen as a first piece in a secure distributed architecture.
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Guido Bertoni received the Dr. Eng degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D degree from Politecnico di Milano in 1999 and 2004 respectively. He joined the corporate R&D of ST in fall 2003 as researcher in the field of cryptography. His research interests include the cryptographic algorithms, hardware and software implementations, and problems related to side channels attacks. He teaches cryptography at Politecnico di Milano as contract professor.