Spintronics-based Hardware Security Primitives

Overview

Integrated circuits are vital for trust in cybersecurity systems, but globalization has increased security risks. Many IC companies rely on untrusted foundries, leading to threats like hardware Trojans, reverse engineering, side-channel attacks, IP piracy, and counterfeiting. These risks highlight the critical link between cybersecurity and hardware security. Cybersecurity relies on hardware security as its foundation, mitigating threats, supporting trust anchors like TPMs and PUFs, ensuring data protection, enabling robust authentication, and defending against physical attacks. Emerging technologies such as spintronics offer potential solutions with its non-volatility, low power consumption, and high endurance. Our work integrates hardware security with spintronics, leveraging the unique properties of spin-based devices to develop advanced security solutions. We focus on spintronic devices for secure data operations and innovative attack and defense mechanisms from both algorithmic and hybrid CMOS circuit perspectives