Instructor: Patrick Schaumont Spring 2013, TR 8AM-9:15AM RAND 121 Prereq: ECE 4530 Syllabus

Students will study the nuts and bolts of cryptographic engineering. Students will do projects at low abstraction level (firmware, hardware, drivers) on a Dragonboard.

Catalog Description: Design and implementation of cryptographic operations and protocols in contemporary embedded platforms such as those found in handheld computing devices. Partitioning of cryptographic applications in hardware and software while considering system performance and system security. Implementation-level attacks using passive and active techniques, and countermeasure design. Security testing of handheld computer platforms. The course uses case studies and literature surveys to reflect on the state-of-the-art in handheld computer security.

This page collects the final-project assignments and class results for my ECE 5984 class on Handheld Computer Security, offered for the first time in spring 2013. The class syllabus describes the context of the course and the materials covered. The class does not use a textbook, but instead relies on recent publications.

The class project uses a Dragonboard S3 from BSquare.
This board was provided through Qualcomm's University Program.

• Assignment: phase1.pdf
• Results have been submitted to the EBACS website performance evaluation website. The Dragonboard S3 is listed as "spongebob".
• Refer to the entry on hash performance evaluation for spongebob to see how individual hash algorithms work out.
• Refer to the SHA3 Shootout to see how the performance of the scorpion processor compares to other arm/intel platforms.

• Assignment: phase2.pdf

• Assignment: phase3.pdf
• Project Team A:
  True Random Number Generation on Mobile Phones
• Project Team B:
  Utilizing Sensors of Handheld Platforms as Cryptographic Building Blocks
• Project Team C:
  Comparison of High-performance Modular Arithmetic on Qualcomm Snapdragon & Intel Atom
• Project Team D:
  Random Number Generation Using Sensors on Smartphones