Summary, Standards, and Ongoing Efforts

Abstract

This book started with examining security issues in a number of embedded systems. It continued to further introduce the concept of keys, trusted platform modules, network on chips security, using keys (symmetric and public key) protocols, ciphers, integrity, authentication, and integrity trees. Attacks were introduced focusing on the side channel analysis. Analysis of real embedded systems including attack on a PDA, a DSP processor core and eavesdropping on contactless cards were presented. The purpose and design of countermeasures was discussed. Finally the design of reliable and testable security was examined with a satellite embedded system case study. There is, of course, much more to security in embedded systems. Since security is an ever-changing field with on-going discovery of new attacks, it is always recommended that designers stay up to date. Before implementing any security standards, a look at recent publications and attacks should be performed. There are many references throughout the book so that readers can obtain further details. This book would have been too long to cover details of all protocols/attacks/etc. Hence in addition to references, Table 11.1 provides a list of worldwide standards which is also a very useful reference for readers. To conclude this book, we will discuss some general issues and again emphasize that security should be an important criteria for embedded designers. In fact, high security designs must consider security at all levels of design, from the lower level (process) up to the higher level (applications).

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Spielberg (2009)