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This paper presents a security design for embedded systems that have a secure on-chip computing environment and an insecure off-chip memory. The design protects the confidentiality and integrity of data at a low cost on performance and memory consumption. We implemented the design based on the SimpleScalar simulation software. Our simulation on a set of benchmarks shows that very little overhead is incurred for on-chip memory, and the average overheads on performance and off-chip memory, are only 7.6% and 6.25%, respectively.
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Hong, M., Guo, H. (2010). FEDTIC: A Security Design for Embedded Systems with Insecure External Memory. In: Kim, Th., Lee, Yh., Kang, BH., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Future Generation Information Technology. FGIT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17569-5_36
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