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DARPA Will Bake Cybersecurity Into Circuits
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this month plans to detail its System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) program, with the goal of developing new integrated circuit architectures with no software-accessible exploit points, but which still deliver computational functions and high performance. DARPA says SSITH also plans to create widely available design tools to make hardware-anchored security a standard element of integrated circuits in both U.S. Defense Department and commercial electronic systems.
SSITH program manager Linton Salmon notes the initiative will concentrate on developing and demonstrating hardware architectures that defend against one or more of seven vulnerability classes, and design tools the electronics community would need for embedding hardware-based security innovations in their design and manufacturing practices.
Another goal will be devising methodologies and metrics for quantifying the security status of the newly-designed electronic systems and any trade-offs the hardware-based security might have.
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