MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

If you're looking for a quick overview, Satnam Singh who worked at Google on Silver Oak / OpenTitan, gave an interesting 50m talk related to his work: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujmgPCIWuU4 / mirror: https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/ujmgPCIWuU4 [summary: https://g.co/gemini/share/07c6439e8a78 / mirror: https://archive.vn/51k4y]

OpenTitan (RISC-V based tamper-resistant open specification RoT/TPM/SE) themselves have a neat write-up on designing against hardware attacks: https://opentitan.org/book/doc/security/implementation_guide... / mirror: https://archive.vn/UqAVo

Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos.

Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?

I actually did these a while ago. Courses taught me a lot and have recommended it to friends since. Very grateful for the course team for making everything public :)

Reminds me of hardware security at VUSEC Amsterdam :)

Good times!

Does this include Spectre?

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