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STRES: Secure techniques for remote configuration of embedded systems.

Embedded systems found their way into many domestic and industrial applications. This has led to specific challenges concerning after sales services and system upgradeability. Thanks to the presence of broadband technology new opportunities have arisen to deal with the product life cycle more efficiently. For this reason three main principles are integrated in such systems: remote status checking, remote problem solving and remote upgradeability. There is however an important shortcoming concerning data confidentiality, data authenticity and entity authenticity. To guarantee a minimal security level, a protected communication protocol for remote configuration of embedded systems becomes necessary. For this reason some (architectural) implementation premises must be foreseen on the sender and receiver side of the data. It is important that techniques for remote configuration are sufficiently secure and have a low integration cost. In this project we try to combine these two challenges.
Date:1 Dec 2008 →  30 Nov 2010
Keywords:Cryptography, FPGA configuration, Remote update