In this talk, I summarize three pieces of research:

1) A collaboration where we proposed a true hardware random number (TRNG) generator. A resilient-function was used as a building block to improve the entropy collection mechanism as well improving the tolerance of the TRNG against environmental variations.

2) A memory integrity protection scheme, where we employed a universal-hash function construction to eliminate a performance bottleneck.

3) An offensive use of a technique, i.e. in a side-channel attack, to target ECDSA implementations.

Bio: Berk Sunar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the founder of Vernam Lab, a leading research group in applied cryptography and cybersecurity. His recent research interests are in lattice-based cryptography, microarchitectural and side-channel security. Sunar is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR).