This paper presents a solution for secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs. Communicating the bitstream has to be done in a secure manner to prevent an attacker from reading or altering the bitstream. We propose a setup in which the FPGA is the single device in the system's zone-of-trust. The result is an FPGA architecture that is divided into a static and a dynamic region. The static region holds the communication, security and reconfiguration facilities, while the dynamic region contains the targeted application.
@InProceedings{mentens_et_al:DagSemProc.10281.11, author = {Mentens, Nele and Vliegen, Jo and Braeken, An and Touhafi, Abdellah and Wouters, Karel and Verbauwhede, Ingrid}, title = {{Secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs}}, booktitle = {Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures}, pages = {1--4}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2010}, volume = {10281}, editor = {Peter M. Athanas and J\"{u}rgen Becker and J\"{u}rgen Teich and Ingrid Verbauwhede}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10281.11}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28391}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.10281.11}, annote = {Keywords: FPGA, cryptography, security, remote configuration} }
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