Hashing hardware : identifying hardware during boot-time system verification
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1015201358-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Chilingirian, Berj Krikor
Advisor(s)
Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos and Martin Rinard.
Alternative Title
Identifying hardware during boot-time system verification
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Modern systems measure the software loaded at boot-time to ensure the machine starts in a trusted state. Such measurements, however, do not include any information about the underlying hardware of the machine. Recent DRAM-based attacks and the growing complexity of the supply chain attest to the importance of measuring hardware at boot. In this thesis, we propose a technique for designing measurement schemes for hardware components. We then apply this technique to designing and implementing a hardware measurement scheme for DRAM on a real system without hardware modifications. Finally, we evaluate our DRAM hardware measurement scheme and demonstrate that it achieves 89% accuracy in mapping a DRAM measurement to the manufacturing process from which that DRAM was produced.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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