Tallinn University of Technology

Who we are

The Centre for Hardware Security established in late 2019 includes researchers with both academic and industry backgrounds who focus on the topics of hardware security, ranging from hardware Trojans, hardware obfuscation, and logic locking to cryptography.

Since its establishment, its researchers have obtained multiple national and international awards, published papers in high-quality conferences and journals, and fabricated numerous chips.

What we do

The Centre for Hardware Security conducts research in all applied aspects of hardware security. Its researchers mainly work on hardware-efficient realizations of cryptography algorithms, provably secure integrated circuit (IC) protection techniques, hardware obfuscation, and logic locking, and develop sophisticated attacks to break cryptography circuits and obfuscated and locked designs. They also build chips to validate the proposed security techniques.

Contact information

The Centre is currently led by Senior Researcher Levent Aksoy (name.lastname@taltech.ee)