Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory(SETTLOR)

CONTACT:

Address:

Secure Embedded and Smart things Laboratory,
1st Floor, Interdisaplinary Center for Cyber Security and Cyber Defence of Critical Infrastructure,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
UP-208016, India

urbi@cse.iitk.ac.in

Research Interests

At Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, under the name of Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory(SETTLOR),we have started working since March 2021 on several aspects of hardware and embedded system security. The major aspects in which we are currently focusing on are as follows:

  • Physical Unclonable Functions based authentication of ‘Smart’ things
  • Machine Learning Attacks on Physical Unclonable Functions
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) security
  • Far Field Side Channel Analysis of Mixed Signal Chips
  • Screen Reading TEMPEST Attacks
  • Acoustic Side Channel Attacks on Embedded Systems
  • Network Data Remanence Based Side Channel Attacks
  • Currently four Ph.D, seven M.Tech and two undergraduate students are working in the laboratory. Our research highly thrives on the inter-disciplinary topics such hardware security, communication protocol design and analysis, basic principles of ‘Smart’ technologies for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems and machine learning. We not only engage ourselves in experimental works, but also focus on the theoretical validation of the same. The publications related to our focus areas can be found next.


    PUBLICATIONS:

    M. Rathore, V. Mishra, U. Chatterjee, "Aiding to Multimedia Accelerators: A Hardware Design for Efficient Rounding of Binary Floating Point Numbers", Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, 2023.

    A. Agrawal, U. Chatterjee and R. Ranjan Maiti, "CheckShake: Passively Detecting Anomaly in Wi-Fi Security Handshake using Gradient Boosting based Ensemble Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2023.3236355.Link

    H. Boyapally, P. Mathew, S. Patranabis, U. Chatterjee, U. Agarwal, M. Maheshwari, S. Dey, D. Mukhopadhyay: Safe is the New Smart: PUF-Based Authentication
    for Load Modification-Resistant Smart Meters. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 19(1): 663-680 (2022).Link

    D. Chatterjee, H. Boyapally, S. Patranabis, U. Chatterjee, A. Hazra and D. Mukhopadhyay, "Physically Related Functions: Exploiting Related Inputs of PUFs for Authenticated-Key Exchange," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 3847-3862, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3214089.Link

    K. Pratihar, U. Chatterjee, M. Alam, R. S. Chakraborty and D. Mukhopadhyay, "Birds of the Same Feather Flock Together: A Dual-Mode Circuit Candidate for Strong PUF-TRNG Functionalities," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TC.2022.3218986.Link

    M. Kojage, N. Hassan, U. Chatterjee, "Machine Learning Attacks on Low-Cost Reconfigurable XRRO and XRBR PUF Designs", 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE) 2022, Jaipur, India, 2022.Link

    A. Revskar, M. Rathor, U. Chatterjee, "Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency Assisted Acoustic Side Channel Attack to Retrieve Dialled Call Log", 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE) 2022, Jaipur, India, 2022.Link

    V. Mishra, N. Hassan, A. Mehta, U. Chatterjee, "DARK-Adders: Digital Hardware Trojan Attack on Block-based Approximate Adders", International VLSI Design & Embedded Systems conference (VLSID) 2022, Hyderabad, India, 2023.

    N. Mishra, A. Chakraborty, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay, "Time's a Thief of Memory: Breaking Multi-tenant Isolation in TrustZones through Timing based Bidirectional Covert Channels", 21st Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS), Birmingham, UK, 2022.Link

    S. Ghosh, U. Chatterjee, R. Masburah, S. Dey and D. Mukhopadhyay, "Is the Whole lesser than its Parts? Breaking an Aggregation based Privacy aware Metering Algorithm", Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design 2022, Special Session on Safety, Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems, Spain, 2022.

    S. Gade, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay, PAKAMAC: A PUF-based Keyless Automotive Entry System with Mutual Authentication. J Hardw Syst Secur (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41635-022-00126-8 Link

    A. Agrawal, U. Chatterjee, and R.R. Maiti. 2022. KTRACKER: Passively Tracking KRACK using ML Model. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 364–366. https://doi.org/10.1145/3508398.3519360 Link

    A. Saha, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay and R. S. Chakraborty, "DIP Learning on CAS-Lock: Using Distinguishing Input Patterns for Attacking Logic Locking," 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2022, pp. 688-693, doi: 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774691.Link

    S. Ghosh, U. Chatterjee, D. Chatterjee, R. Masburah, D. Mukhopadhyay, S. Dey (2021). Demand Manipulation Attack Resilient Privacy Aware Smart Grid Using PUFs and Blockchain. In: , et al. Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops. ACNS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12809. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81645-2_15Link

    C. K. Chaudhary, U. Chatterjee and D. Mukhopadhayay, "Auto-PUFChain: An Automated Interaction Tool for PUFs and Blockchain in Electronic Supply Chain," 2021 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AsianHOST53231.2021.9699720.Link

    D. Chatterjee, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay and A. Hazra, "SACReD: An Attack Framework on SAC Resistant Delay-PUFs leveraging Bias and Reliability Factors," 2021 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021, pp. 85-90, doi: 10.1109/DAC18074.2021.9586249.Link

    H. Mondal and U. Chatterjee, "Revisiting UAV Authentication Schemes: Practical Attacks on Aviation Infrastructure," 2021 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AsianHOST53231.2021.9699695. Link

    P. Naik, U. Chatterjee (2022). Network Data Remanence Side Channel Attack on SPREAD, H-SPREAD and Reverse AODV. In: Batina, L., Picek, S., Mondal, M. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering. SPACE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95085-9_7 Link


    OUR TEAM
    Lab-Co-ordinator
    1. Dr Urbi Chatterjee
    Institute Post Doctoral Fellow
    1. Mahendra Rathor : June-2022 to Oct-2022
    Ph.D. Students
    1. Oswa Amro
    2. Vishesh Mishra
    3. Neelofer Hassan
    4. Dipesh
    M.Tech Students(2023)
    1. Anuj Shrivastava
    2. Manthan Kojage
    3. Prujwal Thaka
    4. Mayuresh Shandilya
    5. Deepak Kumar
    6. Akash Panzade
    7. Abhishek Revskar