Secure Embedded & Smart Things

SETTLOR Laboratory

Advancing hardware security, physical unclonable functions, side‑channel analysis, and embedded systems research at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

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Who We Are

About the Lab

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Our Mission

SETTLOR (Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory) focuses on advancing the security of embedded systems and IoT devices through cutting-edge research in hardware security primitives, physical attacks, and defense mechanisms.

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Affiliation

We are part of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security and Cyber Defence of Critical Infrastructure (C3i) at IIT Kanpur — India's premier institution for cybersecurity research.

1st Floor, C3i Centre, IIT Kanpur, UP‑208016, India

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Principal Investigator

Dr. Urbi Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur

What We Do

Research Areas

Our interdisciplinary work spans hardware security, cryptography, machine learning, and wireless communications.

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Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs)

Authentication of smart and embedded devices using PUF-based hardware primitives. Exploring strong PUF constructions, ML-attack resilience, and PUF–blockchain integration for supply chain security.

Hardware SecurityIoTAuthentication
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ML Attacks on PUFs

Investigating machine learning-based modelling attacks on low-cost reconfigurable PUF designs (XRRO, XRBR). Developing novel countermeasures against deep learning adversaries.

Machine LearningAdversarial AI
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UAV Security

Analysing and attacking authentication schemes in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aviation infrastructure. Building robust, lightweight authentication protocols for drones.

UAVProtocol Security
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Side-Channel Analysis

Far-field electromagnetic side-channel attacks, screen-reading TEMPEST attacks, and acoustic side-channel attacks to retrieve sensitive information from embedded targets.

EM AnalysisTEMPESTAcoustic
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Smart Grid & Privacy

Privacy-aware metering using PUFs and blockchain. Resilience against demand-manipulation attacks and aggregation-based privacy mechanism analysis.

Smart GridBlockchainPrivacy
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Wireless Security

Passive detection of Wi-Fi handshake anomalies (KRACK, WPA3), gradient boosting-based ensemble learning for anomaly detection in wireless protocols.

Wi-FiKRACKML Detection
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Hardware Trojans

Digital hardware Trojan attacks on block-based approximate adders (DARK-Adders). Detection methodologies and trusted design flows for securing hardware supply chains.

Hardware TrojansVLSI
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Logic Locking & TrustZone

DIP learning attacks on CAS-Lock logic locking. Timing-based bidirectional covert channels in multi-tenant TrustZone environments.

Logic LockingARM TrustZone
Our Work

Publications

Peer-reviewed work at top venues in hardware security, cryptography, and dependable computing.

2023
DATE 2023

Aiding to Multimedia Accelerators: A Hardware Design for Efficient Rounding of Binary Floating Point Numbers

M. Rathore, V. Mishra, U. Chatterjee

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium

2023
IEEE TDSC

CheckShake: Passively Detecting Anomaly in Wi-Fi Security Handshake using Gradient Boosting based Ensemble Learning

A. Agrawal, U. Chatterjee, R. Ranjan Maiti

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023

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VLSID 2023

DARK-Adders: Digital Hardware Trojan Attack on Block-based Approximate Adders

V. Mishra, N. Hassan, A. Mehta, U. Chatterjee

International VLSI Design & Embedded Systems Conference (VLSID), Hyderabad, India

2022
IEEE TDSC

Safe is the New Smart: PUF-Based Authentication for Load Modification-Resistant Smart Meters

H. Boyapally, P. Mathew, S. Patranabis, U. Chatterjee, U. Agarwal, M. Maheshwari, S. Dey, D. Mukhopadhyay

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 19(1): 663–680

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IEEE TIFS

Physically Related Functions: Exploiting Related Inputs of PUFs for Authenticated-Key Exchange

D. Chatterjee, H. Boyapally, S. Patranabis, U. Chatterjee, A. Hazra, D. Mukhopadhyay

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 3847–3862

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IEEE TC

Birds of the Same Feather Flock Together: A Dual-Mode Circuit Candidate for Strong PUF-TRNG Functionalities

K. Pratihar, U. Chatterjee, M. Alam, R. S. Chakraborty, D. Mukhopadhyay

IEEE Transactions on Computers

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SPACE 2022

Machine Learning Attacks on Low-Cost Reconfigurable XRRO and XRBR PUF Designs

M. Kojage, N. Hassan, U. Chatterjee

12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE), Jaipur, India

2022
SPACE 2022

Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency Assisted Acoustic Side Channel Attack to Retrieve Dialled Call Log

A. Revskar, M. Rathor, U. Chatterjee

12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE), Jaipur, India

2022
CARDIS 2022

Time's a Thief of Memory: Breaking Multi-tenant Isolation in TrustZones through Timing based Bidirectional Covert Channels

N. Mishra, A. Chakraborty, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay

21st Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS), Birmingham, UK

2022
DSD 2022

Is the Whole lesser than its Parts? Breaking an Aggregation based Privacy aware Metering Algorithm

S. Ghosh, U. Chatterjee, R. Masburah, S. Dey, D. Mukhopadhyay

Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design (Special Session on Safety, Security and Privacy of CPS), Spain

2022
J. HaSS

PAKAMAC: A PUF-based Keyless Automotive Entry System with Mutual Authentication

S. Gade, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay

Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2022

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CODASPY 2022

KTRACKER: Passively Tracking KRACK using ML Model

A. Agrawal, U. Chatterjee, R.R. Maiti

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '22), pp. 364–366

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2022
DATE 2022

DIP Learning on CAS-Lock: Using Distinguishing Input Patterns for Attacking Logic Locking

A. Saha, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay, R. S. Chakraborty

Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE) 2022, pp. 688–693

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2022
SPACE 2021

Network Data Remanence Side Channel Attack on SPREAD, H-SPREAD and Reverse AODV

P. Naik, U. Chatterjee

Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE 2021), LNCS vol. 13162

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2021
ACNS 2021

Demand Manipulation Attack Resilient Privacy Aware Smart Grid Using PUFs and Blockchain

S. Ghosh, U. Chatterjee, D. Chatterjee, R. Masburah, D. Mukhopadhyay, S. Dey

Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2021), LNCS vol. 12809

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2021
AsianHOST 2021

Auto-PUFChain: An Automated Interaction Tool for PUFs and Blockchain in Electronic Supply Chain

C. K. Chaudhary, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay

Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), pp. 1–4

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2021
DAC 2021

SACReD: An Attack Framework on SAC Resistant Delay-PUFs leveraging Bias and Reliability Factors

D. Chatterjee, U. Chatterjee, D. Mukhopadhyay, A. Hazra

58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 85–90

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AsianHOST 2021

Revisiting UAV Authentication Schemes: Practical Attacks on Aviation Infrastructure

H. Mondal, U. Chatterjee

Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), pp. 1–6

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The People

Our Team

A passionate group of researchers working at the intersection of hardware security and applied cryptography.

Lab Director

Dr. Urbi Chatterjee

Dr. Urbi Chatterjee

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, IIT Kanpur

Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Mahendra Rathor

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022

PhD Students

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Oswa Amro

PhD Candidate
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Vishesh Mishra

PhD Candidate
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Neelofer Hassan

PhD Candidate
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Dipesh

PhD Candidate

M.Tech Students (2023 Cohort)

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Anuj Shrivastava

M.Tech Student
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Manthan Kojage

M.Tech Student
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Prujwal Thaka

M.Tech Student
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Mayuresh Shandilya

M.Tech Student
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Deepak Kumar

M.Tech Student
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Akash Panzade

M.Tech Student
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Abhishek Revskar

M.Tech Student

M.Tech Students (2022 Cohort)

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Hirak Mondal

M.Tech Student
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Chandan Kumar

M.Tech Student
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Swapnil Gade

M.Tech Student
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Pushpraj Naik

M.Tech Student
Get in Touch

Contact Us

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Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory
1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security and Cyber Defence of Critical Infrastructure (C3i)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Uttar Pradesh – 208016, India

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Email

For research enquiries, collaboration proposals, or student applications, please reach out to the lab director.

urbi@cse.iitk.ac.in

Institution

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
NAAC Grade A++
QS World Ranking: Top 300