Foundations of Hardware IP Protection (PDF)

Lilian Bossuet is an Associate Professor at University of Saint-Etienne, head of the Embedded System Security group and head of the Computer Science departement of the Laboratoire Hubert Curien. His research is in the general area of embedded systems design, including hardware security of embedded systems (data, intellectual property and system security) and reconfigurable hardware design. His active research topics focus on Hardware security, war against illegal IC copy and counterfeiting, IP protection, PUF design and characterization, side channel attacks and countermeasures, TRNG attack, MCryptoPSoC architecture and design, crypto-processor architecture and design, embedded system security, and FPGA security.


Lionel Torres is Professor at the University of Montpellier (Polytech Montpellier engineering school), France. His research activities is part of the microelectronic department of the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (laboratory to the University of Montpellier and the French National Center for Scientic Research (CNRS)). His research interests concern system level architecture, with a specific focus in the security and cryptographic applications and Non-Volatile Computing based on MRAM. He has a PhD from the University of Montpellier in microelectronic design and was at the head of the microelectronic department of LIRMM and he is now deputy head of Polyptych Montpellier and at the Head of the Labex (Laboratory of Excellence) of Digital and Hardware Solutions, Environmental and Organic Life Modeling. He is also co-founder of the Algodone company, company proposing a Digital Right Management solution for silicon IP.