How would the future world look like? Attempts to answer this question have opened up pathways for several outstanding technologies. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the depiction of the future Internet: comprising of billions of smart things interacting and communicating with other machines, objects and infrastructures. However, without addressing the quite formidable communication and security mechanisms for all these building blocks, the IoT would not be as pervasive as anticipated.

The laboratory on Security of IoT, aims to design, evaluate, and deploy the essential communication and security mechanisms for the IoT paradigm. The Internet Security Protocol currently rests on well-known and a widely trusted set of cryptographic algorithms. But a significant amount of resources such as processor speed and memory are expected for functioning of the application scenario, something which is not always available in the context of IoTs.

Researchers at the laboratory plan to undertake a fresh approach by considering new hardware security primitives and to discover new verification techniques to evaluate security against powerful side channels, and provide much needed trust to the users against powerful adversaries. The laboratory is collaborating with DRDO, CDAC-Bangalore, Wipro, ISEA, Masaryk University (Czech Republic).

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Contact: Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay debdeep@cse.iitkgp.ac.in