Bristol Uni fighting computer hackers
Hacking computers might become a thing of the past if researchers at Bristol University succeed in a four-year research project.
The way computer processors are designed and their security against code breaking could be transformed thanks to a grant of £800,000 given to a team at the Department of Computer Science.
Processors, which are the core components of computing devices, have become the centre of cryptographers' attention due to a new class of attacks. These attacks aim to extract secret information by observing physical characteristics, for example the power consumption of the processor. While much is known about how to conduct these attacks, much less is known about how to efficiently design processors resilient to these attacks.
