Recent Advances in Emerging Technology-based Security Primitives, Attacks and Mitigation

Emerging Non-Volatile Memories (NVM) have shown enormous potential for wide applications within the memory hierarchy to replace and/or assist conventional CMOS technology. In addition to key advantages of having low leakage power and low footprint, these technologies possess unique characteristics that can be leveraged to develop secure hardware and compute-capable memories. We review these unique properties of NVMs in implementing security primitives. We also present potential attacks against NVMs and their countermeasures.