[Cryptech Tech] fyi: Trusted Design in FPGAs

[=JeffH]

of possible interest (tho YMMV (I sorta randomly ran across this just now))..

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-8080-9_9

chapter in "Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust"
2012, pp 195-229:

Trusted Design in FPGAs
Mehrdad Majzoobi, Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potkonjak

Abstract

Reconfigurable hardware is by far the most dominant implementation platform 
in terms of the number of designs per year. During the past decade, security 
has emerged as a premier design metrics with an ever increasing scope. Our 
objective is to identify and survey the most important issues related to 
FPGA security. Instead of insisting on comprehensiveness, we focus on a 
number of techniques that have the highest potential for conceptual 
breakthroughs or for the practical widespread adoption. Our emphasis is on 
security primitives (PUFs and TRNGs), analysis of potential vulnerabilities 
of FPGA synthesis flow, digital rights management, and FPGA-based applied 
algorithmic cryptography. We also discuss the most popular and a selection 
of recent research directions related to FPGA-based security platforms. 
Specifically, we identify and discuss a number of classical and emerging 
exciting FPGA-based security research and development directions.