Project description
Research in magneto-ionic to enhance data security
Traditional data protection methods are increasingly inadequate. Passwords can be hacked, and encryption slows performance while raising costs. Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) offer improved security by creating unique device fingerprints. However, challenges such as cost and energy efficiency remain. The ERC-funded SECURE-FLEXIMAG project aims to enhance data security and promote technology transfer through the principal investigator's research in magneto-ionics. The project will combine exchange coupling and stochastic magnetic effects in magnetic dot arrays to create an advanced data security device that surpasses traditional password methods and current PUF approaches. Additionally, the project will explore market opportunities and business strategies with stakeholders and potential end users.
Objective
Traditional methods of safeguarding data often fall short in today’s rapidly evolving information technology landscape. Passwords are vulnerable to hacking, and while encryption offers enhanced security, it significantly increases data processing costs and slows performance. Storing secret keys in battery-backed memory is also inefficient in terms of energy consumption. The advent of physical unclonable functions (PUFs), which create unique device fingerprints based on random physical properties, marked a significant leap in hardware-level data security. Despite recent progress in PUF technology, challenges such as energy efficiency, cost, scalability, randomness, and reconfigurability remain. Overcoming these hurdles requires innovative materials and designs. SECURE-FLEXIMAG aims to strengthen data security and promote technology transfer by building on the PI's recent research in three key areas: (i) magneto-ionics, (ii) exchange coupling to lock access to data and (iii) stochastic magnetization reversal phenomena in arrays of magnetic dots. These effects can be synergistically combined to develop an advanced data-security device that will largely surpass conventional password methods and current PUF approaches. The project will explore market prospects and business development strategies in collaboration with various stakeholders and potential end users.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Spain
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