Emerging Attacks and Solutions for Secure Hardware in the Internet of Things

The fourteen papers in this special section explore software solutions for secure hardware in the Internet of Things (IoT). It could well be argued that the emerging IoT, together with the two long-standing trends of pervasive and ubiquitous computing, constitutes one of the most massive civil endeavors in the history of mankind. While it promises outstandingly positive usability and convenience effects, its implications for security and privacy are less clear. The vision of billions of low-cost, lightweight, and highly interconnected endpoints certainly rises a host of pressing issues to both cryptographers and system designers. Ideally, these should be resolved prior to a large-scale deployment of the IoT, and before its underlying infrastructure and standards have been established.