Attacks are getting sophisticated. Examples include Rowhammer, Meltdown, Spectre, and others. System designers need to consider many attack vectors.

Embedded systems for deployment in the field can have vastly different needs for trusted computing and cyber security than those of enterprise systems.

Reliable, secure communications become much more critical in unmanned systems. If communications are lost, the unmanned system may need to throttle back.

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The trusted computing task is to apply practical measures that can mitigate the effects of known cyber threats to aerospace and defense systems.

Quantum computing processes an algorithm by configuring quantum gates and initializing the qubits. Taking a measurement resolves the quantum states.

Asymmetric algorithms enable systems designers to pair keys to facilitate more novel cryptographic operations than traditional symmetric algorithms.

Cryptography forms the foundation of many aspects of trusted computing. This article considers recent algorithms and cryptographic attacks, as well as some future directions for cryptography in deployed embedded systems.