Guest Editorial Special Issue on the Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST 2022)

Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) is an annual symposium that aims to facilitate the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Hardware security is a fashionable research area in both industry and academia. Its scope is consistently growing to embrace secure design, manufacturing, and deployment of modern and emerging interoperable computing, communication, storage devices, and circuits and systems. The 7th Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST 2022) was held in hybrid mode on December 1416 in Singapore. Among all the accepted contributions presented at the conference, a subset of top-rated articles was selected and invited for this Special Issue. The invited articles included extended new technical contributions and results and went through a peer-review process consisting of expert reviewers in the related topics. A brief description of the selected articles is as follows.