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Hardware Trojan Attacks: Threat Analysis and Countermeasures
Swarup Bhunia,Michael S. Hsiao,Mainak Banga,Seetharam Narasimhan +3 more
- Vol. 102, Iss: 8, pp 1229-1247
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The threat of hardware Trojan attacks is analyzed; attack models, types, and scenarios are presented; different forms of protection approaches are discussed; and emerging attack modes, defenses, and future research pathways are described.Abstract:
Security of a computer system has been traditionally related to the security of the software or the information being processed. The underlying hardware used for information processing has been considered trusted. The emergence of hardware Trojan attacks violates this root of trust. These attacks, in the form of malicious modifications of electronic hardware at different stages of its life cycle, pose major security concerns in the electronics industry. An adversary can mount such an attack with an objective to cause operational failure or to leak secret information from inside a chip-e.g., the key in a cryptographic chip, during field operation. Global economic trend that encourages increased reliance on untrusted entities in the hardware design and fabrication process is rapidly enhancing the vulnerability to such attacks. In this paper, we analyze the threat of hardware Trojan attacks; present attack models, types, and scenarios; discuss different forms of protection approaches, both proactive and reactive; and describe emerging attack modes, defenses, and future research pathways.read more
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Hardware Trust through Layout Filling: A Hardware Trojan Prevention Technique
Papa-Sidy Ba,Sophie Dupuis,Manikandan Palanichamy,Marie-Lise-Flottes,Giorgio Di Natale,Bruno Rouzeyre +5 more
TL;DR: This paper focuses on a HT prevention technique that aims at creating a layout without filler cells, which are assumed to provide a great opportunity for HT insertion, in order to make the insertion of a HT in a layout as difficult as possible.
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Practical Attacks on Deep Neural Networks by Memory Trojaning
TL;DR: A memory Trojan methodology is proposed that implants the malicious logics merely into the memory controllers of DNN systems without the necessity of toolchain manipulation or accessing to the victim model and thus is feasible for practical uses.
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System, method and computer-accessible medium for security verification of third party intellectual property cores
TL;DR: An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for detecting the presence of a Trojan in a circuit can include, for example, receiving information related to a property(s) configured to determine the presence, and determining the presence based on the property and a design of the circuit as mentioned in this paper.
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Detecting RTL Trojans using Artificial Immune Systems and High Level Behavior Classification
Farhath Zareen,Robert Karam +1 more
TL;DR: This work aims to leverage AIS-based ML techniques for identifying certain behavioral traits in high level hardware descriptions, including unsafe or undesirable behaviors, whether such behavior exists due to human error during development, or due to intentional, malicious circuit modifications, known as hardware Trojans, without the need for a golden reference model.
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