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LaserEscape: Detecting and Mitigating Optical Probing Attacks
Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Kyle Mitard, Andrew Cannon +2
The security of integrated circuits (ICs) can be broken by sophisticated physical attacks relying on failure analysis methods. Optical probing is one of the most prominent examples…
RandOhm: Mitigating Impedance Side-channel Attacks using Randomized Circuit Configurations
Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Domenic Forte, Shahin Tajik
Physical side-channel attacks can compromise the security of integrated circuits. Most physical side-channel attacks (e.g., power or electromagnetic) exploit the dynamic behavior o…
Garbled EDA: Privacy Preserving Electronic Design Automation
Mohammad Hashemi, Steffi Roy, Fatemeh Ganji +1
The complexity of modern integrated circuits (ICs) necessitates collaboration between multiple distrusting parties, including thirdparty intellectual property (3PIP) vendors, desig…
A Survey and Perspective on Artificial Intelligence for Security-Aware Electronic Design Automation
David Selasi Koblah, Rabin Yu Acharya, Daniel Capecci +5
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques have been increasingly used in several fields to improve performance and the level of automation. In recent years,…
Circuit Masking: From Theory to Standardization, A Comprehensive Survey for Hardware Security Researchers and Practitioners
Ana Covic, Fatemeh Ganji, Domenic Forte
Side-channel attacks extracting sensitive data from implementations have been considered a major threat to the security of cryptographic schemes. This has elevated the need for imp…
InfoNEAT: Information Theory-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for Side-channel Analysis
Rabin Yu Acharya, Fatemeh Ganji, Domenic Forte
Profiled side-channel analysis (SCA) leverages leakage from cryptographic implementations to extract the secret key. When combined with advanced methods in neural networks (NNs), p…
Physical Security in the Post-quantum Era: A Survey on Side-channel Analysis, Random Number Generators, and Physically Unclonable Functions
Sreeja Chowdhury, Ana Covic, Rabin Yu Acharya +3
Over the past decades, quantum technology has seen consistent progress, with notable recent developments in the field of quantum computers. Traditionally, this trend has been prima…
Histogram-based Auto Segmentation: A Novel Approach to Segmenting Integrated Circuit Structures from SEM Images
Ronald Wilson, Navid Asadizanjani, Domenic Forte +1
In the Reverse Engineering and Hardware Assurance domain, a majority of the data acquisition is done through electron microscopy techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SE…
Attack of the Genes: Finding Keys and Parameters of Locked Analog ICs Using Genetic Algorithm
Rabin Yu Acharya, Sreeja Chowdhury, Fatemeh Ganji +1
Hardware intellectual property (IP) theft is a major issue in today's globalized supply chain. To address it, numerous logic locking and obfuscation techniques have been proposed.…
Hardware Trust and Assurance through Reverse Engineering: A Survey and Outlook from Image Analysis and Machine Learning Perspectives
Ulbert J. Botero, Ronald Wilson, Hangwei Lu +7
In the context of hardware trust and assurance, reverse engineering has been often considered as an illegal action. Generally speaking, reverse engineering aims to retrieve informa…
Defense-in-Depth: A Recipe for Logic Locking to Prevail
M Tanjidur Rahman, M Sazadur Rahman, Huanyu Wang +6
Logic locking has emerged as a promising solution for protecting the semiconductor intellectual Property (IP) from the untrusted entities in the design and fabrication process. Log…
EOP: An Encryption-Obfuscation Solution for Protecting PCBs Against Tampering and Reverse Engineering
Zimu Guo, Xiaolin Xu, Mark M. Tehranipoor +1
PCBs are the core components for the devices ranging from the consumer electronics to military applications. Due to the accessibility of the PCBs, they are vulnerable to the attack…
PreLatPUF: Exploiting DRAM Latency Variations for Generating Robust Device Signatures
B. M. S. Bahar Talukder, Biswajit Ray, Domenic Forte +1
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are potential security blocks to generate unique and more secure keys in low-cost cryptographic applications. Dynamic random-access memory (D…
Secure and Reliable Biometric Access Control for Resource-Constrained Systems and IoT
Nima Karimian, Zimu Guo, Fatemeh Tehranipoor +3
With the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), there is a growing need for access control and data protection on low-power, pervasive devices. Biometric-based authentication i…
Hardware Trojan Detection through Information Flow Security Verification
Adib Nahiyan, Mehdi Sadi, Rahul Vittal +3
Semiconductor design houses are increasingly becoming dependent on third party vendors to procure intellectual property (IP) and meet time-to-market constraints. However, these thi…