4 papers
LIB-TRAP: Standard Cell Library Hardware Trojan Risk Assessment and Prevention
Harish Kumar Dharavath, Md Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury, Rozhin Yasaei +1
Vulnerabilities inherent to the fabless semiconductor manufacturing model have significantly increased the risk of malicious Hardware Trojan (HT) insertion, posing severe threats t…
Same Payload, Different Channel: Measuring Trust Asymmetry in Tool-Using Language Models
Mohammed Sameer Syed, Rozhin Yasaei
As language models take on agentic roles that call APIs, read tool outputs, and act on third-party content, their attack surface expands beyond what users type. Whether they treat…
Can Agents Secure Hardware? Evaluating Agentic LLM-Driven Obfuscation for IP Protection
Sujan Ghimire, Parsa Mirfasihi, Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury +6
The globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing has increased the exposure of hardware intellectual property (IP) to untrusted stages of the supply chain, rai…
LLM-HyPZ: Hardware Vulnerability Discovery using an LLM-Assisted Hybrid Platform for Zero-Shot Knowledge Extraction and Refinement
Yu-Zheng Lin, Sujan Ghimire, Abhiram Nandimandalam +8
The rapid growth of hardware vulnerabilities has created an urgent need for systematic and scalable analysis methods. Unlike software flaws, which are often patchable post-deployme…