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most citedSCARF: Securing Chips with a Robust Framework against Fabrication-time Hardware Trojans

4 citations · 4 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CR2026

Kalyna Block Cipher: From Design Space Exploration to ASIC Design

Carlos Gewehr, Levent Aksoy, Mariia Rodinko +2

The Kalyna block cipher is a Ukrainian cryptography standard, selected through a national competition held between 2007 and 2010 and approved in 2015. Although its software impleme…

cs.CR2026

Security Analysis of Universal Circuits as a Mechanism for Hardware Obfuscation

Zain Ul Abideen, Deepali Garg, Lawrence Pileggi +1

Universal Circuits (UCs) offer a promising approach to hardware Intellectual Property (IP) obfuscation, leveraging cryptographic principles to hide both structure and function in a…

cs.CR2025

A Zero-overhead Flow for Security Closure

Mohammad Eslami, Ashira Johara, Kyungbin Park +1

In the traditional Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design flow, the concept of timing closure implies to reach convergence during physical synthesis such that, under…

cs.CR2024

RESAA: A Removal and Structural Analysis Attack Against Compound Logic Locking

Felipe Almeida, Levent Aksoy, Samuel Pagliarini

The semiconductor industry's paradigm shift towards fabless integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing has introduced security threats, including piracy, counterfeiting, hardware Trojan…

cs.CR2024

SCALLER: Standard Cell Assembled and Local Layout Effect-based Ring Oscillators

Muayad J. Aljafar, Zain Ul Abideen, Adriaan Peetermans +2

This letter presents a technique that enables very fine tunability of the frequency of Ring Oscillators (ROs). Multiple ROs with different numbers of tunable elements were designed…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

SCARF: Securing Chips with a Robust Framework against Fabrication-time Hardware Trojans

Mohammad Eslami, Tara Ghasempouri, Samuel Pagliarini

The globalization of the semiconductor industry has introduced security challenges to Integrated Circuits (ICs), particularly those related to the threat of Hardware Trojans (HTs)…

cs.CR2024

CAC 2.0: A Corrupt and Correct Logic Locking Technique Resilient to Structural Analysis Attacks

Levent Aksoy, Muhammad Yasin, Samuel Pagliarini

Logic locking proposed to protect integrated circuits from serious hardware threats has been studied extensively over a decade. In these years, many efficient logic locking techniq…

cs.CR2024

Utilizing Layout Effects for Analog Logic Locking

Muayad J. Aljafar, Florence Azais, Marie-Lise Flottes +1

While numerous obfuscation techniques are available for securing digital assets in the digital domain, there has been a notable lack of focus on protecting Intellectual Property (I…

cs.CR2023

KRATT: QBF-Assisted Removal and Structural Analysis Attack Against Logic Locking

Levent Aksoy, Muhammad Yasin, Samuel Pagliarini

This paper introduces KRATT, a removal and structural analysis attack against state-of-the-art logic locking techniques, such as single and double flip locking techniques (SFLTs an…