4 papers
AttackonCTF: Defending Hardware Security Competition Benchmarks in the Age of LLMs
Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Stephen Muttathil +5
Hardware security competitions such as HackTheSilicon serve as benchmarking platforms for evaluating vulnerability detection methods and for training humans and AI. However, our st…
AegisSat: Securing AI-Enabled SoC FPGA Satellite Platforms
Huimin Li, Vusal Novruzov, Nikhilesh Singh +3
The increasing adoption of System-on-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (SoC FPGAs) in AI-enabled satellite systems, valued for their reconfigurability and in-orbit update capabil…
GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing
Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami, Huimin Li +2
Modern hardware systems, driven by demands for high performance and application-specific functionality, have grown increasingly complex, introducing large surfaces for bugs and sec…
Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety
Mohamadreza Rostami, Chen Chen, Rahul Kande +3
Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness…