A Needle in the Haystack: Inspecting Circuit Layout to Identify Hardware Trojans

ePrint Report: A Needle in the Haystack: Inspecting Circuit Layout to Identify Hardware Trojans

Xingyu Meng, Abhrajit Sengupta, Kanad Basu

Distributed integrated circuit (IC) supply chain has resulted in a myriad of security vulnerabilities including that of hardware Trojan (HT). An HT can perform malicious modifications on an IC design with potentially disastrous consequences, such as leaking secret information in cryptographic applications or altering operation instructions in processors. Due to the emergence of outsourced fabrication, an untrusted foundry is considered …

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