A Pragmatic Methodology for Blind Hardware Trojan Insertion in Finalized Layouts. (arXiv:2208.09235v1 [cs.CR])

A potential vulnerability for integrated circuits (ICs) is the insertion of
hardware trojans (HTs) during manufacturing. Understanding the practicability
of such an attack can lead to appropriate measures for mitigating it. In this
paper, we demonstrate a pragmatic framework for analyzing HT susceptibility of
finalized layouts. Our framework is representative of a fabrication-time
attack, where the adversary is assumed to have access only to a layout
representation of the circuit. The framework inserts trojans into tapeout-ready
layouts utilizing an Engineering …

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