Trojan Awakener: Detecting Dormant Malicious Hardware Using Laser Logic State Imaging (Extended Version). (arXiv:2107.10147v5 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

The threat of hardware Trojans (HTs) and their detection is a widely studied
field. While the effort for inserting a Trojan into an application-specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) can be considered relatively high, especially when
trusting the chip manufacturer, programmable hardware is vulnerable to Trojan
insertion even after the product has been shipped or during usage. At the same
time, detecting dormant HTs with small or zero-overhead triggers and payloads
on these platforms is still a challenging task, as the Trojan …

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