Fortifying RTL locking against oracle-less (untrusted foundry) and oracle-guided attacks

N Limaye, AB Chowdhury, C Pilato… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking protects integrated circuits (IC) against intellectual property (IP) theft, IC
overbuilding, and hardware Trojan insertion. Prior locking schemes operate after logic …

The end of logic locking? a critical view on the security of logic locking

S Engels, M Hoffmann, C Paar - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2019 - eprint.iacr.org
With continuously shrinking feature sizes of integrated circuits, the vast majority of
semiconductor companies have become fabless, ie, chip manufacturing has been …

Thwarting all logic locking attacks: Dishonest oracle with truly random logic locking

N Limaye, E Kalligeros, N Karousos… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While logic locking is a promising defense to protect hardware designs, many attacks have
been shown to undermine its security by retrieving the secret key. All the powerful attacks …

Designing Deceptive Logic Locking

D Sisejkovic, R Leupers - Logic Locking: A Practical Approach to Secure …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Even though multiple Machine Learning (ML)-based attacks have been introduced
in recent years, the theoretical concepts of ML-exploitable leakage in logic locking have not …

A lightweight robust logic locking technique to thwart sensitization and cone-based attacks

VS Rathor, GK Sharma - IEEE Transactions on Emerging …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking is a new technique to prevent an integrated circuit from hardware Trojan,
piracy, overbuilding, etc. Most of the well-known logic locking techniques are vulnerable to …

Learning-Resilient and Cost-Effective Logic Locking for IP Protection: Attacks, Frameworks, and Defenses

N Limaye - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The continual miniaturization of integrated circuit (IC) technology nodes have exacerbated
the costs of commissioning state-of-the-art foundries. As a result, chip designs are …

Attacking Logic Locked Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning

A Shelton, J Mellor - 2021 - scholarcommons.scu.edu
Logic Locking is an emerging form of hardware obfuscation that is intended to be a solution
to many of the trust issues associated with the modern globalized IC supply chain. By …

Unraveling latch locking using machine learning, boolean analysis, and ilp

D Chen, X Zhou, Y Hu, Y Zhang, K Yang… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking has become a promising approach to provide hardware security in the face of
a possibly insecure fabrication supply chain. While many techniques have focused on …

On preventing SAT attack with decoy key-inputs

QL Nguyen, ML Flottes, S Dupuis… - 2021 IEEE Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The globalized supply chain in the semiconductor industry raises several security concerns
such as IC overproduction, intellectual property piracy and design tampering. Logic locking …

Atpg-guided fault injection attacks on logic locking

A Jain, MT Rahman, U Guin - 2020 IEEE Physical Assurance …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic Locking is a well-accepted protection technique to enable trust in the outsourced
design and fabrication processes of integrated circuits (ICs) where the original design is …