Advances in logic locking: Past, present, and prospects

HM Kamali, KZ Azar, F Farahmandi… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2022 - eprint.iacr.org
Logic locking is a design concealment mechanism for protecting the IPs integrated into
modern System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures from a wide range of hardware security threats …

Logic locking for IP security: A comprehensive analysis on challenges, techniques, and trends

J Gandhi, D Shekhawat, M Santosh, JG Pandey - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
A substantial part of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain that involves semiconductor
fabrication, packaging, and testing has shifted globally to minimize IC costs and satisfy …

Graph neural networks: A powerful and versatile tool for advancing design, reliability, and security of ICs

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, O Sinanoglu - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in
learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since …

Embracing graph neural networks for hardware security

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their superior
performance in deep learning on graph-structured data. GNNs have succeeded across …

Complexity analysis of the SAT attack on logic locking

Y Zhong, U Guin - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the adoption of horizontal business models following the globalization of
semiconductor manufacturing, the overproduction of integrated circuits (ICs) and the piracy …

Titan: Security analysis of large-scale hardware obfuscation using graph neural networks

L Mankali, L Alrahis, S Patnaik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware obfuscation is a prominent design-for-trust solution that thwarts intellectual
property (IP) piracy and reverse-engineering of integrated circuits (ICs). Researchers have …

Evaluating the security of efpga-based redaction algorithms

A Rezaei, R Afsharmazayejani, J Maynard - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Hardware IP owners must envision procedures to avoid piracy and overproduction of their
designs under a fabless paradigm. A newly proposed technique to obfuscate critical …

DK lock: Dual key logic locking against oracle-guided attacks

J Maynard, A Rezaei - 2023 24th International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The semiconductor industry must deal with different hardware threats like piracy and
overproduction as a result of outsourcing manufacturing. While there are many proposals to …

Hide and seek: Seeking the (un)-hidden key in provably-secure logic locking techniques

S Patnaik, N Limaye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking is a holistic countermeasure that protects an integrated circuit (IC) from
hardware-focused threats such as piracy of design intellectual property and unauthorized …

GateLock: Input-Dependent Key-based locked Gates for SAT resistant logic locking

VS Rathor, M Singh, KS Sahoo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking has become a robust method for reducing the risk of intellectual property (IP)
piracy, overbuilding, and hardware Trojan threats throughout the lifespan of integrated …