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 …

ReTrustFSM: toward RTL hardware obfuscation-a hybrid FSM approach

MS Rahman, R Guo, HM Kamali, F Rahman… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware obfuscating is a proactive design-for-trust technique against IC supply chain
threats, ie, IP piracy and overproduction. Many studies have evaluated numerous …

RANE: An open-source formal de-obfuscation attack for reverse engineering of logic encrypted circuits

S Roshanisefat, H Mardani Kamali… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
To enable trust in the IC supply chain, logic locking as an IP protection technique received
significant attention in recent years. Over the years, by utilizing Boolean satisfiability (SAT) …

On the difficulty of FSM-based hardware obfuscation

M Fyrbiak, S Wallat, J Déchelotte, N Albartus… - IACR Transactions on …, 2018 - tches.iacr.org
Abstract In today's Integrated Circuit (IC) production chains, a designer's valuable
Intellectual Property (IP) is transparent to diverse stakeholders and thus inevitably prone to …

Fun-SAT: Functional corruptibility-guided SAT-based attack on sequential logic encryption

Y Hu, Y Zhang, K Yang, D Chen… - … Security and Trust …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SAT attack has shown to be efficient against most combinational logic encryption
methods. It can be extended to attack sequential logic encryption techniques by leveraging …

Practical Implementation of robust state-space obfuscation for hardware IP protection

MM Rahman, S Bhunia - … on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware obfuscation is a design transformation technique that transforms a design to
protect its confidentiality against untrusted parties. In particular, it aims at protecting …

Hardware security exploiting post-CMOS devices: fundamental device characteristics, state-of-the-art countermeasures, challenges and roadmap

A Japa, MK Majumder, SK Sahoo… - IEEE Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging nanoelectronic semiconductor devices have been quite promising in enhancing
hardware-oriented security and trust. However, implementing hardware security primitives …

Emerging attacks on logic locking in SFQ circuits and related countermeasures

Y Mustafa, T Jabbari, S Köse - IEEE Transactions on Applied …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware security in single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits is an emerging research area due
the increasing demand of data centers operating with sensitive information and the limited …

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 …