The globalization of the semiconductor supply chain introduces ever-increasing security and
privacy risks. Two major concerns are IP theft through reverse engineering and malicious …

Logic locking has been proposed as an obfuscation technique to protect outsourced IC
designs from IP piracy by untrusted entities in the design and fabrication process. In this …

Modern Integrated Circuits (ICs) employ several classes of countermeasures to mitigate
physical attacks. Recently, a powerful semi-invasive attack relying on optical contactless …

The increasing cost of integrated circuit (IC) fabrication has driven most companies to" go
fabless" over time. The corresponding outsourcing trend gave rise to various attack vectors …

Due to its sound theoretical basis and practical efficiency, masking has become the most
prominent countermeasure to protect cryptographic implementations against physical side …

Logic locking is an attractive defense against a series of hardware security threats. However,
oracle guided attacks based on advanced Boolean reasoning engines such as SAT, ATPG …

The security of modern electronic devices relies on secret keys stored on secure hardware
modules as the root-of-trust (RoT). Extracting those keys would break the security of the …

Computer-aided design (CAD) tools traditionally optimize for power, performance, and area
(PPA). However, given a vast number of hardware security threats, we call for secure-by …

Optical probing from the backside of an integrated circuit (IC) is a powerful failure analysis
technique but raises serious security concerns when in the hands of attackers. For instance …

The era of widespread globalization has led to the emergence of hardware-centric security
threats throughout the IC supply chain. Prior defenses like logic locking, layout …