Advancing the state-of-the-art in hardware Trojans design

S.K. Haider, C. Jin, M. Van Dijk

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Abstract

© 2017 IEEE.Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry heavily reuses third party IP cores which are vulnerable to insertion of Hardware Trojans (HTs) at design time by third party IP core providers. State of the art research has shown that existing HT detection techniques, which claim to detect all publicly available HT benchmarks, can still be defeated by carefully designing new sophisticated HTs. The reason being that these techniques consider the HT landscape to be limited only to the publicly known HT benchmarks. However the adversary is not limited to these HTs and may devise new HT design principles to bypass these countermeasures. In this paper, we discover certain crucial properties of trigger activated HTs which lead to the definition of an exponentially large class of Deterministic Hardware Trojans HD that an adversary can (but is not limited to) design. The discovered properties serve as HT design principles which help us understand the tremendous ways available to an adversary to design a HT, and show that the existing publicly known HT benchmarks are just the tip of the iceberg on this huge landscape.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE 60th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages823-826
ISBN (Electronic)9781509063895
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event60th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2017 - Boston, United States
Duration: 6 Aug 20179 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
ISSN (Print)1548-3746

Conference

Conference60th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period6/08/179/08/17

Funding

This project was supported in part by AFOSR MURI under award number FA9550-14-1-0351.

FundersFunder number
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550-14-1-0351

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