Hardware Trojan Detection And Functionality Determination For Soft Ips

Keywords

Asset; Golden Reference Library; Hardware Trojan Detection; Structural Checking

Abstract

Due to the increasing complexity of hardware designs, third-party hardware Intellectual Property (IP) cores are often incorporated to alleviate the burden on hardware designers. However, the prevalent use of third-party IPs has raised security concerns such as hardware Trojans. These Trojans inserted in the soft IPs are very difficult to detect through functional testing and no single detection methodology has been able to completely address this issue. Based on a Register-Transfer Level (RTL) soft IP analysis method named Structural Checking, this paper presents a hardware Trojan detection methodology and tool by detailing the implementation of a Golden Reference Library for matching an unknown IP to a functionally similar Golden Reference. The matching result is quantified in percentages so that two different IPs with similar functions have a higher percentage match. A match of the unknown IP to a whitelist IP advances it to be identified with a known functionality, while a match to a blacklist IP causes it to be detected as Trojan-infested.

Publication Date

10-16-2018

Publication Title

2018 IEEE 3rd International Verification and Security Workshop, IVSW 2018

Number of Pages

56-61

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/IVSW.2018.8494891

Socpus ID

85057390311 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85057390311

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