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 …

Challenging the security of logic locking schemes in the era of deep learning: A neuroevolutionary approach

D Sisejkovic, F Merchant, LM Reimann… - ACM Journal on …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Logic locking is a prominent technique to protect the integrity of hardware designs
throughout the integrated circuit design and fabrication flow. However, in recent years, the …

Deceptive logic locking for hardware integrity protection against machine learning attacks

D Sisejkovic, F Merchant, LM Reimann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking has emerged as a prominent key-driven technique to protect the integrity of
integrated circuits. However, novel machine-learning-based attacks have recently been …

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) …

GNNUnlock: Graph neural networks-based oracle-less unlocking scheme for provably secure logic locking

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, F Khalid, MA Hanif… - … , Automation & Test …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking is a holistic design-for-trust technique that aims to protect the design
intellectual property (IP) from untrustworthy entities throughout the supply chain. Functional …

Valkyrie: Vulnerability Assessment Tool and Attack for Provably-Secure Logic Locking Techniques

N Limaye, S Patnaik… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Protection of the design intellectual property (IP) has become a pertinent need owing to the
globalized integrated circuit (IC) supply chain. Logic locking has been perceived as a …

Does logic locking work with {EDA} tools?

Z Han, M Yasin, JJV Rajendran - 30th USENIX Security Symposium …, 2021‏ - usenix.org
Logic locking is a promising solution against emerging hardware security threats, which
entails protecting a Boolean circuit using a “keying” mechanism. The latest and hitherto …

Fortifying RTL locking against oracle-less (untrusted foundry) and oracle-guided attacks

N Limaye, AB Chowdhury, C Pilato… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking protects integrated circuits (IC) against intellectual property (IP) theft, IC
overbuilding, and hardware Trojan insertion. Prior locking schemes operate after logic …

Not all fabrics are created equal: Exploring eFPGA parameters for IP redaction

J Bhandari, AKT Moosa, B Tan, C Pilato… - … Transactions on Very …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semiconductor design houses rely on third-party foundries to manufacture their integrated
circuits (ICs). While this trend allows them to tackle fabrication costs, it introduces security …