Software obfuscation techniques are increasingly being used to prevent attackers from
exploiting security flaws and launching successful attacks. With research on software …

Man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers have full control over the system on which the attacked
software runs, and try to break the confidentiality or integrity of assets embedded in the …

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 piracy. To …

Blockchain systems enable new applications, such as cryptocurrencies and smart contracts,
using decentralized consensus without trusted authorities. A number of blockchain systems …

If you are designing or integrating hardware IP blocks into your designs, and you are using
common global supply chains, then reading this overview article on how to protect your IP …

With the popularity of Android apps, different techniques have been proposed to enhance
app protection. As an effective approach to prevent reverse engineering, obfuscation can be …

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become increasingly popular in computing
platforms. With recent advances in bitstream format reverse engineering, the scientific …

Program obfuscation is widely used to protect commercial software against reverse-
engineering. However, an adversary can still download, disassemble and analyze binaries …

Over the last decade attacks have repetitively demonstrated that bitstream protection for
SRAM-based FPGAs is a persistent problem without a satisfying solution in practice. Hence …

This study presents a true random number generator (TRNG) harvesting random bits from
delay variations of ambipolarity‐based ring oscillator, designed using 20 nm InAs Tunnel …