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 …

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 …

Evaluating the security of eFPGA-based redaction algorithms

A Rezaei, R Afsharmazayejani, J Maynard - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Hardware IP owners must envision procedures to avoid piracy and overproduction of their
designs under a fabless paradigm. A newly proposed technique to obfuscate critical …

Complexity analysis of the SAT attack on logic locking

Y Zhong, U Guin - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the adoption of horizontal business models following the globalization of
semiconductor manufacturing, the overproduction of integrated circuits (ICs) and the piracy …

Dk lock: Dual key logic locking against oracle-guided attacks

J Maynard, A Rezaei - 2023 24th International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The semiconductor industry must deal with different hardware threats like piracy and
overproduction as a result of outsourcing manufacturing. While there are many proposals to …

K-gate lock: Multi-key logic locking using input encoding against oracle-guided attacks

K Lopez, A Rezaei - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.02118, 2025 - arxiv.org
Logic locking has emerged to prevent piracy and overproduction of integrated circuits ever
since the split of the design house and manufacturing foundry was established. While there …

Enhancing security in QCA-based circuits using optimal key gate placement

M Amutha, KR Kavitha - International Journal of Information Security, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an emerging nanotechnology that
explores the potential of using quantum effects to build compact and energy-efficient …

Advances in Logic Locking

M Tehranipoor, K Zamiri Azar, N Asadizanjani… - Hardware Security: A …, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Looplock 3.0: A robust cyclic logic locking approach

PP Chen, XM Yang, YC He, YC Chen… - 2024 29th Asia and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cyclic logic locking is a cutting-edge hardware security method developed to defend against
SAT Attack. It introduces cycles into the original circuit, which can cause the circuit to either …