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 …

Defense-in-depth: A recipe for logic locking to prevail

MT Rahman, MS Rahman, H Wang, S Tajik, W Khalil… - Integration, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Logic locking/obfuscation has emerged as an auspicious solution for protecting the
semiconductor intellectual property (IP) from the untrusted entities in the design and …

OMLA: An Oracle-Less Machine Learning-Based Attack on Logic Locking

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware-based attacks on the semiconductor supply chain are emerging due to the
globalization of the design flow. Logic locking is a design-for-trust scheme that promises …

Keynote: A disquisition on logic locking

A Chakraborty, NG Jayasankaran, Y Liu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fabless business model has given rise to many security threats, including piracy of
intellectual property (IP), overproduction, counterfeiting, reverse engineering (RE), and …

Thwarting all logic locking attacks: Dishonest oracle with truly random logic locking

N Limaye, E Kalligeros, N Karousos… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While logic locking is a promising defense to protect hardware designs, many attacks have
been shown to undermine its security by retrieving the secret key. All the powerful attacks …

SCOPE: Synthesis-based constant propagation attack on logic locking

A Alaql, MM Rahman, S Bhunia - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware intellectual property (IP) piracy and misuse have introduced new challenges in
the semiconductor industry as untrusted parties in the IP's life cycle may clone, reverse …

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 …

IP protection and supply chain security through logic obfuscation: A systematic overview

K Shamsi, M Li, K Plaks, S Fazzari, DZ Pan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019‏ - dl.acm.org
The globalization of the semiconductor supply chain introduces ever-increasing security and
privacy risks. Two major concerns are IP theft through reverse engineering and malicious …

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 …

ASSURE: RTL locking against an untrusted foundry

C Pilato, AB Chowdhury, D Sciuto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semiconductor design companies are integrating proprietary intellectual property (IP) blocks
to build custom integrated circuits (ICs) and fabricate them in a third-party foundry …