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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Breaking CAS-lock and its variants by exploiting structural traces

A Sengupta, N Limaye, O Sinanoglu - IACR Transactions on …, 2021 - metalla.org
Logic locking is a prominent solution to protect against design intellectual property theft.
However, there has been a decade-long cat-and-mouse game between defenses and …

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 …

A critical view on the real-world security of logic locking

S Engels, M Hoffmann, C Paar - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2022 - Springer
With continuously shrinking feature sizes of integrated circuits, the vast majority of
semiconductor companies have become fabless, outsourcing to foundries across the globe …

Distributed logic encryption: Essential security requirements and low-overhead implementation

R Afsharmazayejani, H Sayadi, A Rezaei - Proceedings of the Great …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Due to outsource manufacturing, the semiconductor industry must deal with various
hardware threats such as piracy and overproduction. To prevent illegal electronic products …

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 …