Visible to the public Combinational Hardware Trojan Detection Using Logic Implications

TitleCombinational Hardware Trojan Detection Using Logic Implications
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsCornell, N., Nepal, K.
Conference Name2017 IEEE 60th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
Date Publishedaug
ISBN Number978-1-5090-6389-5
Keywordscombinational circuits, combinational hardware trojan detection, composability, cyber physical systems, Hardware, Integrated circuit modeling, invasive software, logic design, Logic gates, logic simulation, logical implications, Payloads, potential benefit, proof-of-concept demonstration, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, security, trojan horse detection, Trojan horses, valid logic implications
Abstract

This paper provides a proof-of-concept demonstration of the potential benefit of using logical implications for detection of combinational hardware trojans. Using logic simulation, valid logic implications are selected and added to to the checker circuitry to detect payload delivery by a combinational hardware trojan. Using combinational circuits from the ISCAS benchmark suite, and a modest hardware budget for the checker, simulation results show that the probability of a trojan escaping detection using our approach was only 16%.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8052987/
DOI10.1109/MWSCAS.2017.8052987
Citation Keycornell_combinational_2017