Visible to the public Visible but Transparent Hardware Trojans in Clock Generation Circuits

TitleVisible but Transparent Hardware Trojans in Clock Generation Circuits
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsWang, Q., Geiger, R. L.
Conference Name2017 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)
Date Publishedjun
ISBN Number978-1-5386-3200-0
Keywordsclock generation circuits, Clocks, composability, cyber physical systems, Frequency conversion, Hardware, Injection-locked oscillators, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Ring oscillators, transparent Trojans, trojan horse detection, Trojan horses
Abstract

Hardware Trojans that can be easily embedded in synchronous clock generation circuits typical of what are used in large digital systems are discussed. These Trojans are both visible and transparent. Since they are visible, they will penetrate split-lot manufacturing security methods and their transparency will render existing detection methods ineffective.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268801/
DOI10.1109/NAECON.2017.8268801
Citation Keywang_visible_2017