Deceive the Attacker: Thwarting IP Theft in Sieve-Valve-based Biochips
Title | Deceive the Attacker: Thwarting IP Theft in Sieve-Valve-based Biochips |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Shayan, Mohammed, Bhattacharjee, Sukanta, Song, Yong-Ak, Chakrabarty, Krishnendu, Karri, Ramesh |
Conference Name | 2019 Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE) |
Date Published | March 2019 |
Publisher | IEEE |
ISBN Number | 978-3-9819263-2-3 |
Keywords | attacker, bioassay developer, bioassay implementation, biochip building blocks, biochips, biological techniques, Biomembranes, bioMEMS, composability, computer network security, control signals, cost-security trade-offs, desieve, highly-skilled-person-hour investment, industrial property, intellectual property rights, intellectual property security, Internet, IP networks, IP theft, lab-on-a-chip, microfluidics, Mixers, Multiplexing, obfuscated biochips, policy-based governance, practical sieve-valve based obfuscation, pubcrawl, real-life biochips, resilience, Resiliency, reverse engineering, security of data, Sequential analysis, sieve-valve-based biochips, sieve-valves, Valves |
Abstract | Researchers develop bioassays following rigorous experimentation in the lab that involves considerable fiscal and highly-skilled-person-hour investment. Previous work shows that a bioassay implementation can be reverse engineered by using images or video and control signals of the biochip. Hence, techniques must be devised to protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of the bioassay developer. This study is the first step in this direction and it makes the following contributions: (1) it introduces use of a sieve-valve as a security primitive to obfuscate bioassay implementations; (2) it shows how sieve-valves can be used to obscure biochip building blocks such as multiplexers and mixers; (3) it presents design rules and security metrics to design and measure obfuscated biochips. We assess the cost-security trade-offs associated with this solution and demonstrate practical sieve-valve based obfuscation on real-life biochips. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8715094 |
DOI | 10.23919/DATE.2019.8715094 |
Citation Key | shayan_desieve_2019 |
- real-life biochips
- IP theft
- Lab-on-a-Chip
- Microfluidics
- Mixers
- Multiplexing
- obfuscated biochips
- policy-based governance
- practical sieve-valve based obfuscation
- pubcrawl
- IP networks
- resilience
- Resiliency
- reverse engineering
- security of data
- Sequential analysis
- sieve-valve-based biochips
- sieve-valves
- Valves
- computer network security
- bioassay developer
- bioassay implementation
- biochip building blocks
- biochips
- biological techniques
- Biomembranes
- bioMEMS
- composability
- attacker
- control signals
- cost-security trade-offs
- desieve
- highly-skilled-person-hour investment
- industrial property
- intellectual property rights
- intellectual property security
- internet