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HAL—The Missing Piece of the Puzzle for Hardware Reverse Engineering, Trojan Detection and Insertion
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019.
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Abstract
- Hardware manipulations pose a serious threat to numerous systems, ranging from a myriad of smart-X devices to military systems. In many attack scenarios an adversary merely has access to the low-level, potentially obfuscated gate-level netlist. In general, the attacker possesses minimal information and faces the costly and time-consuming task of reverse engineering the design to identify security-critical circuitry, followed by the insertion of a meaningful hardware Trojan. These challenges have been considered only in passing by the research community. The contribution of this work is threefold: First, we present $\sf {HAL}$HAL, a comprehensive reverse engineering and manipulation framework for gate-level netlists. $\sf {HAL}$HAL allows automating defensive design analysis (e.g., including arbitrary Trojan detection algorithms with minimal effort) as well as offensive reverse engineering and targeted logic insertion. Second, we present a novel static analysis Trojan detection technique $\sf {ANGEL}$ANGEL which considerably reduces the false-positive detection rate of the detection technique $\sf {FANCI}$FANCI. Furthermore, we demonstrate that $\sf {ANGEL}$ANGEL is capable of automatically detecting Trojans obfuscated with $\sf {DeTrust}$DeTrust. Third, we demonstrate how a malicious party can semi-automatically inject hardware Trojans into third-party designs. We present reverse engineering algorithms to disarm and trick cryptographic self-tests, and subtly leak cryptographic keys without any a priori knowledge of the design's internal workings.
- Subjects :
- Reverse engineering
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Computer science
business.industry
0211 other engineering and technologies
Cryptography
02 engineering and technology
Static analysis
computer.software_genre
Trojan
Hardware Trojan
Logic gate
Embedded system
Netlist
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Field-programmable gate array
computer
Computer hardware
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21609209 and 15455971
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b25ace2a90716d8a7ed4ecf34d3f422e