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Title: New Side-Channel and Techniques for Hardware Trojan Detection
Committee:
Dr. Alenka Zajic, ECE, Chair , Advisor
Dr. Milos Prvulovic, CoC, Co-Advisor
Dr. Raheem Beyah, ECE
Dr. Angelos Keromytis, ECE
Dr. Brendan Saltaformaggio, ECE
Dr. Hyesoon Kim, CoC
Abstract:
Integrated circuits (IC) have become an integral aspect of our lives, by controlling most of electronic devices ranging from cellphones and washing machines to airplanes and rockets. Thus, the problem of ensuring authenticity and trust for ICs is critically important, especially for sensitive fields such as military, finance, and governmental infrastructure. This work introduces a new physical side-channel, which we call the backscattering side-channel, and propose novel hardware Trojan (HT) and counterfeit integrated circuit (IC) detection techniques that exploit the backscattering side channel. These techniques are capable of detecting different types of inactive HTs and counterfeit ICs on multiple circuit benchmarks while tolerating manufacturing variation.
