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Integrated circuit (IC) camouflaging is a promising technique to protect the design of a chip from reverse engineering. However, recent work has shown that even camouflaged ICs can be reverse engineered from the observed input/output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Mohamed El Massad , Siddharth Garg , Mahesh Tripunitara

Industry is moving towards large-scale systems where processor cores, memories, accelerators, etc.\ are bundled via 2.5D integration. These various components are fabricated separately as chiplets and then integrated using an interconnect…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Gino Chacon , Tapojyoti Mandal , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Paul Gratz , Vassos Soteriou

The era of widespread globalization has led to the emergence of hardware-centric security threats throughout the IC supply chain. Prior defenses like logic locking, layout camouflaging, and split manufacturing have been researched…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nikhil Rangarajan , Satwik Patnaik , Johann Knechtel , Ramesh Karri , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Shaloo Rakheja

Mathematically-secure cryptographic algorithms leak significant side channel information through their power supplies when implemented on a physical platform. These side channel leakages can be exploited by an attacker to extract the secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Archisman Ghosh , Debayan Das , Shreyas Sen

Split manufacturing (SM) and layout camouflaging (LC) are two promising techniques to obscure integrated circuits (ICs) from malicious entities during and after manufacturing. While both techniques enable protecting the intellectual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Satwik Patnaik , Mohammed Ashraf , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Johann Knechtel

In quantum computing, quantum circuits are fundamental representations of quantum algorithms, which are compiled into executable functions for quantum solutions. Quantum compilers transform algorithmic quantum circuits into one compatible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Qian Wang , Jayden John , Ben Dong , Yuntao Liu

As edge devices gain stronger computing power, deploying high-performance DNN models on untrusted hardware has become a practical approach to cut inference latency and protect user data privacy. Given high model training costs and user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Huadi Zheng , Li Cheng , Yan Ding

Due to cost benefits, supply chains of integrated circuits (ICs) are largely outsourced nowadays. However, passing ICs through various third-party providers gives rise to many threats, like piracy of IC intellectual property or insertion of…

Coupling of transmon qubits to resonators that serve as storage for information provides alternative routes for quantum computing. Such a scheme paves the way for achieving high qubit connectivity, which is a great challenge in cQED…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Gürkan Kartal , George Simion , Bart Sorée

Hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of academia, industry and government agencies. Effective detection mechanisms and countermeasures against such malicious designs can only be developed when there is a deep understanding of how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Samaneh Ghandali , Thorben Moos , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

While numerous obfuscation techniques are available for securing digital assets in the digital domain, there has been a notable lack of focus on protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in the analog domain. This is primarily due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Muayad J. Aljafar , Florence Azais , Marie-Lise Flottes , Samuel Pagliarini

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

Logic Encryption is one of the most popular hardware security techniques which can prevent IP piracy and illegal IC overproduction. It introduces obfuscation by inserting some extra hardware into a design to hide its functionality from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Rajit Karmakar , Santanu Chatopadhyay , Rohit Kapur

Tor, a widely utilized privacy network, enables anonymous communication but is vulnerable to flow correlation attacks that deanonymize users by correlating traffic patterns from Tor's ingress and egress segments. Various defenses have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Minjae Seo , Myoungsung You , Jaehan Kim , Taejune Park , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

3D die stacking and 2.5D interposer design are promising technologies to improve integration density, performance and cost. Current approaches face serious issues in dealing with emerging security challenges such as side channel attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Peng Gu , Shuangchen Li , Dylan Stow , Russell Barnes , Liu Liu , Yuan Xie , Eren Kursshan

Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a serious concern for the integrated circuit (IC) industry. To address this concern, logic locking countermeasure transforms a logic circuit to a different one to obfuscate its inner details. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Qinhan Tan , Seetal Potluri , Aydin Aysu

Approximate circuits often achieve exceptional trade-offs between computational accuracy and hardware efficiency, making them attractive for deployment as reusable Intellectual Property (IP) cores. However, safeguarding such circuits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

The CMOS integrated chips at advanced technology nodes are becoming more vulnerable to various sources of faults like manufacturing imprecisions, variations, aging, etc. Additionally, the intentional fault attacks (e.g., high power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-08 Naveen Kumar Macha , Bhavana Tejaswini Repalle , Sandeep Geedipally , Rafael Rios , Mostafizur Rahman

New hardware primitives such as Intel SGX secure a user-level process in presence of an untrusted or compromised OS. Such "enclaved execution" systems are vulnerable to several side-channels, one of which is the page fault channel. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Shweta Shinde , Zheng Leong Chua , Viswesh Narayanan , Prateek Saxena

In this paper, we present a reconfigurable multiplex (MUX) setup that increases the throughput of electrical characterisation at cryogenic temperature. The setup separates the MUX circuitry from quantum device under test (qDUT), allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Xinya Bian , Hannah J Joyce , Charles G Smith , Michael J Kelly , G Andrew D Briggs , Jan A Mol