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With the rising popularity of machine learning and the ever increasing demand for computational power, there is a growing need for hardware optimized implementations of neural networks and other machine learning models. As the technology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Joseph Clements , Yingjie Lao

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry heavily reuses third party IP cores. These IP cores are vulnerable to insertion of Hardware Trojans (HTs) at design time by third party IP core providers or by malicious insiders in the design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Syed Kamran Haider , Chenglu Jin , Marten van Dijk

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, such as microprocessors, are widely adopted in system design due to their ability to reduce development time and cost compared to custom solutions. However, supply chain entities involved in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mahmudul Hasan , Sudipta Paria , Swarup Bhunia , Tamzidul Hoque

Due to the globalization of Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain, hardware trojans and the attacks that can trigger them have become an important security issue. One type of hardware Trojans leverages the don't care transitions in Finite…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ruochen Dai , Tuba Yavuz

The use of third-party IP cores in implementing applications in FPGAs has given rise to the threat of malicious alterations through the insertion of hardware Trojans. To address this threat, it is important to predict the way hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ash Luft , Mihai Sima , Michael McGuire

Fabrication-less design houses outsource their designs to 3rd party foundries to lower fabrication cost. However, this creates opportunities for a rogue in the foundry to introduce hardware Trojans, which stay inactive most of the time and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Xiaotong Cui , Samah Saeed , Alwin Zulehner , Robert Wille , Rolf Drechsler , Kaijie Wu , Ramesh Karri

Hardware trojan detection methods, based on machine learning (ML) techniques, mainly identify suspected circuits but lack the ability to explain how the decision was arrived at. An explainable methodology and architecture is introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Paul Whitten , Francis Wolff , Chris Papachristou

The threat of hardware Trojans (HTs) and their detection is a widely studied field. While the effort for inserting a Trojan into an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) can be considered relatively high, especially when trusting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Thilo Krachenfels , Jean-Pierre Seifert , Shahin Tajik

This paper presents a method for hardware trojan detection in integrated circuits. Unsupervised deep learning is used to classify wide field-of-view (4x4 mm$^2$), high spatial resolution magnetic field images taken using a Quantum Diamond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Maitreyi Ashok , Matthew J. Turner , Ronald L. Walsworth , Edlyn V. Levine , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

A major security threat to an integrated circuit (IC) design is the Hardware Trojan attack which is a malicious modification of the design. Previously several papers have investigated into side-channel analysis to detect the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Samir R Katte , Keith E Fernandez

Trojans are one of the most threatening network attacks currently. HTTP-based Trojan, in particular, accounts for a considerable proportion of them. Moreover, as the network environment becomes more complex, HTTP-based Trojan is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiang Xie , Shuhao Li , Yongzheng Zhang , Xiaochun Yun , Jia Li

The globalization of the semiconductor industry has introduced security challenges to Integrated Circuits (ICs), particularly those related to the threat of Hardware Trojans (HTs) - malicious logic that can be introduced during IC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Mohammad Eslami , Tara Ghasempouri , Samuel Pagliarini

With the globalization of the semiconductor manufacturing process, electronic devices are powerless against malicious modification of hardware in the supply chain. The ever-increasing threat of hardware Trojan attacks against integrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Kyle Worley , Md Tauhidur Rahman

Hardware Trojans (HTs) remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, stylized benchmarks. We introduce TrojanGYM, an agentic, LLM-driven framework that automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saideep Sreekumar , Zeng Wang , Akashdeep Saha , Weihua Xiao , Minghao Shao , Muhammad Shafique , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri , Johann Knechtel

Since hardware oftentimes serves as the root of trust in our modern interconnected world, malicious hardware manipulations constitute a ubiquitous threat in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). Hardware reverse engineering is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Sebastian Wallat , Nils Albartus , Steffen Becker , Max Hoffmann , Maik Ender , Marc Fyrbiak , Adrian Drees , Sebastian Maaßen , Christof Paar

A massive threat to the modern and complex IC production chain is the use of untrusted off-shore foundries which are able to infringe valuable hardware design IP or to inject hardware Trojans causing severe loss of safety and security.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Sebastian Wallat , Marc Fyrbiak , Moritz Schlögel , Christof Paar

The global semiconductor supply chain involves design and fabrication at various locations, which leads to multiple security vulnerabilities, e.g., Hardware Trojan (HT) insertion. Although most HTs target digital circuits, HTs can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Enahoro Oriero , Faiq Khalid , Syed Rafay Hasan

Aggressive time-to-market constraints and enormous hardware design and fabrication costs have pushed the semiconductor industry toward hardware Intellectual Properties (IP) core design. However, the globalization of the integrated circuits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Rozhin Yasaei , Shih-Yuan Yu , Emad Kasaeyan Naeini , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Program or process is an integral part of almost every IT/OT system. Can we trust the identity/ID (e.g., executable name) of the program? To avoid detection, malware may disguise itself using the ID of a legitimate program, and a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Ding Li , Lu-An Tang , Jingchao Ni , Zhichun Li , Junghwan Rhee , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

Reverse engineering of gate-level netlist is critical for Hardware Trojans detection and Design Piracy counteracting. The primary task of gate-level reverse engineering is to separate the control and data signals from the netlist, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Weitao Pan , Meng Dong , Zhiliang Qiu , Jianlei Yang , Zhixiong Di , Yiming Gao