Proceedings of the IEEE· 2014Q1
Hardware Trojan Attacks: Threat Analysis and Countermeasures
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Short summary
Hardware Trojans, malicious modifications to electronic hardware, pose significant security risks by enabling operational failure or data leakage from chips, especially as global reliance on untrusted fabrication processes increases.
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Key points
- Hardware Trojans are malicious modifications to electronic hardware throughout its lifecycle.
- They can cause operational failures or leak secret information from chips.
- Increased reliance on untrusted entities in hardware design and fabrication escalates vulnerability.
- The paper analyzes attack models, types, scenarios, and discusses protection approaches.
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Abstract
Security of a computer system has been traditionally related to the security of the software or the information being processed. The underlying hardware used for information processing has been considered trusted. The emergence of hardware Trojan attacks violates this root of trust. These attacks, in the form of malicious modifications of electronic hardware at different stages of its life cycle, pose major security concerns in the electronics industry. An adversary can mount such an attack with an objective to cause operational failure or to leak secret information from inside a chip-e.g., the key in a cryptographic chip, during field operation. Global economic trend that encourages increased reliance on untrusted entities in the hardware design and fabrication process is rapidly enhancing the vulnerability to such attacks. In this paper, we analyze the threat of hardware Trojan attacks; present attack models, types, and scenarios; discuss different forms of protection approaches, both proactive and reactive; and describe emerging attack modes, defenses, and future research pathways.
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