Advances in logic locking: Past, present, and prospects

HM Kamali, KZ Azar, F Farahmandi… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2022 - eprint.iacr.org
Logic locking is a design concealment mechanism for protecting the IPs integrated into
modern System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures from a wide range of hardware security threats …

Logic locking for IP security: A comprehensive analysis on challenges, techniques, and trends

J Gandhi, D Shekhawat, M Santosh, JG Pandey - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
A substantial part of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain that involves semiconductor
fabrication, packaging, and testing has shifted globally to minimize IC costs and satisfy …

Deceptive logic locking for hardware integrity protection against machine learning attacks

D Sisejkovic, F Merchant, LM Reimann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking has emerged as a prominent key-driven technique to protect the integrity of
integrated circuits. However, novel machine-learning-based attacks have recently been …

Complexity analysis of the SAT attack on logic locking

Y Zhong, U Guin - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the adoption of horizontal business models following the globalization of
semiconductor manufacturing, the overproduction of integrated circuits (ICs) and the piracy …

Evaluating the security of efpga-based redaction algorithms

A Rezaei, R Afsharmazayejani, J Maynard - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Hardware IP owners must envision procedures to avoid piracy and overproduction of their
designs under a fabless paradigm. A newly proposed technique to obfuscate critical …

DK lock: Dual key logic locking against oracle-guided attacks

J Maynard, A Rezaei - 2023 24th International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The semiconductor industry must deal with different hardware threats like piracy and
overproduction as a result of outsourcing manufacturing. While there are many proposals to …

K-Gate Lock: Multi-Key Logic Locking Using Input Encoding Against Oracle-Guided Attacks

K Lopez, A Rezaei - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.02118, 2025 - arxiv.org
Logic locking has emerged to prevent piracy and overproduction of integrated circuits ever
since the split of the design house and manufacturing foundry was established. While there …

An approach to unlocking cyclic logic locking: LOOPLock 2.0

PP Chen, XM Yang, YT Li, YC Chen… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Cyclic logic locking is a new type of SAT-resistant techniques in hardware security. Recently,
LOOPLock 2.0 was proposed, which is a cyclic logic locking method creating cycles …

[图书][B] Logic Locking: A Practical Approach to Secure Hardware

D Sisejkovic, R Leupers - 2022 - books.google.com
A subtle change that leads to disastrous consequences—hardware Trojans undoubtedly
pose one of the greatest security threats to the modern age. How to protect hardware against …

Enhancing security in QCA-based circuits using optimal key gate placement

M Amutha, KR Kavitha - International Journal of Information Security, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an emerging nanotechnology that
explores the potential of using quantum effects to build compact and energy-efficient …