Logic locking/obfuscation has emerged as an auspicious solution for protecting the
semiconductor intellectual property (IP) from the untrusted entities in the design and …

The fabless business model has given rise to many security threats, including piracy of
intellectual property (IP), overproduction, counterfeiting, reverse engineering (RE), and …

Serious threats to the VLSI crypto devices are posed by the Side Channel Attack (SCA) that
utilizes the devices' SCI (Side Channel Information) to break the entire cryptographic …

Logic locking has been proposed as strong protection of intellectual property (IP) against
security threats in the IC supply chain especially when the fabrication facility is untrusted …

Secure hardware systems are threatened by adversarial attempts on integrated circuit (IC)
chips in a practical utilization environment. This article provides overviews of physical …

Computer-aided design (CAD) tools traditionally optimize for power, performance, and area
(PPA). However, given a vast number of hardware security threats, we call for secure-by …

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 …

Logic locking is a hardware security technique aimed at protecting intellectual property
against security threats in the IC supply chain, especially those posed by untrusted …

This article presents a cryptographic key protection technique from physical security attacks
through Si-backside of IC chip. Flip-chip packaging leads to a serious security hole that …

Physical fault injection attacks are becoming an important threat to computer systems, as
fault injection equipment becomes more and more accessible. In this work, we propose a …