Title
Privacy-preserving functional IP verification utilizing fully homomorphic encryption
Abstract
Intellectual Property (IP) verification is a crucial component of System-on-Chip (SoC) design in the modern IC design business model. Given a globalized supply chain and an increasing demand for IP reuse, IP theft has become a major concern for the IC industry. In this paper, we address the trust issues that arise between IP owners and IP users during the functional verification of an IP core. Our proposed scheme ensures the privacy of IP owners and users, by a) generating a privacy-preserving version of the IP, which is functionally equivalent to the original design, and b) employing homomorphically encrypted input vectors. This allows the functional verification to be securely outsourced to a third-party, or to be executed by either parties, while revealing the least possible information regarding the test vectors and the IP core. Experiments on both combinational and sequential benchmark circuits demonstrate up to three orders of magnitude IP verification slowdown, due to the computationally intensive fully homomorphic operations, for different security parameter sizes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
DATE
encryption,data privacy,system on chip,fully homomorphic encryption,regression analysis,software metrics,noise,logic gates,functional verification,cryptography,embedded systems
Field
DocType
ISSN
Homomorphic encryption,Functional verification,Reuse,Computer science,Computer network,Encryption,Real-time computing,Integrated circuit design,Supply chain,Software metric,Security parameter
Conference
1530-1591
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charalambos Konstantinou19611.22
Anastasis Keliris2224.56
M. Maniatakos335835.84