Title
Property specific information flow analysis for hardware security verification
Abstract
Hardware information flow analysis detects security vulnerabilities resulting from unintended design flaws, timing channels, and hardware Trojans. These information flow models are typically generated in a general way, which includes a significant amount of redundancy that is irrelevant to the specified security properties. In this work, we propose a property specific approach for information flow security. We create information flow models tailored to the properties to be verified by performing a property specific search to identify security critical paths. This helps find suspicious signals that require closer inspection and quickly eliminates portions of the design that are free of security violations. Our property specific trimming technique reduces the complexity of the security model; this accelerates security verification and restricts potential security violations to a smaller region which helps quickly pinpoint hardware security vulnerabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3240765.3240839
ICCAD-IEEE ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hardware security,security verification,information flow analysis,security property,design methodology
Information flow (information theory),Hardware security module,Computer security,Computer science,Communication channel,Real-time computing,Design methods,Specific-information,Redundancy (engineering),Trimming,Computer security model
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1933-7760
978-1-4503-5950-4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Hu1144.71
Armaiti Ardeshiricham2112.90
Mustafa S. Gobulukoglu310.34
Xinmu Wang417811.33
Ryan Kastner51779147.73