Title
An Orthogonal Algorithm for Key Management in Hardware Obfuscation
Abstract
The globalization of supply chain makes semiconductor chips susceptible to various security threats. Design obfuscation techniques have been widely investigated to thwart intellectual property (IP) piracy attacks. Key distribution among IP providers, system integration team, and end users remains as a challenging problem. This work proposes an orthogonal obfuscation method, which utilizes an orthogonal matrix to authenticate obfuscation keys, rather than directly examining each activation key. The proposed method hides the keys by using an orthogonal obfuscation algorithm to increasing the key retrieval time, such that the primary keys for IP cores will not be leaked. The simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the key retrieval time by 36.3% over the baseline. The proposed obfuscation methods have been successfully applied to ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits. Experimental results indicate that the orthogonal obfuscation only increases the area by 3.4% and consumes 4.7% more power than the baseline <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/AsianHOST47458.2019.9006703
2019 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Orthogonal obfuscation,partnership organization,member leakage attack,hardware security
Conference
978-1-7281-3545-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiawei Wang100.34
Yuejun Zhang22911.03
Pengjun Wang36211.93
Zhicun Luan400.68
Xiaoyong Xue542.82
Xiaoyang Zeng6442107.26
Qiaoyan Yu717428.58