Title
Enhancing Sat-Attack Resiliency And Cost-Effectiveness Of Reconfigurable-Logic-Based Circuit Obfuscation
Abstract
Logic locking is a well-explored defense mechanism against various types of hardware security attacks. Recent approaches to logic locking replace portions of a circuit with reconfigurable blocks such as look-up tables (LUTs) and switch boxes (SBs) to primarily achieve logic and routing obfuscation, respectively. However, these techniques may incur significant design overhead, and methods that can mitigate the implementation cost for a given security level are desirable. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an algorithm for deciding the location and inputs of the LUTs in LUT-based obfuscation to enhance security and reduce design overhead. We then introduce a locking method that combines LUTs with SBs to further robustify LUT-based obfuscation, largely independently of the specific LUT locations. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches on a set of ISCAS benchmark circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401458
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ISCAS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Reverse engineering, logic locking, reconfigurable logic, LUT-based obfuscation, SAT-based attack
Conference
0271-4302
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury100.34
Gengyu Zhang200.34
Yinghua Hu300.68
Pierluigi Nuzzo430533.35