Title
Structural Analysis Attack on Sequential Circuit Logic Locking
Abstract
Encrypted flip-flop (EFF) and Secure Scan-Locking (SeqL) are extension of logic locking for sequential circuits that lock the scan-outputs of flip-flops. In this work, we propose an attack on such family of techniques. Instead of inferring the existing key, we use a replacement attack: we replace a part of the locked circuit with a well-structured circuit that now works correctly with a different key. We show that inferring the key on the transformed circuit is easier and yields correct functionality. We evaluate on 28 EFF/SeqL locked sequential benchmarks and are able to recover functionality in all cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/HOST54066.2022.9840185
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Logic Locking,SAT Attack,Replace Attack,Sequential Circuit
Conference
978-1-6654-8533-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gourav Takhar111.39
Subhajit Roy24510.84