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منادی 2022, 11(1): 18-25 Back to browse issues page
Vulnerability Analysis of Digital Circuits against Capacitor-based Timing Hardware Trojan
Fatemeh Khormizi *1 , Bijan Alizadeh1
1- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, 14395-515, Tehran, Iran
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Hardware Trojan is a hardware security threat that attempts to insert in the circuit and modifies the hardware stealthy. Trojan detection and design-for-trust are the main defensive strategies against hardware Trojan. The target of Trojan detection is to verify hardware Trojan and in design-for-security, the security techniques are presented for facilitating detection or preventing hardware Trojan insertion. In this work, we introduce a capacitor-based timing hardware Trojan (THT) model and then discuss how to analyze the vulnerability of gate-level circuits against such THT model. For THT that violates timing constraints in the circuit, the susceptible nets are recognized. Susceptible nets to THT are vulnerable nets in path-delay analysis and logic testing detection approaches and they are not detectable easily. The experimental results show that the number of vulnerable nets to the capacitor-based THT model is small enough so that a design-for-trust approach can be proposed.
Keywords: timing hardware trojan, vulnerability analysis, path-delay based detection, logic testing based detection
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Type of Study: Research Article | Subject: Cryptology and Information Security
Received: 2023/02/13 | Accepted: 2022/09/1 | Published: 2022/09/1


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