DECOR: Enhancing Logic Locking Against Machine Learning-Based Attacks

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Main Authors: Hu, Yinghua, Yang, Kaixin, Chowdhury, Subhajit Dutta, Nuzzo, Pierluigi
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Published: 2024
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author Hu, Yinghua
Yang, Kaixin
Chowdhury, Subhajit Dutta
Nuzzo, Pierluigi
author_facet Hu, Yinghua
Yang, Kaixin
Chowdhury, Subhajit Dutta
Nuzzo, Pierluigi
contents Logic locking (LL) has gained attention as a promising intellectual property protection measure for integrated circuits. However, recent attacks, facilitated by machine learning (ML), have shown the potential to predict the correct key in multiple LL schemes by exploiting the correlation of the correct key value with the circuit structure. This paper presents a generic LL enhancement method based on a randomized algorithm that can significantly decrease the correlation between locked circuit netlist and correct key values in an LL scheme. Numerical results show that the proposed method can efficiently degrade the accuracy of state-of-the-art ML-based attacks down to around 50%, resulting in negligible advantage versus random guessing.
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spellingShingle DECOR: Enhancing Logic Locking Against Machine Learning-Based Attacks
Hu, Yinghua
Yang, Kaixin
Chowdhury, Subhajit Dutta
Nuzzo, Pierluigi
Cryptography and Security
Systems and Control
Logic locking (LL) has gained attention as a promising intellectual property protection measure for integrated circuits. However, recent attacks, facilitated by machine learning (ML), have shown the potential to predict the correct key in multiple LL schemes by exploiting the correlation of the correct key value with the circuit structure. This paper presents a generic LL enhancement method based on a randomized algorithm that can significantly decrease the correlation between locked circuit netlist and correct key values in an LL scheme. Numerical results show that the proposed method can efficiently degrade the accuracy of state-of-the-art ML-based attacks down to around 50%, resulting in negligible advantage versus random guessing.
title DECOR: Enhancing Logic Locking Against Machine Learning-Based Attacks
topic Cryptography and Security
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01789