Hiding in Plain Sight: Reframing Hardware Trojan Benchmarking as a Hide&Seek Modification

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Autores principales: Sarihi, Amin, Patooghy, Ahmad, Jamieson, Peter, Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Sarihi, Amin
Patooghy, Ahmad
Jamieson, Peter
Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.
author_facet Sarihi, Amin
Patooghy, Ahmad
Jamieson, Peter
Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.
contents This work focuses on advancing security research in the hardware design space by formally defining the realistic problem of Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. The goal is to model HT detection more closely to the real world, i.e., describing the problem as The Seeker's Dilemma where a detecting agent is unaware of whether circuits are infected by HTs or not. Using this theoretical problem formulation, we create a benchmark that consists of a mixture of HT-free and HT-infected restructured circuits while preserving their original functionalities. The restructured circuits are randomly infected by HTs, causing a situation where the defender is uncertain if a circuit is infected or not. We believe that our innovative benchmark and methodology of creating benchmarks will help the community judge the detection quality of different methods by comparing their success rates in circuit classification. We use our developed benchmark to evaluate three state-of-the-art HT detection tools to show baseline results for this approach. We use Principal Component Analysis to assess the strength of our benchmark, where we observe that some restructured HT-infected circuits are mapped closely to HT-free circuits, leading to significant label misclassification by detectors.
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spellingShingle Hiding in Plain Sight: Reframing Hardware Trojan Benchmarking as a Hide&Seek Modification
Sarihi, Amin
Patooghy, Ahmad
Jamieson, Peter
Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.
Cryptography and Security
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
B.8.1
This work focuses on advancing security research in the hardware design space by formally defining the realistic problem of Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. The goal is to model HT detection more closely to the real world, i.e., describing the problem as The Seeker's Dilemma where a detecting agent is unaware of whether circuits are infected by HTs or not. Using this theoretical problem formulation, we create a benchmark that consists of a mixture of HT-free and HT-infected restructured circuits while preserving their original functionalities. The restructured circuits are randomly infected by HTs, causing a situation where the defender is uncertain if a circuit is infected or not. We believe that our innovative benchmark and methodology of creating benchmarks will help the community judge the detection quality of different methods by comparing their success rates in circuit classification. We use our developed benchmark to evaluate three state-of-the-art HT detection tools to show baseline results for this approach. We use Principal Component Analysis to assess the strength of our benchmark, where we observe that some restructured HT-infected circuits are mapped closely to HT-free circuits, leading to significant label misclassification by detectors.
title Hiding in Plain Sight: Reframing Hardware Trojan Benchmarking as a Hide&Seek Modification
topic Cryptography and Security
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
B.8.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15550