A TRAP for SAT: On the Imperviousness of a Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric to Satisfiability-Based Attacks

Locking-based intellectual property (IP) protection for integrated circuits (ICs) being manufactured at untrusted facilities has been largely defeated by the satisfiability (SAT) attack, which can retrieve the secret key needed for instantiating proprietary functionality on locked circuits. As a re...

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Main Authors: Aric Fowler, Shayan Mohammed, Mustafa Shihab, Thomas Broadfoot, Peter Beerel, Carl Sechen, Yiorgos Makris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2025-03-01
Series:Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
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Online Access:https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/12058