A Computer Scientist's Evaluation of Publically Available Hardware Trojan Benchmarks

Abstract

Dr. Hassan Salmani and Dr. Mohammed Tehranipoor have developed a collection of publically available hardware Trojans, meant to be used as common benchmarks for the analysis of detection and mitigation techniques. In this thesis, we evaluate a selection of these Trojans from the perspective of a computer scientist with limited electrical engineering background. Note that this thesis is also intended to serve as a supplement to the existing documentation, since it provides a thorough description of each benchmark. This description presents a detailed analysis of each Trojans activation conditions and post-activation activity. In addition, we describe the difficulties we encountered in synthesizing and simulating each Trojan, and, where possible, provide solutions to those difficulties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1009312

Entities

People

  • Scott M. Slayback

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Diagrams
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Logic Gates
  • Nand Gates
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Xor Gates

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design