Generating Statistically Relevant Trojan Benchmarks for Microelectronics Quantifiable Assurance

Abstract

Hardware trojan horse (HTH) detection metrics are used to quantify the value of trojan detection methods. These metrics, often in terms of probability of detection and probability of false alarm, can be used to help quantify the impact on design assurance when applying mitigations to a microelectronics circuit. A question arises, however, regarding how statistically sound the metric values must be to make reasonable trust and assurance decisions. Statistical relevance metrics have been used in many fields to justify confidence in claims, and benchmarks that can produce statistically relevant detection metrics are necessary to trust the quantification of microelectronics assurance. This work defines the requirements for generating statistically relevant detection metrics that are useful for quantifying microelectronics design assurance via testing with a strategically implemented circuit design benchmark set.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2023
Accession Number
AD1198439

Entities

People

  • James Koiner
  • Jonathan Graf
  • Kevin Paar
  • Margaret Winslow
  • Scott Harper
  • Whitney Batchelor

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Circuits
  • Classification
  • Detection
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Errors
  • False Alarms
  • Graphics Processing Unit
  • Image Processing
  • Intervals
  • Materials
  • Microelectronics
  • Ontologies
  • Probability
  • Production
  • Sampling
  • Signal Processing
  • Test Sets
  • Trojan Horse
  • United States
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics