Combinational Circuit Obfuscation Through Power Signature Manipulation

Abstract

Today's military systems are composed of hardware and software systems, many of which are critical technologies, and must be protected to ensure our adversaries cannot gain any information from a various analysis attacks. Side Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks allow an attacker to gain the significant information from the measured signatures leaked by side-channels such as power consumption, and electro-magnetic emission. In this research the focus on detecting, characterizing, and manipulating the power signature by designing a power signature estimation and manipulation method. This research has determined that the proposed method capable of characterizing and altering the type of power signature can provide a protection against adversarial SCA attacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA545575

Entities

People

  • Hyunchul Ko

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy Consumption
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Identification Systems
  • Load Monitoring
  • Logic Gates
  • Nand Gates
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Simulators
  • Software Development
  • Time Intervals
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.