VLSI and Hardware Implementations using Modern Machine Learning Methods

3 Online Checkers to Detect Hardware Trojans in AES Hardware Accelerators

Sree Ranjani Rajendran¹ and Rajat Subhra Chakraborty²

¹RISE Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

²Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

1. CONTENTS
2. 3.1 Introduction: Background and Driving Forces
3. 3.1.1 Threat Model
4. 3.2 Proposed Methodology: Online Monitoring for HT Detection
5. 3.2.1 Reliability-Based Node Selection to Insert Checker
6. 3.3 Results and Discussion
7. 3.3.1 Results of Benchmark Circuits
8. 3.3.2 Results for AES Encryption Unit
9. 3.4 Conclusion
10. References

DOI: 10.1201/9781003201038-3

3.1 Introduction: Background and Driving Forces

ICs embedded in crypto-devices should be trustworthy in nature. However, ...