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Hardware Trojan with Frequency Modulation

2021· preprint· en· W3014483912 on OpenAlexaff
Ash Luft, Mihai Sima, Michael McGuire

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicPhysical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHardware TrojanTrojanSide channel attackField-programmable gate arrayRobustness (evolution)Computer scienceEmbedded systemHardware security moduleIdentification (biology)Power consumptionElectronic circuitComputer hardwareComputer securityPower (physics)EngineeringCryptographyElectrical engineering

Abstract

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The use of third-party IP cores in implementing applications in FPGAs has given rise to the threat of malicious alterations through the insertion of hardware Trojans. To address this threat, it is important to predict the way hardware Trojans are built and to identify their weaknesses. This paper describes a logic family for implementing robust hardware Trojans, which can evade the two major detection methods, namely unused-circuit identification and side-channel analysis. This robustness is achieved by encoding information in frequency rather than amplitude so that the Trojan trigger circuitry's state will never stay constant during `normal' operation. In addition, the power consumption of Trojan circuits built using the proposed logic family can be concealed with minimal design effort and supplementary hardware resources. Defense measures against hardware Trojans with frequency modulation are described.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.881
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2021
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