Reference Articles

We are providing some of the materials relevant to the locking or obfuscation schemes.

For Sequential Obfsucation

1. “You Break I Fix: A Collaborative Approach for Strengthening Sequential Obfuscation of Hardware Intellectual Property” by MM Rahman, T Meade, Y Jin, S Bhunia in Annual Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology (GOMACTech) Conference 2020, CA, USA.

   • https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1102303.pdf

2. “HARPOON: An Obfuscation-Based SoC Design Methodology for Hardware Protection” by RS Chakraborty, S Bhunia in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems ( Volume: 28, Issue: 10, Oct. 2009 ).

   • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5247148
   • N.B: The implementation strategies used in sequential obfuscation are not identical but similar to this one.

For Combinational Logic Locking

1. “Thwarting All Logic Locking Attacks: Dishonest Oracle with Truly Random Logic Locking” by N Limaye, E Kalligeros, N Karousos, I G Karybali and O Sinanoglu in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (Early Access).

   • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9214869

2. “Scalable Attack-Resistant Obfuscation of Logic Circuits” by A Alaql, S Bhunia in arxiv.

   • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.15329.pdf