New Technique Reveals Vulnerabilities in Hardware IP Protection
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🛠️ New Reverse Engineering Technique Exposes Vulnerabilities in Hardware IP Protection. Researchers have introduced Library-Attack, a novel method that targets hardware intellectual property (IP) protection by exploiting privileged design information and existing security countermeasures. This technique allows skilled adversaries to create a design library of candidate IPs and utilize structural comparison metrics from commercial electronic design automation (EDA) tools to identify sensitive hardware IP. The study evaluates Library-Attack on transformed ISCAS89 benchmarks, revealing significant vulnerabilities in current IP-level defenses. The authors propose an updated threat model to better address these risks, highlighting the need for enhanced security measures against sophisticated attacks within the integrated circuit supply chain.
