Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    TimingCamouflage+ Decamouflaged
    (Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), 2023-06-05) Mittu, Priya; Liu, Yuntao; Srivastava, Ankur
    In today’s world, sending a chip design to a third party foundry for fabrication poses a serious threat to one’s intellectual property. To keep designs safe from adversaries, design obfuscation techniques have been developed to protect the IP details of the design. This paper explains how the previously considered secure algorithm, TimingCamouflage+, can be thwarted and the original circuit can be recovered [15]. By removing wave-pipelining false paths, the TimingCamouflage+ algorithm is reduced to the insecure TimingCamouflage algorithm [16]. Since the TimingCamouflage algorithm is vulnerable to the TimingSAT attack, this reduction proves that TimingCamouflage+ is also vulnerable to TimingSAT and not a secure camouflaging technique [7]. This paper describes how wave-pipelining paths can be removed, and this method of handling false paths is tested on various benchmarks and shown to be both functionally correct and feasible in complexity.