[Resource Topic] 2012/324: 3D Hardware Canaries

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Title:
3D Hardware Canaries

Authors: Sébastien Briais, Stéphane Caron, Jean-Michel Cioranesco, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Arthur Milchior, David Naccache, Thibault Porteboeuf

Abstract:

3D integration is a promising advanced manufacturing process offering a variety of new hardware security protection opportunities. This paper presents a way of securing 3D ICs using Hamiltonian paths as hardware integrity verification sensors. As 3D integration consists in the stacking of many metal layers, one can consider surrounding a security-sensitive circuit part by a wire cage. After exploring and comparing different cage construction strategies (and reporting preliminary implementation results on silicon), we introduce a “hardware canary”. The canary is a spatially distributed chain of functions F_i positioned at the vertices of a 3D cage surrounding a protected circuit. A correct answer (F_n \circ \ldots \circ F_1)(m) to a challenge m attests the canary’s integrity.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/324

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