A Red Team/Blue Team Assessment of Functional Analysis Methods for Malicious Circuit Identification
Adam Waksman, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Matthew Suozzo, Simha Sethumadhavan · 2014
Recent advances in hardware security have led to the development of FANCI (Functional Analysis for Nearly-Unused Circuit Identification), an analysis algorithm that identifies stealthy, malicious circuits within hardware designs that can perform backdoor operations to compromise security. Evaluations of such methods using benchmarks and academically known attacks are not always equivalent to the dynamic attack scenarios that can arise in the real world. For this reason, we apply a red team/blue team approach to stress-test the abilities of the FANCI prototype.