ICCE-Berlin 2020 Technical Program
2020
Digital signal processor (DSP) intellectual property (IP) cores are the underlying hardware responsible for high performance data intensive applications.However an unauthorized IP vendor may counterfeit the DSP IPs and infuse them into the design-chain.Thus fake IPs or integrated circuits (ICs) are unknowingly integrated into consumer electronics (CE) systems, leading to reliability and safety concerns for end consumers.The latent solution to this threat is hardware steganography wherein vendor's secret information is covertly embedded into the design to enable detection of counterfeiting.This paper presents a key-driven hash-chaining based hardware steganography to secure against counterfeiting threat.The proposed approach yielded a robust steganography achieving very high security in terms of stego-key size than similar previous work.