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A Survey on Hardware Trojan Detection: Alternatives to Destructive Reverse Engineering

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Proceedings of Second International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security

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System security has always been associated with the software being used on it. The hardware has been by default considered trusted. This root of trust for hardware has been violated after the emergence of Hardware Trojan (HT) attacks. Such attacks can be used by an adversary to leak important or secret information or to conduct a system failure. This paper gives a broad overview on different techniques that can be used to detect HT inside a circuit in place of destructive reverse engineering. Further a detailed literature survey has been presented which gives an overview of the efficiency of the detection techniques used in the literature.

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    Archit Saini, Gahan Kundra & Shruti Kalra

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  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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Saini, A., Kundra, G., Kalra, S. (2021). A Survey on Hardware Trojan Detection: Alternatives to Destructive Reverse Engineering. In: Singh, P.K., Wierzchoń, S.T., Tanwar, S., Ganzha, M., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C. (eds) Proceedings of Second International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 203. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0733-2_63

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