Glitch Recall: A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits

Jungwoo Joh; Yezee Seo; Hoon Kyu Kim; Taekyoung Kwon

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93563-8_13

Glitch Recall: A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits

Jungwoo Joh, Yezee Seo, Hoon Kyu Kim, Taekyoung Kwon

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Abstract

As the IoT era comes to the full-fledged, hardware Trojans that involve malicious modifications of circuitry are becoming a growing security concern. To avoid a detection mechanism, hardware Trojans may need a stealthy nature in their existence for being dormant, and even when triggered. In this paper, we devise a new hardware Trojan concept that exploits natural glitches and their control mechanisms for information leakage in a stealthy manner. We indeed reversely exploit the glitch control mechanisms to be bypassed when triggered, and try to recall the natural glitches for the purpose. An adversary who triggered the hardware Trojan may infer multiple input values from a single output of the target logic, thereby obtaining multiple outputs of the preceding logics, by monitoring the existence of the natural glitches. We perform experiments and discuss the results and threats, not to be neglected, along with a possible mitigation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Brent ByungHoon Kang, Taesoo Kim
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	150-161
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319935621
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93563-8_13
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	18th World International Conference on Information Security and Application, WISA 2017 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2017 Aug 24 → 2017 Aug 26

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10763 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	18th World International Conference on Information Security and Application, WISA 2017
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	17/8/24 → 17/8/26

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This work was supported by Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for Defense Development under the contract (UD160066BD).

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© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.

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Theoretical Computer Science
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Joh, J., Seo, Y., Kim, H. K., & Kwon, T. (2018). Glitch Recall: A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits. In B. B. Kang, & T. Kim (Eds.), Information Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 150-161). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10763 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93563-8_13

Joh, Jungwoo ; Seo, Yezee ; Kim, Hoon Kyu et al. / Glitch Recall : A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits. Information Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Brent ByungHoon Kang ; Taesoo Kim. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 150-161 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Joh, J, Seo, Y, Kim, HK & Kwon, T 2018, Glitch Recall: A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits. in BB Kang & T Kim (eds), Information Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10763 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 150-161, 18th World International Conference on Information Security and Application, WISA 2017, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 17/8/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93563-8_13

Glitch Recall: A Hardware Trojan Exploiting Natural Glitches in Logic Circuits. / Joh, Jungwoo; Seo, Yezee; Kim, Hoon Kyu et al.
Information Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Brent ByungHoon Kang; Taesoo Kim. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 150-161 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10763 LNCS).

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