@inproceedings{a2eb72af39ba43e3a0b69bf5dd3bc10a,
title = "Hardware Honeypot: Setting Sequential Reverse Engineering on a Wrong Track",
abstract = "Reverse engineering (RE) of finite state machines (FSMs) is a serious threat when protecting designs against RE attacks. While most recent protection techniques rely on the security of a secret key, this work presents a new approach: hardware FSM honeypots. These honeypots lead the RE tools to a wrong but, for the tools, very attractive FSM, while making the original FSM less attractive. The results show that state-of-the-art RE methods favor the highly attractive honeypot as FSM candidate or do no longer detect the correct, original FSM.",
keywords = "IC trust, honeypot, netlist re-verse engineering, state machine obfuscation",
author = "Michaela Brunner and Lee, {Hye Hyun} and Alexander Hepp and Johanna Baehr and Georg Sigl",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 IEEE.; 27th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Sytems, DDECS 2024 ; Conference date: 03-04-2024 Through 05-04-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1109/DDECS60919.2024.10508924",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2024 27th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2024",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "47--52",
editor = "Stanislaw Deniziak and Pawel Sitek and Maksim Jenihhin and Andreas Steininger and Mario Scholzel and Vojtech Mrazek",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2024 27th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2024",
}