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Security Vulnerabilities of Obfuscated Analog Circuits
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Security Vulnerabilities of Obfuscated Analog Circuits

Vaibhav Venugopal Rao, Kyle Juretus, Ioannis Savidis and IEEE
2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ISCAS)
01 Jan 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180781

Abstract

Engineering Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Science & Technology Technology
Vulnerabilities of key based analog obfuscation methodologies that modify the transistor dimensions of a circuit are evaluated. Two attack vectors on a common source amplifier, differential amplifier, operational amplifier, and voltage controlled oscillator are developed. The first attack exploits the lack of possible key combinations permitted around the correct key, which is a result of requiring a unique key to lock the circuit. An average of 5 possible key combinations were returned in an average of 5.47 seconds when executing the key spacing attack. The second attack vector utilizes the monotonic relationship between the sizing of the transistors and the functional response of the circuit to determine the correct key. The average time to execute the attack, while assuming process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variation of 10%, was 1.18 seconds. Both equal key spacing and non-monotonic key dependencies are discussed as ways to mitigate the threats to future analog obfuscation techniques.

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