Validation of Hardware Security and Trust: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews the challenges in hardware security validation, classifies hardware Trojans, and discusses various techniques for ensuring trustworthiness in digital systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of hardware Trojans and summarizes existing validation techniques, highlighting current challenges and research directions.

Findings

Hardware Trojans are classified into various types.

Multiple validation techniques are summarized and compared.

Challenges in hardware security validation are identified and discussed.

Abstract

With ever advancing in digital system, security has been emerged as a major concern. Many researchers all around the world come up with solutions to address various challenges that are crucial for industry and market. The aim of this survey is a brief review of challenges of security validation as well as define and classify Hardware Trojans. Then, we provide more details about various validation techniques for hardware security and trust.