Logic and Reduction Operation based Hardware Trojans in Digital Design

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates hardware Trojan attacks on FPGA-based digital designs using logic and reduction operations, introducing five novel attack methods that are silent and effective.

Contribution

It introduces five new Trojan attack methodologies utilizing logical and reduction operations, enhancing stealth and effectiveness in FPGA hardware security.

Findings

Successful implementation of Trojan attacks on FPGA designs

Novel attack methods increase stealth and effectiveness

Potential implications for hardware security measures

Abstract

In this paper, we will demonstrate Hardware Trojan Attacks on four different digital designs implemented on FPGA. The hardware trojan is activated based on special logical and reduction-based operations on vectors which makes the trojan-activity as silent and effective as possible. In this paper, we have introduced 5 novel trojan attack methodologies.