Trojan Logic in FPGA

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Malicious code embedded in FPGA bitstream.

Target

System Logic

Layer in the inventory

FPGA / Logic gates

Mitigation

Bitstream encryption and authentication.

How the inventory says to fix it

AI: Structural analysis of bitstream logic to identify hidden trigger-activation patterns.

Quick fix

Reload bitstream

ML approaches named

Random Forest (RF), XGBoost, Logistic Regression, and Support Vector Machines (SVM), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

Methodology

Detetcing malicious modifications to bitstreams or Register Transfer Level (RTL) code. Pattern detection and side-channel analysis

Handler role

FPGA Developer

Stage

Development

Standard named

IEEE 1735

Status in the inventory

Status unknown

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Connection recorded in the inventory

Hardware Backdoors

• Hardware Backdoors