Execution of provably secure assays on meda biochips to thwart attacks

Tung Che Liang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Mohammed Shayan, Ramesh Karri

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Abstract

Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) have emerged as a promising platform for DNA sequencing, clinical chemistry, and point-of-care diagnostics. Recent research has shown that DMFBs are susceptible to various types of malicious attacks. Defenses proposed thus far only offer probabilistic guarantees of security due to the limitation of on-chip sensor resources. A micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) biochip is a next-generation DMFB that enables the sensing of on-chip droplet locations, which are captured in the form of a droplet-location map. We propose a security mechanism that validates assay execution by reconstructing the sequencing graph (i.e., the assay specification) from the droplet-location maps and comparing it against the golden sequencing graph. We prove that there is a unique (one-to-one) mapping from the set of droplet-location maps (over the duration of the assay) to the set of possible sequencing graphs. Any deviation in the droplet-location maps due to an attack is detected by this countermeasure because the resulting derived sequencing graph is not isomorphic to the original sequencing graph. We highlight the strength of the security mechanism by simulating attacks on real-life bioassays.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASP-DAC 2019 - 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages51-57
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360074
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 21 2019
Event24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASPDAC 2019 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: Jan 21 2019Jan 24 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Other

Other24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASPDAC 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period1/21/191/24/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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